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Messiah is really an adjective which, translated literally, means "anointed," or in Greek christós, but whereas to say that a man was anointed has no more meaning in Greek than it has in English, it had in Hebrew the clear and universally understood meaning of "consecrated" or "appointed by God."
Now that young woman we got to speak of her is about the most beautiful and the most fascinating of her sex I'll grant that to start with but she isn't worth the life of a snail, much less the life of a strong man." "You are, quite right," Tavernake confessed, shortly. "I know I was a fool a fool! If I could think of any adjective that would meet the case, I'd use it, but there it is.
No adjective has been more frequently applied to the Anglo-Saxon than the word "dull." The American mind has been accused of ignorance, superficiality, levity, commonplaceness, and dozens of other defects, but "dulness" is not one of them.
He was probably in the early stage of acquiring the language, when he superscribed the two first poems with their Italian titles. For there is no such word as "Penseroso," the adjective formed from "Pensiero" being "pensieroso". Even had the word been written correctly, its signification is not that which Milton intended, viz. thoughtful, or contemplative, but anxious, full of cares, carking.
The adjective "sentimental" in the title should be specially noted, for it defines Sterne's attitude toward everything in life. He is habitually sentimental in treating not only those things fitted to awaken deep emotion, but also those trivial incidents which ordinarily cause scarcely a ripple of feeling.
It is a curious fact that we now use the word cavalier as an adjective to mean rude and off-hand, whereas the Cavaliers of the seventeenth century certainly had much better manners than the Roundheads; and at the end of that century the word was sometimes used in the general sense of gay and frank. Both sides in the Civil War invented a good many new words with which to abuse the enemy.
'I believe you talked to Catherine the whole of the first evening, when you weren't reading Hamlet in the corner, about the arrangements for women's education at Oxford. 'Could I have found a more respectable subject? he inquired of her. 'The adjective is excellent, she said with a little face, as she put her violin into its case. 'If I remember right, Catherine and I felt it personal.
Lilias chose a middle course, and, extracting half a crown from her purse, handed it over with melancholy resignation. "I shall be pleased to give you a small donation, but I would rather my name did not appear in your list. Put it down as from a friend." "Or a Giver a Cheerful Giver!" cried Miss Thacker, with an accent on the adjective which brought the blood into Lilias's cheeks.
"Underhill! Is Derek Underhill in America?" "Landed this morning. Routed me out of bed at seven o'clock." "Oh, do you know him, too, Major Selby?" said Mrs Peagrim. "Then I'm sure he must be charming!" "Charming," began Uncle Chris in measured tones, "is an adjective which I cannot . . ." "Well, thanks most awfully," interrupted Freddie. "It's fearfully good of you to let me bring him along.
And Neil was chagrined and out of sorts, and called himself a sneak, and a coward, while to Jack he gave the name fool with an adjective prefixed. He did not even hear what his mother and Blanche were saying of Bessie until he caught the words from the former, "She has rather a pretty face;" then he roused up and rejoined: "Rather a pretty face! I should think she had.
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