Word: courting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...without mingling, but will gradually give a color and flavor to the whole. This was really the case with the Norman-French brought into England at the time of the Conquest. At first the French and the Anglo-Saxon existed side by side, the one as language of the Court, the higher clergy and the nobles; the other of the people. Gradually as the connexion with Frence grew weaker and at last ceased altogether, and the realm of England began to develop itself under its single kings, the languages began to commingle and to take the direction which has ended...
...their perverse pronunciation in spite of all the efforts of various intelligent persons to adopt in some manner the continental system. Milton, like a sturdy Puritan, fought vigorously against it, and Walter Scott opposed it, though his more gentle disposition made him finally yield to the custom of Court and College...
...greater than those which (like hominy, quahaug, pogie, tauttog, and a few others) our American English has caught from the Indians. Compared with the great mass of our language, the number of words of Norman introduction is also very small. Chaucer shows the tendency of the two dialects of court and country to coalesce and form a new language. The almost contemporary poem of Piers Ploughman, written for popular effect, is Anglo-Saxon in the form of its metre, and shows but slight traces of French in its diction. The vision opens thus...
...valued on all matters. Even the legislature of the state has listened regularly once a year, until a few years ago, to a sermon by some eminent clergyman, usually discussing most frankly some important political question. From 1634 to 1884 a sermon was preached every year before the General Court of Massachusetts, and usually this sermon was printed and widely scattered over the state. In 1884 the law providing for this annual sermon was repealed chiefly on account of the virulence of an attack made in a sermon by Rev. Alexander Minot on the opinions held by the party...
...cases where the civil courts decide that a clergyman is not guilty of some offence charged by his people, the ecclesiastical court is in no way bound to accept this decision but may turn the accused out, if they consider him guilty. But the civil court insists that in all trials before ecclesiastical bodies the accused shall receive all the rights which he is allowed before a civil court...