hospitality
Besides denoting entertainment and reception of guests, hospitality has been used to refer to the "admission of correspondence" in a newspaper, and imprisonment (as in the metonymic phrase "to partake of Her Majesty's hospitality").
Besides denoting entertainment and reception of guests, hospitality has been used to refer to the "admission of correspondence" in a newspaper, and imprisonment (as in the metonymic phrase "to partake of Her Majesty's hospitality").
drop
"So thick a drop serene hath quenched their orbs, / Or dim suffusion veiled" (Paradise Lost III.25). Milton speaks of his own blindness as he composes PL. "Drop serene" is a translation from the Latin "gutta serena" which literally translates to "clear drop." It was a more specific synonym for the medical term amaurosis, which refers to a loss of sight without any observable, external change in the eye. "Gutta serena" can also be figurative, as when Hardy writes "She was in a state of mental gutta serena" (Far from the Madding Crowd).
"So thick a drop serene hath quenched their orbs, / Or dim suffusion veiled" (Paradise Lost III.25). Milton speaks of his own blindness as he composes PL. "Drop serene" is a translation from the Latin "gutta serena" which literally translates to "clear drop." It was a more specific synonym for the medical term amaurosis, which refers to a loss of sight without any observable, external change in the eye. "Gutta serena" can also be figurative, as when Hardy writes "She was in a state of mental gutta serena" (Far from the Madding Crowd).
