Casabianca Poem by Felicia Dorothea Hemans - Poem Hunter. The boy stood on the burning deck Whence all but he had fled; The flame that lit the battle's wreck Shone round him o'er the dead.
Yet beautiful and bright he stood, As born to rule the storm; A creature of heroic blood, A proud, though childlike form. The flames roll'd on...he would not go Without his father's word; That father, faint in death below, His voice no longer heard. He call'd aloud... "Say, father,say If yet my task is done! " He knew not that the chieftain lay Unconscious of his son. "Speak, father! " Upon his brow he felt their breath, And in his waving hair, And looked from that lone post of death, In still yet brave despair; And shouted but one more aloud, "My father, must I stay? " Dictionnaire français : définitions, synonymes, conjugaisons. Word Information - an English dictionary about English vocabulary words and etymologies derived primarily from Latin and Greek word origins.
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Dictionary. Hubble Heritage. Learn Interesting Facts Everyday. Photo of the Day. Research Nodes. WORD! Pregustator. Word of the Day. Word of the Day. Definitions from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English adjective Showing abnormal inability to act or make decisions.
Examples The patient finding himself abulic, and perhaps too critical minded to accept the mundane supports in his vicinity, seeks a solace in that which to him seems powerful because incomprehensible, that is to say in something supernatural. The Journal of Abnormal Psychology The constant and interesting movement of others is the best of incitements to the abulic; motion directed into the channel of orderly exercise develops the inhibitory powers of the too impulsive child, and the child who is too much in subjection to his inhibitory powers, when liberated from the bondage of surveillance, and free to act privately on his own initiative -- in other words, when he is removed from all external inducements to exercise inhibition, is able to find an equilibrium between the two opposite volitional forces.
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--~Attributes and Correspondences~-- Transparent Language. Language and Culture Archives. Nonce word. In advertising and literature[edit] Nonce words are often created as part of advertising campaigns[citation needed] or in fiction.
A poem by Seamus Heaney entitled "Nonce Words" is included in his collection District and Circle. In child development studies[edit] Nonce words are sometimes used to study the development of language in children because they allow researchers to test how children treat words of which they have no prior knowledge. This permits inferences about the default assumptions children make about new word meanings, syntactic structure, etc. Online. "… so we repaired to a publick-house, took a friendly glass, and thus parted.
" — Peter Drake, Amiable Renegade: The Memoirs of Captain Peter Drake, 1671–1753, 1960 "… Warren repaired to the dining alcove off the kitchen … and ate dinner with Nina and the children, discussing their schoolwork and events of the day. " — Kevin Starr, Embattled Dreams, 2002 We are all familiar with the verb repair used as a synonym of fix. But today's word, while it is a homograph and a homophone of the more familiar repair, is a slightly older and unrelated verb.