VESIC-VIC. translation or turning into another language), vertebra (a turning section of the spine), vertigo (giddiness, a turning round and round), vertex (the highest point, like the zenith, the turning point of the stars), vortex (a whirlpool), adverse (turned toward or against), advert (turn to), advertise (inform, turn to), avert (turn aside), anniversary 54 (the return of the year), controversy (a quarrel or turning against), converse (dwell, turn about, talk with), convert (turn completely), divers (turned apart), diverse (turned apart), divert (turn apart), divorce (a separation or turning apart), invert (turn over), malversation (ill-conduct or turning in office), obverse (turned toward), pervert (ruin, turn thoroughly), pro(rever)se (direct, or turned forward, discourse), reverse (turned back), revert (turn back), subvert (turn under), transverse (turned across), traverse (turned across), vers (a line or turn), versed (skilled, turned). L. vertere, versus. Vesic bladder; vesicle. L. vesica. 219 vehere, vexus, to carry, convey. Vi-way, road; viaduct (a road con ducted over a stream or valley), deviate (go from the way), devious (going out of the way), obviate (prevent, come against in the way), obvious (evident, lying in the way against), pervious (allowing a passage or way through), previous (on the way before), convey (be with in the way), convoy (accompany, be with in the way), envoy (a messenger sent on his way), invoice (an account of goods sent on their way), voyage. L. via. Viand-food; viands. F. viande. L. vivenenda. L. vivere, to live. Vibr-swing: vibrate. L. vibrare. Vic-a change, turn; vicissitude, vicar (a deputy who takes his Beneath the shade of thy golden wings, The Roman legions bore, From the river of Egypt's cloudy springs, Their pride, to the polar shore.-Percival. (To the Eagle.) Macd. Confusion now hath made his masterpiece! Most sacrilegious murder hath broke ope The Lord's anointed temple, and stole thence The life o' the building.-Shakespeare. And mighty trees In many a lazy syllable repeating Their old poetic legends to the wind.-Longfellow. No light had we, for that we do repent; And, learning this, the Bridegroom will relent. Too late, too late! ye can not enter now.--Tennyson. Thou, Leonatus, art the lion's whelp; The fit and apt construction of thy name, Being Leo-natus, doth import so much.-Shakespeare. And though the lesson be hard to learn, The sooner the better, my friend.-Alice Cary. Iago. No, forbear: The lethargy must have his quiet course.-Shakespeare. In any choice of books, always remember what Milton said, that "a good book is the life-blood of a master-spirit"; and also recall the advice of Cato, always to "keep company with the good."-James Russell Lowell. That these men, Carrying, I say, the stamp of one defect; Shall in the general censure take corruption From that particular fault: The dram of base To his own scandal.-Shakespeare. The only true equalizers in the world are books; the only treasure-house open to all comers is a library; the only wealth which will not decay is knowledge; the only jewel which you can carry beyond the grave is wisdom.-Dr. Langford. In the lexicon of youth, which fate reserves turn at the duties of the office). L. vicis. Vicari deputy; vicarious (by deputy), vicar (a deputy). vicarius. L. vicis, turn, change, succession. L. Vice-in the place of; vicegerent (ruling in the place of), viceroy (in the place of the king). L. vice. Vicin-near; vicinity. L. vicinus. L. vicus, village, street.* Vict live; victuals (food by which we live). L. vivere, victus. Vict-See vinc. Victim-victim. L. victima. Vid; vis-see, appear; evident (being seen clearly), provide 188 (foresee), vision,176 visible, 172 visit (go to see), visor (the face, or seeing part, of a helmet), vista (a view), visual. L. videre, visus. Vigil-awake; vigil, vigilant. L. vigil. L. vigere, to be lively. Vigor vigor; invigorate. L. Vindic- lay claim to, avenge; vindicate, vindictive. L. vindicare. Viol-treat with force; violate, violent. L. violare. Vir— man; virile (manly), virago (a scolding, man-like woman), virtue 220 (manly excellence), decemvir (one of the ten men who once ruled Rome), triumvir (one of the three men who once ruled Rome). L. vir. Vir-poison; virus, virulent. L. virus. Virgin—a maid. L. virgo, virginus. Virid-green; viridity. L. viridis. Vit-life; vital. L. vita. * Houses in the same street are in the same vicinity. (lively), viviparous (producing live young), vivisection (cutting up alive), revive (live again), survive 54 (outlive). L. vivere. Voc-voice; vocal (belonging to the voice), vociferate (shout aloud, lift up the voice), viva voce (with the living voice). L. vox, vocis. Voc-call; vocation (a calling), advocate (plead, call upon), avocation (a diversion, a calling away of the attention), convoke (call together), evoke (call out), invoke (call upon), provoke (call forth), revoke (call back), vouch (to warrant, call upon in support of). L. vocare. L. vox, vocis, the voice. Vocabul -name, word; vocabu lary (a list of words), vocable (a term or word). I. vocabulum. L. vocare, to call. L. vox, vocis, the voice. Vol-wish, will; volition. L. volo, I wish. Vol-fly; volley (a flight of shot), volant, volatile (tending to disperse or fly away). L. volare. Volu - See volv. Volunt free-will; voluntary (of one's own free-will). L. voluntas. L. volo, I wish. cir Volupt Vom-vomit. L. vomere. herbivorous, carnivorous, om- Vot-vow; votive (promised with a vow), votary (one paying religious vows), devote (give up, vow away fully +), devout (very devoted). L. vovere, votus. *The term revolution, however, is restricted to a revolt that is successful. Hence the American revolt became a revolution. In like manner the revolt in England against the kings of the Stuart dynasty became by its success a revolution. But it became a revolution in a double sense; for, whereas the monarchs claimed hitherto to rule by divine authority, the revolution settled the principle that they ruled by virtue of the choice of the people. Since the English Revolution, England has been virtually a republic, though retaining a hereditary executive with limited powers and restricted functions. The ancient Romans had a superstition that a general could devote his enemies to destruction by including himself in the vow. It was tried on two occasions by the Decii, father and son, each of whom rushed into the ranks of the enemy to save the Roman army as by a miracle. On both occasions the Romans were victorious. At a later time, Arnold Winkelried devoted himself for the Swiss, and enabled them to win a victory, though he did not expect a miraculous interposition. *Thetis, the goddess mother of Achilles, dipped him when an infant into the river Styx in order to render him invulnerable to mortal weapons. She held him by the heel, thus keeping the water from that part, and, consequently, leaving it subject to mortal laws. When the arrow of Paris found entrance here, the hero yielded up his life in accordance with the dying prophecy of Hector: "Phœbus and Paris shall avenge my fate, And stretch thee here before the Scean gate."—Pope's Iliad. + The word Wales means the land of the wealhs, or foreigners. The Anglo-Saxon conquest of Britain continued through a period of two hundred years. It was finally limited by natural obstructions in the north and west. Behind the mountains in the one quarter and the morasses in the other, the severed remnants of the stubborn race that made such trouble for imperial Cæsar, seven hundred years earlier, still bade defiance to the invader. The brave western Celts became foreigners (1) on the very soil which they had occupied for untold ages. The foiled conqueror flung an epithet over the region which his arms could not subdue. Like many another opprobrious epithet, it was finally adopted as a term of honor, and the name of the region will publish forever the chagrin and spite of an enemy from afar. Six hundred years after the failure of the Saxon conquest the Welsh submitted to be incorporated into the English nation. But they dictated conditions which forever saved their pride and removed all idea of subjugation. The long struggle was terminated by the consent of the English sovereign to style his eldest son and heir the Prince of Wales. So that instead of conquering the foreign region, Saxon and Norman England submitted to be ruled forever by a line of Welsh princes! |