Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A volume of learned articles or essays by colleagues and admirers, serving as a tribute or memorial especially to a scholar.
Wiktionary
Etymologies
- Borrowing from German Festschrift, from Fest (“festival, celebration”) + Schrift (“writing, something written”), the latter from Middle High German schrift, from Old High German scrift, from the Middle High German infinitive schrîben (compare schreiben), from Latin scribere, from Proto-Indo-European *skreybʰ- (Wiktionary)
- German : Fest, festival; + Schrift, writing (from Middle High German schrift, from Old High German scrift, from scrīban, to write, from Latin scrībere). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Participants will examine Siegler's work and influence on the field in a traditional European "festschrift," in which a scholar's colleagues and trainees honor him with a discussion of his work-in this case, the intellectual contributions to clinical ethics and the study of the doctor-patient relationship.”
“My article is freely online, so you should read it and all of the other great pieces in that issue, which was a festschrift for Eugenie C.”
“To describe all the sordid details of what it took to get TWS to adopt a position on economic growth is beyond the scope of a festschrift (or maybe anything in print).”
Herman Daly Festschrift~ May There Be Dalyists~ Politics for a Steady State Economy
“The fact that he is widely recognized as a good fellow in addition to a scholar should not be lost in a festschrift.”
Herman Daly Festschrift~ May There Be Dalyists~ Politics for a Steady State Economy
“When she retired twenty years later, her students and colleagues honored her with a festschrift, The Aegean and the Near East.”
“Here will gather a few of Anne's many friends and colleagues to celebrate her life with collected essays published as a festschrift both online and in print.”
“White gave the paper at the conference in honor of Morton Horwitz, and it will appear as a chapter in the next volume of the festschrift from the Harvard University Press.”
“Sylvia tells me there is a name for something like this: festschrift.”
“A festschrift can be like a witness protection pr...”
“The natural history of Oman: A festschrift for Michael Gallagher.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘festschrift’.
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Five Consecutive Consonants
A list of words containing five consecutive consonants
I do not include words containing "y" as part of the 5-letter string, since that letter invariably functions as a vowel, as in rhythm. <...heartstricken, heartstruck, wellspring, offspring, yachtsman, worthwhile, backstretch, backstroke, downstream, downstroke, breaststroke, birthstone and 188 more...
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wallace
Remington, Windsor, prorector, wen, aver, mottle, seltzer, tepee, lapidary, effete, sotto, presbyopia and 351 more...
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Six Consecutive Consonants
List of words such as catchphrase containing six consecutive consonants.
bergschrund, Brennschluss, catchphrase, lightstruck, sightscreen, watchspring, weltschmerz, festschrift, latchstring, Eschscholtzia, sightscreens, watchsprings and 1 more...
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Reading Materials
Names of printed materials meant to be read - for worship, pleasure, information, recitation; out of curiosity, or, in the case of adverts, to get our attention and sway our spending choices.
lectionary, epistolary, reading-book, novel, Bildungsroman, short story, billboard, advertisement, Sunday comics, obituaries, book of hours, primer and 84 more...
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Collections
Have I made this list before? Has someone else collected these words together? I can't remember, so I'm just going to start storing some things here.
collection, omnium-gatherum, sylloge, antiphonary, anthology, bestiary, cartulary, dossier, sampler, assortment, variety, hodgepodge and 65 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, F
felony, frolic, fend, fuselage, farthingale, freewheeling, frigorific, flummery, fancypants, felsitic, flagstone, flageolet and 295 more...
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cutting words
sarcasm, sarx, sarcoptic, syssarcosis, shrew, shrewd, screed, scred, shroud, scroll, scrod, scrutiny and 326 more...
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elizacole's Words
isomorphic, endemic, tmesis, fillip, antedate, avoirdupois, jeremiad, hypnagogic, antediluvian, fuck, reification, raconteur and 251 more...
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Gaw
Words for things both tangible and anthropic. I'm in the process of spinning off hardware into ute, and people into oofy.
cum-twang, naumachia, yngling, juggernaught, bliss ninny, iliac crest, moistened bint, slumlord, spondoolies, classy lady, charnel house, electrodoméstico and 334 more...
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Liberal Fascism
Words gathered while reading Liberal Fascism by Jonah Goldberg
de rigueur, palingenetic, christianist, himmleresque, invidious, bismarckian, divinize, granitelike, deweyan, fons et origo, kulak, numinousness and 107 more...
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Learned words
Words which are highly likely to be found in the work of learned writers.
ailurophile, labyrinthine, lagniappe, colleague, anechoic, reglets, fluctuations, scalar, implicit, constitute, mortification, ambassadors and 629 more...
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Ada, or Ardor ~Vladmir Nabokov
granoblastically, cicerone, aerocable, anachronistically, parvis, athwart, mnemonic, squitteroo, nusshaus, edelweiss, intermezzo, cabriole and 183 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3248 more...
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whigmaleeries
naumachy, skeesicks, barghest, catoblepas, bunyip, bellwether, gadabout, footle, aestival, brannigan, brabble, kilkenny cats and 6 more...
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Merry Scholar
festschrift, panchreston, opisthograph, entrelac, florilegium, passim, grammelot, incipit, goropize, shibboleth, enchiridion, scholium and 17 more...
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Literary
hamartia, lectory, longueur, pathopoeia, caesura, arsis, festschrift, eucatastrophe, majuscule, ascender, diastole
Tweets
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seanahan A volume of essays in tribute to someone. Oct 3, 2007