Gresset in de Oxford English
Dictionary
pensionnaire 'A junior member of
the Comédie Française'
1842 Times 9 May 6/3
On her first entrance, as
Vert-Vert, surrounded by the pensionnaires, ...the curiosity of the
audience was tickled.
pre-announce
1793 tr. [zie onder] J. B. Gresset Ver-Vert 45
Yet nothing preannounc'd our Hero's
doom:
no dismal omen spoke an early tomb.
prebendal
1759 J. G. Cooper tr. J. B. Gresset Ver-vert iv.
47
No sleek prebendal priest could be
More thoroughly devout than he.
psalmodizing
1759 J. G. Cooper tr. J. B. Gresset Ver-vert ii.
19
In short, the Bird perform'd his part
In all the psalmodizing art [F. Ver-Vert
savait par cœur Tout ce que sait une mère de chœur].
recall
1759 J. G. Cooper tr. J. B. Gresset Ver-vert iv.
47
There the blest day of his recall
Is annually a festival.
replough
1793 A. Geddes tr. J. B. Gresset Ver-Vert (ed.
2) iv. 39
The vessel stood Unmoor'd, and ready to
replough the flood.
rigidist
1793 A. Geddes tr. J. B. Gresset Ver-Vert (ed. 2)
iv. 43 (note)
Two celebrated rigidists of the last
century.
scholar
1836 F. Mahony tr. Gresset in Rel. Father Prout I.
309
Thus for a time did Vert-Vert dwell
Safe in this holy citadelle;
Scholared like any well-bred abbé,
And loved by many a cloistered Hebé.
septuagenarian
1793 A. Geddes tr. J. B. Gresset Ver-Vert (ed. 2)
41
A sulky, sour, septagenarian [sic] maid
Is made the keeper of the Renegade.
soliloquize
1759 J. G. Cooper tr. J. B. Gresset Ver-vert ii.
18
He could ...at a proper time and place
Religiously soliloquise.
wad
1759 J. G. Cooper tr. J. B. Gresset Ver-vert iv.
48
His skin with sugar being wadded,
With liquid fires his entrails burn'd. |