[lit-ideas] Spartan Jejunity
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"Pray extend your Spartan jejunity to the length of a competent letter."
1719 BENTLEY Epist., to S. Clarke 18 Nov.,
Geary, quoting from Bentley writes:
>Turatios is jejune
Indeed. The Greeks in general were. I was reading Plotinus yesterday and I
read:
"He [Plotinus] wold not keep his own house to live in, but went the round of
his friends and acquaintances, dining at one house and sleeping at another
(but he only ate every other day)"
"deipnein, siteisthai de para mian"
--- Indeed, he would prescribe fastness as a cure for many things:
A friend of his, by fasting,
"though he had been so gouty that he had to be carried in a chair, he
regainted his health."
[ad. L. jejunus, fasting, hungry, without food, from jejunare to fast.] re:
to fasting, abstinence from food, from jejunitas, emptiness of stomach,
fasting, meagreness,.]
1623 COCKERAM, Jejunity, barrenness, or slenderness of stile.
1719 BENTLEY Epist., to S. Clarke 18 Nov.,
Pray extend your Spartan jejunity to the length of a competent letter.
1891 Sat. Rev. 5 Dec. 641/1 Criticism..exempt from impertinence and from
servility, from jejunity and from fronde.
1623 COCKERAM, Jejunation, fasting.
1632 LITHGOW Trav. x. 445 Restrained to a relenting ieiunation.
1658 in PHILLIPS.
1619 M. FOTHERBY Atheom. II. ii. §2 (1622) 199
When their Bellies are distended, and full; yet their appetites are ieiune,
and emptie.
1670 J. BEALE in Phil. Trans. V. 1162
Poor and jejune people, who are accustomed to drinks almost as weak as
water.
1754 J. MCLAURIN Serm. & Ess. (1755) 156
That cold, jejune, lifeless frame.
1846 LANDOR Wks. II. 157/2
For these forty good verses you will pardon, ‘After forty days' fasting had
remained’... Very much like the progress of Milton himself in this jejunery.
1626 BACON Sylva §799
The Ieiunenesse or extreme Comminution of Spirits.
1703 Art Vintners & Wine-Coopers 5
The grand and proxim Cause seems to be their Jejuneness and poverty of
Spirits.
1655 FULLER Ch. Hist. VIII. i. §41
Many much admiring the jejunenesse of his discourse.
1796 BURKE Let. to Noble Lord Wks. VIII. 48
The jejuneness and penury of our municipal law.
1886 STUBBS Lect. Hist. xv. 339
The pages of the annalist, where there are any, are so dull that we scarcely
complain of their jejuneness.
1646 SIR T. BROWNE Pseud. Ep. III. xxi. 162
Jejune or limpid water, and nearer the simplicity of its Element.
1652 J. SMITH Sel. Disc. v. 146
Those jejune and insipid morsels.
1696 WHISTON The. Earth IV. (1722) 352
They might never see such a Poor, Jejune, and Degenerate State of the
Vegetable Kingdom.
1708 J. PHILIPS Cyder I. 54
Not from the sable ground expect success, Nor from cretaceous, stubborn and
jejune.
1833 J. RENNIE Alph. Angling 5 That they [fish] are best pleased with such
jejune diet may easily be confuted.
1615 [implied in JEJUNELY].
1647 H. MORE Song of Soul II. iii. I. xiii, Jejune exilities.
1652 J. SMITH Sel. Disc. ii. 41
A forced and jejune devotion, void of inward life and love.
1656-63 BULLOKAR Eng. Expos. s.v.,
When we say of an Oration, Sermon, or any Discourse, that it is Jejune, we
mean Sorry, paltry, and very dangerous stuff.
1671 R. BOHUN Wind 49
Have employed so much time in such empty and jejune speculations.
1705 BERKELEY Comm.-pl. Bk. Wks. 1871 IV. 478
The short jejune way in mathematiques will not do in metaphysiques.
1758 BLACKSTONE in Comm. I. 16
He gives what seems..a very jejune and unsatisfactory reason.
1818 HALLAM Mid. Ages iii. I. (1872) I. 395 The chroniclers of those times
are few and jejune.
1898 G. B. SHAW Arms & Man II. 29
His jejune credulity as to the absolute value of his concepts.
1975 Economist 22 Nov. 14/1
Is anybody..now so jejune as not to realise that the state ownership of the
deadweight of present nationalised industries must prevent Labour governments
from being able to follow..their social policies.
1982 N.Y. Times Mag. 8 Aug. 10 Other people..write in to correct you if you
define the word..‘jejune’ as ‘childish’.
1982 M. HOWARD Eppie (1983) xxxiii. 271 Mother seemed jejune, at times,
with her enthusiasms and her sense of mission.
4. jejune gut: = JEJUNUM. Obs.
1696 PHILLIPS (ed. 5), Jejune Gut, the second of the small Guts, so called,
because it is frequently empty.
1615 E. HOBY Curry-Combe ii. 100
The Knight saw how Ieiunely his Aduersary pleaded for Purgatory.
1665 BOYLE New Exp. Cold Pref., Wks. 1772 II. 475
Other learned writers..have handled it exceedingly jejunely.
1805 SYD. SMITH Elem. Sk. Mor. Philos. (1850) 170.
1850 SIR H. TAYLOR Sicil. Summer I. ii, And teach us, not jejunely what we
are, But what we may be when the Parian block Yields to the hand of Phidias.
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