HELP!! what does the word 'constingency' mean among historians??
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Contingency\nCONTINGENCE, CONTINGENCY, n. [L., to fall or happen to; to touch. See Touch.]\n\n1. The quality of being contingent or casual; a happening; or the possibility of coming to pass.\n\nWe are not to build certain rules on the contingency of human actions.\n\n2. Casualty; accident; fortuitous event. The success of the attempt will depend on contingencies. [See Accident and Casualty.]\n\nCASUALTY, n. \n\n1. Accident; that which comes by chance or without design, or without being foreseen; contingency.\n\n\nHopefully you can figure it out from here.
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It's the verb meaning To like.\nExample:\nMe gusta cerveza.  ( I like beer)
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I think it is antidisesentablishmentarianism.Haven't got a clue what it means. Look it up.
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It is one of those sayings whose exact origins is unknown, it obviously refers to things kept secret or hidden. In the past it may actually have had something to do with someone who had died under mysterious circumstances. It was brought into literary use by Thackeray in 1845.
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Old British Term from 1800s meaning "pints & quarts".  Now it's slang for minding your manners, like please & thank you.
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does it matter what history says????
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My guess is that you're looking for information on "courtesy," which in medieval society refers to the whole wad of behaviors that we'd associate with being a member of court: politeness, knightliness, treating a lady nobly, etc.  I don't have my copy of the Tales with me, but I believe the Knight is praised in the General Prologue for his courtesy, which in his case simply means that he knows how to behave like a knight. You might think of it as the non-fighting aspect of chivalry.
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It is a real word it means 'not mixed'.\nIt is quite a badly written sentance though.
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It's actually "Veni, cidi, vici."\n\nIt means, I came, I saw, I conquered.\n\nThis phrase was first uttered my me when I captured and drank my ex-roomates Guiness.\n\nActually it was uttered by Julis Ceaser on 47 B.C. after his victory in battle over Pharnaces, Kind of Pontus.
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Here is the definition I found:\n\nNoun. Food. [Northern use. Late 1800s]
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If you are asking about the meaning of this word then it usually means that one is dizzy with the excitement of the situation or depending on how it's used it can mean basically that "stuff is going down" around you and it's getting to you, maybe good, maybe bad. Also I don't think this word is "sissified" or arcane it is very disciptive. I know many writers that use it often, because it is a short and easily understood word that gets the point across.
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I found this on line,\n\n"Devious Derivations: Popular Misconceptions -- and More than 1,000 True Origins of Common Words and Phrases" by Hugh Rawson (toExcel, Iuniverse.com, 1994, 2000). This reference has some new information on the origins listed here (new information in parenthesis), new origins and what could be the actual origin. \n\n: : 1. Orrin Kendall biscuits, which soldiers ate during the Civil War. \n: : 2. Short for Aux Cayes, a Haitian port that American sailors praised for its rum. \n: : 3. Old Keokuk, a Native American tribal chief who was said to have signed treaties with his initials. \n: : 4. OK stands for "all correct" or the illiterate phrase "Orl Korrect." \n: : 5. U.S. President Martin Van Buren's nickname "Old Kinderhook" -- OK for short. He was a native of Kinderhook, N.Y.\n: : 6. Choctaw word "okeh," (or "hoke") meaning "indeed" (or "It is so.")\n: : 7. Scottish "auch aye", meaning "ah yes." (Or "och aye," meaning "okay.")\n: : 8. From the French maritime phrase "au quai" meaning "at dock", and therefore at last safe from the ravages of the open sea.\n: : 9. '0 killed' - the report of the night's death toll during the First World War. \n: : 10. All clear after the shoot-out at O.K. Corral. \n: : 11. Instruments calibrated at an Observatory at Kew had, affixed to them, a stamp, or impression, to authenticate that calibration. This stamp was O K - Observatory Kew. \n\n: : New origins from Mr. Rawson's book:\n: : 12. The abbreviation is for Oberst Kommandant, German for "Colonel in Command," used by either -- take your pick -- a General Schliessen or Baron von Steuben when initialing letters and orders during the American Revolution.\n: : 13. It comes from the name of a freight agent, Obadiah Kelly, whose initials were widely disseminated on bills of lading.\n: : 14. The abbreviation is for Open Key, popularized by telegraphers in the 1860s.\n: : 15. It comes from the names of Lords Onslow and Kilbracken, who initialed bills after they were read and approved in England's House of Lords. \n: : 16. From a misreading of "Order Recorded" on official documents.\n: : 17. Or from Finnish "oikea," correct.\n: : 18. From the Greek "olla," all, plus "Kalla," good.\n\n: : Professor Allen Walker Read of Columbia University, "finally unveiled its (O.K.'s) origins in a series of magisterial articles in 'American Speech' in 1963 and 1964.What Professor Read discovered was that the abbreviation arose in a humorous manner at a time when Americans were indulging in a great deal of wordplay, including abbreviations, acronyms, puns and intentional mispronunciations and misspellings. The earliest example of O.K. that he unearthed (and it is so far still the oldest known specimen) is from the Boston 'Morning Post' of March 23, 1839. It appears in connection with a note by the paper's editor, Charles Gordon Greene, about a visit to New York of some members of the local Anti-Bell-Ringing Society. (The A.B.R.S., as it was usually known, was itself something of a joke, having been formed the previous year to oppose -- its name to the contrary -- an ordinance of the Boston Common Council against ringing dinner bells.) In an aside, Mr. Greene suggested that if the Bostonians were to return home via Providence, they might be greeted by one of his rivals, the editor of that city's 'Journal,' who 'would have the 'contribution box,' et ceteras, o.k. -- all correct -- and cause the corks to fly, like sparks, upward.'.Thus, it appears that O.K. was invented, possibly by Greene, as an abbreviation of the jocular 'Oll' or perhaps 'Orl korrect,' meaning "All right.' This explanation would seem farfetched, except for Read's finding that it dovetai
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what? what are you trying to say?\n\n"Words such as Bastardisation, Bastard-i-sa-tion. whilst the simple lazy tounge would round it up into Barstardisation... then put it in the damn dictionary. " ...what's the difference save the typo?
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These are opinion blogs, not historical references.  I suggest looking at a Canadian library's website for the region on question to find better leads to that kind of info.  Good Luck,
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It means "native soda", "genes" or "forming"\nIt means same as in greek word too. =)
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say this to someone---> "you are totally intoxicated by the exuberance of your own verbillity."\nit means they like to hear them self talk.
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I don't know i am Flabbergasted! Joking!\n\nThe British comedian Frankie Howerd used to say in mock astonishment: “I’m flabbergasted—never has my flabber been so gasted!”. That’s about as good an explanation for the origin of this word as you’re likely to get. It turns up first in print in 1772, in an article on new words in the Annual Register. The writer couples two fashionable terms: “Now we are flabbergasted and bored from morning to night”. (Bored—being wearied by something tedious—had appeared only a few years earlier.) Presumably some unsung genius had put together flabber and aghast to make one word.\n\nThe source of the first part is obscure. It might be linked to flabby, suggesting that somebody is so astonished that they shake like a jelly. It can’t be connected with flapper, in the sense of a person who fusses or panics, as some have suggested, as that sense only emerged at the end of the nineteenth century. But flabbergasted could have been an existing dialect word, as one early nineteenth-century writer claimed to have found it in Suffolk dialect and another—in the form flabrigast— in Perthshire. Further than this, nobody can go with any certainty.