energumen
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology
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energumen possessed person, demoniac. XVIII. — late L.
energūmenus — Gr.
energoúmenos, pass. ppl. of
energeîn work in or upon, f. EN-2 +
érgon WORK.
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A CONVERSATION WITH DAVID DAICHES.(Interview)
Magazine article from: Quadrant; 1/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...have been edited and arranged, David Daiches was in his eighty-eighth year...Hugh MacDiarmid once told me that David Daiches saved his life. MacDiarmid had...remembered that his old friend David Daiches was nearby, at Trinity. He managed...
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EDINBURGH LAW LEGEND DAICHES DIES AT 88
Newspaper article from: Evening News - Scotland; 11/13/1999; 423 words
; ...missed by all who met him." Mr Daiches was born in Sunderland in 1911...and Edinburgh University. Mr Daiches, renowned for his flowery...brother, the scholar and author David, and his sister, who became...at the Salerno Mutiny. Mr Daiches was demobbed as a major and...
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Daiches and Cook among Scots to book online place in posterity
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman; 1/8/2009; 418 words
; DAVID Daiches, the late Edinburgh poet and critic...Scottish Thomas Hardy", Robin Jenkins. Daiches, who died in 2005, was a prominent international...Present became a best- seller in Japan. Daiches was yesterday one of several prominent...
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David Daiches dies, aged 92
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman; 7/16/2005; ; 310 words
; DAVID Daiches, the Scottish author and literary critic...Sunderland but raised in Edinburgh, Dr Daiches was educated at Edinburgh and Oxford universities...spanning nearly 70 years and 40 titles, Dr Daiches was one of the foremost scholars and critics...
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Book festival reviews: Around the world in just three novels: Ron Butlin, Jenni Daiches & Andrew Drummond; William McIlvanney
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman; 8/23/2006; ; 581 words
; RON BUTLIN, JENNI DAICHES & ANDREW DRUMMOND THERE...First, to China with Jenni Daiches' first novel Letters From The Great Wall. Daiches (who also writes nonfiction...MS - and serial adulterer David Cudlipp, who gets his just...
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David Daiches; a celebration of his life and work.(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 8/1/2008; 440 words
; 9781845191597 David Daiches; a celebration of his life and work. Ed. by William Baker and Michael...Lister. Sussex Academic Press 2008 295 pages $67.50 Hardcover PR55 Daiches (1912-2005) was the first professor of English and a founding...
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Sol Daiches, 52, Longtime Communal-Service Professional
Newspaper article from: Jewish Exponent; 3/31/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...Israel-Ohev Zedek, said Daiches should be known for the kind...community was one of the things Daiches spoke of in the last week of his life, according to Rabbi David Gutterman, president of the...a Federation colleague." Daiches earned a bachelor's degree...
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Obituary: Lionel Daiches
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 11/29/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...son of Rabbi Dr Salis Daiches, Lionel was educated...given by his brother, David, in his book Two Worlds...At university, Lionel Daiches studied Art and Law...his brother, Professor David Daiches (also a gifted speaker...
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Professor David Daiches
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman; 7/20/2005; ; 700+ words
; THE first time I met David Daiches was in Miller's Wine Bar in King...dissertation on the relationship of David Hume's philosophy to the study of...in Scotland, and a Hebrew scholar. David was the second of four children; his...
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Grand old man of the bar dies, aged 88
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman; 11/13/1999; ; 503 words
; ...1911, the son of a rabbi, Mr Daiches moved with his family in 1919...were never excluded," Mr Daiches was to recall years later...was matched by his brother, David, the scholar and author...doctor of French literature. Mr Daiches was allegedly once asked at...
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David Daiches
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
David Daiches , 1912-2005, British critic, b. Sunderland. A graduate of Edinburgh Univ. and Oxford (M.A., 1934; Ph.D., 1939), Daiches taught at several English universities and wrote many works of criticism...
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Daiches, David
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Daiches, David (1912– ), scholar and author, whose works include studies of R. L. Stevenson (1947), Burns (1950...
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Willa Sibert Cather
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...Edward K. Brown and Leon Edel, Willa Cather: A Critical Biography (1953). The best book-length critical study is David Daiches, Willa Cather: A Critical Introduction (1951). More recent studies are John H. Randall, The Landscape and the...
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Purdy, James (Otis)
Book article from: Contemporary Novelists
...Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut; Ohio State University, Columbus. Critical Studies: Introduction by David Daiches to Malcolm , 1959, by Edith Sitwell to Color of Darkness , London, Secker and Warburg, 1961, and by Tony Tanner...
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