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Tertium quid
Tertium quid refers to an unidentified third element that is in combination with two known ones. The phrase is associated with alchemy. Tertium Quid is also the title of a book of essays on various topics by Edmund Gurney, published in 1887.
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tertium quid
‖ tertium quid (ˈtɜːʃɪəm ˈkwɪd) [L., app. rendering Gr. τρίτον τι, ‘some third thing’.] Something (indefinite or left undefined) related in some way to two (definite or known) things, but distinct from both. (Gr. τρίτον τι occurs in Plato Sophist 250. The Latin form is in Irenæus Adv. Her. 2. 1. 3 (...
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Tertium quids
The tertium quids (sometimes shortened to quids) were various factions of the Jeffersonian Republican Party in the United States from 1804 to 1812. In Latin, tertium quid means "a third something".
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obligational
obliˈgational, a. rare—1. [f. prec. + -al1.] Of the nature of, or pertaining to an obligation.1887 E. Gurney Tertium Quid I. 294 Whether the axiom, when this latter obligational form is given to it, ceases to be scientific, is perhaps no more than a verbal question.
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Under the Deodars
They decide to run away to Tibet together, but while going the Tertium Quid's horse is spooked. The Tertium Quid is killed in the fall and is buried in the freshly dug grave.
A Wayside Comedy
Major and Mrs.
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disengagedness
disenˈgagedness [f. prec. + -ness.] The quality of being disengaged; freedom from ties, engagement, obligation, or prepossession.1685 tr. Gracian's Courtier's Orac. 195 To speak clearly..shews not onely a disengagedness, but also a vivacity of wit. 1754 Edwards Freed. Will. ii. xiii. 133 The more th...
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melodically
melodically, adv. (mɪˈlɒdɪkəlɪ) [Formed as prec. + -ly2.] In a melodic manner; with regard to melody.1876 Stainer & Barrett Dict. Mus. Terms (1898) 394 Form of minor mode sometimes used melodically. 1887 E. Gurney Tertium Quid II. 18 The form may be far from melodically inventive.
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Murray Moss
The three books he has authored include two published by Rizzoli: Georg Jensen Reflections and Baccarat: 250 Years, and Tertium Quid for August Editions
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figureless
figureless, a. (ˈfɪgəlɪs, -jʊəlɪs) [f. figure n. + -less.] Without figure or a figure. 1. Without shape, shapeless.1606 Sylvester Du Bartas ii. iv. i. (1641) 198/2 If heer..I write..These Figures figure-less. 1892 W. S. Lilly Gt. Enigma 287 They are figureless and formless. 2. Not bearing a figure.1...
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George Greenwood
1920)
Shakespeare's Handwriting (1920)
Ben Jonson and Shakespeare (1921)
Baconian Essays (Introduction and two essays) (1922)
Lee, Shakespeare and a Tertium Quid (1923)
Shakespeare's Signature and "Sir Thomas More" (1924)
The Stratford Bust and the Droeshout Engraving (1925)
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graspable
graspable, a. (ˈgrɑːspəb(ə)l, -æ-) [f. grasp v. + -able.] That may be grasped.1818 Keats Endym. ii. 673 His every sense had grown Ethereal for pleasure; 'bove his head Flew a delight, half graspable. 1868 Browning Ring & Bk. i. 1275 While life was graspable and gainable. 1887 E. Gurney Tertium Quid ...
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中部台语支
Edmondson)将高栏语称为一种「第三物」(tertium quid)。
艾杰瑞 (Edmondson 2014) 的计算机系谱分析则显示岱依语及侬语分属中部台语支之下的一群连贯分支。
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mitigable
mitigable, a. (ˈmɪtɪgəb(ə)l) [ad. L. *mītigābilis (implied in mītigābiliter adv.) f. mītigāre to mitigate.] Capable of being mitigated.a 1677 Barrow Wks. (1686) II. xv. 213 The rigour of that ceremonious law was mitigable. 1822–34 Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) I. 50 The pain will be..far less mitigable....
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Dancing at the Edge of the World
Lewis"
1978: "Close Encounters, Star Wars, and the Tertium Quid"
1979: "Shikasta, by Doris Lessing"
1980: "Two from "Venom""
1980: "Freddy's Book and
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