-
appeared the (East) 'Atlantic Archipelago' will have any
appeal beyond captious scholars. "Guardian
Style Guide", The Guardian, London, 19
December 2008...
- France.
Unigenitus censured 101
propositions of
Pasquier Quesnel as: false,
captious, ill-sounding,
offensive to
pious ears, scandalous, pernicious, rash, injurious...
- Everything, of course,
turns out
quite happily, except, perhaps, for
those captious souls who
regard religion as an
adult matter." The
Bells of St. Mary's...
- says
Socrates Scholasticus,
these tore the
church to
pieces by
their captious subtilties.
Eudoxius consecrated his
friend Eunomius to the see of Cyzicus;...
- the
talent to make
these gifts recognized and
appreciated among our very
captious po****tion. For my part, I
always thought your
presence the best thing...
-
horizontal shape of
their pupils resembling a
person narrowing their eyes in a
captious expression. Due to
longstanding confusion over the
taxonomy of A. nasuta...
- ; mora "delay, any
duration of time" ⇒ mérmeros "baneful, mischievous;
captious, fastidious"; mérimna "care, thought;
anxious mind"; mártus, márturos "witness"...
-
Irreligious sentiments,
drunken mockery,
anticlerical expressions, were all
captiously classified by the
inquisitors (or by
those who
denounced the cases) as...
- however, her
commentary in "The Family"
sketches is
limited to
constant captious complaints,
belligerent remarks that
instigate the
other characters, and...
-
worded so as to
present two or more senses, one of
which is objectionable;
captious (captiosa) when
acceptable words are made to
express objectionable thoughts;...
