[lit-ideas] "Beautiful Understandings" (Was: "Bodies That Matter")
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 14:25:35 EDT
In a message dated 4/21/2009 12:33:26 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
wokshevs@xxxxxx writes:
The English also harbours an important dimension: to "understand" is to
"stand under" and support the intelligibility and/or application of a
concept,
principle or event.
--- or body.
As Aristotle ably observed in "Parts of Animals, viii",
"you shall be surprised that all animals in the world --
except my old cat -- has a number of limbs which is
odd, never even."
understandings:
b. pl. Legs or feet.
1828 Lancet 22 March 920/1
His plump, well-formed, little ‘understandings’ twinkling in the lustre of
black silk hose.
1844 ‘JONATHAN SLICK’ High Life N. York II. 58
She had on a short petticoat that showed a..considerable chunk of
understandings.
1856 ‘STONEHENGE’ Brit. Rur. Sports 381/2
Discount was..the perfection of a strong, well-bred horse,..if only his
understandings had been sound.
JLS
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