Termed

Examples

• Then I don't understand,' pursues the Father, 'how even their living beyond their means could bring them to what has been termed a total smash. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• The Ionian, he replied, and the Lydian; they are termed 'relaxed. Plato. The Republic.
• It was metal, ‘elastic metal,’ as Daniel Webster termed it, that could be wound round the finger, or tied into a knot, and which preserved its elasticity like steel. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• And so, by the dog of Egypt, we have been unconsciously purging the State, which not long ago we termed luxurious. Plato. The Republic.
• And things great and small, heavy and light, as they are termed, will not be denoted by these any more than by the opposite names? Plato. The Republic.
• These are termed bridge hooks and are for the purpose of having the cue-bridge ready of access for the players when necessary. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• What has been termed active occupation includes both play and work. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• What is termed development is the gradual making explicit and outward of what is thus wrapped up. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Prior Aymer also assented to the general proposition, observing, however, That the blessed Jerusalem could not indeed be termed a foreign country. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• This aspect is chiefly visible in what is termed the higher education--that of the college and of preparation for it. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The original could not have been what is generally termed 'a woman of spirit. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• As setting forth the problem, they may well be termed particulars, for they are fragmentary. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The image thus impressed was what is termed a negative, the dark parts which excluded the light being left white on the paper, and the parts through which the light passed being darkened. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• That night I issued orders for opening the route to Bridgeport--a cracker line, as the soldiers appropriately termed it. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• These are termed light-duty appliances, as they operate from the light socket. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• For what is termed dry copying mix about 1/3 pint of glycerine to a pint of any good black ink. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• Certain compound animals, or zoophytes, as they have been termed, namely the Polyzoa, are provided with curious organs called avicularia. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Clarke on the question of see-sawing, or hunting, as it was afterward termed: In the Holborn Viaduct station the difficulty of 'hunting' was not experienced. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• It was traced on ruled lines, in the cramped, conventional, copy-book character technically termed small hand. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Whereas he who has a taste for every sort of knowledge and who is curious to learn and is never satisfied, may be justly termed a philosopher? Plato. The Republic.
• Mr. Malone's father termed himself a gentleman: he was poor and in debt, and besottedly arrogant; and his son was like him. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• He had in one hand a lighted torch, or link, and in the other a baton of crab-tree, so thick and heavy, that it might well be termed a club. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• He has termed his invention, the art of etching the human voice. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• He left it contrary to my wish and command; and in the days of Alfred that would have been termed disobedience--ay, and a crime severely punishable. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• I had heard this woman termed plain, and I expected bony harshness and grimness--something large, angular, sallow. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• All the white beds--the lits d'ange, as they were poetically termed--lay visible at a glance; all were empty: no sleeper reposed therein. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• He termed her, in confidential dialogues with Mrs. Sympson, a truly superior person; peculiar, but very clever. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Pliny describes this machine which was used early in the first century and which might be termed a stripping header. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Mr George Sampson appears to me to be on his way, by his own admission, to a residence that may be termed Palatial. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• If Fieldhead had few other merits as a building, it might at least be termed picturesque. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.

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