different between couchant vs ethic

English

Etymology

From Middle English couchant, from Middle French couchant.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?ka?t??nt/

Adjective

couchant (not comparable)

1. (of an animal) Lying with belly down and front legs extended; crouching.
   • 1801, Robert Southey, Thalaba the Destroyer:

     The dogs, with eager yelp,
     Are struggling to be free;
     The hawks in frequent stoop
     Token their haste for flight;
     And couchant on the saddle-bow,
     With tranquil eyes, and talons sheath’d,
     The ounce expects his liberty.

   • 1865, Henry David Thoreau, Cape Cod, Chapter I. "The Shipwreck", page 14.

     There were the tawny rocks, like lions couchant, defying the ocean, whose waves incessantly dashed against and scoured them with vast quantities of gravel.

   • 1874, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night, XX

     Two figures faced each other, large, austere;

     A couchant sphinx in shadow to the breast,

     An angel standing in the moonlight clear;

   • 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room, Vintage Classics, paperback edition, page 91

     Or again, have you ever watched fine collie dogs couchant at twenty yards' distance?

2. (heraldry) Represented as crouching with the head raised.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.2:

     His crest was covered with a couchant Hownd, / And all his armour seem'd of antique mould [...].

Translations

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ku.???/

Noun

couchant m (plural couchants)

1. the setting sun
2. the sunset
3. the west
4. (literary) old age, decline, termination

Verb

couchant

1. present participle of coucher

Middle English

Alternative forms

• cowchaunte

Etymology

From Middle French couchant, from Old French couchant.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ku?t?ant/

Noun

couchant

1. (rare) Lying down; couchant.
2. (rare) Displaying deference and humility.

Descendants

• English: couchant

References

• “c?uchant, ppl.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-20.

Middle French

Verb

couchant (feminine singular couchante, masculine plural couchans, feminine plural couchantes)

1. present participle of coucher
2. (may be preceded by en, invariable) gerund of coucher

Adjective

couchant m (feminine singular couchante, masculine plural couchans, feminine plural couchantes)

1. lying down

Old French

Verb

couchant

1. present participle of couchier

Adjective

couchant m (oblique and nominative feminine singular couchant)

1. lying down

English

Alternative forms

• ethick (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old French ethique, from Late Latin ethica, from Ancient Greek ????? (?thik?), from ?????? (?thikós, “of or for morals, moral, expressing character”), from ???? (êthos, “character, moral nature”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /????k/

Adjective

ethic (comparative more ethic, superlative most ethic)

1. Moral, relating to morals.

Noun

ethic (plural ethics)

1. A set of principles of right and wrong behaviour guiding, or representative of, a specific culture, society, group, or individual.

   I think the golden rule is a great ethic.

2. The morality of an action. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Derived terms

Related terms

• ethical
• ethics
• ethos

See also

• ethic dative

Further reading

• ethic in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• ethic in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• ethic at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Citeh, etchi, theic