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A Scheme for abolishing all Words is one of the wittiest and smartest comments on semantics. (Illustration: extreme close-up from the movie "The Big Swallow" (1901), produced and directed by James Williamson (1855-1933)
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A Scheme for abolishing all Words is one of the wittiest and smartest comments on semantics. (Illustration: extreme close-up from the movie "The Big Swallow" (1901), produced and directed by James Williamson (1855-1933)
Coryat's Crudities
  1. The state of being crude.
  2. A crude act or characteristic.
    • 1889, Oscar Wilde, "The Decay Of Lying: An Observation,"
      What Art really reveals to us is Nature's lack of design, her curious crudities, her extraordinary monotony, her absolutely unfinished condition.
  3. Indigestion; undigested food in the stomach; badly-concocted humours.
    • 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, II.ii.1.2:
      For there is no meat whatsoever, though otherwise wholesome and good, but if unseasonably taken, or immoderately used, more than the stomach can well bear, it will engender crudity and do much harm.




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