Do we say desperate or disparate

desperate 3908 occurrences

And when the Tartars had subdued a great part of the world, they came vnto the sayd olde man, and tooke from him the custody of his paradise: who being incensed thereat, sent abroad diuers desperate and resolute persons out of his forenamed paradise, and caused many of the Tartarian nobles to be slaine.

The battle which took place was one of the most desperate and bloody of the war.

I knew that he meant Mr. Maskew, and recollected that some had warned the magistrate that he had better keep out of Elzevir's way, for there was no knowing what a desperate man might do.

In the eyes of very young people, and very dull old ones, there is something indescribably reckless and desperate in such a picture.

Nay, Madam, [turning to Mrs. Moore,]Indeed, Madam, [to Miss Rawlins,] I am quite desperate.

illustrates the contrary by many examples: as of him that thought himself a shellfish, of a nun, and of a desperate monk that would not be persuaded but that he was damned; reason was in fault as well as imagination, which did not correct this error: they make away themselves oftentimes, and suppose many absurd and ridiculous things.

Argentine; as when a desperate man makes away with himself, which by hanging or drowning they frequently do, as Kommanus observes, de mirac.

Out of this root of envy spring those feral branches of faction, hatred, livor, emulation, which cause the like grievances, and are, serrae animae, the saws of the soul, consternationis pleni affectus, affections full of desperate amazement; or as Cyprian describes emulation, it is "a moth of the soul, a consumption, to make another man's happiness his misery, to torture, crucify, and execute himself, to eat his own heart.

Many masters are hard-hearted, and bitter to their servants, and by that means do so deject, with terrible speeches and hard usage so crucify them, that they become desperate, and can never be recalled.

hath such another, almost in despair, after his mother's departure, ut se ferme praecipitatem daret; and ready through distraction to make away himself: and in his Fifteenth counsel, tells a story of one fifty years of age, "that grew desperate upon his mother's death;" and cured by Fallopius, fell many years after into a relapse, by the sudden death of a daughter which he had, and could never after be recovered.

This seems a desperate promise, and beyond it I will not, cannot go; for, at best, as the old philosopher said, I am dying at my ease, as my complaint has taken a consumptive turn.

I have few words, but I look at them in as pleasant a way as I know how, partly because I like to be friends with servants, and partly because I'm rather afraid of them and don't want to rouse them to Mutiny or do anything desperate, but Boggley discouraged me at the outset.

"These captains always have their enemies, who are desperate fellows and ready to do almost anything to injure them.

" "I hardly think there's anybody desperate enough to do that kind of a trick, for it would be a case of suicide.

Then I have known men desperate enough to commit suicide if they could destroy an enemy at the same time.

But the trouble is desperate, Bosio.

It is desperate!"

"Desperate, I tell you!"

The case is desperate, and I am desperate, too" "Do not say it" "Then say that you will marry Veronica, and save us all, and bring peace into the housefor my sake, Bosiofor me!" She leaned forward, and her hands met upon her knee in something like a gesture of supplication, while she sought his eyes.

The case is desperate, and I am desperate, too" "Do not say it" "Then say that you will marry Veronica, and save us all, and bring peace into the housefor my sake, Bosiofor me!" She leaned forward, and her hands met upon her knee in something like a gesture of supplication, while she sought his eyes.

Mine would be between a few drops of morphia and the galleys,a thousand times more desperate than yours, it seems to me!"

Bosio, seated at a little distance, looked on, his brain still disturbed by what had gone before, and wondering at Matilde's power of seeming at her ease in such a desperate situation; wondering, too, at his brother's hard, cold facethe mask that had so well hidden the passion of the gambler, and perhaps many other passions as well, of which even Bosio knew nothing, nor cared to know anything, having secrets of his own to keep.

She had seen how desperate she looked and had put a little rouge upon her cheeks so deftly and artistically that the young girl did not at first detect the deception.

He 's been fooled on the iron, and fooled on the oysters, and he 's that disgusted he 's liable to do 'most anything desperate.

Now they saw that their situation was more desperate than they thought possible.

disparate 21 occurrences

And yet there the challenging fact remained that confidential relations had been established between the disparate pair.

Adj. dissimilar, unlike, disparate; divergent; of a different kind; &c (class) 75 unmatched, unique; new, novel; unprecedented &c 83; original.

Adj. unequal, uneven, disparate, partial; unbalanced, overbalanced; top-heavy, lopsided, biased, skewed; disquiparant^.

Adj. disjoined &c v.; discontinuous &c 70; multipartite^, abstract; disjunctive; secant; isolated &c v.; insular, separate, disparate, discrete, apart, asunder, far between, loose, free; unattached, unannexed, unassociated, unconnected; distinct; adrift; straggling; rift, reft^. [capable of being cut] scissile [Chem], divisible, discerptible^, partible, separable.

And the former we shall best learn by recapitulating those constituents of the total man which are either contrary to, or disparate from, the reason. I. Reason, and the proper objects of reason, are wholly alien from sensation.

God is triune only as the Creator of the world, and in relation to it; in himself he is absolute unity and infinity, to which nothing disparate stands opposed, which is just as much all things as not all things, and which, as the Areopagite had taught of old, is better comprehended by negations than by affirmations.

The second difficulty concerns their applicability to phenomena, which are wholly disparate.

Disparate representations, those, that is, which belong to different representative series, as the visual image of a rose and the auditory image of the word rose, or as the sensations yellow, hard, round, ringing, connected in the concept gold piece, enter into complications [complexes].

They are both phenomenal modes of the unknowable, disparate in themselves, and giving no indication of the ultimate nature of the absolute.

But a rich surface of age has already formed on all these disparate buildings, and the over-gorgeous details of the shrines and fountains set in their outer walls are blended into harmony by a film of incense-smoke, and the grease of countless venerating lips and hands.

et disparate inspire alors la pitié plus que les haillons du pauvre, on sent que vous êtes déplacé au grand air, et que votre livrée vous écrase.

An objection has been urged against the adoption of political reasoning either implicitly or explicitly quantitative, that it involves the balancing against each other of things essentially disparate.

There are extremes not only too remote but too disparate to be included in the same life.

Il affecta de se montrer en scène un des premiers; et pour le faire avec éclat, il donna dans Lille en 1453 une fête splendide et pompeuse, ou plutôt un grand spectacle à machines, fort bizarre dans son ensemble, fort disparate dans la multitude de ses parties, mais le plus étonnant de ceux de ce genre que nous ait transmis l'histoire.

Some Greek sophists could deny that we may say that man is good, for man, they said, means only man, and good means only good, and the word is can't be construed to identify such disparate meanings.

And you hasten to assemble images as many and as disparate as possible, believing that you are drinking life at its fountain head.

Necessarily a civilization is composed of more or less disparate segments, each one (before its inclusion in the collective whole) maintaining a large measure of sovereign independence.

Qué disparate, sino que anoche cabalmente ni siquiera hojeé un libro.

¡Qué disparate!

¡Qué disparate!

Qué disparate; una cosa es hacer telégrafos por entre las ventanas, y otra cosa es casarse.

Do we say   desperate   or  disparate