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  • Well, you see, in that movie, Jesus lash out at that high rabbin in no mistakable languages, calig him names and insulting the jews, and going on with "who do you think that you are jews? you think that you are better than the rest of us?!"

    Robert De Niro Joining Mel Gibson in Edge of Darkness « FirstShowing.net 2008

  • WV: calig= stuffed nose pronunciation of "calling."

    New Discoveries in the Animal Kingdom 2009

  • Depend upon it, had I endeavoured to divert him from exposing himself, he would have treated me as an ignorant conceited coxcomb, or perhaps might have taken a fancy to cut my throat; a pleasure which he once proposed to himself upon some point of etiquette, not half so important, in his eyes, as this matter of boots or brogues, of whatever the calig shall finally be pronounced by the learned.

    The Waverley 1877

  • The devil might have taken the barren moors, and drawn off the royal _calig, _ for anything I would have minded.

    The Waverley 1877

  • And the _calig_ were also proper to the monastic bodies; for we read in an ancient Glossarium, upon the rule of St Benedict, in the Abbey of St. Amand, that _calig_ were tied with latchets. ''

    The Waverley 1877

  • ` ` Come, Edward, come along; the Prince has gone to Pinkie-house for the night; and we must follow, or loose the whole ceremony of the _calig.

    The Waverley 1877

  • ` ` It will so, my dear Glennaquoich; and the words are express: _Calig dict sunt quia ligantur; nam socci non ligantur, sed tantum intromittuntur; _ that is, _calig_ are denominated from the ligatures wherewith they are bound; whereas socci, which may be analogous to our mules, whilk the English denominate slippers, are only slipped upon the feet.

    The Waverley 1877

  • But I deem it safest, wi 'your good favour, to place myself in the way of rendering the Prince this service, and to proffer performance thereof; and I shall cause the Bailie to attend with a schedule of a protest, whilk he has here prepared (taking out a paper), intimating, that if it shall be his Royal Highness's pleasure to accept of other assistance at pulling off his _calig_ (whether the same shall be rendered boots or brogues) save that of the said

    The Waverley 1877

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