Word: grammarian
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Some manage jokes. Said Grammarian Dominique Bouhours: "I am about to-or I am going to-die; either expression is used." Asked how high he could lift his arm, the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher said: "Well, high enough to hit you, doctor...
...First Grammarian. One central paradox of Christianity has always been the nature of Christ. Was He God or man or somewhere in a nebulous in-between? Theologian Baillie's orthodox answer includes both the "historial Jesus" and the "Christ of faith...
...There is only one God, and in the Christian sense there could not conceivably be more . . . Peter Damiani, the medieval divine, commenting on the words uttered by the serpent in Eden ('Ye shall be as gods'), remarked that the Devil was the first grammarian when he taught men to give a plural to the word 'God.' It should have neither a plural nor the indefinite article. It is a proper name...
...Grammarian Charles Henshaw Ward, who taught at the University of California in the '20s, coined the word from the phrase: thinking out the opinion that pleases one and believing...
...Grand Jury was concerned, "The Hopkins Letter" was now "The Briggs Letter." Fat-faced little George N. Briggs, grammarian to Secretary Harold L. Ickes, was indicted for forgery, for using the mails to defraud and for obtaining money under false pretenses...