Painting vs. gilding the lily

[nancylebov]

I'm currently in a discussion in rec.arts.sf.written about whether it's important to say "painting the lily" (the actual Shakespeare quote) rather than the more common (in both senses) "gilding the lily".

Do you care whether people use the original quote? Have you ever been around people who did?

Comments

[nancylebov.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the new word. Do you have any idea when it went out of use? I'm not sure that I've seen it before, though it might be lurking somewhere in E.R. Eddison.

Fard can also mean
(Arabic, 'alone'). One who, in Islam, is filled with the realization of truth and illumination on his own-i.e. without belonging to a community or *Sufi order. It is even possible that such a person might not belong to a religion derived from revelation at all, receiving the gift directly from God.

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Thanks for the new word. Do you have any idea when it went out of use? I'm not sure that I've seen it before, though it might be lurking somewhere in E.R. Eddison.

Fard can also mean
(Arabic, 'alone'). One who, in Islam, is filled with the realization of truth and illumination on his own-i.e. without belonging to a community or *Sufi order. It is even possible that such a person might not belong to a religion derived from revelation at all, receiving the gift directly from God.
<a=href"www.bloomington.in.us/~okolicko/definitions.html">link</a>

However, <a=href"http://www.wordiq.com/definition/List_of_Islamic_terms_in_Arabic.html">link</a> has it that
fard means "obligatory, you have to do it. praying 5 times a day is fard".

That's a nice icon you've got there, with a longer loop than most--did you have to do anything special to have that many images?

[snippy]

I got that word from the SCA via my husband, who was active in it when he lived on the east coast. I'm not sure when it went out of use, but my boss has a compact Oxford and I'll check when I get to work.

Your html is broken on the links you gave. After the "a" you need a space instead of an equals sign, then after the "href" you need the equals sign before the quote marks.

The icon...I didn't make it! polyfrog had it, and I asked him if I could steal it, and he said sure. It's a capture from a tv show.

And in case you don't recognize me, I know you from rasf, where snippy is my part of my email address.

[nancylebov.livejournal.com]

Thanks--it was obviously excessive optimism when when I thought I could do the tags from memory. How do I access a comment to edit it?

[snippy]

According to the FAQ, you can't edit comments. You could copy the text to a text editor, delete the comment, then re-comment with the corrected text; but if it were me I'd skip it. Anybody that wants to follow the links can still do so.

[snippy]

Okay, I checked the Compact Oxford. It's listed as Obs. (obsolete) but doesn't say when it went out of use; the first use is 1450. There's a secondary definition meaning "to embellish or gloss over".