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Sentence Examples Judging by the epithet you've awarded him, I take it you weren't unduly impressed. This is not a personal name but an epithet of those who have achieved enlightenment, the goal of the Buddhist religious life. The male then fertilizes the eggs and the female keeps them in her mouth for a few days until they hatch, thus earning the epithet mouth-brooder. It is easily recognized by its long, stiff hairs for which it received its specific epithet. Typically, those are paraphrased into something we can understand, but this epithet, which is arguably worse in motive than those, gets printed. When someone cuts in front of you in traffic or honks at you if you hesitate, do you mutter an epithet or react with fear? For once that epithet is justified and is more than a convenient journalistic label to ramp up the ghastliness of any given tragedy. The species name is called the epithet of the species, and they are always printed in italics, by convention. The new species has since had popular media recognition under this name and it has therefore been preserved as the specific epithet. Moe picks up an identical thick-bladed knife and hurls it at Whitford with an epithet. The epithet post-dates the death of Akhenaten, who kept his monotheistic faith until the end. Most people, including therapists, can tolerate nearly any epithet about themselves except that they are humorless. When we characterise these tendencies as centrist and opportunist, this is not some kind of epithet or swear word. Walls, windows, letters, bodies, books, John Donne redivivus, one might say, had that epithet not been applied to his acquaintance, Rupert Brooke. Another popular epithet from the era was quant jock, on the model of other eggheaded jock compounds like math jock or computer jock. When they get on the road, they find their place of birth is now an epithet. By dint of patience and gentleness, he won the affection of Mutesa and deserved the epithet of 'Mwana wa Mbuga', son of the court. Does Mr Mandelson thus want to go down in history under the shameful epithet of someone who was responsible for starvation? Perhaps redundant' is the most serious epithet, and you are not responsible for this. It is when we apply too big an epithet that we make it almost impossible for the people to communicate after the war. Show More Sentences In spite of the racial epithet spit at her, Odessa simply got up and walked away. It's sometimes hurled in an epithet, sometimes spoken with pride. As Wertheimer comes to see the accuracy of this epithet, he gradually loses his grip on life. He ponders this newly minted epithet with a real sense of fun. He has scenes where he strikes the audience dumb with epithet filled tirades, using words you know he can't spell, but he sure as shizzle can say. It is applied as an epithet denoting superlativeness of any quality. Together the genus and specific epithet comprise the name of a species. The specific epithet, carolinensis, refers to the Carolinas, where the species was first recorded and where the animal is still extremely common. They are also sometimes referred to as 'daddylong-legs', although that epithet really belongs to crane flies, which are also prominent in autumn. Traditional binomial names, if used, would no longer reflect a genus and specific epithet and could be replaced with uninomials. The specific epithet means lady-fern, referring to its delicate and lacy appearance. The specific epithet, regarded as a noun in apposition, is from the type locality of the species on Kauai. We have chosen tabebuia as the specific epithet to denote the thrips relationship with these host plants in the Bignonaceae. Sylvia solitaria Wilson should have stood until now as the correct specific epithet for the Blue-winged Warbler but for one more problem. According to a legend the epithet was miraculously supplied by angels, thus completing his unfinished epitaph. The name Rheged appears regularly as an epithet of a certain Urien in a number of early Welsh poems and royal genealogies. The knowledge of these sources – usually cited by Falaquera by name or epithet – and Maimonides' agreement or disagreement with them is essential for a proper understanding of the Guide. The term rotten borough is sometimes used as a pejorative epithet for electorates used to gain political leverage. He would pound on our door or stand on the landing, wearing only pajama bottoms, and asseverate, over and over, using a vile epithet, that his wife was having relations with black men. The reason for this epithet has to this day not been clarified, but it could have to do with a performance of another Mass in Vienna in May 1800, probably in the presence of the Empress Marie Therese. Show More Sentences Even she would not buy the sleazebag epithet. The epithet Carolus Magnus was widely used, leading to numerous translations into many languages of Europe. Consequently, it was writers of the sixteenth century who gave Alfred his epithet as 'the Great', rather than any of Alfred's contemporaries. He never seemed to resent the epithet, bearing it without complaint for many years. Poseidon also had a close association with horses, known under the epithet Poseidon Hippios, usually in Arcadia. If scientists mean that something applies to all species within a genus, they use the genus name without the specific name or epithet. The specific epithet, menziesii, is after Archibald Menzies, a Scottish physician and rival naturalist to David Douglas. The specific epithet commemorates my botanical illustratress. Alternatively the epithet may identify a particular and localized aspect of the god, sometimes thought to be already ancient during the classical epoch of Greece. He remains one of the few kings of England remembered by his epithet, rather than regnal number, and is an enduring iconic figure both in England and in France. For the origin of the word tarandus, which Linnaeus chose as the specific epithet, he made reference to Ulisse Aldrovandi's Quadrupedum omnium bisulcorum historia fol. Great Langdale is a valley in the Lake District National Park in North West England, the epithet Great distinguishing it from the neighbouring valley of Little Langdale. As for those chanting morons last week tarring us with the epithet trouble makers, shame on you and shame on those who refused to turn whistleblower when they knew the truth. An epithet to its name, misri, indicates Masr or Egypt as its home. Examples from Classical Literature Indeed, yonderly in particular, when applied to persons, is an untranslatable epithet, and yet one which exactly describes certain types of mind. The Parisian is without a rival as an epicure and a gastronome, and he associates no stigma with the epithet. That he whom the skald characterises by this epithet is a god is a matter of course. Nobody spoke to you, redhead, returned snath, snapping out the epithet with a good deal of relish. A volunteer of the first-class, and a general epithet for a stripling in the service. For gasta weardas as an epithet for angels, though then unfallen, cf. line 12a, sup. They piqued themselves upon their title of Clerici, and added the epithet of vagi. But this is now as undeserving of its constant Homeric epithet of leaf-shaking as is Zakynthos of its epithet of woody. All things considered, is ignoble the right epithet to apply to parasitism? He flunked in Greek and mathematics sufficiently to escape the epithet of poler. To this latter form of peloria it is proposed to give the distinctive epithet of irregular. In conversation they generally use a periphrastic epithet, such as the All-Good. As we go swiftly on we realize the appropriateness of the epithet ever applied to the Rhne. In some verses to a Lady, he talks of his arthritic pains, an epithet not very suitable to the dialect of Parnassus. He was justly compared to Fabius Maximus, distinguished by the epithet of cunctator. All my impressions of them are summed in the epithet, often repeated, pre-Adamite. His name Frode almost looks as if his epithet sapiens had become his popular appellation, and it befits him well. It is easy to conceive that such an epithet as Dogon might get itself mixed up with the word dog, and so become an imprecation. This god goes back to the Indo-Iranian period, as both his name and his epithet are found in the Avesta. Bud disposed of the aristocratic Alfred with a forceable epithet which ought to have made his ears burn. Show More Sentences Not that in reality the odious epithet could, with any fairness, be applied to me. It had been many a day now since she had ventured a caress or a fondling epithet in his quarter. But such an epithet will not long apply to our favourite town. These persons she stigmatizes with the epithet of tideless-blooded. Only two persons besides Minos receive in Homer the epithet. Homer gave the epithet of sacred to the waters of the alpheus. Horace applies the epithet 'Altus,' Ovid that of 'animosus' to Accius. Alderling repeated in a tone of amaze at the inadequacy of my epithet. Tristram accordingly secured for him an apartment to which this epithet might be lavishly applied. The tragic writers and Pindar give the epithet of Thesprotis to Dodona. He re-told the insult put upon himself in the epithet of empiric. She kept on, with hysterical violence, shouting at him an opprobrious, filthy epithet. I see that my neighbor, who bears the familiar epithet William or Edwin, takes it off with his jacket. 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What is the opposite of epithet? Words that rhyme with epithet What is the plural of epithet? What is the adverb for epithet? What is the adjective for epithet? What is the noun for epithet? Translations for epithet Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words epithermal epitheloid epithelium epitheliomatous epithelioma epithelioid epithetic epithets epitome epitomes epitomical epitomise 7-letter Words Starting With e ep epi epit epith epithe