thetic

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W h i l e we may never attain the disciplined aes - thetic of the Oriental mind, surely we can bring b e a u t y back into h a n d w r i t i n g - n o t the ornate b e a u t y of past centuries, but rather a modern beauty of ease, clarity, and coherence.

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  1. adjective Beginning with, constituting, or relating to the thesis in prosody.
  2. adjective Presented dogmatically; arbitrarily prescribed.

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  • She contrasted strongly with the slender, aes- thetic albino who stood a head taller, looking at her impassively.
  • The police claim to be sympa­thetic, but they've never once por­trayed us as loving parents The photographs of Priscilla that line the room endorse Jean's love for her daughter, but she admits they've only been on display since Priscilla vanished. —  Disordered Minds
  • W h i l e we may never attain the disciplined aes - thetic of the Oriental mind, surely we can bring b e a u t y back into h a n d w r i t i n g - n o t the ornate b e a u t y of past centuries, but rather a modern beauty of ease, clarity, and coherence. —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • Do you not realize just how ba. nkrupt and im. moral, how ignora. nt, va. in, arrogant. and pa. thetic the Republican Party has become? —  The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
  • The language in LU is almost uniformly Middle Irish, not more than a century earlier than the date of the MS.; thus it shows the post-thetic he_, iat_, etc. as object, the adverb with co_, the confusion of ar and for_, the extension of the b_-future, etc. But YBL preserves forms as old as the Glosses 1) The correct use of the infixed relative, e.g. rombith_, 'with which he struck.' —  Táin Bó Cúalnge. English
 

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  1. Greek thetikos, from thetos, placed, from tithenai, to put; see dhē- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Greek θετικός, positive; cf. θέσις, a laying down, from τιθέναι (√ θε), put, place: see thesis.
 

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