| 单词 | vocable |
| 例句 | The birds’ phrasings are both melodic and mechanical, cyclical and spontaneous, like the wordless vocables of scat singers. Letter of Recommendation: Starlings 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z Some of the songs have lyrics that can be translated into words but many others include what are called vocables - sounds that don’t have meanings like words do. Native American drummers in Fort Wayne focus on sacred past 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z There is an immense amount of positive knowledge to be acquired between the ages of ten and eighteen—rules of grammar, strings of vocables, dates, names of towns, rivers, and mountains, mathematical formulas, &c. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, November 1879 2012-04-25T02:01:12.830Z It is a pluralistic world now, and lordly Intuition—a dangerous vocable—rules over mere mental processes. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z The philanthropic spectator suffers from no scarcity of words to express his particular attitude if he desires to do so; why then should he not leave socialists the enjoyment of their vocable? Contemporary Socialism 2011-09-10T02:00:28.673Z In the ordinary speech of Englishmen there are not a few vocables which grate on American ears. Americanisms and Briticisms with other essays on other isms 2011-08-12T02:00:23.033Z In Chapter XVIII, "the seequipedalian Hellenic vocable" was changed to "the sesquipedalian Hellenic vocable". A Cadet's Honor Mark Mallory's Heroism 2011-05-15T02:00:10.653Z It also contained a sort of glossary, which explained the true meaning of Latin vocables. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II 2011-04-03T02:00:18.677Z This method has quite vanished among reputable thinkers, though it has left behind it another misunderstood vocable—decadence. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z But I was involuntarily conscious of having my mind full of images, while the words of the prayer were empty vocables. Education in The Home, The Kindergarten, and The Primary School 2011-03-27T02:00:15.947Z The child growing up learns, along with the vocables of his mother-tongue, that things which he would have believed to be different, are, in important points, the same. A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive 7th Edition, Vol. II 2011-03-01T03:00:40.557Z "Which," added the Parson's solemn voice, "might be somewhat more classically expressed by the sesquipedalian Hellenic vocable—ahem!—Megalacephalomania." A Cadet's Honor Mark Mallory's Heroism 2011-05-15T02:00:10.653Z It is known under the double vocable of Lyon et Vienne, and is the outgrowth of the more ancient ecclesiastical province of Vienne, whose archiepiscopal dignity was domiciled in St. Maurice. The Cathedrals of Southern France 2011-02-10T03:00:54.597Z Nothing human was alien to him, nor inhuman, for he rejected as quite meaningless the latter vocable, as he rejected such clichés as "organic and inorganic." Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z Accordingly, at length, the vocable Toronto is caught up by the white voyageurs, and adopted as a local proper name in the European sense: just as had been the case already with the word Canada. Toronto of Old 2011-02-10T03:00:45.907Z But their greek vocables please them too much. On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments It has adopted a certain number of vocables from Sanskrit, Malay, Javanese and Portuguese, but on the whole is remarkably pure, and has undergone comparatively few recent changes. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" Such single vocables did not belong to any particular part of speech. American Languages, and Why We Should Study Them All the vocables of a language may be more or less familiar to us, and yet we may not have learnt it as an instrument of thought. Logic, Inductive and Deductive There was something in the rough manner in which he gave vent to the feelings of a father, that possessed a tenderness which never could have been expressed by the soft vocables of sentimentality. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 11 The word, which Littleton called "an heptastic vocable," comprehended the names of the seven Lord Mayors in whose mayoralties the Monument was begun, continued, and completed. Old and New London Volume I The influence of the Mongolian population, assisted by the progress of time, has slowly but surely diminished the number of vocables in Pekingese. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2 "Chicago, University of" to "Chiton" It will make the Bengali either Tamul, with an unprecedented amount of foreign vocables, or Sanskrit, with a few words of the older native tongue retained. The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies Sometimes he merely alters a letter or two; sometimes he twists off the head or the tail of the unfortunate vocable altogether. Spenser He, too, dreamed of quintessentials, of the sheer power of golden vocables and the secret alchemy of art. Ivory Apes and Peacocks But the Maya vocable Thallac, signifies a thing without steadiness, like the sea. Vestiges of the Mayas or, Facts Tending to Prove that Communications and Intimate Relations Must Have Existed, in very Remote Times, Between the Inhabitants of Mayab and Those of Asia and Africa An immediate consequence of this paucity of vocables is that one and the same sound has to do duty for different words. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2 "Chicago, University of" to "Chiton" The grand difference between the circumstances of the people of the Highlands in the better time and the worse may be summed up in the one important vocable—capital. My Schools and Schoolmasters or The Story of my Education. She stroked his face, crooned over him, lavished the loveliest vocables of her tongue upon his worthless carcase, and won him by the very excess of her passion. The Spanish Jade The ideas attached to these vocables pervade his whole style, and form from their continual recurrence a characteristic portion of it. Leading Articles on Various Subjects So similar to the Maya vocable Kaan, a tie, a rope; hence a clan: a number of people held together by the tie of parentage. Vestiges of the Mayas or, Facts Tending to Prove that Communications and Intimate Relations Must Have Existed, in very Remote Times, Between the Inhabitants of Mayab and Those of Asia and Africa Owing to the scarcity of vocables noted above, there might be as many as ten different words in common use, each pronounced fang. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2 "Chicago, University of" to "Chiton" An intimate acquaintance with its vocables and structure, both ancient and modern, would have been of considerable use. Elements of Gaelic Grammar The same vocable is preserved to our day in the name borne by one of the provinces of Persia, Khouzistan. A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1 Had I abandoned the sonorous south to associate with vocables so base? A Little Tour of France The child growing up learns, along with the vocables of his mother-tongue, that things which he would have believed to be different are, in important points, the same. A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive The vocables, as we have seen, are so few in number that only the colloquial, if even that, could possibly be transcribed in this manner. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2 "Chicago, University of" to "Chiton" Only one or two single vocables, and a few phrases, require to be noticed under this division. Elements of Gaelic Grammar There is an immense amount of positive knowledge to be acquired between the ages of ten and eighteen—rules of grammar, strings of vocables, dates, names of towns, rivers, and mountains, mathematical formulas, etc. Chips From A German Workshop, Vol. V. Miscellaneous Later Essays The initial i in the particle -ile often affects the last or penultimate syllable of the verbal root, thereby causing one of the very rare changes which take place in this vocable. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" She knows Early English from Middle Pointed, and interprets Ritualistic phrases into intelligible vocables. Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) I, too, became slightly intoxicated by the sound of these vocables. More Trivia Much has been attempted, and something has been done, toward analysing single vocables, particularly names of places. Elements of Gaelic Grammar All these circumstances seriously modify the possibility of drawing general conclusions from an analysis of the body of Sanskrit vocables found in Malay. A Manual of the Malay language With an Introductory Sketch of the Sanskrit Element in Malay There are no words to the song, only vocables; and these belong to the breathing or sighing class, indicative of emotion. Indian Story and Song from North America We have also the learned disc or disk, so that the one Latin word has supplied us with four vocables, differentiated in meaning, but each having the fundamental sense of a flat surface. The Romance of Words (4th ed.) The phonetic system, therefore, becomes in use subordinated to the expression of the acts by which are produced these radical vocables which constitute the essentials of rational Discourse. Essays Towards a Theory of Knowledge The tendency to attenuate the articulations shows itself in a progressive state, in a few vocables which are pronounced with an aspiration in some districts, but not universally. Elements of Gaelic Grammar Some others would ampliate and enrich their native tongue with more vocables, which also I commend, if it be aptly and wittily assayed. Early Theories of Translation Nor can it be easily illustrated how words of many different languages were bent by elisions or stretched by vocables, that they might conform to the musical phrase. Indian Story and Song from North America This form is used after vocables which are proper to the Japanese language; i.e., iomi. Diego Collado's Grammar of the Japanese Language Thus, ‘people’ is indeed ‘populus’, but it was ‘peuple’ first, while ‘popular’ is a direct transfer of a Latin vocable into our English glossary. English Past and Present There are many vocables known to be meaningless and recited merely to fill out the rhythm or to give a dignified length to the song. The Mountain Chant, A Navajo Ceremony Fifth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1883-84, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1887, pages 379-468 Never before or since, I fancy, has the air of the Adirondack wilderness vibrated more repugnantly to a vocable than it did that night to the word "academicism." Memories and Studies Many Indian songs have no words at all, vocables only being used to float the voice. Indian Story and Song from North America The second way of counting is with the coie vocables which are borrowed from Chinese. Diego Collado's Grammar of the Japanese Language There is no such Saxon vocable as dare, to stare. Notes and Queries, Number 188, June 4, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. These vocables belong to the very genius of the Hawaiian tongue. Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula Besides, the lips are often protruded a good deal, even when this is not required in framing vocables. The Mind of the Child, Part II The Development of the Intellect, International Education Series Edited By William T. Harris, Volume IX. On classifying these wordless songs, we discover that those which are expressive of the gentle emotions have flowing, breathing vocables, but, where warlike feelings dominate the song, the vocables are aspirate and explosive. Indian Story and Song from North America These numbers are not used by themselves to count to ten; but are rather used when counting things which are represented by Chinese, and not Japanese vocables. Diego Collado's Grammar of the Japanese Language The vocables and the grammar would be kept up exactly so far as to serve the other purposes, and no farther. Practical Essays But it is characteristic of the yumari songs that they generally consist only of an unintelligible jargon, or, rather, of a mere succession of vocables, which the dancers murmur. Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2) A Record of Five Years' Exploration Among the Tribes of the Western Sierra Madre; In the Tierra Caliente of Tepic and Jalisco; and Among the Tarascos of Michoacan You will at once inquire, "What is the nature of these rejected Shakespearian vocables, which he seems to have viewed as milk that would bear no more than one skimming?" Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880. In this determinate use of vocables we happen upon what seems to represent the most primitive attempt yet discovered to give intellectual definition in verbal form to an emotion voiced in rhythm and melody. Indian Story and Song from North America In the same way one may add Chinese numerals to Chinese vocables, or coie. Diego Collado's Grammar of the Japanese Language So we may guess here a race akin to the Coreans conquered at some time by a race whose vocables were Japanese—whence they came, God knows. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 He would have analyzed this particular one with a minute delicacy beyond the powers of Clem Sypher through whose head rang the echo of the irritating vocable for some time afterwards. Septimus The primitive vocable now conveyed a lively resentment, but there was the pleading of a patient sufferer in what followed. Somewhere in Red Gap In songs where words are employed, we also find vocables which are in accord with the spirit of the song, used to make the words conform to the musical phrase. Indian Story and Song from North America She got an old thumbed Butler's Grammar and tried hard to correct the vocables of her truant tongue. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873 Glowing, radiant, transcendent vocables swim and dissolve in the porches of his brain, teasing him with visions far more deeply confused than ever Mr. Wordsworth's were. Shandygaff The vocable e is used to express strong emotion. The Hawaiian Romance Of Laieikawai Often I had wished to test in speech the widely alleged merits of this vocable. Somewhere in Red Gap These vocables are either appended to the word or else inserted between its syllables,126 to give length or added euphony. Indian Story and Song from North America There is one peer of this realm—a hereditary legislator and a patron of many Church livings—who is famous for his skill in the use of certain kinds of vocables. The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour When words are used they are few, fragmentary and generally eked out with vocables. Indian Games and Dances with Native Songs This word is one of the Yale vocables. A Collection of College Words and Customs In respect to the vocabularies, the extent to which the analysis which applies to the grammar applies to the vocables also may be seen in the following instance. Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Commanded By the Late Captain Owen Stanley, R.N., F.R.S. Etc. During the Years 1846-1850. Including Discoveries and Surveys in New Guinea, the Louisiade Archipelago, Etc. to Which Is Added the Account of Mr. E.B. Kennedy's Expedition for the Exploration of the Cape York Peninsula. By John Macgillivray, F.R.G.S. Naturalist to the Expedition. — Volume 2 We also note a desire for rhyming, since vocables similar in sound frequently occur at the end of each musical phrase. Indian Story and Song from North America It will be a welcome relief if camouflage, as popular five years ago as fin-de-si�cle twenty-five years ago, shall follow that now unfashionable vocable into what an American president once described as 'innocuous desuetude'. Society for Pure English, Tract 05 The Englishing of French Words; the Dialectal Words in Blunden's Poems Frequently only vocables are attached to a melody. Indian Games and Dances with Native Songs Few men, if any, had a more extensive knowledge of its vocables. Forty Years in South China The Life of Rev. John Van Nest Talmage, D.D. Both grammar and vocables were probably in the main communicated by oral teaching, by the living voice of the master, and were handed down by oral tradition from generation to generation. The evolution of English lexicography Like the swelling buds on the bare branch, which hint the approach of summer's wealth, so these little vocables and rhythmic devices whisper the coming of the poets. Indian Story and Song from North America When I called the attention of a neighbour to these outlandish vocables, the affable steward bent forward to enlighten my ignorance. Society for Pure English, Tract 05 The Englishing of French Words; the Dialectal Words in Blunden's Poems In a number of instances the original vocables are retained, where the music is merely a rhythmical accompaniment to a simple, easily understood movement. Indian Games and Dances with Native Songs But they who make the noun one and the vocable an other, reckon nine. The Grammar of English Grammars Such lists of vocables, with their meaning in the vulgar tongue, were also at times committed to paper or parchment leaves, and a collection of these constituted a Vocabularium or Vocabulary. The evolution of English lexicography These are more frequently interchanged than almost any other vocables that occur of the language. The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Section T, U, V, and W He must fire his volley of new vocables out of his conceptual shotgun, for his profession condemns him to this industry, but he secretly knows the hollowness and irrelevancy. Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature The vocables given are those used with these songs when the Indians sing them as they hide the balls. Indian Games and Dances with Native Songs But some, on the authority of good authors, make the parts only eight; as Aristarchus, and, in our day, Palæmon; who have included the vocable, or appellation, with the noun, as a species of it. The Grammar of English Grammars We employ vocables and phrases; we do not establish laws and definitions. Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic Even when he attempted vocables he had sounded quite like an inferior record on a phonographic machine. Ruggles of Red Gap I regret to see that vile and barbarous vocable talented, stealing out of the newspapers into the leading reviews and most respectable publications of the day. Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge An oral language, although remarkably persistent in its vocables, and still more persistent in its grammatical forms, is incapable of permanence. Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines But in truth neither paid much heed to the tabulated vocables of the Venetian cardinal—nor to any of the other rarities near by. Bertram Cope's Year But Christ not only speaks by outward words, but has other ways of lodging sustenance and comfort in souls than by vocables audible to the ear or visible to the eye on the page. Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah Each of them takes its name from one of the States of the Union—names which, as Stevenson long ago pointed out, form an unrivalled array of "sweet and sonorous vocables." America To-day, Observations and Reflections Therefore to pronounce the three vocables "overflowing with ardor" is to mix figures of speech absurdly. The Century Vocabulary Builder Although it did not cry "Excelsior," its output of vocables might have been mistaken, by a casual ear, for that clarion call. Average Jones Suppose I have an idea to which I give utterance by the vocable 'skrkl,' claiming at the same time that it is true. Meaning of Truth It mutated into a weapon of self-defence, a verbal fortification, a medium without a message, replacing words with vocables. After the Rain : how the West lost the East Ideas breed vocables; but seldom, except among rhymesters, does a vocable give birth to a popular idea: and in Arabic “Sibr,” as well as “Sabr,” is the name of the Aloe. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 2 Now for every idea you shall ever have occasion to express await throngs of vocables, each presenting its claims as a fit medium. The Century Vocabulary Builder The Parish household devoted every possible moment with native earnestness to the choice and the weighing of vocables. The Town Traveller As usual, two or three loafers were hanging about here, exchanging blasphemies and filthy vocables, but, even if they recognised him, there was not much fear of their giving assistance to the police. The Nether World The obsolete vocabulary often obsolete in England without just reason—contrasting with a modern disfigured etymology which strips vocables of their genealogy and history, is American and ergo admirably progressive. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 16 Then the wrath of the old Inspector became vocable. The Red Acorn "They talk nothing but nonsense in Madrid," exclaimed the Centaur violently, accompanying his affirmation with a string of tongue-blistering vocables. Dona Perfecta Had I abandoned the so- norous south to associate with vocables so base? A Little Tour in France And, though for Oxford men the savour of the name itself has long evaporated through its local connexion, many things show that for the Founder himself it was no empty vocable. Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story No, though she talk, it is music; her fingers desert not the keys; 'tis Song, though you hear in the song the articulate vocables sounded, Syllabled singly and sweetly the words of melodious meaning. Amours De Voyage "Pas dans ce moment-ci, Not at this particular moment," answers the General also aloud; then glancing the other way, utters certain unknown vocables, in a mandatory manner; seemingly a German word-of-command. The French Revolution But what now concerns us most is the circumstance that here too the demand is, Vocables, still vocables. Latter-Day Pamphlets So that, most times, you felt logically lost; swamped near to drowning in this tide of ingenious vocables, spreading out boundless as if to submerge the world. Life of John Sterling |
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