Word: smote
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Addressing a standing-room only crowd, Pinker explained the origins of children's grammatical mistakes, the etymology of irregular verbs and why, for example, people say "slept" instead of "sleeped." His sprinkling of uncommon and incorrect forms of words throughout the talk, such as "smote," "clove" and "cleaved," elicited bursts of laughter from his audience...
Anything that researchers learn in Tomb 5 about Ramesses' oldest son, Amen-hir-khopshef, could be especially significant to religious scholars. Although Egyptian records don't even mention the empire's dealings with the troublesome slaves known as the Israelites, Exodus 12: 29 says that "at midnight the Lord smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon." Cautions Weeks: "I'm not saying that we'll prove the validity of the Bible." But scholars are hungry...
...think that the plans of three media mavens wouldn't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world. But last week's word that the entertainment industry's most successful director, most revered studio chief and most creative billionaire were forming their own company smote Hollywood with nuclear force. Spielberg will fold his unit, Amblin, into the new organization (though he may still direct outside projects). Katzenberg will run the studio; late last week the two men were tooling around Los Angeles in Katzenberg's Mustang, looking for a studio lot. And Geffen will make music make money...
Moving into the second round of play Radcliffe smote an ill-matched Middlebury squad, 29-0. This time it was the Radcliffe backs who scored at will--bringing in five goals and two conversion attempts...
Nicol Williamson's in I Hate Hamlet, after the notoriously erratic performer smote co-star Evan Handler with the flat of his sword during a dueling scene, and Handler -- believing the blow was deliberate -- walked off and quit the show. "Well," said Williamson to the stunned audience, "should I sing...