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10141 Etymology dictionary, p. chlorophyll (n.).2
… Pierre-Joseph Pelletier (1788-1842) and Joseph Bienaimé Caventou (1795-1877) from chloro-, from Latinized form of Greek khlōros "pale green, greenish-yellow …
10142 Etymology dictionary, p. chromosphere (n.).2
"gaseous envelope around the sun," 1868, coined by English astronomer Sir Joseph Norman Lockyer (1836-1920), from chromo-, from Greek khrōma "color" (see chroma ) + sphere. So called for its redness. Related: Chromospheric .
10143 Etymology dictionary, p. cleavage (n.).3
… . publicist Joseph I. Breen (1888-1965), head of the Production Code Administration (replaced 1945 by Eric Johnston), enforcers of Hollywood self-censorship …
10144 Etymology dictionary, p. Columbia.3
… , Columbia, " Joseph Hopkinson's patriotic song that served in 19c. as an unofficial national anthem (1798); "Columbiad," Joel Barlow's attempt to write an epic …
10145 Etymology dictionary, p. dumb-bell (n.).2
… of Joseph Strutt's 1801 "The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England":
10146 Etymology dictionary, p. egotism (n.).2
… by Joseph Addison, who credits the term to "Port-Royalists" who used it in reference to obtrusive use of first person singular pronoun in writing, hence "talking …
10147 Etymology dictionary, p. egotist (n.).2
1714, "one who makes too frequent use of the first-person singular pronoun," see ego + -ist. First attested in Joseph Addison (see egotism ). Related: Egotistic; egotistical; egotistically .
10148 Etymology dictionary, p. Ephraim.2
… of Joseph, also the name of the tribe descended from him, and sometimes used figuratively for "Kingdom of Israel;" Greek form of Hebrew Ephrayim, a derivative …
10149 Etymology dictionary, p. Fourierism (n.).2
… -Baptiste Joseph Fourier (1768-1830).
10150 Etymology dictionary, p. gastronomy (n.).2
… by Joseph de Berchoux (1762-1838) as title of poem on good living, after Gastrologia, title of a now-lost poem of antiquity, quoted by Athenaeus (see gastrology …
10151 Etymology dictionary, p. gibbon (n.).2
… Marquis Joseph-François Dupleix (1697-1763), French governor general in India 1742-54. The surname is Old French Giboin, from Frankish *Geba-win "gift-friend …
10152 Etymology dictionary, p. Gradus ad Parnassum (n.).2
… Johann Joseph Fux, published in Vienna in 1725, and of a much-used book of exercises for piano.
10153 Etymology dictionary, p. grail (n.).3
… which Joseph of Arimathea received the last drops of blood of Christ (according to the writers who picked up the thread of Chrétien de Troyes' "Perceval" ) or …
10154 Etymology dictionary, p. guillotine (n.).2
… physician Joseph Guillotin (1738-1814), who as a deputy to the National Assembly (1789) proposed, for humanitarian and efficiency reasons, that capital punishment …
10155 Etymology dictionary, p. helium (n.).2
… Sir Joseph N. Lockyer (1836-1920) and English chemist Sir Edward Frankland (1825-1899). It was not actually obtained until 1895; before then it was assumed to be …
10156 Etymology dictionary, p. hydrate (n.).2
… chemist Joseph-Louis Proust (1754-1826) from Greek hydr-, stem of hydor "water," from suffixed form of PIE root *wed- (1) "water; wet."). Also formerly applied to compounds …
10157 Etymology dictionary, p. intellectualism (n.).2
… Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling (1775-1854) from Late Latin intellectualis ); see intellectual + -ism. Meaning "devotion to intellectuality" also is from 1818.
10158 Etymology dictionary, p. iodine (n.).2
… chemist Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac from Greek i ō eid ē s "violet-colored" (from ion "the violet; dark blue flower;" see violet ) + eidos "appearance" (see -oid ).
10159 Etymology dictionary, p. Jacquard (adj.).2
in reference to a type of loom, 1841, from Joseph Marie Jacquard (1752-1834) of Lyons, inventor of new weaving technology c. 1800.
10160 Etymology dictionary, p. Joe.2
… of Joseph (q.v.). Meaning "generic fellow, man" is from 1846. Used in a wide range of invented names meaning "typical male example of," for example Joe college "typical …