-ile
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology
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1996
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© The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology 1996, originally published by Oxford University Press 1996. (Hide copyright information)
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-ile adj. suffix repr. F.
-il, chiefly
-ile, and its sources L.
-ilis,
-īlis, which was added to vb.-stems with the senses of capacity or suitability, e.g.
agilis agile,
fragilis fragile, and with wider meaning to noun-stems, e.g.
juvenīlis juvenile,
humilis humble.
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JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL AND ENGLAND.
Magazine article from: Contemporary Review; 7/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; IN his later years James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) was considered...Minister to the Court of St. James. As a New England brahmin...and his replacement James G. Blaine. Though the...generally unsatisfactory, Lowell's participation was...
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The 19 September 1838 letter from George Bailey Loring (1817-1891) to James Russell Lowell (1819-1891).
Magazine article from: ANQ; 1/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...Loring (1817-1891) to James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) is significant...relationship that Loring and Lowell enjoyed, and it says...transcendentalists, Loring's and Lowell's views express outside...Andover Sept 19th 1838 Dear James I will not begin by apologizing...
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The U.S.-Mexican War in James Russell Lowell's The Biglow Papers
Magazine article from: The Arizona Quarterly; 10/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...1848, an anti-war satire by James Russell Lowell who, as a respected poet and literary...of mass delusion. At its core, Lowell's satire meditates somberly on...assumed, unquestioned mythology, Lowell's U.S-Mexican War satire...
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AUBURN UNIVERSITY'S BACKSCHEIDER TO RECEIVE MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION'S JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL PRIZE
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 12/6/2006; 578 words
; ...Backscheider has been named a winner of the 2006 James Russell Lowell Prize by the Modern Language Association of America...Dec. 28 in Philadelphia. The award, named for James Russell Lowell (1819-1891), second president of the MLA...
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'Outsider art' by those who aspire to be inside: Many thanks to the first- and second-graders of Lynne Tarr's class at the James Russell Lowell School in Watertown, Mass., for their wasp drawings.(The Home Forum)
Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor; 9/25/2000; 700+ words
; Picasso biographer Roland Penrose records a remark the artist made at a children's art exhibit: "When I was their age I could draw like Raphael, but it took me a lifetime to learn how to draw like them." Some might question the Spaniard's assessment of his childhood ability. Raphael's drawings have
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Lowell's 'For Robert Kennedy: 1925-68.'.(Robert Lowell's poem)
Magazine article from: The Explicator; 1/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...See Thomas A. Vogler, "Robert Lowell and the Classical Tradition...Falling Asleep over The Aeneid': Lowell, Freud, and the Classics...29; and George P. Clark, "James Russell Lowell's Study of the Classics before...
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Resurrecting a fallen giant; Book on Lowell aimed to revive poet's reputation
Newspaper article from: Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque); 8/17/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...an essential component of the collection. Lowell's poems are often dense, and for those...prominent families, Robert Traill Spence Lowell IV's lineage includes poets James Russell Lowell and Amy Lowell. His heritage shaped him even...
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Anger Over Plan to Alter Lowell Admission Rules / School board gets an earful over diversity proposal.
Newspaper article from: San Francisco Chronicle; 10/13/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...to San Francisco's venerable Lowell High School all but died last night...the school board agreed. A few Lowell parents and community activists...renamed for abolitionist intellectual James Russell Lowell a century ago. But the overwhelming...
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The private voice of Robert Lowell.(On Poetry)
Magazine article from: The New Leader; 5/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...frequently feels like voyeurism. In Lowell's case, however, one might...by friends, wives and lovers. Lowell was a public figure in a way few...politicians, and two poets--James Russell Lowell and Amy Lowell. The press portrayed...
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Lowell School renovation postponed
Newspaper article from: The Gazette; 10/13/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...of a larger 58-acre redevelopment of the Lowell neighborhood. City Manager Jim Mullen recommended...Obermueller Background Construction on the Lowell School, named for poet James Russell Lowell, began in 1891.
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James Russell Lowell
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
James Russell Lowell The versatility of American poet, editor, and diplomat James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) made him an influential...figure in 19th-century America. James Russell Lowell was born in Cambridge, Mass...
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Lowell, James Russell
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
Lowell, James Russell (1819–91), descendant...rescued by his future wife, Maria White Lowell . His early poetry, in A Year's Life...The Old English Dramatists (1892). Lowell was the first editor of the Atlantic...
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Amy Lowell
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...of the prominent and wealthy Lowell family of Boston and counted...the famous 19th-century poet James Russell Lowell. After being privately educated...was a contemporary redoing of James Russell Lowell's "Fable for Critics" and...
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Lowell, Percival
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...x2019; s younger brother, Abbott Lawrence Lowell, became president of Harvard University: and his youngest sister, Amy Lowell, was well known as a poet and critic. James Russell Lowell, a first cousin of his father, was the...
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Robert Trail Spence Lowell Jr
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...the only child of Commander R.T.S. Lowell, U.S. Navy, and Charlotte Winslow Lowell, born on March 1, 1917, in Boston...Massachusetts. His was a famous family, including James Russell Lowell, 19th-century poet and ambassador to...
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