Chapter XII

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From this reading AT OXFORD: MICHAELMAS TERM, 1810.

used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one

From this reading It depended chiefly on the friendships he should form immediately upon coming into residence at his college, whether, taking a new moral and intellectual 'departure' he would disappoint the evil promise of his Eton days, or whether he would persist in the perversities in which he had been encouraged by Dr. Lind.

on the subject of; concerning

From this reading Hogg's Toryism--Shelley's Liberalism--In Hogg's Rooms--Shelley's Looks and Voice--Patron and Idolater--The Ways of Passing Time--Hogg's Reminiscences--Nocturnal Readings and Conversations--Country about Oxford--Pistol Practice--Playing with Paper Boats--Windmill and Plashy Meadow--The Horror of it--Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson--University Tattle and Laughter--Eccentric Inseparables--Pond under Shotover Hill--Pacing 'The High'--Dons' Civility to Shelley--His Incivility to Dons--Uninteresting Stones and Dull People--'Partly True and Partly False'--The Fiery Hun!--'My Dear Boy'--Shelley offers his Sister to Hogg in Marriage--Hogg entertains the Proposal--End of Term.

treat badly

From this reading Though the youth who had distinguished himself by unruliness at Eton, whose views of life had come to him chiefly from morbid romances, whose natural perversity disposed him to revolt against control of every kind, was far more likely to abuse the liberty and privileges of the academic course than to employ them to his advantage, the conditions are conceivable under which he would have passed through the University with honour--or at least without discredit.

associated with academia or an academy

From this reading Though the youth who had distinguished himself by unruliness at Eton, whose views of life had come to him chiefly from morbid romances, whose natural perversity disposed him to revolt against control of every kind, was far more likely to abuse the liberty and privileges of the academic course than to employ them to his advantage, the conditions are conceivable under which he would have passed through the University with honour--or at least without discredit.

declare to be true or admit the existence or reality or truth of

From this reading Though I have spoken warmly of Hogg's general honesty, and resent the calumnies that have been rained down upon him in the grave, I must admit that Hogg's friendship was so injurious that it might almost be called disastrous to the Oxonian Shelley.

the quality of having a superior or more favorable position

From this reading Though the youth who had distinguished himself by unruliness at Eton, whose views of life had come to him chiefly from morbid romances, whose natural perversity disposed him to revolt against control of every kind, was far more likely to abuse the liberty and privileges of the academic course than to employ them to his advantage, the conditions are conceivable under which he would have passed through the University with honour--or at least without discredit.

touching and pressing; in opposition to

From this reading Though the youth who had distinguished himself by unruliness at Eton, whose views of life had come to him chiefly from morbid romances, whose natural perversity disposed him to revolt against control of every kind, was far more likely to abuse the liberty and privileges of the academic course than to employ them to his advantage, the conditions are conceivable under which he would have passed through the University with honour--or at least without discredit.

(of actions or states) slightly short of or not quite accomplished; all but

From this reading Though I have spoken warmly of Hogg's general honesty, and resent the calumnies that have been rained down upon him in the grave, I must admit that Hogg's friendship was so injurious that it might almost be called disastrous to the Oxonian Shelley.

used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together

From this reading Hogg's Toryism--Shelley's Liberalism--In Hogg's Rooms--Shelley's Looks and Voice--Patron and Idolater--The Ways of Passing Time--Hogg's Reminiscences--Nocturnal Readings and Conversations--Country about Oxford--Pistol Practice--Playing with Paper Boats--Windmill and Plashy Meadow--The Horror of it--Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson--University Tattle and Laughter--Eccentric Inseparables--Pond under Shotover Hill--Pacing 'The High'--Dons' Civility to Shelley--His Incivility to Dons--Uninteresting Stones and Dull People--'Partly True and Partly False'--The Fiery Hun!--'My Dear Boy'--Shelley offers his Sister to Hogg in Marriage--Hogg entertains the Proposal--End of Term.

the form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun

From this reading Though the youth who had distinguished himself by unruliness at Eton, whose views of life had come to him chiefly from morbid romances, whose natural perversity disposed him to revolt against control of every kind, was far more likely to abuse the liberty and privileges of the academic course than to employ them to his advantage, the conditions are conceivable under which he would have passed through the University with honour--or at least without discredit.

in or near a particular place or position

From this reading AT OXFORD: MICHAELMAS TERM, 1810.

used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses

From this reading Though I have spoken warmly of Hogg's general honesty, and resent the calumnies that have been rained down upon him in the grave, I must admit that Hogg's friendship was so injurious that it might almost be called disastrous to the Oxonian Shelley.

the past participle of “be”

From this reading Though I have spoken warmly of Hogg's general honesty, and resent the calumnies that have been rained down upon him in the grave, I must admit that Hogg's friendship was so injurious that it might almost be called disastrous to the Oxonian Shelley.

plural of “boat” — a small vessel for travel on water

From this reading Hogg's Toryism--Shelley's Liberalism--In Hogg's Rooms--Shelley's Looks and Voice--Patron and Idolater--The Ways of Passing Time--Hogg's Reminiscences--Nocturnal Readings and Conversations--Country about Oxford--Pistol Practice--Playing with Paper Boats--Windmill and Plashy Meadow--The Horror of it--Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson--University Tattle and Laughter--Eccentric Inseparables--Pond under Shotover Hill--Pacing 'The High'--Dons' Civility to Shelley--His Incivility to Dons--Uninteresting Stones and Dull People--'Partly True and Partly False'--The Fiery Hun!--'My Dear Boy'--Shelley offers his Sister to Hogg in Marriage--Hogg entertains the Proposal--End of Term.

a youthful male person

From this reading Hogg's Toryism--Shelley's Liberalism--In Hogg's Rooms--Shelley's Looks and Voice--Patron and Idolater--The Ways of Passing Time--Hogg's Reminiscences--Nocturnal Readings and Conversations--Country about Oxford--Pistol Practice--Playing with Paper Boats--Windmill and Plashy Meadow--The Horror of it--Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson--University Tattle and Laughter--Eccentric Inseparables--Pond under Shotover Hill--Pacing 'The High'--Dons' Civility to Shelley--His Incivility to Dons--Uninteresting Stones and Dull People--'Partly True and Partly False'--The Fiery Hun!--'My Dear Boy'--Shelley offers his Sister to Hogg in Marriage--Hogg entertains the Proposal--End of Term.

showing who or what does the action

From this reading Though the youth who had distinguished himself by unruliness at Eton, whose views of life had come to him chiefly from morbid romances, whose natural perversity disposed him to revolt against control of every kind, was far more likely to abuse the liberty and privileges of the academic course than to employ them to his advantage, the conditions are conceivable under which he would have passed through the University with honour--or at least without discredit.

past form of “call” — assign a specified (usually proper) proper name to

From this reading Though I have spoken warmly of Hogg's general honesty, and resent the calumnies that have been rained down upon him in the grave, I must admit that Hogg's friendship was so injurious that it might almost be called disastrous to the Oxonian Shelley.

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From this reading Though I have spoken warmly of Hogg's general honesty, and resent the calumnies that have been rained down upon him in the grave, I must admit that Hogg's friendship was so injurious that it might almost be called disastrous to the Oxonian Shelley.

for the most part

From this reading Though the youth who had distinguished himself by unruliness at Eton, whose views of life had come to him chiefly from morbid romances, whose natural perversity disposed him to revolt against control of every kind, was far more likely to abuse the liberty and privileges of the academic course than to employ them to his advantage, the conditions are conceivable under which he would have passed through the University with honour--or at least without discredit.

formal or perfunctory politeness

From this reading Hogg's Toryism--Shelley's Liberalism--In Hogg's Rooms--Shelley's Looks and Voice--Patron and Idolater--The Ways of Passing Time--Hogg's Reminiscences--Nocturnal Readings and Conversations--Country about Oxford--Pistol Practice--Playing with Paper Boats--Windmill and Plashy Meadow--The Horror of it--Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson--University Tattle and Laughter--Eccentric Inseparables--Pond under Shotover Hill--Pacing 'The High'--Dons' Civility to Shelley--His Incivility to Dons--Uninteresting Stones and Dull People--'Partly True and Partly False'--The Fiery Hun!--'My Dear Boy'--Shelley offers his Sister to Hogg in Marriage--Hogg entertains the Proposal--End of Term.

the body of faculty and students of a college

From this reading It depended chiefly on the friendships he should form immediately upon coming into residence at his college, whether, taking a new moral and intellectual 'departure' he would disappoint the evil promise of his Eton days, or whether he would persist in the perversities in which he had been encouraged by Dr. Lind.

move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody

From this reading Though the youth who had distinguished himself by unruliness at Eton, whose views of life had come to him chiefly from morbid romances, whose natural perversity disposed him to revolt against control of every kind, was far more likely to abuse the liberty and privileges of the academic course than to employ them to his advantage, the conditions are conceivable under which he would have passed through the University with honour--or at least without discredit.

the act of drawing spatially closer to something

From this reading It depended chiefly on the friendships he should form immediately upon coming into residence at his college, whether, taking a new moral and intellectual 'departure' he would disappoint the evil promise of his Eton days, or whether he would persist in the perversities in which he had been encouraged by Dr. Lind.

capable of being imagined

From this reading Though the youth who had distinguished himself by unruliness at Eton, whose views of life had come to him chiefly from morbid romances, whose natural perversity disposed him to revolt against control of every kind, was far more likely to abuse the liberty and privileges of the academic course than to employ them to his advantage, the conditions are conceivable under which he would have passed through the University with honour--or at least without discredit.

the prevailing context that influences the performance or the outcome of a process

From this reading Though the youth who had distinguished himself by unruliness at Eton, whose views of life had come to him chiefly from morbid romances, whose natural perversity disposed him to revolt against control of every kind, was far more likely to abuse the liberty and privileges of the academic course than to employ them to his advantage, the conditions are conceivable under which he would have passed through the University with honour--or at least without discredit.

power to direct or determine

From this reading Though the youth who had distinguished himself by unruliness at Eton, whose views of life had come to him chiefly from morbid romances, whose natural perversity disposed him to revolt against control of every kind, was far more likely to abuse the liberty and privileges of the academic course than to employ them to his advantage, the conditions are conceivable under which he would have passed through the University with honour--or at least without discredit.

plural of “conversation” — the use of speech for informal exchange of views or ideas or information etc.

From this reading Hogg's Toryism--Shelley's Liberalism--In Hogg's Rooms--Shelley's Looks and Voice--Patron and Idolater--The Ways of Passing Time--Hogg's Reminiscences--Nocturnal Readings and Conversations--Country about Oxford--Pistol Practice--Playing with Paper Boats--Windmill and Plashy Meadow--The Horror of it--Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson--University Tattle and Laughter--Eccentric Inseparables--Pond under Shotover Hill--Pacing 'The High'--Dons' Civility to Shelley--His Incivility to Dons--Uninteresting Stones and Dull People--'Partly True and Partly False'--The Fiery Hun!--'My Dear Boy'--Shelley offers his Sister to Hogg in Marriage--Hogg entertains the Proposal--End of Term.

a politically organized body of people under a single government

From this reading Hogg's Toryism--Shelley's Liberalism--In Hogg's Rooms--Shelley's Looks and Voice--Patron and Idolater--The Ways of Passing Time--Hogg's Reminiscences--Nocturnal Readings and Conversations--Country about Oxford--Pistol Practice--Playing with Paper Boats--Windmill and Plashy Meadow--The Horror of it--Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson--University Tattle and Laughter--Eccentric Inseparables--Pond under Shotover Hill--Pacing 'The High'--Dons' Civility to Shelley--His Incivility to Dons--Uninteresting Stones and Dull People--'Partly True and Partly False'--The Fiery Hun!--'My Dear Boy'--Shelley offers his Sister to Hogg in Marriage--Hogg entertains the Proposal--End of Term.

education imparted in a series of lessons or meetings

From this reading Though the youth who had distinguished himself by unruliness at Eton, whose views of life had come to him chiefly from morbid romances, whose natural perversity disposed him to revolt against control of every kind, was far more likely to abuse the liberty and privileges of the academic course than to employ them to his advantage, the conditions are conceivable under which he would have passed through the University with honour--or at least without discredit.

the time during which someone's life continues

From this reading It depended chiefly on the friendships he should form immediately upon coming into residence at his college, whether, taking a new moral and intellectual 'departure' he would disappoint the evil promise of his Eton days, or whether he would persist in the perversities in which he had been encouraged by Dr. Lind.

dearly loved

From this reading Hogg's Toryism--Shelley's Liberalism--In Hogg's Rooms--Shelley's Looks and Voice--Patron and Idolater--The Ways of Passing Time--Hogg's Reminiscences--Nocturnal Readings and Conversations--Country about Oxford--Pistol Practice--Playing with Paper Boats--Windmill and Plashy Meadow--The Horror of it--Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson--University Tattle and Laughter--Eccentric Inseparables--Pond under Shotover Hill--Pacing 'The High'--Dons' Civility to Shelley--His Incivility to Dons--Uninteresting Stones and Dull People--'Partly True and Partly False'--The Fiery Hun!--'My Dear Boy'--Shelley offers his Sister to Hogg in Marriage--Hogg entertains the Proposal--End of Term.

the act of departing

From this reading It depended chiefly on the friendships he should form immediately upon coming into residence at his college, whether, taking a new moral and intellectual 'departure' he would disappoint the evil promise of his Eton days, or whether he would persist in the perversities in which he had been encouraged by Dr. Lind.

past form of “depend” — be contingent upon (something that is elided)

From this reading It depended chiefly on the friendships he should form immediately upon coming into residence at his college, whether, taking a new moral and intellectual 'departure' he would disappoint the evil promise of his Eton days, or whether he would persist in the perversities in which he had been encouraged by Dr. Lind.

fail to meet the hopes or expectations of

From this reading It depended chiefly on the friendships he should form immediately upon coming into residence at his college, whether, taking a new moral and intellectual 'departure' he would disappoint the evil promise of his Eton days, or whether he would persist in the perversities in which he had been encouraged by Dr. Lind.

(of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin

From this reading Though I have spoken warmly of Hogg's general honesty, and resent the calumnies that have been rained down upon him in the grave, I must admit that Hogg's friendship was so injurious that it might almost be called disastrous to the Oxonian Shelley.

cause to be distrusted or disbelieved

From this reading Though the youth who had distinguished himself by unruliness at Eton, whose views of life had come to him chiefly from morbid romances, whose natural perversity disposed him to revolt against control of every kind, was far more likely to abuse the liberty and privileges of the academic course than to employ them to his advantage, the conditions are conceivable under which he would have passed through the University with honour--or at least without discredit.

having made preparations

From this reading Though the youth who had distinguished himself by unruliness at Eton, whose views of life had come to him chiefly from morbid romances, whose natural perversity disposed him to revolt against control of every kind, was far more likely to abuse the liberty and privileges of the academic course than to employ them to his advantage, the conditions are conceivable under which he would have passed through the University with honour--or at least without discredit.

(used of persons) standing above others in character or attainment or reputation

From this reading Though the youth who had distinguished himself by unruliness at Eton, whose views of life had come to him chiefly from morbid romances, whose natural perversity disposed him to revolt against control of every kind, was far more likely to abuse the liberty and privileges of the academic course than to employ them to his advantage, the conditions are conceivable under which he would have passed through the University with honour--or at least without discredit.

plural of “don” — a Spanish gentleman or nobleman

From this reading Hogg's Toryism--Shelley's Liberalism--In Hogg's Rooms--Shelley's Looks and Voice--Patron and Idolater--The Ways of Passing Time--Hogg's Reminiscences--Nocturnal Readings and Conversations--Country about Oxford--Pistol Practice--Playing with Paper Boats--Windmill and Plashy Meadow--The Horror of it--Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson--University Tattle and Laughter--Eccentric Inseparables--Pond under Shotover Hill--Pacing 'The High'--Dons' Civility to Shelley--His Incivility to Dons--Uninteresting Stones and Dull People--'Partly True and Partly False'--The Fiery Hun!--'My Dear Boy'--Shelley offers his Sister to Hogg in Marriage--Hogg entertains the Proposal--End of Term.

being or moving lower in position or less in some value

From this reading Though I have spoken warmly of Hogg's general honesty, and resent the calumnies that have been rained down upon him in the grave, I must admit that Hogg's friendship was so injurious that it might almost be called disastrous to the Oxonian Shelley.

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From this reading It depended chiefly on the friendships he should form immediately upon coming into residence at his college, whether, taking a new moral and intellectual 'departure' he would disappoint the evil promise of his Eton days, or whether he would persist in the perversities in which he had been encouraged by Dr. Lind.

lacking in liveliness or animation

From this reading Hogg's Toryism--Shelley's Liberalism--In Hogg's Rooms--Shelley's Looks and Voice--Patron and Idolater--The Ways of Passing Time--Hogg's Reminiscences--Nocturnal Readings and Conversations--Country about Oxford--Pistol Practice--Playing with Paper Boats--Windmill and Plashy Meadow--The Horror of it--Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson--University Tattle and Laughter--Eccentric Inseparables--Pond under Shotover Hill--Pacing 'The High'--Dons' Civility to Shelley--His Incivility to Dons--Uninteresting Stones and Dull People--'Partly True and Partly False'--The Fiery Hun!--'My Dear Boy'--Shelley offers his Sister to Hogg in Marriage--Hogg entertains the Proposal--End of Term.

conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual

From this reading Hogg's Toryism--Shelley's Liberalism--In Hogg's Rooms--Shelley's Looks and Voice--Patron and Idolater--The Ways of Passing Time--Hogg's Reminiscences--Nocturnal Readings and Conversations--Country about Oxford--Pistol Practice--Playing with Paper Boats--Windmill and Plashy Meadow--The Horror of it--Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson--University Tattle and Laughter--Eccentric Inseparables--Pond under Shotover Hill--Pacing 'The High'--Dons' Civility to Shelley--His Incivility to Dons--Uninteresting Stones and Dull People--'Partly True and Partly False'--The Fiery Hun!--'My Dear Boy'--Shelley offers his Sister to Hogg in Marriage--Hogg entertains the Proposal--End of Term.

put into service; make work or employ for a particular purpose or for its inherent or natural purpose

From this reading Though the youth who had distinguished himself by unruliness at Eton, whose views of life had come to him chiefly from morbid romances, whose natural perversity disposed him to revolt against control of every kind, was far more likely to abuse the liberty and privileges of the academic course than to employ them to his advantage, the conditions are conceivable under which he would have passed through the University with honour--or at least without discredit.

inspired with confidence

From this reading It depended chiefly on the friendships he should form immediately upon coming into residence at his college, whether, taking a new moral and intellectual 'departure' he would disappoint the evil promise of his Eton days, or whether he would persist in the perversities in which he had been encouraged by Dr. Lind.

either extremity of something that has length

From this reading Hogg's Toryism--Shelley's Liberalism--In Hogg's Rooms--Shelley's Looks and Voice--Patron and Idolater--The Ways of Passing Time--Hogg's Reminiscences--Nocturnal Readings and Conversations--Country about Oxford--Pistol Practice--Playing with Paper Boats--Windmill and Plashy Meadow--The Horror of it--Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson--University Tattle and Laughter--Eccentric Inseparables--Pond under Shotover Hill--Pacing 'The High'--Dons' Civility to Shelley--His Incivility to Dons--Uninteresting Stones and Dull People--'Partly True and Partly False'--The Fiery Hun!--'My Dear Boy'--Shelley offers his Sister to Hogg in Marriage--Hogg entertains the Proposal--End of Term.

third-person singular of “entertain” — provide entertainment for

From this reading Hogg's Toryism--Shelley's Liberalism--In Hogg's Rooms--Shelley's Looks and Voice--Patron and Idolater--The Ways of Passing Time--Hogg's Reminiscences--Nocturnal Readings and Conversations--Country about Oxford--Pistol Practice--Playing with Paper Boats--Windmill and Plashy Meadow--The Horror of it--Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson--University Tattle and Laughter--Eccentric Inseparables--Pond under Shotover Hill--Pacing 'The High'--Dons' Civility to Shelley--His Incivility to Dons--Uninteresting Stones and Dull People--'Partly True and Partly False'--The Fiery Hun!--'My Dear Boy'--Shelley offers his Sister to Hogg in Marriage--Hogg entertains the Proposal--End of Term.

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From this reading Though the youth who had distinguished himself by unruliness at Eton, whose views of life had come to him chiefly from morbid romances, whose natural perversity disposed him to revolt against control of every kind, was far more likely to abuse the liberty and privileges of the academic course than to employ them to his advantage, the conditions are conceivable under which he would have passed through the University with honour--or at least without discredit.

all the members of a group, with none left out

From this reading Though the youth who had distinguished himself by unruliness at Eton, whose views of life had come to him chiefly from morbid romances, whose natural perversity disposed him to revolt against control of every kind, was far more likely to abuse the liberty and privileges of the academic course than to employ them to his advantage, the conditions are conceivable under which he would have passed through the University with honour--or at least without discredit.

morally objectionable behavior

From this reading It depended chiefly on the friendships he should form immediately upon coming into residence at his college, whether, taking a new moral and intellectual 'departure' he would disappoint the evil promise of his Eton days, or whether he would persist in the perversities in which he had been encouraged by Dr. Lind.

not in accordance with the fact or reality or actuality

From this reading Hogg's Toryism--Shelley's Liberalism--In Hogg's Rooms--Shelley's Looks and Voice--Patron and Idolater--The Ways of Passing Time--Hogg's Reminiscences--Nocturnal Readings and Conversations--Country about Oxford--Pistol Practice--Playing with Paper Boats--Windmill and Plashy Meadow--The Horror of it--Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson--University Tattle and Laughter--Eccentric Inseparables--Pond under Shotover Hill--Pacing 'The High'--Dons' Civility to Shelley--His Incivility to Dons--Uninteresting Stones and Dull People--'Partly True and Partly False'--The Fiery Hun!--'My Dear Boy'--Shelley offers his Sister to Hogg in Marriage--Hogg entertains the Proposal--End of Term.

to a considerable degree; very much

From this reading Though the youth who had distinguished himself by unruliness at Eton, whose views of life had come to him chiefly from morbid romances, whose natural perversity disposed him to revolt against control of every kind, was far more likely to abuse the liberty and privileges of the academic course than to employ them to his advantage, the conditions are conceivable under which he would have passed through the University with honour--or at least without discredit.

characterized by intense emotion

From this reading Hogg's Toryism--Shelley's Liberalism--In Hogg's Rooms--Shelley's Looks and Voice--Patron and Idolater--The Ways of Passing Time--Hogg's Reminiscences--Nocturnal Readings and Conversations--Country about Oxford--Pistol Practice--Playing with Paper Boats--Windmill and Plashy Meadow--The Horror of it--Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson--University Tattle and Laughter--Eccentric Inseparables--Pond under Shotover Hill--Pacing 'The High'--Dons' Civility to Shelley--His Incivility to Dons--Uninteresting Stones and Dull People--'Partly True and Partly False'--The Fiery Hun!--'My Dear Boy'--Shelley offers his Sister to Hogg in Marriage--Hogg entertains the Proposal--End of Term.

the phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something

From this reading It depended chiefly on the friendships he should form immediately upon coming into residence at his college, whether, taking a new moral and intellectual 'departure' he would disappoint the evil promise of his Eton days, or whether he would persist in the perversities in which he had been encouraged by Dr. Lind.

plural of “fragment” — a piece broken off or cut off of something else

From this reading Hogg's Toryism--Shelley's Liberalism--In Hogg's Rooms--Shelley's Looks and Voice--Patron and Idolater--The Ways of Passing Time--Hogg's Reminiscences--Nocturnal Readings and Conversations--Country about Oxford--Pistol Practice--Playing with Paper Boats--Windmill and Plashy Meadow--The Horror of it--Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson--University Tattle and Laughter--Eccentric Inseparables--Pond under Shotover Hill--Pacing 'The High'--Dons' Civility to Shelley--His Incivility to Dons--Uninteresting Stones and Dull People--'Partly True and Partly False'--The Fiery Hun!--'My Dear Boy'--Shelley offers his Sister to Hogg in Marriage--Hogg entertains the Proposal--End of Term.

the state of being friends (or friendly)

From this reading Though I have spoken warmly of Hogg's general honesty, and resent the calumnies that have been rained down upon him in the grave, I must admit that Hogg's friendship was so injurious that it might almost be called disastrous to the Oxonian Shelley.

plural of “friendship” — the state of being friends (or friendly)

From this reading It depended chiefly on the friendships he should form immediately upon coming into residence at his college, whether, taking a new moral and intellectual 'departure' he would disappoint the evil promise of his Eton days, or whether he would persist in the perversities in which he had been encouraged by Dr. Lind.

showing where something starts, or who sent it

From this reading Though the youth who had distinguished himself by unruliness at Eton, whose views of life had come to him chiefly from morbid romances, whose natural perversity disposed him to revolt against control of every kind, was far more likely to abuse the liberty and privileges of the academic course than to employ them to his advantage, the conditions are conceivable under which he would have passed through the University with honour--or at least without discredit.

applying to all or most members of a category or group

From this reading Though I have spoken warmly of Hogg's general honesty, and resent the calumnies that have been rained down upon him in the grave, I must admit that Hogg's friendship was so injurious that it might almost be called disastrous to the Oxonian Shelley.

death of a person

From this reading Though I have spoken warmly of Hogg's general honesty, and resent the calumnies that have been rained down upon him in the grave, I must admit that Hogg's friendship was so injurious that it might almost be called disastrous to the Oxonian Shelley.

the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect

From this reading Though the youth who had distinguished himself by unruliness at Eton, whose views of life had come to him chiefly from morbid romances, whose natural perversity disposed him to revolt against control of every kind, was far more likely to abuse the liberty and privileges of the academic course than to employ them to his advantage, the conditions are conceivable under which he would have passed through the University with honour--or at least without discredit.

used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses

From this reading Though I have spoken warmly of Hogg's general honesty, and resent the calumnies that have been rained down upon him in the grave, I must admit that Hogg's friendship was so injurious that it might almost be called disastrous to the Oxonian Shelley.

a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject

From this reading Though the youth who had distinguished himself by unruliness at Eton, whose views of life had come to him chiefly from morbid romances, whose natural perversity disposed him to revolt against control of every kind, was far more likely to abuse the liberty and privileges of the academic course than to employ them to his advantage, the conditions are conceivable under which he would have passed through the University with honour--or at least without discredit.

greater than normal in degree or intensity or amount

From this reading Hogg's Toryism--Shelley's Liberalism--In Hogg's Rooms--Shelley's Looks and Voice--Patron and Idolater--The Ways of Passing Time--Hogg's Reminiscences--Nocturnal Readings and Conversations--Country about Oxford--Pistol Practice--Playing with Paper Boats--Windmill and Plashy Meadow--The Horror of it--Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson--University Tattle and Laughter--Eccentric Inseparables--Pond under Shotover Hill--Pacing 'The High'--Dons' Civility to Shelley--His Incivility to Dons--Uninteresting Stones and Dull People--'Partly True and Partly False'--The Fiery Hun!--'My Dear Boy'--Shelley offers his Sister to Hogg in Marriage--Hogg entertains the Proposal--End of Term.

a local and well-defined elevation of the land

From this reading Hogg's Toryism--Shelley's Liberalism--In Hogg's Rooms--Shelley's Looks and Voice--Patron and Idolater--The Ways of Passing Time--Hogg's Reminiscences--Nocturnal Readings and Conversations--Country about Oxford--Pistol Practice--Playing with Paper Boats--Windmill and Plashy Meadow--The Horror of it--Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson--University Tattle and Laughter--Eccentric Inseparables--Pond under Shotover Hill--Pacing 'The High'--Dons' Civility to Shelley--His Incivility to Dons--Uninteresting Stones and Dull People--'Partly True and Partly False'--The Fiery Hun!--'My Dear Boy'--Shelley offers his Sister to Hogg in Marriage--Hogg entertains the Proposal--End of Term.

the male already mentioned, as the object of a verb or preposition

From this reading Though I have spoken warmly of Hogg's general honesty, and resent the calumnies that have been rained down upon him in the grave, I must admit that Hogg's friendship was so injurious that it might almost be called disastrous to the Oxonian Shelley.

used when the man or boy doing the action is also its object

From this reading Though the youth who had distinguished himself by unruliness at Eton, whose views of life had come to him chiefly from morbid romances, whose natural perversity disposed him to revolt against control of every kind, was far more likely to abuse the liberty and privileges of the academic course than to employ them to his advantage, the conditions are conceivable under which he would have passed through the University with honour--or at least without discredit.

belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned

From this reading Hogg's Toryism--Shelley's Liberalism--In Hogg's Rooms--Shelley's Looks and Voice--Patron and Idolater--The Ways of Passing Time--Hogg's Reminiscences--Nocturnal Readings and Conversations--Country about Oxford--Pistol Practice--Playing with Paper Boats--Windmill and Plashy Meadow--The Horror of it--Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson--University Tattle and Laughter--Eccentric Inseparables--Pond under Shotover Hill--Pacing 'The High'--Dons' Civility to Shelley--His Incivility to Dons--Uninteresting Stones and Dull People--'Partly True and Partly False'--The Fiery Hun!--'My Dear Boy'--Shelley offers his Sister to Hogg in Marriage--Hogg entertains the Proposal--End of Term.

Scottish writer of rustic verse (1770-1835)

From this reading Hogg's Toryism--Shelley's Liberalism--In Hogg's Rooms--Shelley's Looks and Voice--Patron and Idolater--The Ways of Passing Time--Hogg's Reminiscences--Nocturnal Readings and Conversations--Country about Oxford--Pistol Practice--Playing with Paper Boats--Windmill and Plashy Meadow--The Horror of it--Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson--University Tattle and Laughter--Eccentric Inseparables--Pond under Shotover Hill--Pacing 'The High'--Dons' Civility to Shelley--His Incivility to Dons--Uninteresting Stones and Dull People--'Partly True and Partly False'--The Fiery Hun!--'My Dear Boy'--Shelley offers his Sister to Hogg in Marriage--Hogg entertains the Proposal--End of Term.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading Hogg's Toryism--Shelley's Liberalism--In Hogg's Rooms--Shelley's Looks and Voice--Patron and Idolater--The Ways of Passing Time--Hogg's Reminiscences--Nocturnal Readings and Conversations--Country about Oxford--Pistol Practice--Playing with Paper Boats--Windmill and Plashy Meadow--The Horror of it--Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson--University Tattle and Laughter--Eccentric Inseparables--Pond under Shotover Hill--Pacing 'The High'--Dons' Civility to Shelley--His Incivility to Dons--Uninteresting Stones and Dull People--'Partly True and Partly False'--The Fiery Hun!--'My Dear Boy'--Shelley offers his Sister to Hogg in Marriage--Hogg entertains the Proposal--End of Term.

the quality of being honest

From this reading Though I have spoken warmly of Hogg's general honesty, and resent the calumnies that have been rained down upon him in the grave, I must admit that Hogg's friendship was so injurious that it might almost be called disastrous to the Oxonian Shelley.

the state of being honored

From this reading Though the youth who had distinguished himself by unruliness at Eton, whose views of life had come to him chiefly from morbid romances, whose natural perversity disposed him to revolt against control of every kind, was far more likely to abuse the liberty and privileges of the academic course than to employ them to his advantage, the conditions are conceivable under which he would have passed through the University with honour--or at least without discredit.

intense and profound fear

From this reading Hogg's Toryism--Shelley's Liberalism--In Hogg's Rooms--Shelley's Looks and Voice--Patron and Idolater--The Ways of Passing Time--Hogg's Reminiscences--Nocturnal Readings and Conversations--Country about Oxford--Pistol Practice--Playing with Paper Boats--Windmill and Plashy Meadow--The Horror of it--Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson--University Tattle and Laughter--Eccentric Inseparables--Pond under Shotover Hill--Pacing 'The High'--Dons' Civility to Shelley--His Incivility to Dons--Uninteresting Stones and Dull People--'Partly True and Partly False'--The Fiery Hun!--'My Dear Boy'--Shelley offers his Sister to Hogg in Marriage--Hogg entertains the Proposal--End of Term.

a member of a nomadic people who invaded Europe in the 4th century

From this reading Hogg's Toryism--Shelley's Liberalism--In Hogg's Rooms--Shelley's Looks and Voice--Patron and Idolater--The Ways of Passing Time--Hogg's Reminiscences--Nocturnal Readings and Conversations--Country about Oxford--Pistol Practice--Playing with Paper Boats--Windmill and Plashy Meadow--The Horror of it--Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson--University Tattle and Laughter--Eccentric Inseparables--Pond under Shotover Hill--Pacing 'The High'--Dons' Civility to Shelley--His Incivility to Dons--Uninteresting Stones and Dull People--'Partly True and Partly False'--The Fiery Hun!--'My Dear Boy'--Shelley offers his Sister to Hogg in Marriage--Hogg entertains the Proposal--End of Term.

the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb

From this reading Though I have spoken warmly of Hogg's general honesty, and resent the calumnies that have been rained down upon him in the grave, I must admit that Hogg's friendship was so injurious that it might almost be called disastrous to the Oxonian Shelley.

a person who worships idols

From this reading Hogg's Toryism--Shelley's Liberalism--In Hogg's Rooms--Shelley's Looks and Voice--Patron and Idolater--The Ways of Passing Time--Hogg's Reminiscences--Nocturnal Readings and Conversations--Country about Oxford--Pistol Practice--Playing with Paper Boats--Windmill and Plashy Meadow--The Horror of it--Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson--University Tattle and Laughter--Eccentric Inseparables--Pond under Shotover Hill--Pacing 'The High'--Dons' Civility to Shelley--His Incivility to Dons--Uninteresting Stones and Dull People--'Partly True and Partly False'--The Fiery Hun!--'My Dear Boy'--Shelley offers his Sister to Hogg in Marriage--Hogg entertains the Proposal--End of Term.

without delay or hesitation; with no time intervening

From this reading It depended chiefly on the friendships he should form immediately upon coming into residence at his college, whether, taking a new moral and intellectual 'departure' he would disappoint the evil promise of his Eton days, or whether he would persist in the perversities in which he had been encouraged by Dr. Lind.

inside something, or within a place, period, or state

From this reading Hogg's Toryism--Shelley's Liberalism--In Hogg's Rooms--Shelley's Looks and Voice--Patron and Idolater--The Ways of Passing Time--Hogg's Reminiscences--Nocturnal Readings and Conversations--Country about Oxford--Pistol Practice--Playing with Paper Boats--Windmill and Plashy Meadow--The Horror of it--Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson--University Tattle and Laughter--Eccentric Inseparables--Pond under Shotover Hill--Pacing 'The High'--Dons' Civility to Shelley--His Incivility to Dons--Uninteresting Stones and Dull People--'Partly True and Partly False'--The Fiery Hun!--'My Dear Boy'--Shelley offers his Sister to Hogg in Marriage--Hogg entertains the Proposal--End of Term.

deliberate discourtesy

From this reading Hogg's Toryism--Shelley's Liberalism--In Hogg's Rooms--Shelley's Looks and Voice--Patron and Idolater--The Ways of Passing Time--Hogg's Reminiscences--Nocturnal Readings and Conversations--Country about Oxford--Pistol Practice--Playing with Paper Boats--Windmill and Plashy Meadow--The Horror of it--Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson--University Tattle and Laughter--Eccentric Inseparables--Pond under Shotover Hill--Pacing 'The High'--Dons' Civility to Shelley--His Incivility to Dons--Uninteresting Stones and Dull People--'Partly True and Partly False'--The Fiery Hun!--'My Dear Boy'--Shelley offers his Sister to Hogg in Marriage--Hogg entertains the Proposal--End of Term.

harmful to living things

From this reading Though I have spoken warmly of Hogg's general honesty, and resent the calumnies that have been rained down upon him in the grave, I must admit that Hogg's friendship was so injurious that it might almost be called disastrous to the Oxonian Shelley.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading Hogg's Toryism--Shelley's Liberalism--In Hogg's Rooms--Shelley's Looks and Voice--Patron and Idolater--The Ways of Passing Time--Hogg's Reminiscences--Nocturnal Readings and Conversations--Country about Oxford--Pistol Practice--Playing with Paper Boats--Windmill and Plashy Meadow--The Horror of it--Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson--University Tattle and Laughter--Eccentric Inseparables--Pond under Shotover Hill--Pacing 'The High'--Dons' Civility to Shelley--His Incivility to Dons--Uninteresting Stones and Dull People--'Partly True and Partly False'--The Fiery Hun!--'My Dear Boy'--Shelley offers his Sister to Hogg in Marriage--Hogg entertains the Proposal--End of Term.

of or associated with or requiring the use of the mind

From this reading It depended chiefly on the friendships he should form immediately upon coming into residence at his college, whether, taking a new moral and intellectual 'departure' he would disappoint the evil promise of his Eton days, or whether he would persist in the perversities in which he had been encouraged by Dr. Lind.

moving to the inside of something

From this reading It depended chiefly on the friendships he should form immediately upon coming into residence at his college, whether, taking a new moral and intellectual 'departure' he would disappoint the evil promise of his Eton days, or whether he would persist in the perversities in which he had been encouraged by Dr. Lind.

a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned

From this reading Hogg's Toryism--Shelley's Liberalism--In Hogg's Rooms--Shelley's Looks and Voice--Patron and Idolater--The Ways of Passing Time--Hogg's Reminiscences--Nocturnal Readings and Conversations--Country about Oxford--Pistol Practice--Playing with Paper Boats--Windmill and Plashy Meadow--The Horror of it--Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson--University Tattle and Laughter--Eccentric Inseparables--Pond under Shotover Hill--Pacing 'The High'--Dons' Civility to Shelley--His Incivility to Dons--Uninteresting Stones and Dull People--'Partly True and Partly False'--The Fiery Hun!--'My Dear Boy'--Shelley offers his Sister to Hogg in Marriage--Hogg entertains the Proposal--End of Term.

having or showing a tender and considerate and helpful nature; used especially of persons and their behavior

From this reading Though the youth who had distinguished himself by unruliness at Eton, whose views of life had come to him chiefly from morbid romances, whose natural perversity disposed him to revolt against control of every kind, was far more likely to abuse the liberty and privileges of the academic course than to employ them to his advantage, the conditions are conceivable under which he would have passed through the University with honour--or at least without discredit.

the sound of laughing

From this reading Hogg's Toryism--Shelley's Liberalism--In Hogg's Rooms--Shelley's Looks and Voice--Patron and Idolater--The Ways of Passing Time--Hogg's Reminiscences--Nocturnal Readings and Conversations--Country about Oxford--Pistol Practice--Playing with Paper Boats--Windmill and Plashy Meadow--The Horror of it--Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson--University Tattle and Laughter--Eccentric Inseparables--Pond under Shotover Hill--Pacing 'The High'--Dons' Civility to Shelley--His Incivility to Dons--Uninteresting Stones and Dull People--'Partly True and Partly False'--The Fiery Hun!--'My Dear Boy'--Shelley offers his Sister to Hogg in Marriage--Hogg entertains the Proposal--End of Term.

the superlative of “little” that can be used with mass nouns and is usually preceded by “the”; a quantifier meaning smallest in amount or extent or degree

From this reading Though the youth who had distinguished himself by unruliness at Eton, whose views of life had come to him chiefly from morbid romances, whose natural perversity disposed him to revolt against control of every kind, was far more likely to abuse the liberty and privileges of the academic course than to employ them to his advantage, the conditions are conceivable under which he would have passed through the University with honour--or at least without discredit.

a political orientation that favors social progress by reform and by changing laws rather than by revolution

From this reading Hogg's Toryism--Shelley's Liberalism--In Hogg's Rooms--Shelley's Looks and Voice--Patron and Idolater--The Ways of Passing Time--Hogg's Reminiscences--Nocturnal Readings and Conversations--Country about Oxford--Pistol Practice--Playing with Paper Boats--Windmill and Plashy Meadow--The Horror of it--Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson--University Tattle and Laughter--Eccentric Inseparables--Pond under Shotover Hill--Pacing 'The High'--Dons' Civility to Shelley--His Incivility to Dons--Uninteresting Stones and Dull People--'Partly True and Partly False'--The Fiery Hun!--'My Dear Boy'--Shelley offers his Sister to Hogg in Marriage--Hogg entertains the Proposal--End of Term.

The state of being free within society from oppressive restrictions on one's way of life.

From this reading Though the youth who had distinguished himself by unruliness at Eton, whose views of life had come to him chiefly from morbid romances, whose natural perversity disposed him to revolt against control of every kind, was far more likely to abuse the liberty and privileges of the academic course than to employ them to his advantage, the conditions are conceivable under which he would have passed through the University with honour--or at least without discredit.

a characteristic state or mode of living

From this reading Though the youth who had distinguished himself by unruliness at Eton, whose views of life had come to him chiefly from morbid romances, whose natural perversity disposed him to revolt against control of every kind, was far more likely to abuse the liberty and privileges of the academic course than to employ them to his advantage, the conditions are conceivable under which he would have passed through the University with honour--or at least without discredit.

has a good chance of being the case or of coming about

From this reading Though the youth who had distinguished himself by unruliness at Eton, whose views of life had come to him chiefly from morbid romances, whose natural perversity disposed him to revolt against control of every kind, was far more likely to abuse the liberty and privileges of the academic course than to employ them to his advantage, the conditions are conceivable under which he would have passed through the University with honour--or at least without discredit.

Swedish soprano who toured the United States under the management of P. T. Barnum (1820-1887)

From this reading It depended chiefly on the friendships he should form immediately upon coming into residence at his college, whether, taking a new moral and intellectual 'departure' he would disappoint the evil promise of his Eton days, or whether he would persist in the perversities in which he had been encouraged by Dr. Lind.

plural of “look” — the feelings expressed on a person's face

From this reading Hogg's Toryism--Shelley's Liberalism--In Hogg's Rooms--Shelley's Looks and Voice--Patron and Idolater--The Ways of Passing Time--Hogg's Reminiscences--Nocturnal Readings and Conversations--Country about Oxford--Pistol Practice--Playing with Paper Boats--Windmill and Plashy Meadow--The Horror of it--Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson--University Tattle and Laughter--Eccentric Inseparables--Pond under Shotover Hill--Pacing 'The High'--Dons' Civility to Shelley--His Incivility to Dons--Uninteresting Stones and Dull People--'Partly True and Partly False'--The Fiery Hun!--'My Dear Boy'--Shelley offers his Sister to Hogg in Marriage--Hogg entertains the Proposal--End of Term.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading Hogg's Toryism--Shelley's Liberalism--In Hogg's Rooms--Shelley's Looks and Voice--Patron and Idolater--The Ways of Passing Time--Hogg's Reminiscences--Nocturnal Readings and Conversations--Country about Oxford--Pistol Practice--Playing with Paper Boats--Windmill and Plashy Meadow--The Horror of it--Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson--University Tattle and Laughter--Eccentric Inseparables--Pond under Shotover Hill--Pacing 'The High'--Dons' Civility to Shelley--His Incivility to Dons--Uninteresting Stones and Dull People--'Partly True and Partly False'--The Fiery Hun!--'My Dear Boy'--Shelley offers his Sister to Hogg in Marriage--Hogg entertains the Proposal--End of Term.

the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce)

From this reading Hogg's Toryism--Shelley's Liberalism--In Hogg's Rooms--Shelley's Looks and Voice--Patron and Idolater--The Ways of Passing Time--Hogg's Reminiscences--Nocturnal Readings and Conversations--Country about Oxford--Pistol Practice--Playing with Paper Boats--Windmill and Plashy Meadow--The Horror of it--Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson--University Tattle and Laughter--Eccentric Inseparables--Pond under Shotover Hill--Pacing 'The High'--Dons' Civility to Shelley--His Incivility to Dons--Uninteresting Stones and Dull People--'Partly True and Partly False'--The Fiery Hun!--'My Dear Boy'--Shelley offers his Sister to Hogg in Marriage--Hogg entertains the Proposal--End of Term.

a field where grass or alfalfa are grown to be made into hay

From this reading Hogg's Toryism--Shelley's Liberalism--In Hogg's Rooms--Shelley's Looks and Voice--Patron and Idolater--The Ways of Passing Time--Hogg's Reminiscences--Nocturnal Readings and Conversations--Country about Oxford--Pistol Practice--Playing with Paper Boats--Windmill and Plashy Meadow--The Horror of it--Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson--University Tattle and Laughter--Eccentric Inseparables--Pond under Shotover Hill--Pacing 'The High'--Dons' Civility to Shelley--His Incivility to Dons--Uninteresting Stones and Dull People--'Partly True and Partly False'--The Fiery Hun!--'My Dear Boy'--Shelley offers his Sister to Hogg in Marriage--Hogg entertains the Proposal--End of Term.

honoring the archangel Michael; a quarter day in England, Wales, and Ireland

From this reading AT OXFORD: MICHAELMAS TERM, 1810.

used to say something is possible but not certain

From this reading Though I have spoken warmly of Hogg's general honesty, and resent the calumnies that have been rained down upon him in the grave, I must admit that Hogg's friendship was so injurious that it might almost be called disastrous to the Oxonian Shelley.

concerned with principles of right and wrong or conforming to standards of behavior and character based on those principles

From this reading It depended chiefly on the friendships he should form immediately upon coming into residence at his college, whether, taking a new moral and intellectual 'departure' he would disappoint the evil promise of his Eton days, or whether he would persist in the perversities in which he had been encouraged by Dr. Lind.

suggesting an unhealthy mental state

From this reading Though the youth who had distinguished himself by unruliness at Eton, whose views of life had come to him chiefly from morbid romances, whose natural perversity disposed him to revolt against control of every kind, was far more likely to abuse the liberty and privileges of the academic course than to employ them to his advantage, the conditions are conceivable under which he would have passed through the University with honour--or at least without discredit.

(comparative of “much” used with mass nouns) a quantifier meaning greater in size or amount or extent or degree

From this reading Though the youth who had distinguished himself by unruliness at Eton, whose views of life had come to him chiefly from morbid romances, whose natural perversity disposed him to revolt against control of every kind, was far more likely to abuse the liberty and privileges of the academic course than to employ them to his advantage, the conditions are conceivable under which he would have passed through the University with honour--or at least without discredit.

used to say something is necessary, or almost certainly true

From this reading Though I have spoken warmly of Hogg's general honesty, and resent the calumnies that have been rained down upon him in the grave, I must admit that Hogg's friendship was so injurious that it might almost be called disastrous to the Oxonian Shelley.

belonging to the person speaking

From this reading Hogg's Toryism--Shelley's Liberalism--In Hogg's Rooms--Shelley's Looks and Voice--Patron and Idolater--The Ways of Passing Time--Hogg's Reminiscences--Nocturnal Readings and Conversations--Country about Oxford--Pistol Practice--Playing with Paper Boats--Windmill and Plashy Meadow--The Horror of it--Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson--University Tattle and Laughter--Eccentric Inseparables--Pond under Shotover Hill--Pacing 'The High'--Dons' Civility to Shelley--His Incivility to Dons--Uninteresting Stones and Dull People--'Partly True and Partly False'--The Fiery Hun!--'My Dear Boy'--Shelley offers his Sister to Hogg in Marriage--Hogg entertains the Proposal--End of Term.

in accordance with nature; relating to or concerning nature

From this reading Though the youth who had distinguished himself by unruliness at Eton, whose views of life had come to him chiefly from morbid romances, whose natural perversity disposed him to revolt against control of every kind, was far more likely to abuse the liberty and privileges of the academic course than to employ them to his advantage, the conditions are conceivable under which he would have passed through the University with honour--or at least without discredit.

not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered

From this reading It depended chiefly on the friendships he should form immediately upon coming into residence at his college, whether, taking a new moral and intellectual 'departure' he would disappoint the evil promise of his Eton days, or whether he would persist in the perversities in which he had been encouraged by Dr. Lind.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading Hogg's Toryism--Shelley's Liberalism--In Hogg's Rooms--Shelley's Looks and Voice--Patron and Idolater--The Ways of Passing Time--Hogg's Reminiscences--Nocturnal Readings and Conversations--Country about Oxford--Pistol Practice--Playing with Paper Boats--Windmill and Plashy Meadow--The Horror of it--Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson--University Tattle and Laughter--Eccentric Inseparables--Pond under Shotover Hill--Pacing 'The High'--Dons' Civility to Shelley--His Incivility to Dons--Uninteresting Stones and Dull People--'Partly True and Partly False'--The Fiery Hun!--'My Dear Boy'--Shelley offers his Sister to Hogg in Marriage--Hogg entertains the Proposal--End of Term.

belonging to or active during the night

From this reading Hogg's Toryism--Shelley's Liberalism--In Hogg's Rooms--Shelley's Looks and Voice--Patron and Idolater--The Ways of Passing Time--Hogg's Reminiscences--Nocturnal Readings and Conversations--Country about Oxford--Pistol Practice--Playing with Paper Boats--Windmill and Plashy Meadow--The Horror of it--Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson--University Tattle and Laughter--Eccentric Inseparables--Pond under Shotover Hill--Pacing 'The High'--Dons' Civility to Shelley--His Incivility to Dons--Uninteresting Stones and Dull People--'Partly True and Partly False'--The Fiery Hun!--'My Dear Boy'--Shelley offers his Sister to Hogg in Marriage--Hogg entertains the Proposal--End of Term.

belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something

From this reading Hogg's Toryism--Shelley's Liberalism--In Hogg's Rooms--Shelley's Looks and Voice--Patron and Idolater--The Ways of Passing Time--Hogg's Reminiscences--Nocturnal Readings and Conversations--Country about Oxford--Pistol Practice--Playing with Paper Boats--Windmill and Plashy Meadow--The Horror of it--Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson--University Tattle and Laughter--Eccentric Inseparables--Pond under Shotover Hill--Pacing 'The High'--Dons' Civility to Shelley--His Incivility to Dons--Uninteresting Stones and Dull People--'Partly True and Partly False'--The Fiery Hun!--'My Dear Boy'--Shelley offers his Sister to Hogg in Marriage--Hogg entertains the Proposal--End of Term.

plural of “offer” — the verbal act of offering

From this reading Hogg's Toryism--Shelley's Liberalism--In Hogg's Rooms--Shelley's Looks and Voice--Patron and Idolater--The Ways of Passing Time--Hogg's Reminiscences--Nocturnal Readings and Conversations--Country about Oxford--Pistol Practice--Playing with Paper Boats--Windmill and Plashy Meadow--The Horror of it--Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson--University Tattle and Laughter--Eccentric Inseparables--Pond under Shotover Hill--Pacing 'The High'--Dons' Civility to Shelley--His Incivility to Dons--Uninteresting Stones and Dull People--'Partly True and Partly False'--The Fiery Hun!--'My Dear Boy'--Shelley offers his Sister to Hogg in Marriage--Hogg entertains the Proposal--End of Term.

touching and supported by a surface

From this reading It depended chiefly on the friendships he should form immediately upon coming into residence at his college, whether, taking a new moral and intellectual 'departure' he would disappoint the evil promise of his Eton days, or whether he would persist in the perversities in which he had been encouraged by Dr. Lind.

used to join alternatives or possibilities

From this reading Though the youth who had distinguished himself by unruliness at Eton, whose views of life had come to him chiefly from morbid romances, whose natural perversity disposed him to revolt against control of every kind, was far more likely to abuse the liberty and privileges of the academic course than to employ them to his advantage, the conditions are conceivable under which he would have passed through the University with honour--or at least without discredit.

a city in southern England to the northwest of London; site of Oxford University

From this reading AT OXFORD: MICHAELMAS TERM, 1810.

of or pertaining to or characteristic of Oxford University

From this reading Though I have spoken warmly of Hogg's general honesty, and resent the calumnies that have been rained down upon him in the grave, I must admit that Hogg's friendship was so injurious that it might almost be called disastrous to the Oxonian Shelley.

(music) the speed at which a composition is to be played

From this reading Hogg's Toryism--Shelley's Liberalism--In Hogg's Rooms--Shelley's Looks and Voice--Patron and Idolater--The Ways of Passing Time--Hogg's Reminiscences--Nocturnal Readings and Conversations--Country about Oxford--Pistol Practice--Playing with Paper Boats--Windmill and Plashy Meadow--The Horror of it--Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson--University Tattle and Laughter--Eccentric Inseparables--Pond under Shotover Hill--Pacing 'The High'--Dons' Civility to Shelley--His Incivility to Dons--Uninteresting Stones and Dull People--'Partly True and Partly False'--The Fiery Hun!--'My Dear Boy'--Shelley offers his Sister to Hogg in Marriage--Hogg entertains the Proposal--End of Term.

a material made of cellulose pulp derived mainly from wood or rags or certain grasses

From this reading Hogg's Toryism--Shelley's Liberalism--In Hogg's Rooms--Shelley's Looks and Voice--Patron and Idolater--The Ways of Passing Time--Hogg's Reminiscences--Nocturnal Readings and Conversations--Country about Oxford--Pistol Practice--Playing with Paper Boats--Windmill and Plashy Meadow--The Horror of it--Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson--University Tattle and Laughter--Eccentric Inseparables--Pond under Shotover Hill--Pacing 'The High'--Dons' Civility to Shelley--His Incivility to Dons--Uninteresting Stones and Dull People--'Partly True and Partly False'--The Fiery Hun!--'My Dear Boy'--Shelley offers his Sister to Hogg in Marriage--Hogg entertains the Proposal--End of Term.

to some extent; in some degree; not wholly

From this reading Hogg's Toryism--Shelley's Liberalism--In Hogg's Rooms--Shelley's Looks and Voice--Patron and Idolater--The Ways of Passing Time--Hogg's Reminiscences--Nocturnal Readings and Conversations--Country about Oxford--Pistol Practice--Playing with Paper Boats--Windmill and Plashy Meadow--The Horror of it--Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson--University Tattle and Laughter--Eccentric Inseparables--Pond under Shotover Hill--Pacing 'The High'--Dons' Civility to Shelley--His Incivility to Dons--Uninteresting Stones and Dull People--'Partly True and Partly False'--The Fiery Hun!--'My Dear Boy'--Shelley offers his Sister to Hogg in Marriage--Hogg entertains the Proposal--End of Term.

past form of “pass” — go across or through

From this reading Though the youth who had distinguished himself by unruliness at Eton, whose views of life had come to him chiefly from morbid romances, whose natural perversity disposed him to revolt against control of every kind, was far more likely to abuse the liberty and privileges of the academic course than to employ them to his advantage, the conditions are conceivable under which he would have passed through the University with honour--or at least without discredit.

(American football) a play that involves one player throwing the ball to a teammate

From this reading Hogg's Toryism--Shelley's Liberalism--In Hogg's Rooms--Shelley's Looks and Voice--Patron and Idolater--The Ways of Passing Time--Hogg's Reminiscences--Nocturnal Readings and Conversations--Country about Oxford--Pistol Practice--Playing with Paper Boats--Windmill and Plashy Meadow--The Horror of it--Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson--University Tattle and Laughter--Eccentric Inseparables--Pond under Shotover Hill--Pacing 'The High'--Dons' Civility to Shelley--His Incivility to Dons--Uninteresting Stones and Dull People--'Partly True and Partly False'--The Fiery Hun!--'My Dear Boy'--Shelley offers his Sister to Hogg in Marriage--Hogg entertains the Proposal--End of Term.

a regular customer

From this reading Hogg's Toryism--Shelley's Liberalism--In Hogg's Rooms--Shelley's Looks and Voice--Patron and Idolater--The Ways of Passing Time--Hogg's Reminiscences--Nocturnal Readings and Conversations--Country about Oxford--Pistol Practice--Playing with Paper Boats--Windmill and Plashy Meadow--The Horror of it--Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson--University Tattle and Laughter--Eccentric Inseparables--Pond under Shotover Hill--Pacing 'The High'--Dons' Civility to Shelley--His Incivility to Dons--Uninteresting Stones and Dull People--'Partly True and Partly False'--The Fiery Hun!--'My Dear Boy'--Shelley offers his Sister to Hogg in Marriage--Hogg entertains the Proposal--End of Term.

(plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively

From this reading Hogg's Toryism--Shelley's Liberalism--In Hogg's Rooms--Shelley's Looks and Voice--Patron and Idolater--The Ways of Passing Time--Hogg's Reminiscences--Nocturnal Readings and Conversations--Country about Oxford--Pistol Practice--Playing with Paper Boats--Windmill and Plashy Meadow--The Horror of it--Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson--University Tattle and Laughter--Eccentric Inseparables--Pond under Shotover Hill--Pacing 'The High'--Dons' Civility to Shelley--His Incivility to Dons--Uninteresting Stones and Dull People--'Partly True and Partly False'--The Fiery Hun!--'My Dear Boy'--Shelley offers his Sister to Hogg in Marriage--Hogg entertains the Proposal--End of Term.

continue to exist

From this reading It depended chiefly on the friendships he should form immediately upon coming into residence at his college, whether, taking a new moral and intellectual 'departure' he would disappoint the evil promise of his Eton days, or whether he would persist in the perversities in which he had been encouraged by Dr. Lind.

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From this reading It depended chiefly on the friendships he should form immediately upon coming into residence at his college, whether, taking a new moral and intellectual 'departure' he would disappoint the evil promise of his Eton days, or whether he would persist in the perversities in which he had been encouraged by Dr. Lind.

deliberate and stubborn unruliness and resistance to guidance or discipline

From this reading Though the youth who had distinguished himself by unruliness at Eton, whose views of life had come to him chiefly from morbid romances, whose natural perversity disposed him to revolt against control of every kind, was far more likely to abuse the liberty and privileges of the academic course than to employ them to his advantage, the conditions are conceivable under which he would have passed through the University with honour--or at least without discredit.

a firearm that is held and fired with one hand

From this reading Hogg's Toryism--Shelley's Liberalism--In Hogg's Rooms--Shelley's Looks and Voice--Patron and Idolater--The Ways of Passing Time--Hogg's Reminiscences--Nocturnal Readings and Conversations--Country about Oxford--Pistol Practice--Playing with Paper Boats--Windmill and Plashy Meadow--The Horror of it--Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson--University Tattle and Laughter--Eccentric Inseparables--Pond under Shotover Hill--Pacing 'The High'--Dons' Civility to Shelley--His Incivility to Dons--Uninteresting Stones and Dull People--'Partly True and Partly False'--The Fiery Hun!--'My Dear Boy'--Shelley offers his Sister to Hogg in Marriage--Hogg entertains the Proposal--End of Term.

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From this reading Hogg's Toryism--Shelley's Liberalism--In Hogg's Rooms--Shelley's Looks and Voice--Patron and Idolater--The Ways of Passing Time--Hogg's Reminiscences--Nocturnal Readings and Conversations--Country about Oxford--Pistol Practice--Playing with Paper Boats--Windmill and Plashy Meadow--The Horror of it--Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson--University Tattle and Laughter--Eccentric Inseparables--Pond under Shotover Hill--Pacing 'The High'--Dons' Civility to Shelley--His Incivility to Dons--Uninteresting Stones and Dull People--'Partly True and Partly False'--The Fiery Hun!--'My Dear Boy'--Shelley offers his Sister to Hogg in Marriage--Hogg entertains the Proposal--End of Term.

the act of playing a musical instrument

From this reading Hogg's Toryism--Shelley's Liberalism--In Hogg's Rooms--Shelley's Looks and Voice--Patron and Idolater--The Ways of Passing Time--Hogg's Reminiscences--Nocturnal Readings and Conversations--Country about Oxford--Pistol Practice--Playing with Paper Boats--Windmill and Plashy Meadow--The Horror of it--Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson--University Tattle and Laughter--Eccentric Inseparables--Pond under Shotover Hill--Pacing 'The High'--Dons' Civility to Shelley--His Incivility to Dons--Uninteresting Stones and Dull People--'Partly True and Partly False'--The Fiery Hun!--'My Dear Boy'--Shelley offers his Sister to Hogg in Marriage--Hogg entertains the Proposal--End of Term.

a small lake

From this reading Hogg's Toryism--Shelley's Liberalism--In Hogg's Rooms--Shelley's Looks and Voice--Patron and Idolater--The Ways of Passing Time--Hogg's Reminiscences--Nocturnal Readings and Conversations--Country about Oxford--Pistol Practice--Playing with Paper Boats--Windmill and Plashy Meadow--The Horror of it--Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson--University Tattle and Laughter--Eccentric Inseparables--Pond under Shotover Hill--Pacing 'The High'--Dons' Civility to Shelley--His Incivility to Dons--Uninteresting Stones and Dull People--'Partly True and Partly False'--The Fiery Hun!--'My Dear Boy'--Shelley offers his Sister to Hogg in Marriage--Hogg entertains the Proposal--End of Term.

occurring or coming into existence after a person's death

From this reading Hogg's Toryism--Shelley's Liberalism--In Hogg's Rooms--Shelley's Looks and Voice--Patron and Idolater--The Ways of Passing Time--Hogg's Reminiscences--Nocturnal Readings and Conversations--Country about Oxford--Pistol Practice--Playing with Paper Boats--Windmill and Plashy Meadow--The Horror of it--Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson--University Tattle and Laughter--Eccentric Inseparables--Pond under Shotover Hill--Pacing 'The High'--Dons' Civility to Shelley--His Incivility to Dons--Uninteresting Stones and Dull People--'Partly True and Partly False'--The Fiery Hun!--'My Dear Boy'--Shelley offers his Sister to Hogg in Marriage--Hogg entertains the Proposal--End of Term.

a customary way of operation or behavior

From this reading Hogg's Toryism--Shelley's Liberalism--In Hogg's Rooms--Shelley's Looks and Voice--Patron and Idolater--The Ways of Passing Time--Hogg's Reminiscences--Nocturnal Readings and Conversations--Country about Oxford--Pistol Practice--Playing with Paper Boats--Windmill and Plashy Meadow--The Horror of it--Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson--University Tattle and Laughter--Eccentric Inseparables--Pond under Shotover Hill--Pacing 'The High'--Dons' Civility to Shelley--His Incivility to Dons--Uninteresting Stones and Dull People--'Partly True and Partly False'--The Fiery Hun!--'My Dear Boy'--Shelley offers his Sister to Hogg in Marriage--Hogg entertains the Proposal--End of Term.

plural of “privilege” — a special advantage or immunity or benefit not enjoyed by all

From this reading Though the youth who had distinguished himself by unruliness at Eton, whose views of life had come to him chiefly from morbid romances, whose natural perversity disposed him to revolt against control of every kind, was far more likely to abuse the liberty and privileges of the academic course than to employ them to his advantage, the conditions are conceivable under which he would have passed through the University with honour--or at least without discredit.

make a promise or commitment

From this reading It depended chiefly on the friendships he should form immediately upon coming into residence at his college, whether, taking a new moral and intellectual 'departure' he would disappoint the evil promise of his Eton days, or whether he would persist in the perversities in which he had been encouraged by Dr. Lind.

something proposed (such as a plan or assumption)

From this reading Hogg's Toryism--Shelley's Liberalism--In Hogg's Rooms--Shelley's Looks and Voice--Patron and Idolater--The Ways of Passing Time--Hogg's Reminiscences--Nocturnal Readings and Conversations--Country about Oxford--Pistol Practice--Playing with Paper Boats--Windmill and Plashy Meadow--The Horror of it--Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson--University Tattle and Laughter--Eccentric Inseparables--Pond under Shotover Hill--Pacing 'The High'--Dons' Civility to Shelley--His Incivility to Dons--Uninteresting Stones and Dull People--'Partly True and Partly False'--The Fiery Hun!--'My Dear Boy'--Shelley offers his Sister to Hogg in Marriage--Hogg entertains the Proposal--End of Term.

past form of “rain” — precipitate as rain

From this reading Though I have spoken warmly of Hogg's general honesty, and resent the calumnies that have been rained down upon him in the grave, I must admit that Hogg's friendship was so injurious that it might almost be called disastrous to the Oxonian Shelley.

plural of “reading” — the cognitive process of understanding a written linguistic message

From this reading Hogg's Toryism--Shelley's Liberalism--In Hogg's Rooms--Shelley's Looks and Voice--Patron and Idolater--The Ways of Passing Time--Hogg's Reminiscences--Nocturnal Readings and Conversations--Country about Oxford--Pistol Practice--Playing with Paper Boats--Windmill and Plashy Meadow--The Horror of it--Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson--University Tattle and Laughter--Eccentric Inseparables--Pond under Shotover Hill--Pacing 'The High'--Dons' Civility to Shelley--His Incivility to Dons--Uninteresting Stones and Dull People--'Partly True and Partly False'--The Fiery Hun!--'My Dear Boy'--Shelley offers his Sister to Hogg in Marriage--Hogg entertains the Proposal--End of Term.

plural of “reminiscence” — a mental impression retained and recalled from the past

From this reading Hogg's Toryism--Shelley's Liberalism--In Hogg's Rooms--Shelley's Looks and Voice--Patron and Idolater--The Ways of Passing Time--Hogg's Reminiscences--Nocturnal Readings and Conversations--Country about Oxford--Pistol Practice--Playing with Paper Boats--Windmill and Plashy Meadow--The Horror of it--Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson--University Tattle and Laughter--Eccentric Inseparables--Pond under Shotover Hill--Pacing 'The High'--Dons' Civility to Shelley--His Incivility to Dons--Uninteresting Stones and Dull People--'Partly True and Partly False'--The Fiery Hun!--'My Dear Boy'--Shelley offers his Sister to Hogg in Marriage--Hogg entertains the Proposal--End of Term.

feel bitter or indignant about

From this reading Though I have spoken warmly of Hogg's general honesty, and resent the calumnies that have been rained down upon him in the grave, I must admit that Hogg's friendship was so injurious that it might almost be called disastrous to the Oxonian Shelley.

any address at which you dwell more than temporarily

From this reading It depended chiefly on the friendships he should form immediately upon coming into residence at his college, whether, taking a new moral and intellectual 'departure' he would disappoint the evil promise of his Eton days, or whether he would persist in the perversities in which he had been encouraged by Dr. Lind.

organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another

From this reading Though the youth who had distinguished himself by unruliness at Eton, whose views of life had come to him chiefly from morbid romances, whose natural perversity disposed him to revolt against control of every kind, was far more likely to abuse the liberty and privileges of the academic course than to employ them to his advantage, the conditions are conceivable under which he would have passed through the University with honour--or at least without discredit.

plural of “romance” — a relationship between two lovers

From this reading Though the youth who had distinguished himself by unruliness at Eton, whose views of life had come to him chiefly from morbid romances, whose natural perversity disposed him to revolt against control of every kind, was far more likely to abuse the liberty and privileges of the academic course than to employ them to his advantage, the conditions are conceivable under which he would have passed through the University with honour--or at least without discredit.

apartment consisting of a series of connected rooms used as a living unit (as in a hotel)

From this reading Hogg's Toryism--Shelley's Liberalism--In Hogg's Rooms--Shelley's Looks and Voice--Patron and Idolater--The Ways of Passing Time--Hogg's Reminiscences--Nocturnal Readings and Conversations--Country about Oxford--Pistol Practice--Playing with Paper Boats--Windmill and Plashy Meadow--The Horror of it--Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson--University Tattle and Laughter--Eccentric Inseparables--Pond under Shotover Hill--Pacing 'The High'--Dons' Civility to Shelley--His Incivility to Dons--Uninteresting Stones and Dull People--'Partly True and Partly False'--The Fiery Hun!--'My Dear Boy'--Shelley offers his Sister to Hogg in Marriage--Hogg entertains the Proposal--End of Term.

English writer who created Frankenstein's monster and married Percy Bysshe Shelley (1797-1851)

From this reading Hogg's Toryism--Shelley's Liberalism--In Hogg's Rooms--Shelley's Looks and Voice--Patron and Idolater--The Ways of Passing Time--Hogg's Reminiscences--Nocturnal Readings and Conversations--Country about Oxford--Pistol Practice--Playing with Paper Boats--Windmill and Plashy Meadow--The Horror of it--Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson--University Tattle and Laughter--Eccentric Inseparables--Pond under Shotover Hill--Pacing 'The High'--Dons' Civility to Shelley--His Incivility to Dons--Uninteresting Stones and Dull People--'Partly True and Partly False'--The Fiery Hun!--'My Dear Boy'--Shelley offers his Sister to Hogg in Marriage--Hogg entertains the Proposal--End of Term.

possessive form of “shelley” — English writer who created Frankenstein's monster and married Percy Bysshe Shelley (1797-1851)

From this reading Hogg's Toryism--Shelley's Liberalism--In Hogg's Rooms--Shelley's Looks and Voice--Patron and Idolater--The Ways of Passing Time--Hogg's Reminiscences--Nocturnal Readings and Conversations--Country about Oxford--Pistol Practice--Playing with Paper Boats--Windmill and Plashy Meadow--The Horror of it--Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson--University Tattle and Laughter--Eccentric Inseparables--Pond under Shotover Hill--Pacing 'The High'--Dons' Civility to Shelley--His Incivility to Dons--Uninteresting Stones and Dull People--'Partly True and Partly False'--The Fiery Hun!--'My Dear Boy'--Shelley offers his Sister to Hogg in Marriage--Hogg entertains the Proposal--End of Term.

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From this reading Hogg's Toryism--Shelley's Liberalism--In Hogg's Rooms--Shelley's Looks and Voice--Patron and Idolater--The Ways of Passing Time--Hogg's Reminiscences--Nocturnal Readings and Conversations--Country about Oxford--Pistol Practice--Playing with Paper Boats--Windmill and Plashy Meadow--The Horror of it--Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson--University Tattle and Laughter--Eccentric Inseparables--Pond under Shotover Hill--Pacing 'The High'--Dons' Civility to Shelley--His Incivility to Dons--Uninteresting Stones and Dull People--'Partly True and Partly False'--The Fiery Hun!--'My Dear Boy'--Shelley offers his Sister to Hogg in Marriage--Hogg entertains the Proposal--End of Term.

used to say what is right, expected, or advisable

From this reading It depended chiefly on the friendships he should form immediately upon coming into residence at his college, whether, taking a new moral and intellectual 'departure' he would disappoint the evil promise of his Eton days, or whether he would persist in the perversities in which he had been encouraged by Dr. Lind.

a female person who has the same parents as another person

From this reading Hogg's Toryism--Shelley's Liberalism--In Hogg's Rooms--Shelley's Looks and Voice--Patron and Idolater--The Ways of Passing Time--Hogg's Reminiscences--Nocturnal Readings and Conversations--Country about Oxford--Pistol Practice--Playing with Paper Boats--Windmill and Plashy Meadow--The Horror of it--Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson--University Tattle and Laughter--Eccentric Inseparables--Pond under Shotover Hill--Pacing 'The High'--Dons' Civility to Shelley--His Incivility to Dons--Uninteresting Stones and Dull People--'Partly True and Partly False'--The Fiery Hun!--'My Dear Boy'--Shelley offers his Sister to Hogg in Marriage--Hogg entertains the Proposal--End of Term.

for that reason; with the result that

From this reading Though I have spoken warmly of Hogg's general honesty, and resent the calumnies that have been rained down upon him in the grave, I must admit that Hogg's friendship was so injurious that it might almost be called disastrous to the Oxonian Shelley.

uttered through the medium of speech or characterized by speech; sometimes used in combination

From this reading Though I have spoken warmly of Hogg's general honesty, and resent the calumnies that have been rained down upon him in the grave, I must admit that Hogg's friendship was so injurious that it might almost be called disastrous to the Oxonian Shelley.

plural of “stone” — a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter

From this reading Hogg's Toryism--Shelley's Liberalism--In Hogg's Rooms--Shelley's Looks and Voice--Patron and Idolater--The Ways of Passing Time--Hogg's Reminiscences--Nocturnal Readings and Conversations--Country about Oxford--Pistol Practice--Playing with Paper Boats--Windmill and Plashy Meadow--The Horror of it--Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson--University Tattle and Laughter--Eccentric Inseparables--Pond under Shotover Hill--Pacing 'The High'--Dons' Civility to Shelley--His Incivility to Dons--Uninteresting Stones and Dull People--'Partly True and Partly False'--The Fiery Hun!--'My Dear Boy'--Shelley offers his Sister to Hogg in Marriage--Hogg entertains the Proposal--End of Term.

the act of someone who picks up or takes something

From this reading It depended chiefly on the friendships he should form immediately upon coming into residence at his college, whether, taking a new moral and intellectual 'departure' he would disappoint the evil promise of his Eton days, or whether he would persist in the perversities in which he had been encouraged by Dr. Lind.

speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly

From this reading Hogg's Toryism--Shelley's Liberalism--In Hogg's Rooms--Shelley's Looks and Voice--Patron and Idolater--The Ways of Passing Time--Hogg's Reminiscences--Nocturnal Readings and Conversations--Country about Oxford--Pistol Practice--Playing with Paper Boats--Windmill and Plashy Meadow--The Horror of it--Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson--University Tattle and Laughter--Eccentric Inseparables--Pond under Shotover Hill--Pacing 'The High'--Dons' Civility to Shelley--His Incivility to Dons--Uninteresting Stones and Dull People--'Partly True and Partly False'--The Fiery Hun!--'My Dear Boy'--Shelley offers his Sister to Hogg in Marriage--Hogg entertains the Proposal--End of Term.

a word or expression used for some particular thing

From this reading AT OXFORD: MICHAELMAS TERM, 1810.

used to introduce the second part of a comparison

From this reading Though the youth who had distinguished himself by unruliness at Eton, whose views of life had come to him chiefly from morbid romances, whose natural perversity disposed him to revolt against control of every kind, was far more likely to abuse the liberty and privileges of the academic course than to employ them to his advantage, the conditions are conceivable under which he would have passed through the University with honour--or at least without discredit.

used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt

From this reading Though I have spoken warmly of Hogg's general honesty, and resent the calumnies that have been rained down upon him in the grave, I must admit that Hogg's friendship was so injurious that it might almost be called disastrous to the Oxonian Shelley.

used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind

From this reading Hogg's Toryism--Shelley's Liberalism--In Hogg's Rooms--Shelley's Looks and Voice--Patron and Idolater--The Ways of Passing Time--Hogg's Reminiscences--Nocturnal Readings and Conversations--Country about Oxford--Pistol Practice--Playing with Paper Boats--Windmill and Plashy Meadow--The Horror of it--Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson--University Tattle and Laughter--Eccentric Inseparables--Pond under Shotover Hill--Pacing 'The High'--Dons' Civility to Shelley--His Incivility to Dons--Uninteresting Stones and Dull People--'Partly True and Partly False'--The Fiery Hun!--'My Dear Boy'--Shelley offers his Sister to Hogg in Marriage--Hogg entertains the Proposal--End of Term.

the people or things already mentioned, as the object

From this reading Though the youth who had distinguished himself by unruliness at Eton, whose views of life had come to him chiefly from morbid romances, whose natural perversity disposed him to revolt against control of every kind, was far more likely to abuse the liberty and privileges of the academic course than to employ them to his advantage, the conditions are conceivable under which he would have passed through the University with honour--or at least without discredit.

in spite of the fact that

From this reading Though I have spoken warmly of Hogg's general honesty, and resent the calumnies that have been rained down upon him in the grave, I must admit that Hogg's friendship was so injurious that it might almost be called disastrous to the Oxonian Shelley.

from one end or side of something to the other

From this reading Though the youth who had distinguished himself by unruliness at Eton, whose views of life had come to him chiefly from morbid romances, whose natural perversity disposed him to revolt against control of every kind, was far more likely to abuse the liberty and privileges of the academic course than to employ them to his advantage, the conditions are conceivable under which he would have passed through the University with honour--or at least without discredit.

an instance or single occasion for some event

From this reading Hogg's Toryism--Shelley's Liberalism--In Hogg's Rooms--Shelley's Looks and Voice--Patron and Idolater--The Ways of Passing Time--Hogg's Reminiscences--Nocturnal Readings and Conversations--Country about Oxford--Pistol Practice--Playing with Paper Boats--Windmill and Plashy Meadow--The Horror of it--Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson--University Tattle and Laughter--Eccentric Inseparables--Pond under Shotover Hill--Pacing 'The High'--Dons' Civility to Shelley--His Incivility to Dons--Uninteresting Stones and Dull People--'Partly True and Partly False'--The Fiery Hun!--'My Dear Boy'--Shelley offers his Sister to Hogg in Marriage--Hogg entertains the Proposal--End of Term.

used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive

From this reading Hogg's Toryism--Shelley's Liberalism--In Hogg's Rooms--Shelley's Looks and Voice--Patron and Idolater--The Ways of Passing Time--Hogg's Reminiscences--Nocturnal Readings and Conversations--Country about Oxford--Pistol Practice--Playing with Paper Boats--Windmill and Plashy Meadow--The Horror of it--Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson--University Tattle and Laughter--Eccentric Inseparables--Pond under Shotover Hill--Pacing 'The High'--Dons' Civility to Shelley--His Incivility to Dons--Uninteresting Stones and Dull People--'Partly True and Partly False'--The Fiery Hun!--'My Dear Boy'--Shelley offers his Sister to Hogg in Marriage--Hogg entertains the Proposal--End of Term.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading Hogg's Toryism--Shelley's Liberalism--In Hogg's Rooms--Shelley's Looks and Voice--Patron and Idolater--The Ways of Passing Time--Hogg's Reminiscences--Nocturnal Readings and Conversations--Country about Oxford--Pistol Practice--Playing with Paper Boats--Windmill and Plashy Meadow--The Horror of it--Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson--University Tattle and Laughter--Eccentric Inseparables--Pond under Shotover Hill--Pacing 'The High'--Dons' Civility to Shelley--His Incivility to Dons--Uninteresting Stones and Dull People--'Partly True and Partly False'--The Fiery Hun!--'My Dear Boy'--Shelley offers his Sister to Hogg in Marriage--Hogg entertains the Proposal--End of Term.

consistent with fact or reality; not false

From this reading Hogg's Toryism--Shelley's Liberalism--In Hogg's Rooms--Shelley's Looks and Voice--Patron and Idolater--The Ways of Passing Time--Hogg's Reminiscences--Nocturnal Readings and Conversations--Country about Oxford--Pistol Practice--Playing with Paper Boats--Windmill and Plashy Meadow--The Horror of it--Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson--University Tattle and Laughter--Eccentric Inseparables--Pond under Shotover Hill--Pacing 'The High'--Dons' Civility to Shelley--His Incivility to Dons--Uninteresting Stones and Dull People--'Partly True and Partly False'--The Fiery Hun!--'My Dear Boy'--Shelley offers his Sister to Hogg in Marriage--Hogg entertains the Proposal--End of Term.

below or beneath something; less than

From this reading Hogg's Toryism--Shelley's Liberalism--In Hogg's Rooms--Shelley's Looks and Voice--Patron and Idolater--The Ways of Passing Time--Hogg's Reminiscences--Nocturnal Readings and Conversations--Country about Oxford--Pistol Practice--Playing with Paper Boats--Windmill and Plashy Meadow--The Horror of it--Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson--University Tattle and Laughter--Eccentric Inseparables--Pond under Shotover Hill--Pacing 'The High'--Dons' Civility to Shelley--His Incivility to Dons--Uninteresting Stones and Dull People--'Partly True and Partly False'--The Fiery Hun!--'My Dear Boy'--Shelley offers his Sister to Hogg in Marriage--Hogg entertains the Proposal--End of Term.

arousing no interest or attention or curiosity or excitement

From this reading Hogg's Toryism--Shelley's Liberalism--In Hogg's Rooms--Shelley's Looks and Voice--Patron and Idolater--The Ways of Passing Time--Hogg's Reminiscences--Nocturnal Readings and Conversations--Country about Oxford--Pistol Practice--Playing with Paper Boats--Windmill and Plashy Meadow--The Horror of it--Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson--University Tattle and Laughter--Eccentric Inseparables--Pond under Shotover Hill--Pacing 'The High'--Dons' Civility to Shelley--His Incivility to Dons--Uninteresting Stones and Dull People--'Partly True and Partly False'--The Fiery Hun!--'My Dear Boy'--Shelley offers his Sister to Hogg in Marriage--Hogg entertains the Proposal--End of Term.

the body of faculty and students at a university

From this reading Hogg's Toryism--Shelley's Liberalism--In Hogg's Rooms--Shelley's Looks and Voice--Patron and Idolater--The Ways of Passing Time--Hogg's Reminiscences--Nocturnal Readings and Conversations--Country about Oxford--Pistol Practice--Playing with Paper Boats--Windmill and Plashy Meadow--The Horror of it--Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson--University Tattle and Laughter--Eccentric Inseparables--Pond under Shotover Hill--Pacing 'The High'--Dons' Civility to Shelley--His Incivility to Dons--Uninteresting Stones and Dull People--'Partly True and Partly False'--The Fiery Hun!--'My Dear Boy'--Shelley offers his Sister to Hogg in Marriage--Hogg entertains the Proposal--End of Term.

the trait of being prone to disobedience and lack of discipline

From this reading Though the youth who had distinguished himself by unruliness at Eton, whose views of life had come to him chiefly from morbid romances, whose natural perversity disposed him to revolt against control of every kind, was far more likely to abuse the liberty and privileges of the academic course than to employ them to his advantage, the conditions are conceivable under which he would have passed through the University with honour--or at least without discredit.

a formal word for “on”

From this reading Though I have spoken warmly of Hogg's general honesty, and resent the calumnies that have been rained down upon him in the grave, I must admit that Hogg's friendship was so injurious that it might almost be called disastrous to the Oxonian Shelley.

plural of “view” — a way of regarding situations or topics etc.

From this reading Though the youth who had distinguished himself by unruliness at Eton, whose views of life had come to him chiefly from morbid romances, whose natural perversity disposed him to revolt against control of every kind, was far more likely to abuse the liberty and privileges of the academic course than to employ them to his advantage, the conditions are conceivable under which he would have passed through the University with honour--or at least without discredit.

the distinctive quality or pitch or condition of a person's speech

From this reading Hogg's Toryism--Shelley's Liberalism--In Hogg's Rooms--Shelley's Looks and Voice--Patron and Idolater--The Ways of Passing Time--Hogg's Reminiscences--Nocturnal Readings and Conversations--Country about Oxford--Pistol Practice--Playing with Paper Boats--Windmill and Plashy Meadow--The Horror of it--Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson--University Tattle and Laughter--Eccentric Inseparables--Pond under Shotover Hill--Pacing 'The High'--Dons' Civility to Shelley--His Incivility to Dons--Uninteresting Stones and Dull People--'Partly True and Partly False'--The Fiery Hun!--'My Dear Boy'--Shelley offers his Sister to Hogg in Marriage--Hogg entertains the Proposal--End of Term.

in a hearty manner

From this reading Though I have spoken warmly of Hogg's general honesty, and resent the calumnies that have been rained down upon him in the grave, I must admit that Hogg's friendship was so injurious that it might almost be called disastrous to the Oxonian Shelley.

the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun

From this reading Though I have spoken warmly of Hogg's general honesty, and resent the calumnies that have been rained down upon him in the grave, I must admit that Hogg's friendship was so injurious that it might almost be called disastrous to the Oxonian Shelley.

structure consisting of a sloping way down to the water from the place where ships are built or repaired

From this reading Hogg's Toryism--Shelley's Liberalism--In Hogg's Rooms--Shelley's Looks and Voice--Patron and Idolater--The Ways of Passing Time--Hogg's Reminiscences--Nocturnal Readings and Conversations--Country about Oxford--Pistol Practice--Playing with Paper Boats--Windmill and Plashy Meadow--The Horror of it--Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson--University Tattle and Laughter--Eccentric Inseparables--Pond under Shotover Hill--Pacing 'The High'--Dons' Civility to Shelley--His Incivility to Dons--Uninteresting Stones and Dull People--'Partly True and Partly False'--The Fiery Hun!--'My Dear Boy'--Shelley offers his Sister to Hogg in Marriage--Hogg entertains the Proposal--End of Term.

used to introduce two or more possibilities

From this reading It depended chiefly on the friendships he should form immediately upon coming into residence at his college, whether, taking a new moral and intellectual 'departure' he would disappoint the evil promise of his Eton days, or whether he would persist in the perversities in which he had been encouraged by Dr. Lind.

used to introduce a clause giving more about a thing just mentioned

From this reading Though the youth who had distinguished himself by unruliness at Eton, whose views of life had come to him chiefly from morbid romances, whose natural perversity disposed him to revolt against control of every kind, was far more likely to abuse the liberty and privileges of the academic course than to employ them to his advantage, the conditions are conceivable under which he would have passed through the University with honour--or at least without discredit.

which person or people

From this reading Though the youth who had distinguished himself by unruliness at Eton, whose views of life had come to him chiefly from morbid romances, whose natural perversity disposed him to revolt against control of every kind, was far more likely to abuse the liberty and privileges of the academic course than to employ them to his advantage, the conditions are conceivable under which he would have passed through the University with honour--or at least without discredit.

belonging to which person

From this reading Though the youth who had distinguished himself by unruliness at Eton, whose views of life had come to him chiefly from morbid romances, whose natural perversity disposed him to revolt against control of every kind, was far more likely to abuse the liberty and privileges of the academic course than to employ them to his advantage, the conditions are conceivable under which he would have passed through the University with honour--or at least without discredit.

a mill that is powered by the wind

From this reading Hogg's Toryism--Shelley's Liberalism--In Hogg's Rooms--Shelley's Looks and Voice--Patron and Idolater--The Ways of Passing Time--Hogg's Reminiscences--Nocturnal Readings and Conversations--Country about Oxford--Pistol Practice--Playing with Paper Boats--Windmill and Plashy Meadow--The Horror of it--Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson--University Tattle and Laughter--Eccentric Inseparables--Pond under Shotover Hill--Pacing 'The High'--Dons' Civility to Shelley--His Incivility to Dons--Uninteresting Stones and Dull People--'Partly True and Partly False'--The Fiery Hun!--'My Dear Boy'--Shelley offers his Sister to Hogg in Marriage--Hogg entertains the Proposal--End of Term.

in the company of; together with

From this reading Hogg's Toryism--Shelley's Liberalism--In Hogg's Rooms--Shelley's Looks and Voice--Patron and Idolater--The Ways of Passing Time--Hogg's Reminiscences--Nocturnal Readings and Conversations--Country about Oxford--Pistol Practice--Playing with Paper Boats--Windmill and Plashy Meadow--The Horror of it--Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson--University Tattle and Laughter--Eccentric Inseparables--Pond under Shotover Hill--Pacing 'The High'--Dons' Civility to Shelley--His Incivility to Dons--Uninteresting Stones and Dull People--'Partly True and Partly False'--The Fiery Hun!--'My Dear Boy'--Shelley offers his Sister to Hogg in Marriage--Hogg entertains the Proposal--End of Term.

not having, not using, or not accompanied by

From this reading Though the youth who had distinguished himself by unruliness at Eton, whose views of life had come to him chiefly from morbid romances, whose natural perversity disposed him to revolt against control of every kind, was far more likely to abuse the liberty and privileges of the academic course than to employ them to his advantage, the conditions are conceivable under which he would have passed through the University with honour--or at least without discredit.

used for something imagined, polite, or habitual in the past

From this reading Though the youth who had distinguished himself by unruliness at Eton, whose views of life had come to him chiefly from morbid romances, whose natural perversity disposed him to revolt against control of every kind, was far more likely to abuse the liberty and privileges of the academic course than to employ them to his advantage, the conditions are conceivable under which he would have passed through the University with honour--or at least without discredit.

a young person (especially a young man or boy)

From this reading Though the youth who had distinguished himself by unruliness at Eton, whose views of life had come to him chiefly from morbid romances, whose natural perversity disposed him to revolt against control of every kind, was far more likely to abuse the liberty and privileges of the academic course than to employ them to his advantage, the conditions are conceivable under which he would have passed through the University with honour--or at least without discredit.