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# Androcles and the Lion (Shaw)/Preface to Androcles and the Lion/Celibacy no Remedy

CELIBACY NO REMEDY.
We must, I think, regard the protest of Jesus against marriage and family ties as the claim of a particular kind of individual to be free from them because they hamper his own work intolerably. When he said that if we are to follow him in the sense of taking up his work we must give up our family ties, he was simply stating a fact; and to this day the Roman Catholic priest, the Buddhist lama, and the fakirs of all the eastern denominations accept the saying. It is also accepted by the physically enterprising, the explorers, the restlessly energetic of all kinds, in short, by the adventurous. The greatest sacrifice in marriage is the sacrifice of the adventurous attitude towards life: the being settled. Those who are born tired may crave for settlement; but to fresher and stronger spirits it is a form of suicide. Now to say of any institution that it is incompatible with both the contemplative and adventurous life is to disgrace it so vitally that all the moralizings of all the Deans and Chapters cannot reconcile our souls to its slavery. The unmarried Jesus and the unmarried Beethoven, the unmarried Joan of Arc, Clare, Teresa, Florence Nightingale seem as they should be; and the saying that there is always something ridiculous about a married philosopher becomes inevitable. And yet the celibate is still more ridiculous than the married man: the priest, in accepting the alternative of celibacy, disables himself; and the best priests are those who have been men of this world before they became men of the world to come. But as the taking of vows does not annul an existing marriage, and a married man cannot become a priest, we are again confronted with the absurdity that the best priest is a reformed rake. Thus does marriage, itself intolerable, thrust us upon intolerable alternatives. The practical solution is to make the individual economically independent of marriage and the family, and to make marriage as easily dissoluble as any other partnership: in other words, to accept the conclusions to which experience is slowly driving both our sociologists and our legislators. This will not instantly cure all the evils of marriage, nor root up at one stroke its detestable tradition of property in human bodies. But it will leave Nature free to effect a cure; and in free soil the root may wither and perish.
This disposes of all the opinions and teachings of Jesus which are still matters of controversy. They are all in line with the best modern thought. He told us what we have to do; and we have had to find the way to do it. Most of us are still, as most were in his own time, extremely recalcitrant, and are being forced along that way by painful pressure of circumstances, protesting at every step that nothing will induce us to go; that it is a ridiculous way, a disgraceful way, a socialistic way, an atheistic way, an immoral way, and that the vanguard ought to be ashamed of themselves and must be made to turn back at once. But they find that they have to follow the vanguard all the same if their lives are to be worth living.
# Androcles and the Lion (Shaw)/Preface to Androcles and the Lion

For the author's play, see: Androcles and the Lion, 1912
On the Prospects of Christianity
* Why not give Christianity a Trial?
* Why Jesus more than Another?
* Was Jesus a Coward?
* Was Jesus a Martyr?
* The Gospels without Prejudice
* The Gospels now unintelligible to Novices
* Worldliness of the Majority
* Religion of the Minority. Salvationism
* The Difference between Atonement and Punishment
* Salvation at first a Class Privilege; and the Remedy
* Retrospective Atonement; and the Expectation of the Redeemer
* Completion of the Scheme by Luther and Calvin
* John Barleycorn
* Looking for the End of the World
* The Honor of Divine Parentage
Matthew
* The Annunciation, the Massacre, the Flight
* John the Baptist
* Jesus joins the Baptists
* The Savage John and the Civilized Jesus
* Jesus not a Proselytist
* The Teachings of Jesus
* The Miracles
* Matthew imputes Bigotry to Jesus
* The Great Change
* Jerusalem and the Mystical Sacrifice
* Not this Man but Barabbas
* The Resurrection
* Date of Matthew's Narrative
* Class Type of Matthew's Jesus
Mark
Luke
* Luke the Literary Artist
* The Charm of Luke's Narrative
* The Touch of Parisian Romance
* Waiting for the Messiah
John
* A New Story and a New Character
* John the Immortal Eye Witness
* The Peculiar Theology of Jesus
* John agreed as to the Trial and Crucifixion
Christianity
* Credibility of the Gospels
* Fashions of Belief
* Credibility and Truth
* Christian Iconolatry and the Peril of the Iconoclast
* The Alternative to Barabbas
* The Reduction to Modern Practice of Christianity
* Modern Communism
* Redistribution
* Shall He Who Makes, Own?
* Labor Time
* The Dream of Distribution According to Merit
* Vital Distribution
* Equal Distribution
* The Captain and the Cabin Boy
* The Political and Biological Objections to Inequality
* Jesus as Economist
* Jesus as Biologist
* Money the Midwife of Scientific Communism
* Judge Not
* Limits to Free Will
* Jesus on Marriage and the Family
* Why Jesus did not Marry
* Inconsistency of the Sex Instinct
* For Better for Worse
* The Case for Marriage
* Celibacy no Remedy
* After the Crucifixion
* The Vindictive Miracles and the Stoning of Stephen
* Paul
* Confusion of Christendom
* Secret of Paul's Success
* Paul's Qualities
* Acts of the Apostles
* The Controversies on Baptism and Transubstantiation
* The Alternative Christs
* Credulity no Criterion
* Belief in Personal Immortality no Criterion
* The Secular View
* The Higher Criticism
* The Perils of Salvationism
* The Importance of Hell in the Salvation Scheme
* The Right to refuse Atonement
* The Teaching of Christianity
* Christianity and the Empire
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# An Etymological Dictionary of the Norn Language in Shetland/Annotated/abder

​ abder, sb., see obder.
# An Etymological Dictionary of the Norn Language in Shetland/Annotated/abadous

​ abadous, adj., see ubadous.
# An Etymological Dictionary of the Norn Language in Shetland/Annotated/A

* A - B - D - E - F - G - H - I - J - K - K - M - N - O - P - R - S - T - U - V W - Y - Æ - Ø
* a’
* a-
* aba-knot, aber-knot
* abadous
* abder
* aber
* aboot-geng
* aboot-gaan
* aboot-kast
* a-brodd(a)
* abunavara
* adber, adbert
* adna(n)kwi
* adnaset
* adnasjur
* a-døms
* af, aff
* af(a)linns
* afaskod
* afatag, apateg
* afbend
* afberin
* afbiddin
* afbled
* afbreg(d), afbrig(d)
* affljogins
* afgeng
* *afhent
* af-hide
* afkled
* afkom
* af-lay
* afled
* afljud
* afljudin
* afloden
* afluva
* aflød
* afmark
* afore
* afraains, afrarins
* afrinnins
* afro, afrod
* afrog
* afron
* afrødins
* afsedel
* afset
* †afsettin
* afskerri
* afskod
* afsuk
* aftak
* aftakin
* aftek
* afwinnin
* ag, agg
* aga, ager, aggek (agek)
* agbond
* aggek
* agglovan
* agisom
* agl, agel, aggel
* agment
* agos
* ah
* aker
* *akkel
* aklin
* -aks
* al, ali
* alakadi
* alamuti
* †alan, alen
* ald
* ali
* ali-grice
* alikadi
* aliklover, alikløvin
* alikrabb
* alikrogi
* †alikruki
* alilam, ali-lamb
* alipati, -patti
* aliplukkins
* allakrabb
* almark
* *altagongi
* *altasenn
* alter
* ambel
* amder
* amek
* amerswakk
* aml, ammel, ambel
* amok (amek)
* amos
* amp
* ampel, amper
* annapi
* *an(n)ari
* *and
* andelokk (-lukk)
* andi
* andr, ander
* andu
* anglop-tree
* †anker
* anklovan
* annaset, annesed, anni-, annester, annister
* *annehwart
* anns
* ans
* ansible
* ansperr
* ant
* *ante
* anti
* *ap
* apateg
* aper
* *apta
* ar
* ard
* arel
* aren
* *arff, *airff, *ayrffe
* arg
* argeri
* argosi
* ari
* ark
* arm
* ar-tree
* arvek
* *arvhus
* arvi
* asek
* asel
* ask
* aslin
* asu, assu
* at
* atbørd
* at-draw
* atersom
* atferd
* †atkins
* atkomin
* atl, attel
* at-lay
* atrahola
* atri
* atset
* attafeld, attifeld
* atta-lay
* *attaljos
* *attaslu
* attavelta, attavelt, attivelt, -velti
* *atte
* attikassen
* attikast
* attri, atteri
* *austerco(u)p
* av
* avbregget
* avel
* avnet
* avoros, avorous
* *avunavara (avona-), *avunevara (avone-)
* “*ayning”, *ayng, *eing
* ä-
# An Etymological Dictionary of the Norn Language in Shetland/Annotated/a’

​ a’ [â], adj., is the L.Sc. form of Eng. all, but is sometimes used in Shetl. in a sense diff. from Eng. (and L.Sc.) and answering to the O.N. allr; e.g.: hit [‘it’] is a’, it is finished; at an end; de tale or story is a’, the story is ended, complete. Cf. O.N. allr in sense of ended; finished; complete; Fær. sögan er öll, the tale is ended. — for a’, beyond recall; for good, = No. fyre ollu, Sw. dial. för allo, Fær. fyri alla; he’s gane [‘gone’] for a’. — a’-fe(r)-jens, just this minute, see *fer, prep. — O.N. all- is found in Shetl. in the compd. almark and the neuter-form “alt” in *altasenn.
# An Etymological Dictionary of the Norn Language in Shetland/Annotated/a-

​ a-, prep., on, upon; O.N. á, for *o- in avunavara, q.v. Cf. o- in ovi. Obs. as an independent word.
# An Etymological Dictionary of the Norn Language in Shetland/Annotated/aba-knot, aber-knot

​ aba-knot, aber-knot, sb., see under aber, adj. 5.
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Rebe

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​ Rebe, f., ‘vine, vine-branch,’ from MidHG. rëbe, OHG. rëba, f., MidHG. rëbe, OHG. rëbo, m., ‘vine, tendril, creeper’ (comp. Gundelrebe); corresponding words are wanting in the other dials. OHG. has a remarkable form, hirnirëba, ‘skull,’ lit. perhaps ‘entwining the brain’; hence with this word is connected the common Teut. Rippe, as well as OSlov. rebro, ‘rib’ (see Rippe). The primary idea of all these terms, and of the Aryan root rebh, deduced from them, is ‘winding, entwining.’ —
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Recke

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​ Recke, m., ‘hero, champion, paladin,’ from MidHG. ręcke, m., ‘warrior, hero,’ orig., however, ‘knight-errant, adventurer, stranger’; comp. OHG. ręccho, earlier wręccho, m., OSax. wrękkio, m., ‘vagrant, outlaw, stranger,’ AS. wręčča, ‘fugitive, ​exile, unfortunate wretch,’ whence E. wretch. These interesting West Teut. cognates implying Goth. *wrakja are connected with ModHG. rächen, Goth. wrikan, ‘to persecute.’ ModHG. elend has a somewhat similar development.
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Regen

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​ Regen, m., from the equiv. MidHG. rëgen, OHG. rëgan, m., ‘rain’; common to Teut. in the same sense; comp. the corresponding Goth. rign, n., OIc. regn, n., AS. rëgn, m., E. rain, Du. regen, OSax. rëgan. Primit, Teut. regna-, from pre-Teut. *reghno-, probably represents *mreghno-, if the word be connected with Gr. βρέχειν (for μρεχ-, μβρεχ-), ‘to wet’; Lat. rĭgare, ‘to water, wet,’ may belong to the same Aryan root mregh, The compound Regenbogen is found in all the Teut. languages; MidHG. rëgenboge, OHG. rëganbogo (Du., however, waterboog), E. rainbow, from AS. rëgnboga, OIc. regnboge, Goth. *rìgnbuga.
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Rechen

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​ Rechen, m., ‘rake, rack,’ from the equiv. MidHG. rëche, OHG. rëhkho, m.; corresponding to Du. reek, f., ‘rake,’ and OIc. reka, f., ‘rake’; allied to MidHG. rëchen, OHG. rëhhan, ‘to scrape together,’ Goth. rikan, ‘to heap up, collect,’ also to MidLG. and MidDu. rake, AS. racu, f., E. rake, with a different gradation. The Teut. root rak, rëk, from Aryan reg, rog, is compared by some with Gr. ‘ὀ-ρέγειν, ‘to stretch out,’ by others, without reason, to Lat. legere, ‘to collect.’ See rechnen and recken.
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Reck

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​ Reck, n., ‘wooden frame, rack,’ ModHG. only, prop. a LG. word. Comp. LG. and Du. rek, ‘pole, clothes-horse.’ Allied to recken.
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Rede

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​ Rede, f., ‘speech, discourse, oration,’ from MidHG. ręde, OHG. rędia, ręda, f., ‘account, speech and reply, speech, narrative, information’; corresponding to OSax. ręðia, f., ‘account,’ Goth. raþjô, f., ‘account, bill, number’; to this is allied Goth. garaþjan, ‘to count,’ and further the phonetic equivalent Lat. ratio, ‘computation, account, number,’ &c. From the same Teut. root raþ (pre-Teut. rat), signifying ‘number,’ hund-ert (which see) is derived. —
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Regel

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​ Regel, f., ‘rule, regulation, principle,’ from MidHG. rëgel, rëgele, OHG. rëgula, f., ‘rule, especially of an order’; borrowed in this latter sense during the OHG. period when the monastic system was adopted (see Kloster, Münster, Abt, and Mönch), from Lat. rëgula, pronounced rĕgula in MidLat. (Lat. ê would be changed into OHG. î, see Feier, Kreide, and Pein). This pronunciation is also implied by AS. rĕgul, m., and OFr. riule, ‘rule’ (E. rule, from MidE. reule, is derived from OFr. reule, Lat. regula).
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Reff

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​ Reff (1.), n., ‘dosser, framework of staves for carrying on the back,’ from the equiv. MidHG. rëf, n., OHG. rëf, n., for earlier Goth. *hrip; comp. OIc. hrip, n., ‘wooden frame for carrying coals or peat,’ MidE. and E. rip, ‘fish-basket.’ To the assumption that the word is primit. akin to Lat. corbis, ‘basket,’ there is no phonetic objection (see Korb and Krebe), yet the Alem. variants seem to imply a Teut. primary form *hrëfo-.
Reff (2.), n., also Reef, n., ‘reef,’ ModHG. only, a nautical term borrowed from LG.; comp. Du. and E. reef, also Du. reven, ‘to reef a sail.’ It is noteworthy that in OIc. rif, ‘rib,’ is used in the same sense. OIc. rifa, ‘to tack together,’ is probably most closely connected with the cognates.
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Rebhuhn

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​ Rebhuhn, n., ‘partridge,’ from the equiv. MidHG. rëphuon, OHG. rëba-huon, rëbhuon, n.; it is not probable that Rebhuhn signifies ‘the fowl that is fond of frequenting vines (Reben).’ Perhaps reba- has here another sense. To assume also, on account of LG. raphon, Swed. rapphöna, ‘partridge’ (OIc. rjúpa, ‘ptarmigan’), that the word is derived from LG. rapp, ‘quick,’ is inadmissible, since the HG. term occurs at a very early period. It is most probably connected with the equiv. Russ. rjabka (allied to OSlov. rębŭ, Russ. rjaboj, ‘variegated’).
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Rebus

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​ Rebus, m. and n., a modern term like the equiv. E. rebus and Fr. rébus; the source and history of the cognates are unknown. The word is based on Lat. rebus, ‘by things,’ since the meaning of a rebus is illustrated by pictorial objects.
# An Unmarked Festival

* Meynell, Alice (1875), "An Unmarked Festival" in Preludes.
* Meynell, Alice (1921), "An Unmarked Festival" in Poems.
# An Unsinkable Titanic

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AN UNSINKABLE TITANIC
EVERY SHIP ITS OWN LIFEBOAT
by
J. BERNARD WALKER Editor of the Scientific American
NEW YORK DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY 1912
Photo by Brown Bros., New York
Stoke-hole of a Transatlantic Liner
To
THE MEMORY OF THE CHIEF ENGINEER OF THE TITANIC,
JOHN BELL,
AND HIS STAFF OF THIRTY-THREE ASSISTANTS,
WHO STOOD AT THEIR POSTS IN THE ENGINE-
AND BOILER-ROOMS TO THE VERY LAST,
AND WENT DOWN WITH THE SHIP,
THIS WORK IS DEDICATED
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# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Trauer

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​ Trauer, f., ‘mourning, sorrow, grief,’ from the equiv. MidHG. trûre, f.; a derivative of MidHG. trûren, OHG. trûrên (equiv. to ModHG. trauern, ‘to mourn, grieve’), wk. vb. Allied to ModHG. traurig, ‘mournful, sad,’ MidHG. trûrec, OHG. *trûrac (g); to this adj. AS. dreórig, E. dreary, is related by gradation (comp. Du. treurtg, ‘sad.’ Borrowed from HG.?). On account of OHG. trûrên, ‘to lower one's eyes,’ the cognates are based on the OTeut. root drus, ‘to fall, sink’ (comp. Goth. driusan, AS. dreósan, ‘to fall’).
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Traum

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​ Traum, m., ‘dream, vision,’ from the equiv. MidHG. and OHG. troum, m.; corresponding to the equiv. OSax. drôm, Du. droom, E. dream (recorded about 1200 A.D.), OIc. draumr. The signification ‘dream,’ occurring in all these cognates, may be deduced from the lit. meaning, ‘phantom, illusion,’ so that Teut. draumo- (for draugmo- or draugwmó-?) would be connected with trügen. In any case, OSax. drôm (E. dream) and OSax. drâm (AS. dreám), ‘shout of joy, noise,’ must be regarded as etymologically different words; the latter is connected with Gr. θρῦλος, ‘noise.’ — Derivative träumen, vb., ‘to dream,’ from MidHG. tröumen, MidHG. and OHG. troumen.
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Treff

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​ Treff, n., ‘club’ (at cards), properly Treffle (18th cent.), from Fr. trèfle, ‘clover, trefoil’ (Lat. trifolium).
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Traufe

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​ Traufe, f., ‘dripping of water, eaves, gutter,’ from the equiv. MidHG. troufe, f., MidHG. and OHG. trouf, m. A graded form from triefen, ‘to drop, trickle’; so too ModHG. träufeln, träufen, ‘to drip, trickle,’ from MidHG. tröufen, MidHG. and OHG. troufen, lit. ‘to cause to drop.’
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Treppe

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​ Treppe, f., ‘stairs, staircase,’ from MidHG. (MidG.) tręppe, trappe, m. and f., ‘stairs, step’; corresponding to Du. trap. This word (for which Stiege occurs in UpG.) belongs to the cognates of trappen (see under trampeln), which are likewise of MidG. and LG. origin; the HG. form (of the 16th and 17th cents.) is properly Trepfe.
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Treffen

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​ Treffen, n., ‘encounter, engagement’; even in MidHG. trëffen, n.; an infinitive used as a subst., from MidHG. trëffen, ‘to fight.’ See triftig.
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Trense

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​ Trense, f., ‘snaffle,’ ModHG. only, a LG. word; comp. Du. trens. The early history of the word is obscure; it is doubtful whether it has been borrowed from Span. trenza, ‘plait, braid (of hair).’
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Traß

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​ Traß, m., ModHG. only. Derived, like the equiv. Du. tras (tiras, tieras) and E. tarrace (tarras), from Ital. terrazzo.
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Treber

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​ Treber, plur., ‘husks, grains,’ from the equiv. MidHG. tręber, OHG. trębir, plur.; the corresponding sing. would be trab. Comp. Ic. draf, Du. draf, ‘sediment of a brewing’ (to which drabbe, ‘lees,’ is allied), AS. drœf, E. draff, ‘lees, refuse, dregs’ (late AS. drabbe, ‘lees, dregs, dirt,’ whence E. drab, applied to colour and a woman). If the medial ƀ of the Teut. base draboz, n., could have originated in a guttural, the word might be compared with OIc. dregg (equiv. to E. dregs), and hence be probably allied to Lat. frăces, ‘grounds, dregs of oil’; Aryan root dhraq?. It seems to be also connected more remotely with Trester, ‘husks, skins (of grapes).’
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Trespe

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​ Trespe, f., ‘brome-grass,’ a Sax. and Siles. word, from MidHG. (MidG.) trësp, ‘darnel,’ with the genuine HG. variants trëfs, trëfse, m. Modern Ger. dialects (e.g., Thuringian) have Treff (Swab. trefz), so that an orig. term trëf is probable. Allied to Du. dravik, MidE. drauk (AS. *drafoc); non-Teut. cognates are wanting.