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81Ionians (The) — The Ionians Malcolm Schofield THALES AND OTHERS The Greeks agreed that philosophy had begun with Thales. However they did not know much about his views.1 What survives is mostly a potent legend. Herodotus tells stories of his practical ingenuity …
82révérend — révérend, ende (ré vé ran, ran d ) adj. 1° Digne d être révéré (vieilli en cet emploi). • Qu Archiménide vienne, il aura son paquet, Fût il plus révérend cent fois qu il ne nous semble, LA FONT. l Eunuque, V, 2. 2° Titre d honneur qu on… …
83attitude — n. 1) to assume, strike, take an attitude 2) a belligerent, defiant, surly; casual; cavalier; condescending, patronizing; hands off; holier than thou; irreverent; liberal; negative; positive; reverent; scornful attitude 3) an attitude about; of;… …
84godly — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. divine; pious, reverent, religious, devout. See piety. Ant., ungodly. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. righteous, devout, pious; see holy 2 . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. religious, God fearing,… …
85religious — I (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Pertaining to religion] Syn. sacred, spiritual, holy, divine, theological, ethical, moral, ecclesiastical, clerical, canonical, supernatural, sacrosanct, churchly, liturgical, theistic, deistic, monotheistic,… …
86reverential — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. pious, devout, reverent; see religious 2 , respectful . II (Roget s Thesaurus II) adjective Feeling or showing reverence: reverent, vener ational, worshipful. See RESPECT …
87worshipful — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. pious, reverent, devoted; see religious 2 . II (Roget s Thesaurus II) adjective Feeling or showing reverence: reverent, reverential, venerational. See RESPECT …
88revere — [17] Revere goes back ultimately to Latin verērī ‘hold in awe or fear’, a possible distant relative of English aware and beware. Addition of the intensive prefix re produced reverērī, which English probably acquired via French révérer. The… …
89awe-struck — adj 1. solemn, reverent, reverential, awed. See reverent (defs.1, 2). 2. dismayed, daunted, cowed, intimidated, overawed; overwhelmed, terrified, horrorstruck, appalled, abashed; stupefied, dumbfounded, struck speechless or mute or dumb with… …
90awful — adj 1. dread, dreaded, dreadful, direful, terrible, terrifying, spine chilling. 2. bad, mean, petty, nasty, contemptible, base; distasteful, repulsive, grotesque, Sl. gross; unpleasant, unfortunate, terrible; inferior, shoddy, second rate, poor.… …
