Sentence examples for classical words from inspiring English sources

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).

"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.

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.

The word ecumenism comes from a family of Classical Greek words: oikos, meaning a "house," "family," "people," or "nation"; oikoumenē, "the whole inhabited world"; and oikoumenikos, "open to or participating in the whole world".

Williams plays guitar: pensive classical, no words.

They draw no distinction between different parts of speech, probably because classical Chinese words have no obvious morphological features to indicate their different grammatical functions.

However, only a few classical Chinese words have been identified as conditional expressions, such as 假使 jiǎshǐ 'if', 若使 ruòshǐ 'if', and 微 wéi 'if not' (Eifring 1988; Jiang 2018) and some other constructive structures, such as 如果…早就 rúguǒ…zǎojiù 'if-something should have been done' and 如果早… rúguǒzǎo 'if something has been done earlier' (Jing-Schmidt 2017).