A Shapely and Handsome Fable, chapter 3

Shapely Timaeus remembers a day God spoke and people could hear. A capable She God there was too, a nurse and instructress, lover of wisdom and delicate celestial warps. ■More

A Shapely and Handsome Fable, chapter 2

Both Shapely and Handsome supposed the spiritual world existed before the partible nature, and both indicated that human souls in afterlife are spiritual as can be. ■More

A Shapely and Handsome Fable, chapter 1

Hear ye a fable, let a fable be announced: Words may refer, translate within same tongue, as love or hate, and affinity or contest, in the physical world. ■More

Wycliffe Gloss, Abashed: scared, afraid

Joshua 2:9. I have known it is for you the Lord takes this land; for your ghastliness has fallen onto us, and all the inhabitants of the land have been scared. Wycliffe Gloss→

Wycliffe Gloss, Abece: alphabet

1 Kings, Prologue: But the psalms thirty-sixth, and the hundred tenth, and the hundred eleventh, and the hundred eighteenth psalm, and the hundred forty-fourth, though they were written in diverse meter, nonetheless they were suited with an alphabet in the same style. Wycliffe Gloss→

Wycliffe Gloss, Abide: await

Leviticus 19:13. You will not make false allegations against your neighbor, nor will you force him down. The pay of your hired man will not await with you until morning. More→

Wycliffe Gloss, Aboute-waiter: attendant

Psalms, 30:7. You hate attendants to vanity of vanities. Wycliffe Gloss→

Wycliffe Gloss, Abreggen: reduce

Ecclesiasticus 28:10. Abstain from strife, and you shall reduce sin. More→

Wycliffe Gloss, Acorden: agree

Exodus 39:17-19 . In truth, they placed the rings on each side of the breast plate, where two golden chains should hang, set in with hooks in the edges of the shoulder cloak. The elements in the front and in the back agreed so, that the cloak and the breast piece could be drawn together straight to the girdle, coupled strong with the rings, to which a buckle of hyacinth joined, lest they might unbind and slide down and apart, as the Lord commanded Moses. Wycliffe Gloss→

Wycliffe Gloss, Acquenched: perished

Deeds of Apostles, Prologue: To him, not without merit, the power to write the deeds of the apostles was given in ministry, as God was in Godful, and the sons of the lost and perished had made a prayer of the apostles, that through the lot of God's appointment the number of apostles should be fulfilled, and so Paul should give fulfillment to the apostles' deeds. Wycliffe Gloss→

Wycliffe Gloss, Actour: minder

Galatians 4:3. Say I, as long as the heir is a little child, he does not differ from a subordinate, when he is a lord of all, but he is under tutors and minders, until the time determined by his father. Wycliffe Gloss→

Wycliffe Gloss, Acumblid, Aclumsid: inept

Jeremiah, 6:24. We have heard the laud for them, and inept have been our hands, tribulation has taken us, we are sore as the one laboring with a child. Wycliffe Gloss→

Wycliffe Gloss, Agrisen: to shudder at

Job, 19:17. My wife shuddered at my breath, and I prayed for the sons of my lap. Wycliffe Gloss→

Wycliffe Gloss, Algat: anyone, anyhow

Genesis, 33:15. Esau answered, I beseech you, may anyone of the people who are with me live your way. Wycliffe Gloss→

Philology

Love of mind and language is the sense of this human activity. There is no requirement for a sentimentalist flair: love is simply an elegant shape of a word. Regarding an idea ugly as a mind without natural language — love is dainty. ■More