LOCALISM
Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
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LOCALISM. An expression that belongs to a particular place or geographical variety of a language: for example, in Sierra Leone,
hot drink means ‘alcoholic beverage’; in ScoE,
loch refers to a lake in Scotland, while
lake is used for more general purposes. See
-ISM,
REGIONALISM.
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Lucretius on optical illusions.(Poems)(Titus Lucretius Catus)(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: New Criterion; 12/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...late Roman Republic, a poet named Titus Lucretius Catus, about whom we know next to nothing...he disapproved of poetry--but for Lucretius, poetry was the honey that helped the...medicine of philosophy go down. Part of Lucretius's genius is his ability to demonstrate...
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Mistress Hutchinson and Lucretius.(Books)(On Books)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times; 12/15/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...the Nature of Things") by telling how Lucretius "Last doth of Wedlocks fruite and its...publishing his translation of just Book I (of Lucretius' six) in 1656. Nor was Hutchinson...two most important Latin manuscripts of Lucretius. Debate concerning which one or ones...
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Inertia and scientific law in sixteenth-century commentaries on Lucretius.
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 12/22/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...selections, ninety verses in all, from Lucretius's De rerum natura to illustrate that...considered Epicurean thought, of which Lucretius's work is the chief example, to be...out of non-Aristotelian sources like Lucretius is, as yet, slender.(4) In this...
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Atoms and seeds: Aphra Behn's Lucretius.(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: CLIO; 9/22/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...reference. Thomas Creech, who translated Lucretius's De rerum natura into English in 1682...commendatory verse to the second edition of Lucretius were Thomas Otway, Nahum Tate, Edmund...Daphnis on his Excellent Translation of Lucretius" is the subject of this article. Creech...
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Lucretius.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Newspaper article from: Wisconsin Bookwatch; 4/1/2005; 472 words
; Lucretius John Godwin Bristol Classical Press/Duckworth c/o International...ducknet.co.uk 1853996718 $20.00 1-800-758-3756 Lucretius is a biography of the Roman poet Lucretius, who lived in the first century BC and composed an epic...
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Lucretius the Diver
Magazine article from: The Spectator; 8/18/2001; ; 511 words
; ...their own dead, But facts like those Lucretius never knew: He merely meant we can...just once, about bees. Of ancient wits Lucretius alone, Without recourse to supernatural...to life. That took the featherbrain Lucretius seemed to them, and not the sage He...
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Empedocles Redivivus; poetry and analogy in Lucretius.(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 11/1/2008; 443 words
; ...Empedocles Redivivus; poetry and analogy in Lucretius. Garani, Myrto. Routledge 2007 324...PA3968 Garani argues that Roman poet Lucretius (95-55 BC) applauds discoveries by...inquiry into the unseen, methods that Lucretius himself draws on and creatively modifies...
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Lucretius' Erotic Mother: Maternity as a Poetic Construct in De Rerum Natura.(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Helios; 3/22/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...doubt that maternity plays a key role for Lucretius in the composition of De rerum natura...technical" part of the poem, we find Lucretius' philosophical argument again placed...materialism, that is, the nature of matter, Lucretius asks: quippe ubi non essent genitalia...
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Giorgione's Tempest, studiolo culture, and the Renaissance Lucretius *.
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 6/22/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...ancient poetic texts: the De rerum natura of Lucretius. (6) The humanist response to Lucretius, the conception of the function of poetry...understanding of Giorgione's painting. Lucretius, along with Virgil, was by 1500 becoming...
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Lucretius: The Roman Poet of Freethought. (Great Minds).
Newspaper article from: Free Inquiry; 12/22/2001; ; 700+ words
; The Roman philosopher-poet Lucretius (99-55 B.C.E.) was a stalwart...and adopt a scientific mindset. Lucretius is sometimes classified as an atheist...apparently even know we exist. Lucretius sought to clear the mental rubbish...
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Lucretius
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
Lucretius ( b . Italy, ca . 95 B.C.; d. ca . 55 B.C.), natural philosophy . Lucretius followed the Epicurean maxim “...Vergil attributed to Donatus, it is said that Lucretius died on the same day that Vergil took the...
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Lucretius, Titus Lucretius Carus
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Lucretius, Titus Lucretius Carus (probably c. 99–55 bc), Roman poet. His chief...work is marked by passages of great poetical beauty. Echoes of Lucretius can be found in Spenser , Hobbes , Dryden , and Shelley ; but the...
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Chemical Bond
Encyclopedia entry from: UXL Encyclopedia of Science
...the first was developed by Roman poet Lucretius (c. 95 – c. 55 b.c...nature of things"). In this poem, Lucretius described atoms as tiny spheres with...combined with each other, according to Lucretius, when the hooked arms of two atoms became...
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Chemical Bonding
Book article from: Science of Everyday Things
...about 2,000 years. ASCLEPIADES AND LUCRETIUS DISCUSS BONDS. The physician Asclepiades...Asclepiades, the Roman philosopher and poet Lucretius (c.95-c.55 b.c. espoused views...natura ("On the Nature of Things"), Lucretius described atoms as tiny spheres attached...
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Atomic Theory
Book article from: World of Earth Science
...was the Roman poet and naturalist, Lucretius. In his poem De Rerum Natura (On the nature of things) Lucretius states that only two realities exist...heretical. In fact, one objective of Lucretius' poem was to provide a materialistic...
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