Sentence examples for classical word from inspiring English sources

"Euthanasia" is the comforting, classical word that we use for the act of killing people who are fed up with life.

He was making a play on words with the classical word Tartarus (Hell) and the ancient tribal name of Tatar borne by some of the nomads, but his account catches the terror that the Mongols evoked.

There is some degree of artificiality in this system, since cepacia is not a classical word but a later scientific coinage, formed from the classical Latin caepa.

I loved classical words and their depiction of simple properties — the crystal forms, colors, shapes, and optics of minerals — like diaspore and anastase and microlite and polycrase.

In vocabulary, especially, many of the sober classical words are rejected in favour of more colourful popular terms, especially derivatives and diminutives: thus, portare 'to carry' (French porter, Italian portare, etc). is preferred to ferre; cantare 'to sing again and again' (French chanter Spanish and Portuguese cantar, etc).

Note that, the adjective "non-informative" prior used in this paper is the classical wording but does not necessarily mean the prior is truly non-informative, as will be seen below.

DOCTOR SAMUEL JOHNSON knew a great deal about the English language, spoke it wittily and wrote it in quadrupedantic polygrammata - silly long pseudo-classical words, that is, some of them (like those two) invented for the occasion.

Now, the classical Greek word for "say" is also lego, giving us words such as "dyslexic".

The classical Greek word euangelion means "a reward for bringing of good news" or the "good news" itself.

Like French, Spanish, and Russian, English frequently forms scientific terms from Classical Greek word elements.

There needs to be a sea change in the way in which we approach "classical" (wretched word) music, to get across the fact that the canon didn't end with the death of Shostakovich.