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Difference between reflection and reflexion - English Language . . . The same word, two spellings Oxford English Dictionary The spelling reflection is now much commoner than reflexion in all uses, probably largely as a result of association with reflect v ; compare also flexion n , connection n , etc N E D (1905 ) notes that the spelling reflexion was then ‘still common in scientific use, perhaps through its connexion with reflex’
How did stone-cold come to mean completely? UPDATE (11 15 2016): 'Stone-' as a generic marker for 'completely' Alan Carmack's very useful comment (below) about the long-established terms "stone blind" and "stone still" (to which we might add "stone dead," which Richard Hooker uses in A Learned Discourse on Justification [1612]) led me to look into when stone in the sense of "completely" might have arisen outside the context of "stone cold "
What is the origin of playing into someones hands? From A Friend to the Good Old Cause, "The Character of the Late Upstart House of Lords: Together with Some Reflexions on the Carriage and Government of His Late Highness" (1659): He [King Charles] is not long after beheaded as a Tyrant, Traytor, and grand Incendiary: the Nation is declared a Free State, during which time, great and horrid
What is the origin of the idiom get be shot of? From "Jupiter and a Herds-man," in Fables of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists with Morals and Reflexions (1692): Men should so Pray as not to Repent of their Prayers, and turn the most Christian and Necessary Office of our Lives into a Sin We must not Pray in One Breath to Find a Thief, and in the Next to get shut of him
Using of vs. on - English Language Usage Stack Exchange Stack Exchange Network Stack Exchange network consists of 183 Q A communities including Stack Overflow, the largest, most trusted online community for developers to learn, share their knowledge, and build their careers
What does infinitesimally small mean? - English Language Usage . . . --Carnot, Reflexions sur la puissance motrice du feu, p 27 Some translators render "infiniment petite" as "infinitesimally small," when "infinitely small" would have been more literal, and "infinitesimal" more idiomatic An argument against "infinitely small" is that "infinitely" doesn't literally mean "very, very," it means "enendingly "
charles dickens - English Language Usage Stack Exchange L'Estrange is Roger L'Estrange (1616–1704), and the quotation comes from "An Ass and Two Travellers" in Fables of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists with Morals and Reflexions (1692): A Couple of Travellers that took up an Ass in a Forrest, fell downright to Loggerheads, which of the Two should be his Master: So the Ass was to stand by, to
English equivalent of To those you try to help, he says I am only . . . Oswald Dykes, English Proverbs, with Moral Reflexions (1713) devotes four pages of exposition to the proverb, including a more general discussion of ingratitude: Save a Thief from Hanging, and he'll cut your Throat It [the proverb] is as severe a Lecture also against doing an unthankful Person a Kindness, as against saving a Thief from the