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conceit
English
Alternative forms
- conceipt (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English conceyte, formed from conceyven by analogy with pairs such as (Modern English) deceive~deceit, receive~receipt etc. Doublet of concept and concetto.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k?n?si?t/
- Rhymes: -i?t
Noun
conceit (countable and uncountable, plural conceits)
- (obsolete) Something conceived in the mind; an idea, a thought. [14th–18th c.]
- 1611, King James Version, Proverbs 26:12
- a man wise in his own conceit
- 1611, King James Version, Proverbs 26:12
- The faculty of conceiving ideas; mental faculty; apprehension.
- c. 1590, Philip Sidney, The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia
- How often, alas! did her eyes say unto me that they loved! and yet I, not looking for such a matter, had not my conceit open to understand them.
- c. 1590, Philip Sidney, The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia
- Quickness of apprehension; active imagination; lively fancy.
- (obsolete) Opinion, (neutral) judgment. [14th–18th c.]
- (now rare, dialectal) Esteem, favourable opinion. [from 15th c.]
- 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, Letter 345:
- [G]ive him thy thanks for putting her into conceit with the sex that thou hast given her so much reason to execrate.
- 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, Letter 345:
- (countable) A novel or fanciful idea; a whim. [from 16th c.]
- 1679, John Dryden, The Essay on Satire
- Tasso […] is full of conceits […] which are not only below the dignity of heroic verse but contrary to its nature.
- 2012, Lauren Elkin, Scott Esposito, The End of Oulipo?: An attempt to exhaust a movement
- The book's main conceit is to make poetry from univocal words (words containing just one vowel) […]
- 1679, John Dryden, The Essay on Satire
- (countable, rhetoric, literature) An ingenious expression or metaphorical idea, especially in extended form or used as a literary or rhetorical device. [from 16th c.]
- Coordinate terms: metaphor, simile, concetto
- (uncountable) Overly high self-esteem; vain pride; hubris. [from 17th c.]
- 1826, Nathaniel Cotton, Fables
- Plum'd with conceit he calls aloud.
- 1826, Nathaniel Cotton, Fables
- Design; pattern.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
conceit (third-person singular simple present conceits, present participle conceiting, simple past and past participle conceited)
- (obsolete) To form an idea; to think.
- 1643: John Milton, The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce
- Those whose […] vulgar apprehensions conceit but low of matrimonial purposes.
- 1643: John Milton, The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce
- (obsolete, transitive) To conceive.
- The strong, by conceiting themselves weak, are therebly rendered as inactive […] as if they really were so.
- 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, V.23:
- That owls and ravens are ominous appearers, and presignifying unlucky events, as Christians yet conceit, was also an augurial conception.
Further reading
- conceit in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- conceit in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- conceit at OneLook Dictionary Search
Middle English
Noun
conceit
- Alternative form of conceyte
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humour
English
Alternative forms
- humor (American)
Etymology
From Middle English humour, from Old French humor, from Latin humor, correctly umor (“moisture”), from hum?, correctly um? (“to be moist”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?hju?.m?(?)/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?hju?m?/, /?ju?m?/
- Hyphenation: hu?mour
- Rhymes: -u?m?(?)
Noun
humour (usually uncountable, plural humours) (British spelling)
- (uncountable) The quality of being amusing, comical, funny. [from the early 18th c.]
- 1774, Oliver Goldsmith, Retaliation
- For thy sake I admit / That a Scot may have humour, I'd almost said wit.
- A great deal of excellent humour was expended on the perplexities of mine host.
- Synonyms: amusingness, comedy, comicality, wit
- 1774, Oliver Goldsmith, Retaliation
- (uncountable) A mood, especially a bad mood; a temporary state of mind or disposition brought upon by an event; an abrupt illogical inclination or whim.
- 1625, Francis Bacon, Apophthegms
- a prince of a pleasant humour
- 1684, Lord Roscommon, Essay on Translated Verse
- Examine how your humour is inclined, / And which the ruling passion of your mind.
- Is my friend all perfection, all virtue and discretion? Has he not humours to be endured?
- Synonym: mood
- 1625, Francis Bacon, Apophthegms
- (archaic or historical) Any of the fluids in an animal body, especially the four "cardinal humours" of blood, yellow bile, black bile and phlegm that were believed to control the health and mood of the human body.
- , Book I, New York 2001,page 147:
- A humour is a liquid or fluent part of the body, comprehended in it, for the preservation of it; and is either innate or born with us, or adventitious and acquisite.
- 1763, Antoine-Simon Le Page Du Pratz, History of Louisisana (PG), (tr. 1774) page 42:
- For some days a fistula lacrymalis had come into my left eye, which discharged an humour, when pressed, that portended danger.
- Synonym: bodily fluid
- , Book I, New York 2001,page 147:
- (medicine) Either of the two regions of liquid within the eyeball, the aqueous humour and vitreous humour.
- (obsolete) Moist vapour, moisture.
Synonyms
- (something funny): comedy, wit, witticism
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- ? Korean: ?? (yumeo)
Translations
Verb
humour (third-person singular simple present humours, present participle humouring, simple past and past participle humoured)
- (transitive) To pacify by indulging.
Translations
See also
- humour on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
French
Etymology
Borrowed from English humour. Doublet of humeur.
Pronunciation
- (mute h) IPA(key): /y.mu?/
- Rhymes: -u?
Noun
humour m (plural humours)
- humor; comic effect in a communication or performance.
Derived terms
Further reading
- “humour” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Italian
Etymology
From English humour.
Noun
humour m (invariable)
- sense of humour
Further reading
- humour in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Middle English
Alternative forms
- humore, umour, humor, humur, humer
Etymology
From Old French humor, from Latin h?mor, ?mor.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /iu??mu?r/, /?iu?mur/
Noun
humour (plural humours)
- A "cardinal humour" (four liquids believed to affect health and mood)
- A bodily liquid or substance that causes disease or affliction.
- A bodily liquid or substance that is caused by disease.
- One of the two (usually reckoned as three or four) fluidous portions of the eye.
- Any fluid; something which flows or moves in a fluidous manner:
- The liquid contained within a plant; plant juices.
- (rare) A liquid of the human body (e.g. blood)
- A mist or gas; a substance dissipated in the air.
- (rare) One of the four classical elements (fire, earth, air, and water).
Descendants
- English: humour, humor
- Scots: humour
References
- “h?m?ur, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-12-09.
See also
- (four humours) flewme,? coler,? malencolie,? sanguine [edit]
Old French
Noun
humour m or f
- (Anglo-Norman) Alternative form of humor
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