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1. absit omen, phr. View full entry 1594
...‘May the omen be absent’: used as an imprecation when referring to a possible undesirable event, in the hope that it mentioned will not come to pass....
2. anathema maranatha, phr. View full entry 1526
...These words occur together in 1 Cor. xvi. 22. According to modern criticism, maran atha is a distinct sentence having no connection with anathema; but in...
3. après moi le déluge, phr. View full entry 1824
...‘After me the flood.’ Used to express complete indifference to what may happen when one is gone. Cf. after me the delugeafter6....
4. après nous le déluge, phr. View full entry 1809
...‘After us the flood.’ Used to express complete indifference to what may happen when one is gone. Cf. après moi le déluge...
5. au reste, phr. View full entry 1752
...As for the rest....
6. avast, phr. View full entry 1681
...Hold! stop! stay! cease!...
7. † biˈhalve | biˈhalven | biˈhalves, phr., adv., and prep. View full entry a1000
...By the side, beside....
8. c'est la vie, phr. View full entry 1854
...Expressing resignation at, or acceptance of, things as they are; = that's lifelife9c....
9. chacun à son goût, phr. View full entry 1784
...Each to his own taste....
10. coûte que coûte, phr. View full entry 1715
...Cost what it may; at all costs....
11. de son tort, phr. View full entry 1670
...By his own wrongdoing, without authorization; spec. in phrases, e.g. executor de son tort (see executor3b), de son tort demesne (see quot. ...
12. et al., phr. View full entry 1883
...And others. (Used esp. to avoid giving a list of authors, etc., in full.)...
13. et alibi, phr. View full entry 1549
...In printed or written text: ‘and elsewhere’ (in the specified text)....
14. et patati et patata, phr. View full entry 1904
...And so on and so forth; = et cetera1....
15. exempli gratia, phr. View full entry 1569
...For the sake of example; for instance. Freq. abbreviated to e.g. (see e.g.), occas. ex. gr....
16. ex pede Herculem, phr. View full entry 1665
...Inferring the whole of something from some small or insignificant part of it, as Pythagoras is said to have calculated the height of Hercules from an estimate of the size of his...
17. experto crede, phr. View full entry 1579
...Believe one who has experienced or tried; believe me, I know....
18. facilis descensus Averni, phr. View full entry ?1566
...‘The descent into Avernus is easy’: easy is the descent into hell. Chiefly fig.: it is easy to slip into evil or immoral ways....
19. festina lente, phr. View full entry 1590
...Make haste slowly. Also as quasi- (Cf. haste)...
20. hic et nunc, phr. View full entry 1935
...At the present time and place; in this particular situation; spatio-temporal nature of a phenomenon (see quot. 1948)....
