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• extravagant — adj. VERBS ▪ be, feel, seem ▪ I go to that restaurant for lunch if I m feeling extravagant. ▪ become ADVERB ▪ particularly …   Collocations dictionary

• wildly — adv. Wildly is used with these adjectives: ↑ambitious, ↑disproportionate, ↑diverse, ↑eccentric, ↑entertaining, ↑enthusiastic, ↑erratic, ↑excessive, ↑excited, ↑exciting, ↑extravagant …   Collocations dictionary

• extravagant — [14] An extravagant person is literally one who ‘wanders out of’ the proper course. The word comes from the present participle of medieval Latin extrāvagārī, a compound formed from the prefix extrā ‘outside’ and vagārī ‘wander’ (source of English …   The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

• extravagant — [14] An extravagant person is literally one who ‘wanders out of’ the proper course. The word comes from the present participle of medieval Latin extrāvagārī, a compound formed from the prefix extrā ‘outside’ and vagārī ‘wander’ (source of English …   Word origins

• profligate — I. adjective Etymology: Latin profligatus, from past participle of profligare to strike down, from pro forward, down + fligare (akin to fligere to strike); akin to Greek phlibein to squeeze Date: 1647 1. completely given up to dissipation and… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• raving — ravingly, adv. /ray ving/, adj. 1. talking wildly; delirious; frenzied: a raving maniac. 2. Informal. extraordinary or remarkable: a raving beauty. adv. 3. furiously or wildly: a remark that made me raving mad. n. 4. Usually, ravings. a.… …   Universalium

• Imposters —     Impostors     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Impostors     Under this heading we may notice a certain number of objectionable characters who, while not of sufficient importance to claim separate treatment, have at various epochs so far achieved… …   Catholic encyclopedia

• Chauvinism — Chau vin*ism, n. [F. chauvinisme, from Nicolas Chauvin, a character represented as making grotesque and threatening displays of his attachment to his fallen chief, Napoleon I., in 1815 (in the play La Cocarde tricolor, 1831).] 1. Blind and absurd …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Chauvinist — Chauvinism Chau vin*ism, n. [F. chauvinisme, from Nicolas Chauvin, a character represented as making grotesque and threatening displays of his attachment to his fallen chief, Napoleon I., in 1815 (in the play La Cocarde tricolor, 1831).] 1. Blind …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Chauvinistic — Chauvinism Chau vin*ism, n. [F. chauvinisme, from Nicolas Chauvin, a character represented as making grotesque and threatening displays of his attachment to his fallen chief, Napoleon I., in 1815 (in the play La Cocarde tricolor, 1831).] 1. Blind …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Brennan torpedo — The Brennan torpedo, patented by Irish born Australian inventor Louis Brennan in 1877, was powered by two contra rotating propellors that were spun by rapidly pulling out wires from drums wound inside the torpedo. Differential speed on the wires… …   Wikipedia