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hed and a work of art becomes a purely subjective expression in an arbitrary and personal language.

, Sanskrit; -- in distinction from the Sanskrit, which was used as a literary and learned language when no longer spoken by the people. Pali is one of the Prakrit dialects.

be introduced to another, or to go into society; as, ideas that are presentable in simple language; she is not presentable in such a gown.

Proceeding; advancing. Because it is language, -- ergo, processive. Coleridge.

rreverence, or undue familiarity; irreverent; impious. Hence, specifically; Irreverent in language; taking the name of God in vain; given to swearing; blasphemous; as, a profane person, word, oath, or tongue. 1 Tim. i. 9.

The quality or state of being profane; especially, the use of profane language.

who treats sacred things with irreverence, or defiles what is holy; one who uses profane language. Hooker.

The quality or state of being profane; profaneness; irreverence; esp., the use of profane language; blasphemy.

to speak with the proper sound and accent as, adults rarely learn to pronounce a foreign language correctly.

sting of a subject and predicate united by a copula; a thought expressed or propounded in language; a from of speech in which a predicate is affirmed or denied of a subject; as, snow is white.

ished principles, rules, or customs; fitness; appropriateness; as, propriety of behavior, language, manners, etc. "The rule of propriety," Locke.

The ordinary language of men in speaking or writing; language not cast in poetical measure or rhythm; -- contradistinguished from verse, or metrical composition. I speak in prose, and let him rymes make. Chaucer. Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme. Milton. I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely de…

The Provencal language. See Langue d'oc.

The quality or state of being provincial; peculiarity of language characteristic of a province. T. Warton.

A learned man; a teacher; esp., a Brahman versed in the Sanskrit language, and in the science, laws, and religion of the Hindoos; in Cashmere, any clerk or native official. [Written also pandit.] [India]

One of a class of sacred Hindoo poetical works in the Sanskrit language which treat of the creation, destruction, and renovation of worlds, the genealogy and achievements of gods and heroes, the reigns of the Manus, and the transactions of their descendants. The principal Puranas are eighteen in number, and there are t…

To free from improprieties or barbarisms; as, to purify a language. Sprat.

Rigid purity; the quality of being affectedly pure or nice, especially in the choice of language; over-solicitude as to purity. "His political purism." De Quincey. The English language, however, . . . had even already become too thoroughly and essentially a mixed tongue for his doctrine of purism to be admitted to the…

One who aims at excessive purity or nicety, esp. in the choice of language. He [Fox] . . . purified vocabulary with a scrupulosity unknown to any purist. Macaulay.

The language or dialect of the rabbins; the later Hebrew.