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What does the word visitant mean? There are 11 meanings listed in OED's entry for the word visitant. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence. visitant has developed meanings and uses in subjects including. religion (late 1600s) military (mid 1700s) animals (late 1700s)
- English
- French
- Latin
Etymology
From French visitant, present participle of visiter.
Pronunciation
1. IPA(key): /ˈvɪzɪtənt/
Noun
visitant (plural visitants) 1. One who visits; a guest; a visitor. 1.1. 1612-13, John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi Act I, Scene III, 1.1.1. Ambition, madam, is a great man's madness, / That is not kept in chains and close-pent rooms, / But in fair lightsome lodgings, and is girt / With the wild noise of prattling visitants, / Which makes it lunatic beyond all cure. 1.2. 1678, Robert South, “Prevention of Sin an unvaluable Mercy: or A sermon preached upon that subject on 1 Sam. XXV.32, 33”, i...
Pronunciation
1. IPA(key): /vi.zi.tɑ̃/
Participle
visitant 1. present participle of visiter
Verb
vīsitant 1. third-person plural present active indicative of vīsitō
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- Cat Got Your Tongue. Meaning: Said to someone who remains silent when they are expected to speak. Origin: There are two stories on how this saying came into being.
- The Walls Have Ears. Meaning: Be careful what you say as people may be eavesdropping. Origin: The face Louvre Palace in France was believed to have a network of listening tubes so that it would be possible to hear everything that was said in different rooms.
- Bury The Hatchet. Meaning: End a quarrel or conflict and become friendly. Origin: During negotiations between Puritans and Native Americans men would bury all of their weapons, making them inaccessible.
- Cold Feet. Meaning: Loss of nerve or confidence. Origin: This idiom originates from a military term, warriors who had frozen feet were not able to rush into battle.
visitor; especially : one thought to come from a spirit world; a migratory bird that appears at intervals for a limited period… See the full definition Menu Toggle
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Sep 26, 2018 · The F-word was recorded in a dictionary in 1598 (John Florio’s A Worlde of Wordes, London: Arnold Hatfield for Edw. Blount). It is remotely derived from the Latin futuere and Old German ficken/fucken meaning ‘to strike or penetrate’, which had the slang meaning to copulate. Eric Partridge, a famous etymologist, said that the German word ...
Oct 25, 2001 · The only hint of plausibility in the story is that “in” is in fact in in Italian, and so might be the kind of slip one could expect the Genoa-born Columbus to make. . However, oddly enough, Columbus almost never wrote in Italian (and then, not more than a phrase or two), writing even to his family and Genoese friends in Spa
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