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For grief's sake keep him out; his discourse is like the long word Honorificabilitudinitatibus, a great deal of sound and no sense. [49] In John Fletcher's tragicomedy The Mad Lover of c. 1617 the word is used by the palace fool: The Iron age return'd to Erebus, And Honorificabilitudinitatibus Thrust out o'th' Kingdom by the head and shoulders ...
Quote by Costard from the 1598 quarto using the word honorificabilitudinitatibus; his name is given as "Clow[n]." Costard is a comic figure in the play Love's Labour's Lost by William Shakespeare. A country blumpkin, he is arrested in the first scene for flouting the king's proclamation that all men of the court avoid the company of women for ...
Letters: 21. 15. Counterrevolutionaries. Pronunciation: coun-ter-rev-o-lu-tion-ar-ies. Meaning: Individuals who participate in or support a movement or action aimed at overthrowing a government or ...
The play also features the single longest word in all of Shakespeare's plays: honorificabilitudinitatibus, spoken by Costard at 5.1.30. Title page of the second quarto (1631) The speech given by Berowne at 4.3.284–361 is potentially the longest in all of Shakespeare's plays, depending on editorial choices.
According to the Wikipedia Article Longest English words, Honorificabilitudinitatibus is the longest Shakespearean word, and is the longest word in English featuring alternating vowels and consonants. It is not the longest word in English, unlike what the article suggests. Pianone (talk) 14:19, 9 June 2013 (UTC) [reply]
Hapax legomenon is a transliteration of Greek ἅπαξ λεγόμενον, meaning "said once". [3] The related terms dis legomenon, tris legomenon, and tetrakis legomenon respectively (/ ˈdɪs /, / ˈtrɪs /, / ˈtɛtrəkɪs /) refer to double, triple, or quadruple occurrences, but are far less commonly used. Hapax legomena are quite common ...
Arms of the See of Canterbury, governing the Church of England. Antidisestablishmentarianism (/ ˌ æ n t i d ɪ s ɪ ˌ s t æ b l ɪ ʃ m ə n ˈ t ɛər i ə n ɪ z əm / ⓘ, US also / ˌ æ n t aɪ-/ ⓘ) is a position that advocates that a state church (the "established church") should continue to receive government patronage, rather than be disestablished (i.e., be separated from the ...
Works of Erasmus. Erasmus by Holbein. Desiderius Erasmus was the most popular, most printed and arguably most influential author of the early Sixteenth Century, read in all nations in the West and frequently translated. By the 1530s, the writings of Erasmus accounted for 10 to 20 percent of all book sales in Europe. [1] ".