Wordie: Eleemosynary: Comments

Comment by yarb, 3 months ago

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 23:17:13 +0000

Yesterday Ambrose, while picking up eleemosynary at Cuença, stumbled upon one of our whining sisterhood...

- Lesage, The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane, tr. Smollett, bk 5 ch. 1

Dickens, quoting Fielding

Sun, 11 Nov 2007 16:57:39 +0000

'An author,' says Fielding, in his introduction to 'Tom Jones,' 'ought to consider himself, not as a gentleman who gives a private or eleemosynary treat, but rather as one who keeps a public ordinary, at which all persons are welcome for their money. Men who pay for what they eat, will insist on gratifying their palates, however nice and whimsical these may prove; and if everything is not agreeable to their taste, will challenge a right to censure, to abuse, and to damn their dinner without control.'
-- from the Preface to the Original Edition of 'The Old Curiosity Shop,' 1841

Comment by seanahan, about 1 year ago

Sun, 08 Jul 2007 00:14:02 +0000

This is a hell of a word. It really does take all 6 syllables.

Comment by Grammar, about 1 year ago

Tue, 22 May 2007 15:46:55 +0000

I first saw this word when researching charitable immunity in the Georgia Code.

Comment by seanmeade, about 1 year ago

Thu, 05 Apr 2007 19:31:51 +0000

charity, alms, pity

and a play by Lee Blessing