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Reference for the word "essay" as a preliminary drawing or sketch in the visual arts
Note: I've asked the following question on Arts & Crafts SE as well. It was asked more than three weeks ago, and it hasn't yielded an answer yet.
In literature, an essay is a name given to a ...
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clarity of the word "multipurposeness"
I have an accepted paper in which the editor asked for possible corrections (if any) before the publication.
In a part of the paper I have used the word "multipurposeness", and the editor ...
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What or who does 'the rick-thatcher' refer to in Middlemarch by George Eliot?
Here is the full quotation:
No matter what a man is—I wouldn’t give twopence for him”—here Caleb’s mouth looked bitter, and he snapped his fingers—“whether he was the prime minister or the rick-...
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Define "ad indicem" in bibliography
This term seem to occur at footnotes and bibliographical references.
Fenlon D. Heresy and Obedience in Tridentine, Italy: Cardinal Pole and the Counter Information, Cambridge 1972, ad indicem.
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Is "groak" a new verb?
In the urban dictionary, I read
Groak :
Verb. To stare silently at someone while they are eating, in the hopes that they will give you some of their food.
Always careful not to establish eye ...
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Is the sentence ambiguous in "it had seemed like" part?
"she told me she was sorry, that there had been a special offer on sunbeds, and it had seemed like the right thing to say at the time"
To whom had it seemed like the right thing? The speaker, or the "...
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