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MERE . 1. (From See also:Lat. merits, pure, unmixed; O. Fr. mier), But during the years when he was producing his finest novels an See also:adjective primarily indicating something pure and unmixed; he was practically unknown to the public. In 1849 he married thus " mere See also:wine " implied pure and unadulterated wine, as Mrs Nicholls, daughter of See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas Love See also:Peacock, the novelist, " mere folly " expressed folly pure and See also:simple. See also:Modern usage a widow, eight years his See also:senior, whose See also:husband had been accidenhas, however, given both to the adjective " mere " and the See also:tally drowned a few months after her first See also:marriage (1844), adverb " merely " a deprecatory and disparaging See also:idea, so that and who had one See also:child, a daughter; but their married See also:life was expressions like " the mere truth," a " mere statement of fact," broken by separation; she died in 1861, and in 1864 See also:Meredith &c., often convey the impression that they are far from being married See also:Miss Vulliamy, by whom he had a son and daughter. " mere " in the sense of " entire " or " See also:absolute," but are, on the His second wife died in x885. Up to that See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time there is little to contrary, fragmentary and incomplete. The earlier idea of the See also:record in the incidents of his life; he had not been " discovered " word is retained in some legal phrases, especially in the phrase except by an See also:honourable minority " of readers and critics. " mere See also:motion," that is, of one's own initiative without help or It must suffice to See also:note that during the Austro-See also:Italian See also:War of See also:suggestion from the outside. Another legal phrase is " mere 1866 he acted as See also:special correspondent for the See also:Morning See also:Post; right " (See also:law Latin See also:jus merum), i.e. right without See also:possession. and though he saw no actual fighting, he enjoyed, particularly at
2. A word which appears in various forms in several See also:Teutonic See also:Venice, opportunities for a study of the Italian See also:people which he and other See also:languages; cf. Dutch and Ger. See also:Meer. From the cognate turned to See also:account in several of his novels. Towards the See also:close Lat. See also:mare are derived the Romanic forms, e.g. Fr. mer, Span. See also:mar, of 1867, when his friend See also:John See also:Morley paid a visit to See also:America, &c.; the word appears also in the derivative " See also:marsh " for Meredith undertook in his See also:absence the editorship of the Fort-" marish "; the ultimate origin has been taken to be an Indo- nightly See also:Review for Messrs See also:Chapman & See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
Hall. They were not only See also:European See also:root, meaning " to See also:die," i.e. to See also:lie See also:waste; cf. Sansk. the publishers of his books, but he acted for many years as their marts, See also:desert), an See also:arm of the See also:sea or See also:estuary; also the name See also:literary adviser, in which capacity he See also:left a reputation for being given to lakes, pools and shallow stretches of See also:water inland. not only eminently See also:wise in his selection of the books to be In the Fen countries a mere signifies a marsh or a See also:district published, but both See also:critical and encouraging to authors of nearly always under water. promise whose See also:works he found himself obliged to reject. Thomas
3. (Derived from an O. Eng., source, maere, a See also:wall or See also:Hardy and See also:George See also:Gissing were among those who expressed boundary; cognate with Lat. mucus, a wall), a landmark or their grateful sense of his assistance. He was indeed one of the boundary, also an See also:object indicating the extent of a See also:property last of the old school of " publishers' readers." In his See also:early without actually enclosing it. A special meaning is that of a married life he lived near See also:Weybridge, and later at Copsham road, which forms a dividing See also:line between two places. A between See also:Esher and See also:Leatherhead, while soon after his second " meresman " is an See also:official appointed by parochial' authorities marriage he settled at See also:Flint Cottage, Mickleham, near See also:Dorking, to ascertain the exact boundaries of a See also:parish and to See also:report where he remained for the See also:rest of his life.
upon the See also:condition of the roads, See also:bridges, waterways, &c., Meredith's first See also:appearance in See also:print was in the See also:character
within them. In the See also:mining districts of See also:Derbyshire a mere is a of a poet, and his first published poem " Chillian Wallah,"
certain measurement of See also:land in which See also:lead-ore is found. may be found in See also:Chambers's See also:Journal for the 7th of See also:July 1849.
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