Meaning of CHAUCER
| Pronunciation: | | 'chosur
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| | Definition: | | [n] English poet remembered as author of the Canterbury Tales (1340-1400) |
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| | Synonyms: | | Geoffrey Chaucer |
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| | See Also: | | poet | |
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| | Definition: | | Chaucer
A full-length portrayal of Chaucer's life and works of fourteenth-century England examines the poets youth, his service to the king in France and Italy, his family life, and his late years, and demonstrates how his work is the key to his life more details ... |
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A plighted garment of divers colors. --Milton.
He was but rude in the profession of arms. --Sir H.
Wotton.
the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep. --Gray.
(c) Violent; tumultuous; boisterous; inclement; harsh;
severe; -- said of the weather, of storms, and the
like; as, the rude winter.
[Clouds] pushed with winds, rude in their shock.
--Milton.
The rude agitation [of water] breaks it into
foam. --Boyle.
(d) Barbarous; fierce; bloody; impetuous; -- said of war,
conflict, and the like; as, the rude shock of armies.
(e) Not finished or complete; inelegant; lacking
chasteness or elegance; not in good taste;
unsatisfactory in mode of treatment; -- said of
literature, language, style, and the like. ``The rude
Irish books.'' --Spenser.
Rude am I in my speech. --Shak.
Unblemished by my rude translation. --Dryden.
Syn: Impertinent; rough; uneven; shapeless; unfashioned;
rugged; artless; unpolished; uncouth; inelegant; rustic;
coarse; vulgar; clownish; raw; unskillful; untaught;
illiterate; ignorant; uncivil; impolite; saucy;
impudent; insolent; surly; currish; churlish; brutal;
uncivilized; barbarous; savage; violent; fierce;
tumultuous; turbulent; impetuous; boisterous; harsh;
inclement; severe. See {Impertiment}. -- {Rude"ly}, adv.
-- {Rude"ness}, n.
2. To eject; to throw out; to belch.
Note: Spitted was sometimes used as the preterit and the past
participle. ``He . . . shall be mocked, and spitefully
entreated, and spitted on.'' --Luke xviii. 32.
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