[HPFGU-OTChatter] Dictioanries (was Re: Slash and homosexuality)

[Kathryn Cawte]

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From: HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com
Date: 15 January 2003 23:38:25
To: HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [HPFGU-OTChatter] Dictioanries (was Re: Slash and
homosexuality)

Dictionary.com is pretty good. It searches several online 
dictionaries (no OED, sad to say - I need a subscription to that) and turns 
up the results for all of them. For "courtliness", I got:

Suitable for a royal court; stately: courtly furniture and pictures.
Elegant; refined: courtly manners.
Flattering in an insincere way; obsequious.

These come from the American Heritage Dictionary. There are a 
couple more definitions as well, but this was the most concise.

Hope this helps!

Sushi

Yeah I noticed the OED needs a subscription - it's a pity because that would
have sat well in my bibliography of academic sources a lot better than
something I hadn't heard of. A decent definition from someone like Websters
would have been adequate.
That's not a bad definition, still not quite what I had been looking for but
that's fine because I actually spent 1500 words of the essay defing what I
thought the question was looking for when it said courtliness and waht a
court was anyway.
*reads that back* You know I think Bill Clinton might have made a good
medieval historian what with his redifinition of every word in the questions
people asked him - I'm beginning to understand why I enjoy analysing details
of the potterverse to destruction too.

K
History Geek and proud of it