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  • [13] The old word "dizening" is perhaps the most literal translation of κοσμος, which, however, here means the whole preparations for the funeral.

    The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I. 480? BC-406 BC Euripides

  • Bede’s to be put into the ground, and him drownded i’ th’ dead o’ the night, as it’s enough to make one’s back run cold, but you must be ’dizening yourself as if there was a wedding i’stid of a funeral?”

    Adam Bede 2004

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