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What are the meanings of the terms 'necromancy and nigromancy?

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Abbygail
Student • 12 months ago

NECROMANCY - is the practice of magic involving communication with the dead - either by summoning their spirits as apparitions, visions or raising them bodily - for the purpose of divination, imparting the means to foretell future events, discover hidden knowledge, to bring someone back from the dead, or to use the dead as a weapon. Sometimes referred to as ''Death Magic'', the term may also sometimes be used in a more general sense to refer to black magic or witchcraft. NIGROMANCY - meaning black magic or black divination, was a highly intricate form of ritual magic, whose educated adherents summoned demons with magic circles drawn in blood and long Latin recitations replete with words such as conjuro, adjuro, and exorcizo.

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How did 'cordon bleu' come to be applied to cookery?

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Abbygail
Student • 12 months ago

Literally, cordon bleu translates to ''blue ribbon.'' Henry III of France in 1578 established the tradition of the highest order of knighthood bearing a blue ribbon. Since that time, cordon bleu has come to apply to the highest order of food and cooking.

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What is the difference between the terms 'complacent and complaisant'?

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Abbygail
Student • 12 months ago

Both derive from the Latin complacere ''to please,'' but while complaisant means willing to do something to please another, complacent means smug and self-satisfied, something that you want to avoid when you're on the winning team. COMPLAISANT -marked by an inclination to please or oblige. COMPLACENT - has the added meaning ''marked by self-satisfaction.''

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What connotation does the expression 'at your fingertips' have?

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Abbygail
Student • 12 months ago

AT YOUR FINGERTIPS - if you say that something is at your fingertips, you approve of the fact that you can reach it easily or that it is easily available to you. It is easily available for you to use or reach.

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What is the origin for 'TX' as an abbreviation for the transaction?

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Abbygail
Student • 12 months ago

Abbreviation TX for internet transaction is borrowed from telegraph abbreviation for transmission, Tx, for an internet transaction involves sending a coded signal from my computer to, say Amazon.com, internet site.

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What is being referred to by 'loose woman'? How did the term come about?

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Abbygail
Student • 12 months ago

The origin of 'loose woman' is unlikely to have anything to do with corsets, and is more likely a reference to a woman who was not part of a man's household, one way or another. The term refers to a sexually promiscuous woman; a prostitute.

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What is the adjectival form of 'despise'?

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Rubie
Student • 11 months ago

The adjective form of despise is despicable which means to regard with contempt.

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What is being referred to by 'job lot'? Where did this come from?

Why 'plastic surgery' so called?

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Rubie
Student • 11 months ago

The reason why PLASTIC SURGERY is called as it is because the form plastic have the possibility to reshape.

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What connotation does the phrase 'a rising tide lifts all boat' have? What is its origin?

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