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Judging by the epithet you've awarded him, I take it you weren't unduly impressed.
This is not a personal name but an epithet of those who have achieved enlightenment, the goal of the Buddhist religious life.
The male then fertilizes the eggs and the female keeps them in her mouth for a few days until they hatch, thus earning the epithet mouth-brooder.
It is easily recognized by its long, stiff hairs for which it received its specific epithet.
When someone cuts in front of you in traffic or honks at you if you hesitate, do you mutter an epithet or react with fear?
For once that epithet is justified and is more than a convenient journalistic label to ramp up the ghastliness of any given tragedy.
The epithet post-dates the death of Akhenaten, who kept his monotheistic faith until the end.
The new species has since had popular media recognition under this name and it has therefore been preserved as the specific epithet.
The species name is called the epithet of the species, and they are always printed in italics, by convention.
Most people, including therapists, can tolerate nearly any epithet about themselves except that they are humorless.
Typically, those are paraphrased into something we can understand, but this epithet, which is arguably worse in motive than those, gets printed.
Moe picks up an identical thick-bladed knife and hurls it at Whitford with an epithet.
When we characterise these tendencies as centrist and opportunist, this is not some kind of epithet or swear word.
Walls, windows, letters, bodies, books, John Donne redivivus, one might say, had that epithet not been applied to his acquaintance, Rupert Brooke.
Another popular epithet from the era was quant jock, on the model of other eggheaded jock compounds like math jock or computer jock.
When they get on the road, they find their place of birth is now an epithet.
By dint of patience and gentleness, he won the affection of Mutesa and deserved the epithet of 'Mwana wa Mbuga', son of the court.
Does Mr Mandelson thus want to go down in history under the shameful epithet of someone who was responsible for starvation?
Perhaps redundant' is the most serious epithet, and you are not responsible for this.
It is when we apply too big an epithet that we make it almost impossible for the people to communicate after the war.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Indeed, yonderly in particular, when applied to persons, is an untranslatable epithet, and yet one which exactly describes certain types of mind.
The Parisian is without a rival as an epicure and a gastronome, and he associates no stigma with the epithet.
That he whom the skald characterises by this epithet is a god is a matter of course.
Nobody spoke to you, redhead, returned snath, snapping out the epithet with a good deal of relish.
A volunteer of the first-class, and a general epithet for a stripling in the service.
For gasta weardas as an epithet for angels, though then unfallen, cf. line 12a, sup.
They piqued themselves upon their title of Clerici, and added the epithet of vagi.
But this is now as undeserving of its constant Homeric epithet of leaf-shaking as is Zakynthos of its epithet of woody.
All things considered, is ignoble the right epithet to apply to parasitism?
He flunked in Greek and mathematics sufficiently to escape the epithet of poler.
To this latter form of peloria it is proposed to give the distinctive epithet of irregular.
In conversation they generally use a periphrastic epithet, such as the All-Good.
As we go swiftly on we realize the appropriateness of the epithet ever applied to the Rhne.
In some verses to a Lady, he talks of his arthritic pains, an epithet not very suitable to the dialect of Parnassus.
He was justly compared to Fabius Maximus, distinguished by the epithet of cunctator.
All my impressions of them are summed in the epithet, often repeated, pre-Adamite.
His name Frode almost looks as if his epithet sapiens had become his popular appellation, and it befits him well.
It is easy to conceive that such an epithet as Dogon might get itself mixed up with the word dog, and so become an imprecation.
This god goes back to the Indo-Iranian period, as both his name and his epithet are found in the Avesta.
Bud disposed of the aristocratic Alfred with a forceable epithet which ought to have made his ears burn.
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