Erc

From Old Irish Erc (modern Irish Earc), a word for which the electronic Dictionary of the Irish language gives several meanings, but the most likely meaning for the name is "spotted, speckled, motley," from Proto-Celtic *ɸerkos (“perch”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *perḱ- (“colored”).

(Irish mythology) A member of the conspiracy that killed Cúchulainn, but was killed by his second cousin Conall the Victorious. Son of Cairbre Nia Fer and brother of Achall.


recognition

en-noun

recognition (usually uncountable, plural recognitions)

/ˌɹɛkəɡˈnɪʃən/

From Latin recognitionem (accusative of recognitio), from stem recognit, past participle of recognoscere.

(Scots law, historical) A return of the feu to the superior.


irritate

en-verb

irritate (third-person singular simple present irritates, present participle irritating, simple past and past participle irritated)

irritates (present singular third-person)
irritating (participle present)
irritated (participle past)
irritated (past)

From Latin irritātus, past participle of irritō (“I invalidate, annul”), from irritus (“invalid”), negation of ratus (“valid, established, fixed”).

/ˈɪɹ.ɪˌteɪt/

c. 1634-1661 John Bramhall, Protestants' Ordination Defended
Are human laws presently superfluous, so often as they do not irritate or abrogate Divine laws ?

(transitive, obsolete, Scots law) To render null and void.


facility

en-noun

facility (countable and uncountable, plural facilities)

From Middle French facilité, and its source, Latin facilitās. Doublet of faculty. Also see facile.

(Scots law) A condition of mental weakness less than idiocy, but enough to make a person easily persuaded to do something against their better interest.


purdah

purdah (countable and uncountable, plural purdahs)

Borrowed from Hindustani پردہ / पर्दा (pardā), and its etymon Classical Persian پرده (pardah, “curtain; screen; (archaic) veil”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“flat”).

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Despite Rail Minister Chris Heaton-Harris's reassurance that "the White Paper is coming" it was further delayed by the period of purdah that preceded local elections held on May 6.

2021 June 2, “Network News: ‘Root and Branch’ Review Three Years in the Making”, in Rail, number 932, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire: Bauer Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 10:

(countable, UK politics) The period between the announcement of an election or referendum and its conclusion, during which civil servants refrain from making policy announcements or taking actions that could be seen as advantageous to certain candidates in the election.


Luír Cheltchair

(Irish mythology) The spear wielded by Celtchar. Its lust for blood is so great that it has to be dipped in a cauldron of poison to control it.


Brig Bretach

(Irish mythology) In the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology, the wife of Celtchar. Her husband Celtchar killed Blaí Briugu for sleeping with her as Blaí Briugu was required to do so by the latter's geas.


Blaí Briugu

(Irish mythology) In the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology, a wealthy Ulster warrior who kept a hostel. He was killed by Celtchar for sleeping with the latter's wife Brig Bretach.


Celtchar

(Irish mythology) A leading figure in the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology: an Ulster warrior described as tall, grey, and ugly, and who wields a spear called Luír Cheltchair, and who killed Blaí Briugu after the latter slept with his wife Brig Bretach.


Ferdiad

(Irish mythology) In Irish mythology, Cúchulainn's best friend and foster-brother.


Victorian

From Victoria + -an (suffix forming adjectives and agent nouns), from the name of Queen Victoria (1819–1901), monarch of the United Kingdom.

suffix

It was not until the late 1800s when older members of New York society, aghast at the invasion of vulgar "new money," devised a daunting system of social rules – not to mention silverware – meant to repel anyone of humble origins who dared to sit down at one of their twelve-course dinners. It was the Victorians who gave us such useful implements as the strawberry knife.

2008 May 29 – June 4, Aimee Levitt, “St. Louis’ etiquette masters tell us how to mind our manners”, in Riverfront Times, St. Louis, Mo.: Euclid Media Group, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-06-02, page 20:

The arrival of the railway turned this isolated fishing village into a popular seaside destination for Victorians who came to breathe fresh sea air, clear their lungs or take the waters.

2022 January 12, Paul Bigland, “Fab Four: The Nation’s Finest Stations: Grange-over-Sands”, in Rail, number 948, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire: Bauer Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 27:

A person born in or living in the Victorian period, or exhibiting characteristics of that period.

викторианец

The commercial resurgence brought about by the area's changing tastes is reflected in midtown's conglomeration of refurbished Victorians, apartments, specialty shops, offices, corner groceries, restaurants, single-family homes, and bed and breakfast inns.

1987, Faren Maree Bachelis, “Downtown Sacramento”, in The Pelican Guide to Sacramento and the Gold Country (A Firebird Press Book), Gretna, New Orleans, La.: Pelican Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 86:

(chiefly US, architecture) A house built in the Victorian architectural style.


Victorian

From Victoria (“capital of British Columbia, Canada”) + -an (suffix forming adjectives and agent nouns); incorporated as a city in 1862, the settlement which preceded the city was named Fort Victoria after Queen Victoria in 1843.

(Canada) Of, or native or relating to, the city of Victoria, the capital of British Columbia, Canada.


Victorian

(Canada) A person from the city of Victoria, the capital of British Columbia, Canada.


fane

From Middle English fane, from Old English fana (“cloth, banner”), from Proto-West Germanic *fanō, from Proto-Germanic *fanô (“cloth, flag”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂n- (“to weave; something woven; cloth, fabric, tissue”). Doublet of fanon and vane.

der

The ſteeple had become old and ruinous; and therefore the preſent one was built about the year 1740. It had, at that time, four fanes mounted on ſpires, on the four corners; theſe being judged too weak for the fanes, were taken down in 1764, and the roof of the ſteeple altered.

1801, John Baillie, An Impartial History of the Town and County of Newcastle Upon Tyne, page 541:

(obsolete) A weathercock, a weather vane.


fane

English: fane, vane

Scots: fane, faan, thane, phane

Inherited from Old English fana, from Proto-West Germanic *fanō, from Proto-Germanic *fanô; doublet of fanon.

A flag borne on sea-going vessels, especially a long triangular one.

A weathervane or weathercock (used to indicate changeableness)


fane

English: fane

Borrowed from Latin fānum, from Proto-Italic *faznom.

(rare) A temple, especially that used to worship Roman gods.


adherence

en-noun

adherence (countable and uncountable, plural adherences)

From Middle French adhérence, from Latin adhærentia.

(Scots law) The fulfilment of the legal obligation of residing with wife or husband.


abadía

From Old Galician-Portuguese abadia (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Late Latin or Ecclesiastical Latin abbātia.

et en com̃o fez moytas abbadias et moytas igleias por lo mũdo; et en com̃o as enrrequentou et en com̃o tirou moytos corpos de santos que jaziã soterrados en terra et os meteu en moymẽtos d'ouro et de prata

1390, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Os Miragres de Santiago, Madrid: C.S.I.C., page 133:

and how he made many abbeys and many churches all over the world; and how he enriched them and how he took the bodies of many saints that lay buried in the ground and put them inside gold and silver monuments


abadía

Borrowed from Late Latin or Ecclesiastical Latin abbātia, based on Latin abbas (“abbot”).

casa mía, casa mía, por pequeña que tú seas, me pareces una abadía


dóm

dómok (plural)
dóm (nominative singular)
dómok (nominative plural)
dómot (accusative singular)
dómokat (accusative plural)
dómnak (dative singular)
dómoknak (dative plural)
dómmal (instrumental singular)
dómokkal (instrumental plural)
dómért (causal-final singular)
dómokért (causal-final plural)
dómmá (singular translative)
dómokká (plural translative)
dómig (singular terminative)
dómokig (plural terminative)
dómként (essive-formal singular)
dómokként (essive-formal plural)
dómban (inessive singular)
dómokban (inessive plural)
dómon (singular superessive)
dómokon (plural superessive)
dómnál (adessive singular)
dómoknál (adessive plural)
dómba (illative singular)
dómokba (illative plural)
dómra (singular sublative)
dómokra (plural sublative)
dómhoz (allative singular)
dómokhoz (allative plural)
dómból (elative singular)
dómokból (elative plural)
dómról (delative singular)
dómokról (delative plural)
dómtól (ablative singular)
dómoktól (ablative plural)
dómé (possessed-single possessive predicative singular)
dómoké (plural possessed-single possessive predicative)
dóméi (possessed-single possessive predicative singular)
dómokéi (plural possessed-single possessive predicative)
dómom (first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
dómjaim (first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
dómod (possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
dómjaid (possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
dómja (possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
dómjai (possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
dómunk (first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
dómjaink (first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
dómotok (plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
dómjaitok (plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
dómjuk (plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
dómjaik (plural possessed-many possessive third-person)

cathedral, especially a principal one covered with a dome


backbench

His spacious quarters indicate his transition from backbench upstart to established member of the governing team.

There was no separate back-bench organization ; indeed there were no back-bench caucuses in any Nigerian Legislative House, and any attempt to create one would probably have been regarded by the leadership concerned as a subversive move.

1963, Richard L. Sklar, Nigerian Political Parties: Power in an Emergent African Nation, published 2004, page 400:

Both Thatcher's and Major's PPSs developed the role of trying to see that those members considered loyal to the leadership won the main positions on backbench party committees.

1995, R. L. Borthwick, Churchill to Major: The British Prime Ministership Since 1945, page 153:

In fall 1984, Brian Mulroney led a cabinet with far more political experience than the Conservative backbench.

1997, David Campbell Docherty, Mr. Smith Goes to Ottawa: Life in the House of Commons:

2009, John Coakley, Michael Gallagher, Politics in the Republic of Ireland, page 301,
In situations of low ministerial turnover and increased professionalisation of politics, with most TDs regarding politics as a career, Taoisigh could find that impatience on the backbenches leads to calls for leadership turnover to effect promotions.

A bench at the back of a room or seating area.

(politics, UK, New Zealand, often attributive) In a house of legislature following the model of the Westminster system (such as the UK House of Commons), any bench behind either of the front benches and occupied by rank-and-file members.


chiesa

Inherited from Latin ecclēsia, a borrowing from Ancient Greek ἐκκλησία (ekklēsía, “assembly”).
The original geminated -cc-, though lost in the standard language, is still found in many regional Italian varieties.


nobel

nobel (nominative singular)
noble (nominative plural)
nobla (genitive singular)
nobli (genitive plural)
noblowi (dative singular)
noblom (dative plural)
nobel (accusative singular)
noble (accusative plural)
noblem (instrumental singular)
noblami (instrumental plural)
noblu (locative singular)
noblach (locative plural)
noblu (singular vocative)
noble (plural vocative)

(historical) noble (medieval coin of England in the 14th and 15th centuries)


House of Commons

“House”, in this term, means a deliberative assembly, while “the Commons” stands for “the common people”, as opposed to nobility.

مَجْلِس عُمُوم

lower house in UK or Canadian parliament

When the legislation was debated by the House of Commons, Labour Deputy Leader Angela Rayner said it was "riddled with holes", while former Conservative Commons Leader Jacob Rees-Mogg said it was "badly written".

2024 March 20, Conrad Landin, “"Farcical" Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Act isn't working”, in RAIL, number 1005, page 25:

(UK politics) The lower house of the British Parliament.


Scáthach

(Irish mythology) The female warrior who trains Cúchulainn in the arts of war in the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology.


Scáthach

Scáthaí (genitive)
Scáthach (indefinite nominative singular)
a Scáthach (indefinite singular vocative)
Scáthaí (genitive indefinite singular)
Scáthach (dative indefinite singular)
Scáthaigh (archaic dative dialectal indefinite singular)
an Scáthach (definite nominative singular)
na Scáthaí (definite genitive singular)
leis an Scáthach (dative definite singular)
leis an Scáthaigh (archaic dative definite dialectal singular)
don Scáthach (dative definite singular)
don Scáthaigh (archaic dative definite dialectal singular)
Scáthach (mutation mutation-radical)

→ English: Scáthach


DA

en-noun

DA (countable and uncountable, plural DAs or DA's)

(UK politics) Initialism of devolved administration.


Eochaid Sálbuide

(Irish mythology) The king of Ulster prior to the events of the Ulster Cycle in Irish mythology. Father of Ness. He was deposed as High King by Eochaid Feidlech.


Dian Cecht

(Irish mythology) A god of healing. The healer for the Tuatha Dé Danann and the father of Cian.


Tuatha Dé Danann

From Irish Tuatha Dé Danann (literally “peoples of the goddess Danu”).

bor

(Irish mythology) The fifth group of inhabitants of Ireland according to the Lebor Gabála Érenn tradition, thought to represent the gods of the Goidelic Irish. Their Christian redactors have reduced them to historical kings and heroes.


Cian

Chiain (genitive)
Cian (mutation mutation-radical)
Chian (lenition mutation)
gCian (eclipsis mutation)

→ English: Kian

From Old Irish Cían, from cían (“long, distant, lasting”).

(Irish mythology) Son of Dian Cecht of the Tuatha Dé Danann and born with a caul on his head. Best known as the father of Lugh by the Fomarian princess Eithne.


Deichtine

(Irish mythology) Female name. In the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology, the mother of Cúchulainn and sister of Conchobar mac Nessa.


Ness

en-proper noun

Ness (countable and uncountable, plural Nesses)

Named after the River Ness, of Celtic/Pictish origin, from a Proto-Celtic word *Nesta describing great currents, according to MacBain, from the same Proto-Indo-European root that gave the river Νέστος (Néstos), possibly *ned- (“water”).

(Irish mythology) An Ulster princess and the mother of Conchobar mac Nessa and Findchoem in the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology. Daughter of Eochaid Sálbuide. Also the mother of Cormac Cond Longas by incest with Conchobar mac Nessa.


Deirdre

From Irish Deirdre, from Old Irish Derdriu.

(Irish mythology) The foremost tragic heroine in the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology.


placeman

Plus, contrary to hysterical prediction and uninformed innuendo, Bryant Lemuel's influence did not fill this pilot project with compliant placemen, instead leaving all appointments to the university science faculty.

2007, Christopher Brookmyre, Attack of the Unsinkable Rubber Ducks, →ISBN, page 183:

Predictably, the brow-beaten Clement in the end submitted to Philip's demands that the papal commission, which was eventually convened in November 1309, should consist predominantly of clerics who were known to be royal placemen.

2007, Edwin Mullins, The Popes of Avignon, Blue Bridge, published 2008, page 32:

(UK politics, derogatory) One appointed to an office, especially in government, as a reward for political or other support; an appointee, a yes-man.


Morgan le Fay

/ˌmɔːɡən lə ˈfeɪ/

From Old Welsh or Old Breton Morgen (a female given name unrelated with the male one Morgan, literally “sea-born”) + Old French la fee (“the fairy”).

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a female given name unrelated with the male one <i class="Latn mention" lang="en">Morgan</i>

(Arthurian legend) The half sister of King Arthur, known for being a powerful enchantress.


cross the floor

en-verb

cross the floor (third-person singular simple present crosses the floor, present participle crossing the floor, simple past and past participle crossed the floor)

crosses the floor (present singular third-person)
crossing the floor (participle present)
crossed the floor (participle past)
crossed the floor (past)

(UK politics, of a member of a parliament) To vote against one’s own political party in parliament.

Two weeks ago, Mr Davies intimated to Mr Brown that he was ready to cross the floor.

2007 June 27, Philip Webster, Francis Elliott, “How Brown led his latest recruit across the floor”, in Times of London, retrieved 2008-11-09:

(UK politics, informal, of a member of a parliament) To resign from one’s political party and join another party, resulting in moving from one’s currently assigned desk or seat in the legislative chamber to a new desk or seat physically located with the other members of one’s new party.


église

Antillean Creole: légliz

Guianese Creole: légliz

Haitian Creole: legliz

Karipúna Creole French: legliz

Louisiana Creole: legliz

→ Malagasy: eglizy

Seychellois Creole: legliz

→ Tayo: leglis

Inherited from Middle French eglise, from Old French eglise, esglise, from Vulgar Latin *eclesia, from Latin ecclēsia, from Ancient Greek ἐκκλησία (ekklēsía, “gathering”).
* Cognate with Catalan església, Italian chiesa, Portuguese igreja, Spanish iglesia


Hansard

Legislative Council of Hong Kong
Luke Hansard
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Thomas Curson Hansard

From Hansard, the surname of Thomas Curson Hansard (1776–1833), an English printer who inherited the business of printing reports of parliamentary debates and proceedings from his father Luke Hansard (1752–1828). T. C. Hansard added his name to the title of the reports from 1829, and from about 1859 they began to be referred to generically as “Hansards”.

Mr. BURNS thought that if they were to have a Hansard at all, they should take steps to have it thoroughly well done, and he would be very glad if they could get rid of these corrections altogether. He thought the exact words, or as nearly as possible the exact words, should be put into the Hansard, and the staff should be so efficient that there would be no necessity for corrections.

1868 October 16, A[rthur] J[ohn] Burns, “Reporting Debates”, in New Zealand. Parliamentary Debates. Third Session of the Fourth Parliament. […] (House of Representatives), volume IV, Wellington: G. Didsbury, government printer, →OCLC, page 372, column 1:

Now, Hansard's Debates originated in the year 1803, and through the enterprize of a son of the late Mr. Luke Hansard, who had been so long connected with the printing of the House, these Debates had supplied the Parliament with a very accurate record of its proceedings. They were cited continually in the House, and so great was their reputation that even in Prussia they had a Preussiches Hansard; there was also a Hansard's Debates both in Canada and Australia. [...] Suppose, then, that these Debates came to an end to-morrow; [...] the newspapers would not supply them with the materials which were now contained in Hansard. It was impossible that the newspapers could report the proceedings of the House at sufficient length.

1875 May 4, Mitchell Henry, “Parliament—Publication of Debates and Exclusion of Strangers.—Resolution.”, in Hansard’s Parliamentary Debates, […] (House of Commons), volume CCXXIV (Third Series), 3rd volume of the session, London: Published by Cornelius Buck, at the office for “Hansard’s Parliamentary Debates,” […], →OCLC, columns 68–70:

He, for example, who would essay to take account of Mr. [William Ewart] Gladstone, must read much else besides Hansard; he must brush up his Homer, and set himself to acquire some theology.

1885, [Augustine Birrell], “Carlyle”, in Obiter Dicta, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 1:

In any case, the judges are not allowed to read Hansard in order to see what the sponsors, or any other member, may have said. This is a much criticised rule, but there is a certain amount to be said for it. The legislative processes, through which the parliamentary draftsman's work must pass, are confusing and muddled.

1983, Geoffrey Lewis, “Statutory Interpretation”, in Lord Atkin, London: Butterworths, →ISBN, page 118; reprinted Oxford, Oxfordshire, Portland, Or.: Hart Publishing, 1999, →ISBN:

In a country like India with a vibrant democracy, parliamentary debates play a very crucial role and are watched with keen interest by the people, who are politically conscious. The Reporters' Branch is entrusted with the responsibility of producing the Indian Hansard, i.e., the Official Report of the proceedings of Lok Sabha.

1992, “The Indian Hansard”, in Parliament of India: The Ninth Lok Sabha 1989–1991: A Study, New Delhi: Northern Book Centre for the Lok Sabha Secretariat, →ISBN, part I (Articles), page 63, column 1:

The object of the court in interpreting legislation is to give effect so far as the language permits to the intention of the legislature. If the language proves to be ambiguous I can see no sound reason not to consult Hansard to see if there is a clear statement of the meaning that the words were intended to carry. The days have long passed when the courts adopted a strict constructionist view of interpretation which required them to adopt the literal meaning of the language. [...] I cannot agree with the view that consulting Hansard will add so greatly to the cost of litigation, that on this ground alone we should refuse to do so. Modern technology greatly facilitates the recall and display of material held centrally. I have to confess that on many occasions I have had recourse to Hansard, of course only to check if my interpretation had conflicted with an express Parliamentary intention, but I can say that it does not take long to recall and assemble the relevant passages in which the particular section was dealt with in Parliament, nor does it take long to see if anything relevant was said.

1992 November 26, Lord Griffiths [Hugh Griffiths, Baron Griffiths] (judge of the House of Lords), “Pepper (Inspector of Taxes) … Respondent and Hart … Appellant [[1993] Appeal Cases 593]”, in The Law Reports of the Incorporated Council of Law Reporting: House of Lords, Judicial Committee of the Privy Council and Peerage Cases, London: Incorporated Council of Law Reporting for England and Wales, published 1993, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-09-18, pages 617–618:

Imagine a parliamentary stenographer scribbling furiously in the days before tape recorders. His job is to record politicians' speeches so they can be written up and preserved in an official parliamentary record like Hansard. [...] When some dramatic break or swerve in the speech seems too uncertain to sort out there and then, the stenographer sticks in clumps of hyphens, partly as a signal to himself that he will need to sort this out later when "correcting" and "clarifying" his final copy for Hansard.

1993, Graham Bradshaw, “Appendix: Dashing Othello’s Spirits”, in Misrepresentations: Shakespeare and the Materialists, Ithaca, N.Y., London: Cornell University Press, →ISBN, page 258:

Following the debate in question, Tim Loughton sent an unmarked copy of Hansard to his constituent to inform him that he would no longer be acting as his MP as the constituent had made this position untenable. [...] However, and unbeknown to Loughton, the constituent reported the debate to the police as a 'hate crime' and complained that sending a copy of Hansard was 'harassment'.

2015, Roger Williams, “Harassment in Sussex”, in Rough Justice: Citizens’ Experience of Mistreatment and Injustice in the Early Stages of Law Enforcement, Hook, Hampshire: Waterside Press, →ISBN, part 1 (Contributions, Media and Experiences), page 106:

(chiefly British, Commonwealth) The official report of debates and other proceedings in the British and some Commonwealth parliaments.


chancellor

/ˈtʃɑːnsələ/

/ˈt͡ʃænsələ/

Angela Merkel
Frick Collection
Hans Holbein the Younger
Thomas More

From Anglo-Norman or Middle English chaunceler, chanceler, canceler (“chief administrative or executive officer of a ruler; chancellor, secretary; private secretary, scribe; Lord Chancellor of England; officer of the ruler's exchequer; a high administrative or executive officer (for example, a deputy or representative of a bishop; the head of a university)”), from Old French cancelier, chancelier (“chancellor”), from Late Latin cancellārius (“secretary; doorkeeper, porter; usher of a court of law stationed at the bars separating the public from the judges”), from Latin cancellī (plural of cancellus (“grate; bars, barrier; railings”), diminutive of cancer (“grid; barrier”), from Proto-Italic *karkros (“enclosure”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to bend, turn”)) + -ārius (suffix forming nouns denoting an agent of use).
The word was present as Late Old English canceler, cancheler, from Norman cancheler, but was displaced in the 13th century by the Old French and Anglo-Norman forms mentioned above.

refn

From the Frick Collection in New York City, New York, USA.

مُسْتَشَار

[page 111] […] Lord Falkland […] took an Opportunity to tell the King, that He had now a good Opportunity to prefer Mr. Hyde, by making him Chancellor of the Exchequer, in the Place of Sir John Colepepper; […] [page 112] He [Colepepper] ſurrendered his Office of Chancellor of the Exchequer: And the next Day Mr. Hyde was ſworn of the Privy-Council, and Knighted, and had his Patents ſealed for that Office.

[1760, Edward, Earl of Clarendon [i.e., Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon], “Part the Second”, in The Life of Edward, Earl of Clarendon, Lord High Chancellor of England, and Chancellor of the University of Oxford. […], volume I, Oxford, Oxfordshire: At the Clarendon Printing-house, →OCLC, pages 111 and 112:

Chancellor Philip Hammond has told the BBC he and other MPs will "find a way" of blocking a no-deal Brexit. […] Mr Hammond is expected to be replaced as chancellor whoever wins the Conservative leadership election later this month.

2019 July 5, “Philip Hammond: MPs will and should Stop No-deal Brexit”, in BBC News, archived from the original on 2019-07-08:

Liz Truss has sacked Kwasi Kwarteng as her chancellor and replaced him with Jeremy Hunt ahead of a U-turn on key sections of her disastrous mini-budget, as she launched a desperate attempt to restore her crumbling political authority.

2022 October 14, “Liz Truss sacks Kwasi Kwarteng before corporation tax U-turn”, in The Guardian:

Chancellor of the Exchequer
Chancellor of the Exchequer#English

A senior secretary or official with administrative or legal duties, sometimes in charge of some area of government such as finance or justice.

(UK politics) Ellipsis of Chancellor of the Exchequer.

"Have you agreed on your chancellor, gentlemen?" was the first question of the Judge. The foreman, called in Scotland the chancellor of the jury, usually the man of best rank and estimation among the assizers, stepped forward, and, with a low reverence, delivered to the Court a sealed paper, containing the verdict, […]

1818 July 25, Jedadiah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], chapter XII, in Tales of My Landlord, Second Series, […] (The Heart of Mid-Lothian), volume II, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Company, →OCLC, pages 285–286:

The verdict must be returned to the Court by the chancellor of the jury, in presence of the accused, and of the whole jury; and, being engrossed in the record, and read aloud, it is then sealed up, in terms of the regulations 1672, No. 9, and deposited with the clerk of Court, never to be opened again but by order of the judges. The verdict, when in writing, is authenticated by the subscriptions of the chancellor and clerk of the jury, and accompanied with a list of the names of the jurors, and a state of the vote of each individual, "whether condemning or assoilzieing;" Regulations 1672, No. 9.

1826, Robert Bell, William Bell, “CRIMINAL PROSECUTION”, in A Dictionary of the Law of Scotland, 3rd revised and enlarged edition, volume I, Edinburgh: Printed for John Anderson & Co. […], and Bell & Bradfute, →OCLC, page 333:

[T]he pursuer moved the Court "for a rule to shew cause why this case should not be ordered to be tried, in respect that the verdict as it appears on the notes of the Judge furnished to the parties, was not declared by the chancellor or foreman of the jury in open Court, and taken down by the clerk of the said Court before the jury was discharged."

1853 July 16, Geo[rge] Dingwall Fordyce (reporter), James Paterson (reporter), William Gillies Tytler (reporter), Frederick Hallard (reporter), “James Mackenzie, Pursuer, v. Dunlop, Wilson and Co., Defenders.”, in Reports of Cases Decided in the Supreme Courts of Scotland, and in the House of Lords on Appeal from Scotland, [ […] Being a Continuation of The Scottish Jurist.">…


apprise

en-verb

apprise (third-person singular simple present apprises, present participle apprising, simple past and past participle apprised)

apprises (present singular third-person)
apprising (participle present)
apprised (participle past)
apprised (past)
apprise (infinitive)

From Middle English aprisen, apprisen (“to determine or estimate the value of (something), to appraise, evaluate; to regard (something) as important, valuable, or worthy, to esteem, prize; to praise or worship (God)”), and then either:
* from Old French apriser, aprisier (“to appraise, evaluate”), from à (“to”) + prisier, preisier (“to attribute a value to, to appraise, value”) (from Latin pretiāre, the present active infinitive of pretiō (“(Late Latin) to consider valuable, hold in high regard, to esteem, prize, value; (Medieval Latin) to estimate the worth of, appraise, assess, value”), from pretium + -ō (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs)); or
* from Old French à pris (“to (put a) price (on)”) (pris (“price; esteem, (positive) reputation”) is derived from Latin pretium).
Pretium (“cost, price; value, worth”) is ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“before, in front; first”). The English word is a doublet of appraise, appreciate, praise, price, and prize.

doublet

Infeftments are alſo extinct, vvhen the Superior adjudgeth or appriſeth from his Vaſſal; for thereby it vvas found, that the Property vvas Conſolidat vvith the Superiority,

1681, James Dalrymple of Stair [i.e., James Dalrymple, 1st Viscount of Stair], “Extinction of Infeftments”, in The Institutions of the Law of Scotland, […], 1st part, Edinburgh: […] Heir of Andrew Anderson, […], →OCLC, page 416:

[T]he infeftment of annualrent, being jus sed ignobilius, becomes extinct, if the annualrenter thereupon do apprise the property, and be infeft: and therefore, whoever appriseth for any years of the annualrent, the infeftment thereof, unless it be taken away by satisfaction or redemption, extinguisheth the infeftment of annualrent, without distinction whether the apprising be led for any years belonging to the fiar, liferenter, or any other.

1832, James, Viscount of Stair [i.e., James Dalrymple, 1st Viscount of Stair], John S[hank] More, “Title V. Infeftments of Annualrent, where, of Poinding of the Ground, and of Pensions.”, in The Institutions of the Law of Scotland, […], new edition, volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Walker] for Bell & Bradfute, →OCLC, page 387:

(specifically, Scots law) To put a price on (something) for the purpose of sale; to appraise.


церковь

ru-noun+

церквя́м,церква́м

церквя́ми,церква́ми

церквя́х,церква́х

це́рковь • (cérkovʹ) f inan (genitive це́ркви, nominative plural це́ркви, genitive plural церкве́й, relational adjective церко́вный, diminutive церкву́шка)

це́рковь (canonical)
cérkovʹ (romanization)
це́ркви (genitive)
це́ркви (nominative plural)
церкве́й (genitive plural)
церко́вный (adjective relational)
церкву́шка (diminutive)
це́рковь (nominative singular)
це́ркви (nominative plural)
це́ркви (genitive singular)
церкве́й (genitive plural)
це́ркви (dative singular)
церквя́м (dative plural)
церква́м (dative irregular plural)
це́рковь (accusative singular)
це́ркви (accusative plural)
це́рковью (instrumental singular)
церквя́ми (instrumental plural)
церква́ми (instrumental irregular plural)
це́ркви (prepositional singular)
церквя́х (plural prepositional)
церква́х (irregular plural prepositional)

→ Aleut: chiirkax̂, chiirkvax̂

→ Bashkir: сиркәү (sirkəw)

→ Chuvash: чиркӳ (čirk̬ü)

→ Kazakh: шіркеу (şırkeu)

→ Kildin Sami: цэ̄ркав (cērkav)

→ Kyrgyz: чиркөө (cirköö)

→ Skolt Sami: ceerkav

→ Tatar: чиркәу (çirkäw)

→ Uyghur: چېركاۋ (chërkaw)

→ Uzbek: cherkov

→ Yakut: сиэркэп (sierkep)

Ru-церковь.ogg

Inherited from Old East Slavic цьркꙑ (cĭrky), from Proto-Slavic *cьrky, from Proto-West Germanic *kirikā, from Ancient Greek κυριακόν (kuriakón). Doublet of ки́рха (kírxa) and ки́рка (kírka), see also English church and other Germanic cognates.


џамија

џа́мија (canonical feminine)
džámija (romanization)
џа́мија (nominative singular)
џамије (nominative plural)
џамије (genitive singular)
џамија (genitive plural)
џамији (dative singular)
џамијама (dative plural)
џамију (accusative singular)
џамије (accusative plural)
џамијо (singular vocative)
џамије (plural vocative)
џамији (locative singular)
џамијама (locative plural)
џамијом (instrumental singular)
џамијама (instrumental plural)

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish جامع (cami), from Arabic جَامِع (jāmiʕ). Akin to џѐма̄т.

bor+

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džamija

džámija (canonical feminine)
џа́мија (Cyrillic)
džámija (nominative singular)
džamije (nominative plural)
džamije (genitive singular)
džamija (genitive plural)
džamiji (dative singular)
džamijama (dative plural)
džamiju (accusative singular)
džamije (accusative plural)
džamijo (singular vocative)
džamije (plural vocative)
džamiji (locative singular)
džamijama (locative plural)
džamijom (instrumental singular)
džamijama (instrumental plural)

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish جامع (cami), from Arabic جَامِع (jāmiʕ). Akin to džèmāt.


džamija

sk-noun

džamija f (genitive singular džamije, nominative plural džamije, genitive plural džamijí, declension pattern of ulica)

džamije (genitive singular)
džamije (nominative plural)
džamijí (genitive plural)
ulica (declension-pattern-of)
džamija (nominative singular)
džamije (nominative plural)
džamije (genitive singular)
džamijí (genitive plural)
džamiji (dative singular)
džamijam (dative plural)
džamiju (accusative singular)
džamije (accusative plural)
džamiji (locative singular)
džamijach (locative plural)
džamijou (instrumental singular)
džamijami (instrumental plural)

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish جامع (cami), from Arabic جَامِع (jāmiʕ).


džamija

džámija (canonical feminine)
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džámija (nominative singular)
džámiji (dual nominative)
džámije (nominative plural)
džámije (genitive singular)
džámij (dual genitive)
džámij (genitive plural)
džámiji (dative singular)
džámijama (dative dual)
džámijam (dative plural)
džámijo (accusative singular)
džámiji (accusative dual)
džámije (accusative plural)
džámiji (locative singular)
džámijah (dual locative)
džámijah (locative plural)
džámijo (instrumental singular)
džámijama (dual instrumental)
džámijami (instrumental plural)


Altar

de-noun

Altar m (strong, genitive Altares or Altars, plural Altäre, diminutive Altärchen n)

Altares (genitive)
Altars (genitive)
Altäre (plural)
Altärchen (diminutive neuter)
Altar (nominative singular)
Altäre (definite nominative plural)
Altares (genitive singular)
Altars (genitive singular)
Altäre (definite genitive plural)
Altar (dative singular)
Altare (dative singular)
Altären (dative definite plural)
Altar (accusative singular)
Altäre (accusative definite plural)

From Middle High German alter, altære, from Old High German altāri, from Proto-West Germanic *altārī (“altar”), borrowed from Latin altāre. The form was readapted to the Latin source, partly to avoid homophony with Alter (“age”). Compare also Dutch altaar alongside archaic outer.

(religion, including Christianity) altar (table or similar structure used for religious rites)


Blitz

Specific use of blitz. The Blitz was in truth not a blitzkrieg, which is a rapid ground offensive based on superior tank forces. However, the word was current at the time for the successful German campaigns in Poland and France, and was transferred to the attacks on Britain, perhaps by association of Blitz (“lightning”) with the bombings.

(historical) The series of air raids launched on various cities in Great Britain by the German air force in 1940–41 during World War II.


Commons

Commons (disambiguation)#People
House of Commons

(UK politics, Canadian politics) The House of Commons, part of the parliament under the Westminster system of parliamentary democracy.


Con

(UK politics) Abbreviation of Conservative.


Labor

(UK politics, American spelling, Australian spelling) Misspelling of Labour. (UK political party)


Lug

Loga (genitive)
Lug (nominative singular)
Lug (singular vocative)
Lug (accusative singular)
Logo (genitive singular)
Loga (genitive singular)
Lug (dative singular)

desctree

Irish: Lú, Lugh (superseded)
→ English: Lugh

Scottish Gaelic: Lùgh

From Primitive Irish ᚂᚒᚌ (lug), from Proto-Celtic *Lugus.


Lords

(British, UK politics, plural only) Ellipsis of House of Lords.


Lú

→ English: Lugh

From Old Irish Lug, from Primitive Irish ᚂᚒᚌ (lug), from Proto-Celtic *Lugus.

(Irish mythology) Lugh (pre-Christian Irish deity)


Morgan

en-prop

Morgan (countable and uncountable, plural Morgans)

(Arthurian legend) Ellipsis of Morgan le Fay.


Tánaiste

From Irish tánaiste (“second-in-command, tanist”). Doublet of tanist.

bor

On Thursday, the tánaiste, or deputy prime minister, Micheál Martin, described the personal abuse directed at lawmakers and their staff as “absolutely vile” and said some of the behaviour was “fascist-like”, Irish media reported.

2023 September 21, Emma Graham-Harrison, “Alarm over ‘fascist-like’ protest at Ireland’s seat of government”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

the Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Ireland


Whig

From Whiggamore, possibly from Scots whiggamore (“horse driver”), from whig (“to drive”) + mare.

whig

a member of an 18th- and 19th-century political party

(UK politics, historical) A member of an 18th- and 19th-century political party in Britain that was opposed to the Tories, and eventually became the Liberal Party.

(UK politics, rare) A member (especially a politician) of the former Liberal Party or its successor, the Liberal Democrats.


Zeppelin

Borrowed from German Zeppelin. Named after Ferdinand von Zeppelin, whose surname derives from the German town name Zepelin. Doublet of cepelinas.


interdict

From Middle English entrediten, from Old French entredire (“forbid”), from Latin interdīcō (“prohibit, forbid”), from inter- (“between”) + dīcō (“say”), from Proto-Indo-European *deyḱ-.

The Fife County Council, and other objectors, were successful in July [1950] in obtaining an interim interdict against this decision, but the Court of Session withdrew the interdict in January, and it was then stated that a civil court had no jurisdiction in the matter. […] Mr. Waller adds that when the railway was authorised in 1897, one of the clauses of the Act authorising the transfer of the line to the North British Railway provided that that company should work it in perpetuity, and it was this clause that caused the interim interdict to be granted.

1951 April, “Notes and News: North Fife Line, Scotland”, in Railway Magazine, number 600, page 281:

In May [1995], the court issued an interdict preventing the service withdrawal, pending consultation on the closure to passenger traffic of three short stretches of railway around Glasgow and its hinterland that were only used by the Fort William Sleeper - and for which BR had failed to invoke standard closure procedures.

2021 August 25, David Clough, “The Sleeper experience”, in RAIL, number 938, page 61:


C

(UK politics, in election results) Abbreviation of Conservative.


Arthurian

en-adj

Arthurian (comparative more Arthurian, superlative most Arthurian)

more Arthurian (comparative)
most Arthurian (superlative)

A reminder of the Arthurian legends comes with the next station, Camelford, where passengers alight for Boscastle and Tintagel with their fine coast scenery, and near to which is Slaughter Bridge, where King Arthur is supposed to have fought his last.

1949 September and October, B. G. Wilson, “The North Cornwall Line of the Southern Region”, in Railway Magazine, page 328:

Of or pertaining to the legend of Arthur, king of the Britons, and his court at Camelot.


King Arthur

A legendary king of Britain, said to have led the defence of Britain against Saxon invaders in the early 6th century.


hram

hrȃm (canonical masculine)
хра̑м (Cyrillic)
hrȃm (nominative singular)
hrámovi (nominative plural)
hrama (genitive singular)
hramova (genitive plural)
hramu (dative singular)
hramovima (dative plural)
hram (accusative singular)
hramove (accusative plural)
hrame (singular vocative)
hramovi (plural vocative)
hramu (locative singular)
hramovima (locative plural)
hramom (instrumental singular)
hramovima (instrumental plural)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *xormъ. In its Islamic context, it might have come from Arabic حرام or حرم, possibly through Ottoman Turkish harem.


masjid

Borrowed from Arabic مَسْجِد (masjid), from the root س ج د (s-j-d). Doublet of mosque.

Any masjid where the practices are devoted absolutely to The God ALONE.

If you assign a place in your home or office for prayer, then it can be considered as your own masjid.


masjid

id-noun

masjid (plural masjid-masjid, first-person possessive masjidku, second-person possessive masjidmu, third-person possessive masjidnya)

masjid-masjid (plural)
masjidku (first-person possessive)
masjidmu (possessive second-person)
masjidnya (possessive third-person)

From Malay masjid, from Arabic مَسْجِد (masjid), from the root س ج د (s-j-d).


masjid

ms-noun

masjid (Jawi spelling مسجد, plural masjid-masjid, informal 1st possessive masjidku, 2nd possessive masjidmu, 3rd possessive masjidnya)

مسجد (Jawi)
masjid-masjid (plural)
masjidku (first-person informal possessive)
masjidmu (possessive second-person)
masjidnya (possessive third-person)

Indonesian: masjid

Bahasa Baku, Standard Singapore, Sarawak, Sabah


masjid

Unadapted borrowing from Arabic مَسْجِد (masjid). Doublet of mansigit and meskita.


COBRA

Cabinet Office Briefing Room A
w:Cabinet Office Briefing Rooms

(UK politics) Initialism of Cabinet Office Briefing Room A.

(UK politics, by extension) Acronym of Cabinet Office Briefing Rooms.


COBRA

(UK politics, by extension) A cabinet committee meeting that would use a COBR room

(UK politics, by extension) A cabinet committee that would meet using a COBR room


CPS

Last year, for example, Raab wrote a paper for the Centre for Policy Studies (CPS) – since the birth of Thatcherism one of the radical right's fiercest thinktanks […]

2012 August 22, Andy Beckett, “Britannia Unchained: the rise of the new Tory right”, in The Guardian:

Centre for Policy Studies
w:Centre for Policy Studies

(UK politics) Initialism of Centre for Policy Studies.


храм

be-noun

храм • (xram) m inan (genitive хра́ма, nominative plural хра́мы, genitive plural хра́маў)

xram (romanization)
хра́ма (genitive)
хра́мы (nominative plural)
хра́маў (genitive plural)
храм (nominative singular)
хра́мы (nominative plural)
хра́ма (genitive singular)
хра́маў (genitive plural)
хра́му (dative singular)
хра́мам (dative plural)
храм (accusative singular)
хра́мы (accusative plural)
хра́мам (instrumental singular)
хра́мамі (instrumental plural)
хра́ме (locative singular)
хра́мах (locative plural)
хра́мы (count-form plural)

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic храмъ (xramŭ) via Old East Slavic храмъ (xramŭ), from Proto-Slavic *xormъ. Doublet of хо́рам (xóram) from хоромъ (xoromŭ).


храм

hram (romanization)
храм (indefinite singular)
хра́мове (indefinite plural)
хра́мът (definite singular subjective)
хра́мовете (definite plural subjective)
хра́ма (definite objective singular)
хра́мовете (definite objective plural)
хра́ма (count-form plural)

Inherited from Old Church Slavonic храмъ (xramŭ), from Proto-Slavic *xormъ.


храм

hram (romanization)
храмови (plural)
храм (indefinite singular)
храмови (indefinite plural)
храмот (definite singular unspecified)
храмовите (definite plural unspecified)
храмов (definite proximal singular)
храмовиве (definite plural proximal)
храмон (definite distal singular)
храмовине (definite distal plural)
храму (singular vocative)
храмови (plural vocative)
храма (count-form plural)


храм

ru-noun+

храм • (xram) m inan (genitive хра́ма, nominative plural хра́мы, genitive plural хра́мов, relational adjective хра́мовый, diminutive хра́мик)

xram (romanization)
хра́ма (genitive)
хра́мы (nominative plural)
хра́мов (genitive plural)
хра́мовый (adjective relational)
хра́мик (diminutive)
хра́м (nominative singular)
хра́мы (nominative plural)
хра́ма (genitive singular)
хра́мов (genitive plural)
хра́му (dative singular)
хра́мам (dative plural)
хра́м (accusative singular)
хра́мы (accusative plural)
хра́мом (instrumental singular)
хра́мами (instrumental plural)
хра́ме (prepositional singular)
хра́мах (plural prepositional)

→ Kazakh: храм (xram)

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic храмъ (xramŭ) via Old East Slavic храмъ (xramŭ), from Proto-Slavic *xormъ. Doublet of хоро́мы (xorómy) from хоромъ (xoromŭ).


храм

хра̑м (canonical masculine)
hrȃm (romanization)
хра̑м (nominative singular)
хра́мови (nominative plural)
храма (genitive singular)
храмова (genitive plural)
храму (dative singular)
храмовима (dative plural)
храм (accusative singular)
храмове (accusative plural)
храме (singular vocative)
храмови (plural vocative)
храму (locative singular)
храмовима (locative plural)
храмом (instrumental singular)
храмовима (instrumental plural)


храм

uk-noun

храм • (xram) m inan (genitive хра́ма, nominative plural хра́ми, genitive plural хра́мів)

xram (romanization)
хра́ма (genitive)
хра́ми (nominative plural)
хра́мів (genitive plural)
храм (nominative singular)
хра́ми (nominative plural)
хра́ма (genitive singular)
хра́мів (genitive plural)
хра́мові (dative singular)
хра́му (dative singular)
хра́мам (dative plural)
храм (accusative singular)
хра́ми (accusative plural)
хра́мом (instrumental singular)
хра́мами (instrumental plural)
хра́мі (locative singular)
хра́мах (locative plural)
хра́ме (singular vocative)
хра́ми (plural vocative)

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic храмъ (xramŭ) via Old East Slavic храмъ (xramŭ). Doublet of хоро́м (xoróm) from хоромъ (xoromŭ). For sense as patrons saint's day, compare Romanian hram.


pura

id-noun

pura (plural pura-pura, first-person possessive puraku, second-person possessive puramu, third-person possessive puranya)

pura-pura (plural)
puraku (first-person possessive)
puramu (possessive second-person)
puranya (possessive third-person)

From Malay pura (“castle town”), from Sanskrit पुर (pura). Doublet of puri.
* Sense of "temple" is a semantic loan from Balinese ᬧᬸᬭ (pura) which ultimately from same Sanskrit word.

(Hinduism) temple, a Balinese Hinduism place of worship.


defender

From Middle English defender, deffender, defendere, defendour, defendoure, partly from Anglo-Norman defendour, from Old French defendëor; partly from Middle English defenden + -ere, equivalent to defend + -er.

(Scots law) A defendant in a civil action.


FCO

Foreign and Commonwealth Office
w:Foreign and Commonwealth Office

(British, UK politics) Initialism of Foreign and Commonwealth Office.


TD

en-noun

TD (countable and uncountable, plural TDs)

Fianna Fáil TD Jim O'Callaghan, whose Dublin constituency is home to one of Accenture's office here, said: […]

2023 August 1, “Accenture cuts 890 more job from Irish operation”, in The Irish Times, page 1:

(Irish politics) Initialism of Teachta Dála, a member of Dáil Éireann, the lower chamber of the Parliament of the Republic of Ireland.


PSI

Policy Studies Institute
w:Policy Studies Institute

(UK politics) Initialism of Policy Studies Institute, a British think tank.


Majorism

(UK politics) The political and economic policies of the British Conservative prime minister Sir John Major.


Nat

(slang, informal, UK politics) A member or supporter of the Scottish National Party.


Whitehall

en-proper noun

Whitehall (countable and uncountable, plural Whitehalls)

From Middle English whit (“white”) + halgh (“corner, nook; hall”).

Britain's securocracy - Whitehall spymasters, backed up by government lawyers, engaged in the increasingly thankless task of preserving state secrets - are faced with an intriguing conundrum. What do they do when the bulwark they have been relying on for so long to protect their secrets crumbles before their eyes?

2000 July 27, Richard Norton-Taylor, “Analysis: The secret's out”, in the Guardian:

It notes: "The Welsh Government's view is that genuine 'levelling up' cannot simply mean a sprinkling of new, ad hoc rail projects decided in Whitehall, it has to be part of a strategic approach to promoting growth in all parts of the UK."

2020 December 2, Philip Haigh, “When will Wales's wish for rail improvements come true?”, in Rail, page 32:

(UK politics, by extension, metonymically) The British government or civil service


Blairite

The Blairites came up with young country and new this, new that, but it was cosmetic.

2001 August 27, Madeleine Bunting, “The end is nigh: pessimism rules”, in The Guardian:

(UK politics, informal) A supporter of Tony Blair, British prime minister from 1997 to 2007, or his policies.


Blairite

(UK politics) Relating to Blairites or to Tony Blair's government and policies.


TCA

Labour, which has said it will not take the UK back into the EU, the single market or customs union, has, however, already committed to using the 2025 review of the TCA to try to reduce barriers to trade.

2023 February 11, Toby Helm, “Revealed: secret cross-party summit held to confront failings of Brexit”, in The Observer, →ISSN:

Trade and Cooperation Agreement
w:EU–UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement

(European politics, UK politics) Initialism of Trade and Cooperation Agreement.


New Labour

From the slogan “New Labour, New Britain”, used by Tony Blair in his 1994 Labour Party Conference speech.

(UK politics) A movement in the 1990s and 2000s to rebrand the British Labour Party by discarding traditional goals such as nationalization and socialism.


cami

cami (nominative singular)
camiler (nominative plural)
caminiñ (genitive singular)
camilerniñ (genitive plural)
camige (dative singular)
camilerge (dative plural)
camini (accusative singular)
camilerni (accusative plural)
camide (locative singular)
camilerde (locative plural)
camiden (ablative singular)
camilerden (ablative plural)


cami

head

cami (definite accusative camiyi, plural camiler)

camiyi (accusative definite)
camiler (plural)
cami (nominative singular)
camiler (nominative plural)
camiyi (accusative definite singular)
camileri (accusative definite plural)
camiye (dative singular)
camilere (dative plural)
camide (locative singular)
camilerde (locative plural)
camiden (ablative singular)
camilerden (ablative plural)
caminin (genitive singular)
camilerin (genitive plural)
camim (first-person nominative singular)
camilerim (first-person nominative singular)
camin (nominative second-person singular)
camilerin (nominative second-person singular)
camisi (nominative singular third-person)
camileri (nominative singular third-person)
camimiz (first-person nominative plural)
camilerimiz (first-person nominative plural)
caminiz (nominative plural second-person)
camileriniz (nominative plural second-person)
camileri (nominative plural third-person)
camimi (accusative definite first-person singular)
camilerimi (accusative definite first-person singular)
camini (accusative definite second-person singular)
camilerini (accusative definite second-person singular)
camisini (accusative definite singular third-person)
camilerini (accusative definite singular third-person)
camimizi (accusative definite first-person plural)
camilerimizi (accusative definite first-person plural)
caminizi (accusative definite plural second-person)
camilerinizi (accusative definite plural second-person)
camilerini (accusative definite plural third-person)
camime (dative first-person singular)
camilerime (dative first-person singular)
camine (dative second-person singular)
camilerine (dative second-person singular)
camisine (dative singular third-person)
camilerine (dative singular third-person)
camimize (dative first-person plural)
camilerimize (dative first-person plural)
caminize (dative plural second-person)
camilerinize (dative plural second-person)
camilerine (dative plural third-person)
camimde (first-person locative singular)
camilerimde (first-person locative singular)
caminde (locative second-person singular)
camilerinde (locative second-person singular)
camisinde (locative singular third-person)
camilerinde (locative singular third-person)
camimizde (first-person locative plural)
camilerimizde (first-person locative plural)
caminizde (locative plural second-person)
camilerinizde (locative plural second-person)
camilerinde (locative plural third-person)
camimden (ablative first-person singular)
camilerimden (ablative first-person singular)
caminden (ablative second-person singular)
camilerinden (ablative second-person singular)
camisinden (ablative singular third-person)
camilerinden (ablative singular third-person)
camimizden (ablative first-person plural)
camilerimizden (ablative first-person plural)
caminizden (ablative plural second-person)
camilerinizden (ablative plural second-person)
camilerinden (ablative plural third-person)
camimin (first-person genitive singular)
camilerimin (first-person genitive singular)
caminin (genitive second-person singular)
camilerinin (genitive second-person singular)
camisinin (genitive singular third-person)
camilerinin (genitive singular third-person)
camimizin (first-person genitive plural)
camilerimizin (first-person genitive plural)
caminizin (genitive plural second-person)
camilerinizin (genitive plural second-person)
camilerinin (genitive plural third-person)

From Ottoman Turkish جامع (cami'), from Arabic جَامِعْ (jāmiʕ).


katedrala

sh-noun

katedrála f (Cyrillic spelling катедра́ла)

katedrála (canonical feminine)
катедра́ла (Cyrillic)
katedrala (nominative singular)
katedrale (nominative plural)
katedrale (genitive singular)
katedrala (genitive plural)
katedrali (dative singular)
katedralama (dative plural)
katedralu (accusative singular)
katedrale (accusative plural)
katedralo (singular vocative)
katedrale (plural vocative)
katedrali (locative singular)
katedralama (locative plural)
katedralom (instrumental singular)
katedralama (instrumental plural)


katedrala

katedrȃla (canonical feminine)
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katedrála (nominative singular)
katedráli (dual nominative)
katedrále (nominative plural)
katedrále (genitive singular)
katedrál (dual genitive)
katedrál (genitive plural)
katedráli (dative singular)
katedrálama (dative dual)
katedrálam (dative plural)
katedrálo (accusative singular)
katedráli (accusative dual)
katedrále (accusative plural)
katedráli (locative singular)
katedrálah (dual locative)
katedrálah (locative plural)
katedrálo (instrumental singular)
katedrálama (dual instrumental)
katedrálami (instrumental plural)


катедрала

bg-noun

катедра́ла • (katedrála) f (relational adjective катедра́лен)

катедра́ла (canonical)
katedrála (romanization)
катедра́лен (adjective relational)
катедра́ла (indefinite singular)
катедра́ли (indefinite plural)
катедра́лата (definite singular)
катедра́лите (definite plural)

bg-ndecl

катедра́ла<>


катедрала

катедра́ла (canonical feminine)
katedrála (romanization)
катедрала (nominative singular)
катедрале (nominative plural)
катедрале (genitive singular)
катедрала (genitive plural)
катедрали (dative singular)
катедралама (dative plural)
катедралу (accusative singular)
катедрале (accusative plural)
катедрало (singular vocative)
катедрале (plural vocative)
катедрали (locative singular)
катедралама (locative plural)
катедралом (instrumental singular)
катедралама (instrumental plural)

ка‧те‧дра‧ла


Fuamnach

(Irish mythology) Midir's rejected first wife, who became jealous of Midir's lover Étaín, casting three spells on Étain, turning her into a pool of water, then into a worm, and then into a fly.


Étaín

(Irish mythology) The lover of Midir whose rejected first wife Fuamnach became jealous and cast three spells on her, turning her into a pool of water, then into a worm, and then into a fly.


Midir

(Irish mythology) The son of the Dagda of the Tuatha Dé Danann who fell in love with Étaín, receiving Aengus's help to make her his new bride.


Lugh

Borrowed from Irish Lugh, from Old Irish Lug, from Primitive Irish ᚂᚒᚌ (lug), from Proto-Celtic *Lugus.

(Irish mythology) A pre-Christian Irish deity represented in mythological texts as a hero and High King of the distant past: the son of Cian and Ethniu.

Samh-ildánach ()

Summer-multi-talented; skilled in many arts


Tailtiu

(Irish mythology) A presumed goddess who was the survivor of the invasion of Tuatha Dé Danann and was the foster mother of Lugh.


Tailtiu

Tailten (genitive)
Tailtiu (nominative singular)
Tailtiu (singular vocative)
Tailtin (accusative singular)
Tailten (genitive singular)
Tailtin (dative singular)
Tailtiu (dative singular)

Middle Irish: Tailtiu

Irish: Tailtin

→ English: Teltown

→ English: Tailtiu

(Irish mythology) A goddess in Irish mythology originally serving as a personification of the town.


Kirche

de-noun

Kirche f (genitive Kirche, plural Kirchen, diminutive Kirchelchen n or Kirchlein n)

Kirche (genitive)
Kirchen (plural)
Kirchelchen (diminutive neuter)
Kirchlein (diminutive neuter)
Kirche (nominative singular)
Kirchen (definite nominative plural)
Kirche (genitive singular)
Kirchen (definite genitive plural)
Kirche (dative singular)
Kirchen (dative definite plural)
Kirche (accusative singular)
Kirchen (accusative definite plural)

desc

→ Russian: ки́рха (kírxa), ки́рка (kírka)

→ Ukrainian: кі́рха (kírxa)

some speakers in southern Germany, Austria, and Switzerland

From Middle High German kirche, from Old High German kirihha, from Proto-West Germanic *kirikā.

Kirche Jesu Christi der Heiligen der Letzten Tage

church (organised religion, especially Catholicism)


Fachtna Fáthach

(Irish mythology) The High King of Ireland in the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology who was deposed by Eochaid Feidlech at the Battle of Leitir Ruadh.


Eochaid Feidlech

(Irish mythology) The High King of Ireland in the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology, who deposed the former High King Fachtna Fáthach at the battle of Battle of Leitir Ruadh.


Fráech

From Middle Irish Fráech, from Old Irish Fróech, from fróech (“heather”), from Proto-Celtic *wroikos.

(Irish mythology) The Connacht hero in the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology who wooed Findabair and Treblann, but was drowned in a river in a duel with Cúchulainn.


Nera

(Irish mythology) A warrior of Connacht in the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology.


Rt Hon

Right Honourable
Right Honourable#English

Members of Parliament
Member of Parliament

(UK and Commonwealth politics) Abbreviation of Right Honourable. (in the titles of Members of Parliament)


crkva

sh-noun

cȓkva f (Cyrillic spelling цр̑ква, relational adjective cr̀kven)

cȓkva (canonical feminine)
цр̑ква (Cyrillic)
cr̀kven (adjective relational)
crkva (nominative singular)
crkve (nominative plural)
crkve (genitive singular)
cȓkāvā (genitive plural)
cȓkvī (genitive plural)
crkvi (dative singular)
crkvama (dative plural)
crkvu (accusative singular)
crkve (accusative plural)
crkvo (singular vocative)
crkve (plural vocative)
crkvi (locative singular)
crkvama (locative plural)
crkvom (instrumental singular)
crkvama (instrumental plural)

church (both the building and organization)


црква

mk-noun

црква • (crkva) f (relational adjective црковен, diminutive црквичка or црквиче)

crkva (romanization)
црковен (adjective relational)
црквичка (diminutive)
црквиче (diminutive)
црква (indefinite singular)
цркви (indefinite plural)
црквата (definite singular unspecified)
црквите (definite plural unspecified)
црквава (definite proximal singular)
црквиве (definite plural proximal)
црквана (definite distal singular)
црквине (definite distal plural)
цркво (singular vocative)
цркви (plural vocative)


црква

sh-noun

цр̑ква f (Latin spelling cȓkva, relational adjective цр̀квен)

цр̑ква (canonical feminine)
cȓkva (romanization)
цр̀квен (adjective relational)
црква (nominative singular)
цркве (nominative plural)
цркве (genitive singular)
цр̑ка̄ва̄ (genitive plural)
цр̑квӣ (genitive plural)
цркви (dative singular)
црквама (dative plural)
цркву (accusative singular)
цркве (accusative plural)
цркво (singular vocative)
цркве (plural vocative)
цркви (locative singular)
црквама (locative plural)
црквом (instrumental singular)
црквама (instrumental plural)

sh-decl-noun

цр̑ка̄ва̄ / цр̑квӣ


kostel

kostel (nominative singular)
kostely (nominative plural)
kostela (genitive singular)
kostelů (genitive plural)
kostelu (dative singular)
kostelům (dative plural)
kostel (accusative singular)
kostely (accusative plural)
kostele (singular vocative)
kostely (plural vocative)
kostele (locative singular)
kostelech (locative plural)
kostelích (locative plural)
kostelem (instrumental singular)
kostely (instrumental plural)

Inherited from Old Czech kostel, from Old High German kastel, from Latin castellum.


Church of England

The English branch of the Christian Church; (since the 16th century) specifically the established Protestant church in England which is the mother church of the Anglican Communion.


delict

Borrowed from Latin delictum (“fault”), from neuter of delictus, past participle of delinquo (“to be lacking; to fail; to transgress”), from dē- + linquō (“to leave, quit, forsake, depart from”).

(civil law, Scots law) A wrongful act, analogous to a tort in common law.

civil law; Scots law; civil law; Scots law


Fenian Cycle

(Irish mythology) A body of prose and verse focusing on the exploits of the mythological hero Fionn mac Cumhail and his warriors the Fianna Éireann.

cicle fenià

a body of prose and verse focusing on the exploits of the mythological hero Fionn mac Cumhail and his warriors


IDS

(UK politics) Initialism of Iain Duncan Smith.


Fianna Éireann

Meaning "Soldiery of Ireland", named after the mythological Fianna


basilika

head

basilika c (singular definite basilikaen, plural indefinite basilikaer)

basilikaen (definite singular)
basilikaer (indefinite plural)


basilika

basilikaen (definite singular)
basilikaer (indefinite plural)
basilikaene (definite plural)


basilika

basilikaen (definite singular)
basilikaer (indefinite plural)
basilikaar (indefinite plural)
basilikaene (definite plural)
basilikaane (definite plural)


basilika

basilika (indefinite nominative singular)
basilikan (definite nominative singular)
basilikor (indefinite nominative plural)
basilikorna (definite nominative plural)
basilikas (genitive indefinite singular)
basilikans (definite genitive singular)
basilikors (genitive indefinite plural)
basilikornas (definite genitive plural)


iglesia

Borrowed from Spanish iglesia (“church”), from Old Spanish eglesia, from Vulgar Latin eclesia, from Latin ecclēsia, from Ancient Greek ἐκκλησία (ekklēsía, “assembly”).

der

Roman Catholic Church
Roman Catholic Church

(colonial) (it is) the Roman Catholic Church.


iglesia

Chavacano: iglesia

Palenquero: ilesia

→ Fala: iglesia

→ Papiamentu: iglesia

→ Tagalog: iglesya

Inherited from Old Spanish eglesia (9th century), a semi-learned descendant of Vulgar Latin eclesia, from Latin ecclēsia, from Ancient Greek ἐκκλησία (ekklēsía, “assembly”).


rosary

From Middle English rosarie, from Latin rosārium, here in its sense as a garland of roses. The coin usage referred to the laurel wreath appearing on the obverse bust, as opposed to the bare head on the pollard. Doublet of Rosario and rosarium.

psalter (150-bead rosary for use with the Psalms)

(historical numismatics) A 13th-century coin minted in Europe as a counterfeit debased form of the sterling silver penny of Edward I, at first accepted as a halfpenny and then outlawed.


manastir

sh-noun

mȁnastīr m (Cyrillic spelling ма̏настӣр)

mȁnastīr (canonical masculine)
ма̏настӣр (Cyrillic)
manastir (nominative singular)
manastiri (nominative plural)
manastira (genitive singular)
manastira (genitive plural)
manastiru (dative singular)
manastirima (dative plural)
manastir (accusative singular)
manastire (accusative plural)
manastire (singular vocative)
manastiri (plural vocative)
manastiru (locative singular)
manastirima (locative plural)
manastirom (instrumental singular)
manastirima (instrumental plural)

From Latin monastērium, from Ancient Greek μοναστήριον (monastḗrion, “hermit's cell”), from μόνος (mónos, “alone”).


манастир

bg-noun

манасти́рски

манасти́р • (manastír) m (relational adjective манасти́рски, diminutive манасти́рче)

манасти́р (canonical)
manastír (romanization)
манасти́рски (adjective relational)
манасти́рче (diminutive)
манасти́р (indefinite singular)
манасти́ри (indefinite plural)
манасти́рът (definite singular subjective)
манасти́рите (definite plural subjective)
манасти́ра (definite objective singular)
манасти́рите (definite objective plural)
манасти́ра (count-form plural)

From Old Church Slavonic манастырь (manastyrĭ), from dialectal northern Greek μαναστήρι (manastíri, “monastery, cloister”), a variant of standard Greek μοναστήρι (monastíri) and in turn derived from Ancient Greek μοναστήριον (monastḗrion).

der

манасти́рски юрне́ци

embroidery on the sleeves of a woman's shirt


манастир

ма̏настӣр (canonical masculine)
mȁnastīr (romanization)
манастир (nominative singular)
манастири (nominative plural)
манастира (genitive singular)
манастира (genitive plural)
манастиру (dative singular)
манастирима (dative plural)
манастир (accusative singular)
манастире (accusative plural)
манастире (singular vocative)
манастири (plural vocative)
манастиру (locative singular)
манастирима (locative plural)
манастиром (instrumental singular)
манастирима (instrumental plural)


मंदिर

mandir (romanization)
مندر (Urdu)
मंदिर (direct singular)
मंदिर (direct plural)
मंदिर (oblique singular)
मंदिरों (oblique plural)
मंदिर (singular vocative)
मंदिरो (plural vocative)

→ English: mandir

[mɐ̃n̪.d̪ɪɾ]

Borrowed from Sanskrit मन्दिर (mandira).


seo

Borrowed from Catalan seu, from Latin sedes.


sceat

Learned borrowing from Old English sceatt.

lbor

1840, Ancient Laws and Institutes of England, Volume 2, Commissioners on the Public Records of the Kingdom, unnumbered page,
In the Anglo-Saxon laws there is no passage from which the value of the ‘sceat’ can be ascertained with certainty, though from some places in the laws of Ethelbirht it would appear, that, in Kent at least, 20 sceats were equal to 1 scilling.

1862, Eben William Robertson, Scotland Under Her Early Kings, Edmonston and Douglas, page 347,
The Obolus and the Scruple appear to have been equally familiar to the Anglo-Saxons under the names of the older sceat and penny. The Kentishmen seem to have resembled the Franks in their coinage as well as in their Wergilds, for their scilling weighed 20 sceats; and as the scilling was only a corruption of the Roman sicilicus (the shekel), or quarter-ounce weight, the Kentish ounce must have contained 80 sceats or 40 pence; in other words it was the old Salic solidus of 40 scruples, often met with in later times under the name of mancus, or heavier ounce of 30 Carlovingian (or sterling), and 40 Merovingian pence, or scruples.

(numismatics, historical) A small Anglo-Saxon coin, especially one made of silver; sometimes regarded as a weight (and thus a comparative measure of a coin's value).


mora

From Latin mora (“duration of time, delay”).

(Scots law) A delay in bringing a claim.


mora

(Scots law) mora (a delay in bringing a claim)


Brigid

/ˈbɹɪ.d͡ʒɪd/

From Irish Brighid, from Old Irish Brigit, from Proto-Celtic *Brigantī (“high, exalted”).

der

The pagan Brigid was part of the Tuatha Dé Danann – a race of dieties who are said to have inhabited Ireland before the Milesians, from whom today’s Irish people are descended. Raised among druids, Brigid was the daughter of an enslaved woman and the Dagda, chief of the gods.

2024 February 5, Katy Hessel, “Move over Saint Patrick: why the world should be celebrating beer-brewing Brigid”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(Irish mythology) The goddess of the Sacred Flame of Kildare and the patron goddess of the Druids. Daughter of Dagda of the Tuatha Dé Danann.


Dagda

The Middle Irish name Dagda means “Good God” or “Shining God”, from Old Irish Dagdae, from Proto-Celtic *Dago-deiwos, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰagʰo- (“shining”) (< *dʰegʷʰ- (“to burn”)) + *deywós (“divinity”).

Raised among druids, Brigid was the daughter of an enslaved woman and the Dagda, chief of the gods.

(Irish mythology) An important god in Irish mythology, portrayed as a father figure, king, and druid.


Dagda

From Old Irish Dagdae, from Proto-Celtic *Dago-deiwos, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰegʷʰ- (“to burn; hot”) + *deywós (“divinity”).

inh

(Irish mythology) An important god in Irish mythology.


Cethern

(Irish mythology) In the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology, an Ulster warrior (son of Fintan) who assists Cúchulainn in the Táin Bó Cúailnge.


Uathach

(Irish mythology) The daughter of Scáthach and later the lover of Cúchulainn (after a duel with Cochar Crufe).


Táin Bó Cúailnge

(Irish mythology) The central tale in the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology.


Táin Bó Cúailnge

Táin Bó Cúailnge
Táin Bó Cúailnge#English


Dáire mac Fiachna

(Irish mythology) An Ulster cattle-lord and owner of Donn Cuailnge.


Cú Roí

The first element is apparently cú (“hound”); the second probably means "battlefield", making the whole term "hound of the battlefield".

(Irish mythology) A king of Munster and sorcerer who was killed by Cúchulainn and avenged by his son, Lugaid mac Con Roí, who was subsequently killed by Conall the Victorious.


Cú Roí

Con Roí (genitive)
Cú Roí (mutation mutation-radical)
Chú Roí (mutation mutation-nasal)
Cú Roí (mutation)

Cú Roí (character in the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology)


Tristan

Old French, the name of a knight, lover of Iseult in medieval romance Tristan and Iseult, from Celtic Drystan derived from drest meaning "riot" or "tumult".

After the first son had been properly named after the grandfather, the second caught the brunt of her few impulses, being named "Tristan", gleaned from medieval lore from her years at Wellesley.

1978, Jim Harrison, Legends of the Fall, Dell, published 1994, →ISBN, page 201:

'His name is Tristan, by the way.' 'Tristan?' 'Yes. Oh, I should have told you. You must have wondered about my own queer name. It was my father. Great Wagnerian. It nearly ruled his life. It was music all the time – mainly Wagner.'

2012 May 17, James Herriot, All Creatures Great and Small: The Classic Memoirs of a Yorkshire Country Vet, Pan Macmillan, →ISBN:

A male given name from the Celtic languages.

A knight of the Round Table in Arthurian legend


Donn Cuailnge

(Irish mythology) The Brown Bull of Cooley: an extremely fertile stud bull over whom the Táin Bó Cúailnge was fought.


Mesgegra

Conall the Victorious
Conall the Victorious

(Irish mythology) The king of Leinster during the events of the Ulster Cycle. He was killed by Conall the Victorious.


Mórrígan

From Irish Mór-Ríoghain ("great queen"), from Middle Irish Morrígan.

(Irish mythology) An Irish mythological figure widely considered to be a goddess, and usually interpreted as a triple goddess.


Flidais

(Irish mythology) A woodland goddess whose chariot is drawn by deer.


sanctuary

en-noun

sanctuary (countable and uncountable, plural sanctuaries)

/ˈsæŋkt͡ʃʊəɹi/

/ˈsæŋkt͡ʃuˌɛɹi/

From Middle English seyntuarie, from Old French saintuaire, from Late Latin sanctuarium (“a sacred place, a shrine, a private cabinet, in Medieval Latin also temple, church, churchyard, cemetery, right of asylum”), from Latin sanctus (“holy, sacred”); see saint.

der

The government granted sanctuary to the defector, protecting him from his former government.


Liberal Democrat

en-noun

Liberal Democrat (plural Liberal Democrats)

(Australian politics, UK politics) a member of the Liberal Democrats political party


Macha

(Irish mythology) The wife of Nemed. She died only twelve days after arriving in Ireland.


Macha

Mhacha (genitive)
Macha (mutation mutation-radical)
Mhacha (lenition mutation)


Liberal Democrats

Liberal Democrats (UK)
Liberal Party (UK)
Social Democratic Party (UK)

From the merger of the Liberals and the Social Democrats.

(UK politics) A centrist political party


Lebor Gabála Érenn

The title translates as The Book of the Taking of Ireland.

(Irish mythology) A loose collection of poems and prose narratives recounting the mythical origins and history of an Irish race from the creation of the world down to the Middle Ages.


Lebor Gabála Érenn

Lebor Gabála Érenn
Lebor Gabála Érenn#English


florin

From Middle English florin, floren, from Old French florin, from Italian fiorino (“little flower”). Doublet of fiorino.

[I]n 1646, during the phenomenon known as "Tulipomania", a tulip like the red and white 'Admirael van der Eijck', or the purple-splashed 'Generalen van Gouda' would sell for more than 1,000 Dutch florins, at a time when the average annual income of a skilled worker was about 300 florins.

2014 September 26, Charles Quest-Ritson, “The Dutch garden where tulip bulbs live forever: Hortus Bulborum, a volunteer-run Dutch garden, is dedicated to conserving historic varieties before they vanish for good [print version: Inspired by a living bulb archive, 27 September 2014, p. G5]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Gardening):

A pre-decimal British coin, worth two shillings or ten new pence.


kuil

id-noun

kuil (plural kuil-kuil, first-person possessive kuilku, second-person possessive kuilmu, third-person possessive kuilnya)

kuil-kuil (plural)
kuilku (first-person possessive)
kuilmu (possessive second-person)
kuilnya (possessive third-person)

From Malay kuil, from Tamil கோயில் (kōyil). Cognate of English kovil.

temple, a house of worship of religions, except for Balinese Hinduism (pura).

shrine, a holy or sacred place dedicated to a specific deity, ancestor, hero, martyr, saint, or similar figure of awe and respect, at which said figure is venerated or worshipped.


kuil

ms-noun

kuil (Jawi spelling کوءيل, plural kuil-kuil, informal 1st possessive kuilku, 2nd possessive kuilmu, 3rd possessive kuilnya)

کوءيل (Jawi)
kuil-kuil (plural)
kuilku (first-person informal possessive)
kuilmu (possessive second-person)
kuilnya (possessive third-person)

From Tamil கோயில் (kōyil). See also English kovil.


marae

Borrowed from Maori marae and Tahitian marae, from Proto-Oceanic *malaqe.

The path ended down by the sea at a crumbling ‘ingot’ of black coral, twenty yards in length & in height two men. ‘A marae, this is called,’ Mr Wagstaff informed me. ‘All over the South Seas you see ’em, I’m told.’

2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN:

(archaic) a Polynesian sacred altar or enclosure

The courtyard of a Maori wharenui or meeting-house and the buildings around it.


marae

→ English: marae

From Proto-Oceanic *malaqe (“cleared space”). Cognate with Rapa Nui marae, Tahitian marae, Samoan malae, Tongan malaʻe.

The courtyard of a wharenui or meeting-house and the buildings around it.


marae

From Proto-Oceanic *malaqe (“cleared space”). Cognate with Maori marae, Tahitian marae, Samoan malae, Tongan malaʻe.

A paved plaza in front of an ahu for ancestor worship.


ἐκκλησία

grc-noun

ἐκκλησῐ́ᾱ • (ekklēsíā) f (genitive ἐκκλησῐ́ᾱς); first declension

ἐκκλησῐ́ᾱ (canonical)
ekklēsíā (romanization)
ἐκκλησῐ́ᾱς (genitive)
ἡ ἐκκλησῐ́ᾱ (nominative singular)
τὼ ἐκκλησῐ́ᾱ (dual nominative)
αἱ ἐκκλησῐ́αι (nominative plural)
τῆς ἐκκλησῐ́ᾱς (genitive singular)
τοῖν ἐκκλησῐ́αιν (dual genitive)
τῶν ἐκκλησῐῶν (genitive plural)
τῇ ἐκκλησῐ́ᾳ (dative singular)
τοῖν ἐκκλησῐ́αιν (dative dual)
ταῖς ἐκκλησῐ́αις (dative plural)
τὴν ἐκκλησῐ́ᾱν (accusative singular)
τὼ ἐκκλησῐ́ᾱ (accusative dual)
τᾱ̀ς ἐκκλησῐ́ᾱς (accusative plural)
ἐκκλησῐ́ᾱ (singular vocative)
ἐκκλησῐ́ᾱ (dual vocative)
ἐκκλησῐ́αι (plural vocative)

Greek: εκκλησία (ekklisía)

→ Arabic: القُلَّيْس (al-qullays)

→ Ateso: ekeresia

→ Azerbaijani: kilsə

→ Coptic: ⲉⲕⲕⲗⲏⲥⲓⲁ (ekklēsia)

→ Gothic: 𐌰𐌹𐌺𐌺𐌻𐌴𐍃𐌾𐍉 (aikklēsjō)

→ Hawaiian: ʻekalekia

→ Hindi: कलीसिया (kalīsiyā)

→ Ladino: kilisia

→ Latin: ecclēsia (see there for further descendants)

→ Luganda: ekelezia

→ Niuean: ekalesia

→ Old Armenian: եկեղեցի (ekełecʻi) (see there for further descendants)

desc

→ Old Georgian: ეკლესიაჲ (eḳlesiay), ეკკლესიაჲ (eḳḳlesiay)

Georgian: ეკლესია (eḳlesia)

→ Persian: کِلیسا (kelisâ)

→ Samoan: ekalesia

→ Turkish: kilise

→ Urdu: کلیسیا (kalīsiyā)

→ Western Neo-Aramaic: ܟܠܹܣܝܐ (klēsya)

→ Zazaki: kilıse

From ἔκκλητος (ékklētos, “summoned”) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā, abstract noun suffix), from ἐκκαλέω (ekkaléō, “to call forth, summon”), from ἐκ (ek) + καλέω (kaléō). The τ (t) changes to σ (s) by palatalization and assibilation, triggered by the following ι (i).


time immemorial

en-noun

time immemorial (usually uncountable, plural times immemorial)

from time immemorial

My home is in the North of Palestine on the other side of Jordan, beyond the Sea of Galilee. My family has dwelt there from time immemorial, but they always loved this city, and have a legend that they dwelt occasionally within its walls, even in the days when Titus from that hill looked down upon the temple.

1870, B[enjamin] Disraeli, chapter XVII, in Lothair. […], volume III, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, pages 177–178:

The tower had been consecrated to this ancient diversion from time immemorial, the western façade conveniently forming the boundary of the churchyard at that end, where the ground was trodden hard and bare as a pavement by the players.

1874, Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Smith, Elder & Co., […], →OCLC:

She had worn from time immemorial an old blue satin dress, and a white crape shawl embroidered in colors; […]

1875 January–December, Henry James, Jr., Roderick Hudson, Boston, Mass.: James R[ipley] Osgood and Company, late Ticknor & Fields, and Fields, Osgood, & Co., published 1876, →OCLC; republished as Roderick Hudson (EBook #176), U.S.A.: Project Gutenberg, 18 September 2016:

In every Circular or Polygonal household it has been a habit from time immemorial[…]that the mothers and daughters should constantly keep their eyes and mouths towards their husband and his male friends; and for a lady in a family of distinction to turn her back upon her husband would be regarded as a kind of portent, involving loss of status.

1884, A Square [pseudonym; Edwin A. Abbott], Flatland […] , London: Seeley & Co., Part I: This World, § 4.— Concerning the Women:

The Communists have no need to introduce community of women; it has existed almost from time immemorial.

1888 [1848], Samuel Moore, transl., edited by Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto, translation of Das Kommunistische Manifest by Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels:

This is a great tract of a hundred thousand acres, which from time immemorial has been a hunting preserve of the nobility.

1905, Upton Sinclair, The Jungle, New York, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 26 February 1906, →OCLC:

That there is and from time immemorial has been within that part of the parish called Mablethorpe St. Mary's a laudable custom that, if any outdweller take ancient pasture ground, he shall pay a modus of 4d. an acre, and so in proportion, on the 1st of August, in lieu of all manner of tithe; and that if any of the ancient pasture be once ploughed up or meadowed, it shall, when restored to pasture again, pay 4d. the acre in the hands of such outdweller.

1917, The English Reports: Exchequer, page 789:

This thing is a "pyramid" since time immemorial, shit goes downhill, money goes up: it's that simple.

2002 September 15, David Chase, “For All Debts Public and Private”, in The Sopranos, season 4, episode 1, spoken by Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini):

(countable, uncountable) Time that extends beyond memory or record.

time that extends beyond memory or record

有史以前 (yǒushǐ yǐqián, literally “before history”)

(UK law, uncountable) Time before 6 July 1189.


diligence

diligence (countable and uncountable, plural diligences)

The precepts against parties, to whose oath of verity any point is referred, do only command them to compear at the term, with certification, that if they compear not, they shall be holden as confessing the point referred to their oath; but precepts against witnesses cannot have that certification, but all that can be done against them, or against the havers of writs, is to compel them to appear, and depone; and therefore these precepts are called executorials, because they are for putting the acts to effect by execution: they are also called compulsitors for the same reason. And they are called diligences, because they excuse the users thereof from negligence, whereby posterior diligences being exacty followed, are preferable to prior diligences being neglected, vigilantibus non dormientibus jura subveniunt, which is founded upon that great interest to hasten pleas to an end. They are also called diligences, because though the effect do not follow, yet the user thereof hath endeavoured what he could, and so is held as in the same case as if he had obtained the command of the precept. These precepts are called executorials before executions be thereupon; but they are only called diligences when they are executed in due time.
... Diligences are of three sorts, being either upon precepts before decreets, upon acts, or upon decreets.
The last sort of diligences and executorials, viz. those after decreets, which serve for putting of decreets to execution, and making them effectual, are ordinarily horning, caption, poinding, charges to remove, and thereupon letters of possession, (which are granted on all decreets in petitory and possessory actions, but declaratory actions need none,) together with the executory actions upon arrestments, and of adjudications of lands and annualrents..

1832 James, Viscount of Stair and J,S, More. The institutions of the law of Scotland. Vol 2, p 705

(Scots law) The process by which persons, lands, or effects are seized for debt; process for enforcing the attendance of witnesses or the production of writings.


collegiate church

collegiate church (plural collegiate churches)

A Christian church, other than a cathedral, that has a chapter of canons and a dean or provost.


common law

(law, Scots law, Roman-Dutch law) Law of general application throughout a country, province, or state as opposed to law having only a special or local application

Scots law; Roman-Dutch law; Scots law; Roman-Dutch law


OST

Office of Science and Technology
w:Office of Science and Technology

(UK politics, historical) Initialism of Office of Science and Technology.


sacellum

(historical) In Ancient Rome, a shrine open to the sky, sometimes used for sacrificial purposes, or in honor of the divine.


abdij

nl-noun

abdij f (plural abdijen, diminutive abdijtje n)

abdijen (plural)
abdijtje (diminutive neuter)

From Middle Dutch abedîe, abdîe, from Old Dutch *abbadea, from Proto-West Germanic *abbadejā. Equivalent to abt (“abbot”) + -ij.

an abbey, monastery under a prelate styled abbot


adjudicate

en-verb

adjudicate (third-person singular simple present adjudicates, present participle adjudicating, simple past and past participle adjudicated)

adjudicates (present singular third-person)
adjudicating (participle present)
adjudicated (participle past)
adjudicated (past)

Borrowed from Latin adiūdicō, adiūdicātus, from ad + iūdicō (“to judge”). Doublet of adjudge.

(Scots law, transitive, as of a debtor's estate) to seize or convey as security.


Edwardian

en-adj

Edwardian (comparative more Edwardian, superlative most Edwardian)

more Edwardian (comparative)
most Edwardian (superlative)

If the kind of network we envisage is to be established, it would be unwise to begin any of its services hurriedly with older stock, which, however admirable in its day, now has an air of faded Edwardian splendour that is out of joint with the times.

1962 December, “A new Pullman era?”, in Modern Railways, page 362:

In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. […] The public realm is privatised, the regulations restraining the ultra–wealthy and the companies they control are abandoned, and Edwardian levels of inequality are almost fetishised.

2013 May 17, George Monbiot, “Money just makes the rich suffer”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 23, page 19:

This delightful four-platform station [Bognor Regis] is still controlled by semaphore signals and boasts a lovely red-brick Edwardian building with steel canopies, crowned with a clocktower which dates from 1902.

2022 November 16, Paul Bigland, “From rural branches to high-speed arteries”, in RAIL, number 970, page 55:

Of the period in British history from circa 1901 to 1910, when Edward VII ruled the British Empire.


מועד

he-noun

מוֹעֵד • (mo'éd) m (plural indefinite מוֹעֲדִים, singular construct מוֹעֵד־, plural construct מוֹעֲדֵי־)

מוֹעֵד (canonical)
mo'éd (romanization)
מוֹעֲדִים (indefinite plural)
מוֹעֵד־ (construct singular)
מוֹעֲדֵי־ (construct plural)

→ Judeo-Italian: mongedde

→ Judeo-Tat: miⱨid

→ Ladino: moed, mued

Root
 י־ע־ד (y-ʿ-d)
Compare Arabic مَوْعِد (mawʕid, “appointment, appointed time”).


British Empire

Violence and racism were the reality of the colonial experience and no wonder that the sun never set on the British Empire because even God couldn't trust the English in the dark.

2015, Shashi Tharoor, "Britain Does Owe Reparations", 00:05:16

Two hundred and forty years have passed since the 1781 Yorktown Campaign, a campaign that was a decisive victory for the Continental Army and forced the British Empire to reach concessions with the 13 Colonies.

2021-2022 Winter, Matthew R. Prescott, John P. Ruedisueli, “The Relevance of the 1781 Yorktown Campaign”, in SAR Magazine, volume 116, number 3, Louisville, KY: Sons of the American Revolution, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 20, column 1:

In 1920, the British Empire covered over a quarter of the Earth's surface area.

(chiefly historical) The United Kingdom and its overseas dependencies and colonies.

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office


کلیسا

head

کلیسا • (kelisâ) (plural کلیساها (kelisâ-hâ))

→ Gujarati: કલીસા (kalīsā)


letter of relaxation

en-noun

letter of relaxation (plural letters of relaxation)

Do you think that the state of the exchanges is that which ought to guide the discretion of the Government, with reference to the issue of a similar letter of relaxation?

1858, Samuel Jones-Loyd Overstone, Overstone Tracts on Metallic and Paper Currency:

(Scots law) A letter passing the signet, whereby a debtor is relieved from personal diligence, or whereby an outlaw is reponed against sentence of outlawry.


leaver

An extraordinary cross-party summit bringing together leading leavers and remainers – including Michael Gove and senior members of Keir Starmer’s shadow cabinet – has been held in high secrecy to address the failings of Brexit and how to remedy them in the national interest, the Observer can reveal.

2023 February 11, Toby Helm, “Revealed: secret cross-party summit held to confront failings of Brexit”, in The Observer, →ISSN:

(UK politics) Alternative letter-case form of Leaver


moskeija

moskeija (nominative singular)
moskeijat (nominative plural)
moskeija (accusative nominative singular)
moskeijat (accusative nominative plural)
moskeijan (accusative genitive singular)
moskeijat (accusative genitive plural)
moskeijan (genitive singular)
moskeijoiden (genitive plural)
moskeijoitten (genitive plural)
moskeijain (genitive plural rare)
moskeijaa (partitive singular)
moskeijoita (partitive plural)
moskeijassa (inessive singular)
moskeijoissa (inessive plural)
moskeijasta (elative singular)
moskeijoista (elative plural)
moskeijaan (illative singular)
moskeijoihin (illative plural)
moskeijalla (adessive singular)
moskeijoilla (adessive plural)
moskeijalta (ablative singular)
moskeijoilta (ablative plural)
moskeijalle (allative singular)
moskeijoille (allative plural)
moskeijana (essive singular)
moskeijoina (essive plural)
moskeijaksi (singular translative)
moskeijoiksi (plural translative)
moskeijatta (abessive singular)
moskeijoitta (abessive plural)
moskeijoin (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
moskeijani (nominative singular)
moskeijani (nominative plural)
moskeijani (accusative nominative singular)
moskeijani (accusative nominative plural)
moskeijani (accusative genitive singular)
moskeijani (accusative genitive plural)
moskeijani (genitive singular)
moskeijoideni (genitive plural)
moskeijoitteni (genitive plural)
moskeijaini (genitive plural rare)
moskeijaani (partitive singular)
moskeijoitani (partitive plural)
moskeijassani (inessive singular)
moskeijoissani (inessive plural)
moskeijastani (elative singular)
moskeijoistani (elative plural)
moskeijaani (illative singular)
moskeijoihini (illative plural)
moskeijallani (adessive singular)
moskeijoillani (adessive plural)
moskeijaltani (ablative singular)
moskeijoiltani (ablative plural)
moskeijalleni (allative singular)
moskeijoilleni (allative plural)
moskeijanani (essive singular)
moskeijoinani (essive plural)
moskeijakseni (singular translative)
moskeijoikseni (plural translative)
moskeijattani (abessive singular)
moskeijoittani (abessive plural)
moskeijoineni (comitative plural)
moskeijasi (nominative singular)
moskeijasi (nominative plural)
moskeijasi (accusative nominative singular)
moskeijasi (accusative nominative plural)
moskeijasi (accusative genitive singular)
moskeijasi (accusative genitive plural)
moskeijasi (genitive singular)
moskeijoidesi (genitive plural)
moskeijoittesi (genitive plural)
moskeijaisi (genitive plural rare)
moskeijaasi (partitive singular)
moskeijoitasi (partitive plural)
moskeijassasi (inessive singular)
moskeijoissasi (inessive plural)
moskeijastasi (elative singular)
moskeijoistasi (elative plural)
moskeijaasi (illative singular)
moskeijoihisi (illative plural)
moskeijallasi (adessive singular)
moskeijoillasi (adessive plural)
moskeijaltasi (ablative singular)
moskeijoiltasi (ablative plural)
moskeijallesi (allative singular)
moskeijoillesi (allative plural)
moskeijanasi (essive singular)
moskeijoinasi (essive plural)
moskeijaksesi (singular translative)
moskeijoiksesi (plural translative)
moskeijattasi (abessive singular)
moskeijoittasi (abessive plural)
moskeijoinesi (comitative plural)
moskeijamme (nominative singular)
moskeijamme (nominative plural)
moskeijamme (accusative nominative singular)
moskeijamme (accusative nominative plural)
moskeijamme (accusative genitive singular)
moskeijamme (accusative genitive plural)
moskeijamme (genitive singular)
moskeijoidemme (genitive plural)
moskeijoittemme (genitive plural)
moskeijaimme (genitive plural rare)
moskeijaamme (partitive singular)
moskeijoitamme (partitive plural)
moskeijassamme (inessive singular)
moskeijoissamme (inessive plural)
moskeijastamme (elative singular)
moskeijoistamme (elative plural)
moskeijaamme (illative singular)
moskeijoihimme (illative plural)
moskeijallamme (adessive singular)
moskeijoillamme (adessive plural)
moskeijaltamme (ablative singular)
moskeijoiltamme (ablative plural)
moskeijallemme (allative singular)
moskeijoillemme (allative plural)
moskeijanamme (essive singular)
moskeijoinamme (essive plural)
moskeijaksemme (singular translative)
moskeijoiksemme (plural translative)
moskeijattamme (abessive singular)
moskeijoittamme (abessive plural)
moskeijoinemme (comitative plural)
moskeijanne (nominative singular)
moskeijanne (nominative plural)
moskeijanne (accusative nominative singular)
moskeijanne (accusative nominative plural)
moskeijanne (accusative genitive singular)
moskeijanne (accusative genitive plural)
moskeijanne (genitive singular)
moskeijoidenne (genitive plural)
moskeijoittenne (genitive plural)
moskeijainne (genitive plural rare)
moskeijaanne (partitive singular)
moskeijoitanne (partitive plural)
moskeijassanne (inessive singular)
moskeijoissanne (inessive plural)
moskeijastanne (elative singular)
moskeijoistanne (elative plural)
moskeijaanne (illative singular)
moskeijoihinne (illative plural)
moskeijallanne (adessive singular)
moskeijoillanne (adessive plural)
moskeijaltanne (ablative singular)
moskeijoiltanne (ablative plural)
moskeijallenne (allative singular)
moskeijoillenne (allative plural)
moskeijananne (essive singular)
moskeijoinanne (essive plural)
moskeijaksenne (singular translative)
moskeijoiksenne (plural translative)
moskeijattanne (abessive singular)
moskeijoittanne (abessive plural)
moskeijoinenne (comitative plural)
moskeijansa (nominative singular)
moskeijansa (nominative plural)
moskeijansa (accusative nominative singular)
moskeijansa (accusative nominative plural)
moskeijansa (accusative genitive singular)
moskeijansa (accusative genitive plural)
moskeijansa (genitive singular)
moskeijoidensa (genitive plural)
moskeijoittensa (genitive plural)
moskeijainsa (genitive plural rare)
moskeijaansa (partitive singular)
moskeijoitaan (partitive plural)
moskeijoitansa (partitive plural)
moskeijassaan (inessive singular)
moskeijassansa (inessive singular)
moskeijoissaan (inessive plural)
moskeijoissansa (inessive plural)
moskeijastaan (elative singular)
moskeijastansa (elative singular)
moskeijoistaan (elative plural)
moskeijoistansa (elative plural)
moskeijaansa (illative singular)
moskeijoihinsa (illative plural)
moskeijallaan (adessive singular)
moskeijallansa (adessive singular)
moskeijoillaan (adessive plural)
moskeijoillansa (adessive plural)
moskeijaltaan (ablative singular)
moskeijaltansa (ablative singular)
moskeijoiltaan (ablative plural)
moskeijoiltansa (ablative plural)
moskeijalleen (allative singular)
moskeijallensa (allative singular)
moskeijoilleen (allative plural)
moskeijoillensa (allative plural)
moskeijanaan (essive singular)
moskeijanansa (essive singular)
moskeijoinaan (essive plural)
moskeijoinansa (essive plural)
moskeijakseen (singular translative)
moskeijaksensa (singular translative)
moskeijoikseen (plural translative)
moskeijoiksensa (plural translative)
moskeijattaan (abessive singular)
moskeijattansa (abessive singular)
moskeijoittaan (abessive plural)
moskeijoittansa (abessive plural)
moskeijoineen (comitative plural)
moskeijoinensa (comitative plural)

Borrowed from Swedish moské, from French mosquée, from Italian moschea, ultimately from Arabic مَسْجِد (masjid, literally “place of prostration”).


chaperone

/ˈʃæ.pəˌɹoʊn/

/ˈʃæ.pəˌɹəʊn/

(UK, business) An employee sent by a British company to the European Union to work with a client there, to circumvent restrictions imposed after Brexit.


fiar

I say, since ye hae sae muckle consideration for me, I'se be blithe to accept your kindness; and my mother and me (she's a life-renter, and I am fiar, o' the lands o' Wideopen) would grant you a wadset, or an heritable bond, for the siller, and to pay the annual-rent half-yearly; and Saunders Wyliecoat to draw the bond, and you to be at nae charge wi' the writings.

1816, Walter Scott, “The Black Dwarf”, in A Complete Edition of the Waverley Novels, volume 13, published 1831, page 108:

(Scots law) One in whom the property of an estate is vested, subject to the estate of a liferenter.


threepence

en-noun

threepence (countable and uncountable, plural threepences)

(countable, historical) A former (pre-decimalisation) British or Irish coin worth three old pence.


Spanish Armada

(historical) The fleet of warships sent by Philip II of Spain against England in 1588.


shinner

An approximation of the pronunciation of Irish sinn (/ʃɪnʲ/) written using English orthography, with -er.

(Ireland, slang, derogatory) a member or supporter of Sinn Féin.


pursuer

On his area the pursuer built a dwelling-house, of which the gable and garden-wall were mutual with his neighbour Smith […]

1809, Faculty of Advocates (Scotland), Decisions of the Court of Sessions, from 1752 to 1808, page 216:

(Scots law) The party who initiates a lawsuit; a plaintiff.


kain

kain (countable and uncountable, plural kains)

hens[…] in most leases make a part of the rent, under the name of kain, and are generally kept for conveniency or profit.

1798, Robert Douglas, General View of the Agriculture in the Counties of Roxburgh and Selkirk:

(Scots law) poultry, etc., required by the lease to be paid in kind by a tenant to the landlord.


mortify

en-verb

mortify (third-person singular simple present mortifies, present participle mortifying, simple past and past participle mortified)

mortifies (present singular third-person)
mortifying (participle present)
mortified (participle past)
mortified (past)

From Anglo-Norman mortifier, Middle French mortifier, from Late Latin mortificō (“cause death”), from Latin mors (“death”) + -ficō (“-fy”).

the schoolmasters of Ayr were paid out of the mills mortified by Queen Mary

1876 James Grant, History of the Burgh and Parish Schools of Scotland, Part II, Chapter 14, p.453 (PDF 2.7 MB)

(transitive, Scots law, historical) To grant in mortmain.


sixpence

en-noun

sixpence (countable and uncountable, plural sixpences)

look as if one had lost a shilling and found sixpence

look as if one has lost a shilling and found sixpence

Finest apples, sixpence each.

When the ferry-boat with her wild freight pushed into the stream, nobody cared sixpence for the wasted time but the captain of the craft.

1876, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XXIX, in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Hartford, Conn.: The American Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 221:

(obsolete, British, uncountable) The value of six old pence; half of a shilling; or one-fortieth of a pound sterling.


Little Englander

Little Englander (plural Little Englanders)

(British, derogatory, modern) A bigoted, xenophobic, and nationalistic English person.

(British, derogatory, modern) Someone unaware of the world outside England.

(British, archaic) Someone who advocated an end to the British Empire.


Guinevere

From Middle English Gwenyver, from Middle Welsh Gwenhwyfar, from Proto-Brythonic *Gwɨnnohuɨβar. Doublet of Jennifer.

(Arthurian legend) In Arthurian legend, the wife of King Arthur.