1.Gent[leman]. Well: there went but a paire ofſheeres betweene vs. /Luc[io]. I grant: as there may betweene theLiſts, and theVeluet. Thou art theLiſt. / 1.Gent. And thou the Veluet. Thou art good Veluet; thou'rt a threepild-piece I warrant thee: I had asliefe be aLyſt of an EngliſhKerſey, as be pil'd, as thou art pil'd, for a French Veluet. Do I ſpeake feelingly now?
1st Gentleman. Well, you and I arecut from the same cloth. /Lucio. I agree: just as thelists [scraps from the edge of the cloth] and the velvet are from the same cloth. You are thelist. /1st Gentleman. And you are the velvet. You are good velvet; you are a three-piled piece, I'll bet. I would willingly be alist of an English kersey, than be full ofpiles [haemorrhoids], as you are piled, like a French velvet. Do I speak feelingly now?
“Listen! I see it all — down, down even to the stays!Such stays! Six-eight a pair, Polly, with red flannel — orlist is it? — that they put into the tops of those fearful things. I can draw you a picture of them.”
Why should we not send a message out over London which would attract to us anyone who might still be alive? I ran across, and pulling at thelist-covered rope, I was surprised to find how difficult it was to swing the bell.
Previous to the offering up of prayer, however, the persons chosen for this office [of praying for the people] had divested themselves of their boots and put onlist slippers, their hands being washed by "the descendants of Levi" at a basin near the Holy of Holies.
"How is it, then, that the woman who came into the room about nine left to traces with her muddy boots?" / "I am glad you raise the point. It occurred to me at the time. The charwomen are in the habit of taking off their boots at the commissionaire's office, and putting onlist slippers."
Natures that haue much Heat, and great and violent deſires and Perturbations, are not ripe for Action, till they haue paſſed the Meridian of their yeares: As it was withIulius Cæſar, andSeptimius Seuerus.[…] And yet he [Septimus Severus] was the Ableſt Emperour, almoſt, of all theLiſt.
"Scrooge and Marley's, I believe," said one of the gentlemen, referring to hislist. "Have I the pleasure of addressing Mr. Scrooge, or Mr. Marley?"
2013 June 29, “A punch in the gut: How microbes promote liver cancer in the overweight”, inThe Economist[2], volume407, number8842, pages72–73:
Mostly, the microbiome is beneficial.[…] Research over the past few years, however, has implicated it in diseases from atherosclerosis to asthma to autism. Dr Yoshimoto and his colleagues would like to add liver cancer to thatlist.
On pain of death, no person be so bold Or daring-hardy as to touch thelists, Except the marshal and such officers Appointed to direct these fair designs.
Ariſe, O Father of theTrojan State! / The Nations call, thy joyful People wait, / To ſeal the Truce and end the dire Debate. /Paris thy Son, andSparta’s King advance, / In meaſur’dLiſts to toſs the weighty Lance;[…]
The sun’s bright lances rout the mists of morning, and by George! Here’s Longstreet struggling in thelists, hemmed in an ugly gorge. Pope and his Yankees, whipped before, “Bay’nets and grape!” hear Stonewall roar; “Charge, Stuart! Pay off Ashby’s score!” in “Stonewall Jackson’s Way.”
Lisp is an applicative language. This means that it is structured around applying functions (operations) to a linkedlist of arguments that accompany those functions.[…] A function call or function definition is only coded in the syntax of alist, which can be of an indefinite length. Thus, thelist is the only data structure for a Lisp program.
1788,[John Carter], “STRIÆ”, inThe Builder’s Magazine: Or, A Universal Dictionary for Architects, Carpenters, Masons, Bricklayers, &c.[…], new edition, London: Printed for E. Newbery,[…],→OCLC,page284:
STRIÆ, in ancient architecture, theliſts, fillets or rays which ſeparate the ſtriges or flutings of columns.
1876, Edward Shaw,Thomas W[illiam] Silloway,George M[ilford] Harding, “Introduction”, inCivil Architecture; being a Complete Theoretical and Practical System of Building, Containing the Fundamental Principles of the Art.[…], 11th edition, Philadelphia, Pa.: Henry Carey Baird & Co.,[…],→OCLC,page22, column 2:
Avolute is a kind of spiral scroll, used in the Ionic and Composite capitals, of which it makes the principal characteristic and ornament.[…] There are several diversities practised in the volute. In some, thelist or edge, throughout all the circumvolutions, is in the same line or plane.[…] [I]n others, the canal or one circumvolution is detached from thelist of another by a vacuity or aperture.
1650,Thomas Browne, “Of the Same[i.e., the Blacknesse of Negroes]”, inPseudodoxia Epidemica:[…], 2nd edition, London:[…] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins,[…],→OCLC, 6th book,page282:
Thus the Aſſe having a peculiar mark of a croſſe made by a blackliſt down his back, and another athwart, or at right angles down his ſhoulders; common opinion aſcribes this figure unto a peculiar ſignation; ſince that beaſt had the honour to bear our Saviour on his back.
[W]ere it good /[…] to ſet ſo rich a maine / On the nice hazard of one doubtfull houre? / It were not good for therein ſhould we read / The very bottome and the ſoule of hope, / The veryliſt, the very vtmost bound / Of all our fortunes.
Is it good /[…] to place so high a stake / On the risky hazard of one doubtful hour? / No, it would be no good for we would read into it that we had reached / The end of our hope, / The verylimit, the very utmost boundary / Of all our luck.
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1993, Ooi Jin Bee, “The Tropical Rain Forest: Patterns of Exploitation and Trade”, inTropical Deforestation: The Tyranny of Time, Singapore:Singapore University Press,→ISBN,page62:
As the export market for tropical hardwoods expanded, timber from tropical rain forests very rapidly became the dominant or major forest product, dominant to such an extent that trade figures often do not evenlist the minor forest products exported, or their value.
1642 October 28,[Philip Morant],History and Antiquities of the Borough of Colchester, in the County of Essex.[…], Colchester, Essex: Printed and sold by I. Marsden,[...], published1810,→OCLC,pages48–49:
[…] It is therefore ordered that the Maior and Aldermen of Colchester [et al.], shall forthwith procure and raise in the said severall townes, and other pleces adjacent, two thousand horses for dragooners, or as manie as possible they may, for the service as aforesaid, and with all possible speed to send them up to London unto Thomas Browne Grocer, and Maximilian Beard Girdler, by us appointed tolist horses for the service aforesaid;[…]
"I have a gun, madam," said little Julian, "and the park-keeper is to teach me how to fire it next year." / "I willlist you for my soldier, then," said the Countess.
To give a building of architectural or historical interest listed status; see also the adjectivelisted.
2021 February 15, Robin Leleux, “Awards honour the best restoration projects: The London Underground Operational Enhancement Award: Hanwell”, inRAIL, number946, page55:
A century later, BR demolished the downside main buildings, so the eastbound and central platforms were promptlylisted - which has ensured their survival, albeit increasingly neglected in recent years. This has now been rectified, [...].
2024 July 13, Laura Onita, Eleanor Olcott, “Shein's master of reinvention treads tricky path to IPO”, inFT Weekend, page11:
Responsible for public affairs, business strategy, corporate development and finance, he [Donald Tang] now faces the task of getting an initial public offering over the line in London after ditching earlier plans tolist in New York in the face of US political opposition.
In discussing the Syllabus and the last dogma of 1870, so much must be allowed for Italianlist and cunning, or a word-fence. An Englishman, with his matter-of-fact way of putting things, is no match for these gentry.
Sophos, fab[le] 40. "The foxes had heard that the fowls were sick, and went to see them decked in peacock's feathers; said of men who speak friendly, but only withlist or cunning within."
1897, Lilian Winser, “Lossenbury Woods”, inLays and Legends of the Weald of Kent, London:Elkin Mathews,[…],→OCLC,page44:
For when the guileful monster smiled / Snakes left their holes and hissed,— / And stroking soft his silken beard / Raised creatures full oflist.
1990, Alexander L. Ringer, “The Rise of Urban Musical Life between the Revolutions, 1789–1848”, in Alexander[L.] Ringer, editor,The Early Romantic Era: Between Revolutions: 1789 and 1848 (Man and Music; 6), Basingstoke, Hampshire, London:The Macmillan Press,→DOI,→ISBN, figure 13, caption,page22:
'The general bass, in its fixed lines, is taken by surprise and overwhelmed byList [[Franz] Liszt]' (List = cunning); anonymous lithograph (c 1842).
1992,Reading Medieval Studies: Annual Proceedings of the Graduate Centre for Medieval Studies in the University of Reading,[Reading, Berkshire]: Graduate Centre for Medieval Studies,University of Reading,→ISSN,→OCLC, page92:
[Der] Pleier[…] provides a 'courtly corrective' to Daniel in the shape of his hero,Garel. The latter wins his fight not bylist but through straightforward knightly prowess,[…]
2000, Jakov Ljubarskij, “John Kinnamos as a Writer”, in Cordula Scholz, Georgios Makris, editors,ΠΟΛΥΠΛΕΥΡΟΣ ΝΟΥΣ[POLYPLEUROS NOUS]: Miscellanea für Peter Schreiner zu seinem 60. Geburtstag [VERSATILE MIND: Miscellanea for Peter Schreiner for His 60th Birthday] (Byzantinisches Archiv[Byzantine Archive];19), Munich, Leipzig:K[laus] G[erhard] Saur,→ISBN, footnote 11,page166:
It is worth noting that, contrary to Alexios who according to his daughter did not scruple to use any tricks to achieve his goal,Manuel [I Komnenos], as depicted by[John] Kinnamos, preferred "to win by war rather than bylist"[…].
2 [Soldier] Peace, what noiſe? / 1 [Soldier]Liſtliſt. / 2 Hearke. / 1 Music i' th' Ayre.
1860–1861, “What of the Night?”, inFrank Moore, editor,The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events, with Documents, Narratives, Illustrative Incidents, Poetry, etc., volume II, New York, N.Y.:G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam,[…], published1862,→OCLC,page96, column 1:
Welist to the trumpings that herald the storm, / To the roll of the drum, and the order to form!
1865,Sophocles, “Philoctetes”, inE[dward] H[ayes] Plumptre, transl.,The Tragedies of Sophocles: A New Translation, with a Biographical Essay, volume II, London, New York, N.Y.: Alexander Strahan, publisher,→OCLC,page247, line1267:
Thenway what loſſe your honor may ſuſtaine / If with too credent eare youliſt his ſongs / Or looſe your hart, or your chaſt treaſure open / To hisvnmaſtred importunity.
wholiſt tolyue yn quyetnes by me lett hym beware For I by highe dyſdayne ame made withoute redreſſe andvnkyndenes Alas hathe ſlayne my poore trew hart all comfortles
The winde bloweth where itliſteth, and thou heareſt the ſound thereof, but canſt not tel whence it commeth, and whither it goeth: So is euery one that is borne of the Spirit.
What! would you have us truſt to what Chriſt in his own perſon has done without us! This conceit would looſen the reines of our luſt, and tollerate us to live as weliſt: For what matter how we live, if we may be Juſtified by Chriſts perſonal righteouſneſs from all, when we believe it?
Ye are as gods, that can create soil. Soil-creating gods there is no withstanding. They have the might to sell wheat at what price theylist; and the right, to all lengths, and famine-lengths,—if they be pitiless infernal gods!
Ye hold me as a woman, weak of will, / And strive to sway me: but my heart is stout, / Nor fears to speak its uttermost to you, / Albeit ye know its message. Praise or blame, / Even as yelist,—I reck not of your words.
1959,Leo Strauss, “What is Political Philosophy?”, inWhat is Political Philosophy?: And Other Studies, Glencoe, Ill.:The Free Press,→OCLC,page51:
License consists in doing what onelists; liberty consists in doing in the right manner the good only; and our knowledge of the good must come from a higher principle, from above.
I know too much: / I finde it, I; for when I haliſt to ſleepe, /Mary, before your Ladiſhip I grant, / She puts her tongue alittle in her heart, / And chides with thinking.
I know, [she talks] too much: / I find that, when I havedesire to sleep. / Indeed, before your Ladyship I admit, / She keeps a little quiet, / And scolds me with her thoughts.
1939 [end of the 14th century], Ryszard Ganszyniec, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Kubica, Ludwik Bernacki, editors,Psałterz florjański łacińsko-polsko-niemiecki [Sankt Florian Psalter][4],Krakow: Zakład Narodowy imienia Ossolińskich, z zasiłkiem Sejmu Śląskiego [The Ossoliński National Institute: with the benefit of the Silesian Parliament], pages1, 4:
A bødze (sc. mąż) iaco drzewo, iesz szczepono iest podlug czekøcych wod..., alist iego ne spadne (folium eius non defluet)
[A będzie (sc. mąż) jako drzewo, jeż szczepiono jest podług ciekących wod..., alist jego nie spadnie (folium eius non defluet)]
Weszmyecze sobye...lyst palmovi (spatulas palmarum) a rosgy z drzewa gøstich latorosly
[Weźmiecie sobie...list palmowy (spatulas palmarum), a rozgi z drzewa gęstych latorośli]
1878-1889 [1487],Archiwum Komisji Historycznej[7], volume III,Greater Poland, page350:
Te... stirpi Godzambą... aggregamus... In cuius signum... tibi... largimur tres pinus... in scuto seu campo flaueo, galea vero in inferiori partelisti supertecta
[Te... stirpi Godzięba... aggregamus... In cuius signum... tibi... largimur tres pinus... in scuto seu campo flaueo, galea vero in inferiori partelisty supertecta]
Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “list”, inSłownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie,→ISBN
Sławski, Franciszek (1958-1965) “list”, inJan Safarewicz, Andrzej Siudut, editors,Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego [Etymological dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), Kraków: Towarzystwo Miłośników Języka Polskiego
Mańczak, Witold (2017) “list”, inPolski słownik etymologiczny (in Polish), Kraków: Polska Akademia Umiejętności,→ISBN
Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “list”, inEtymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
B. Sieradzka-Baziur, Ewa Deptuchowa, Joanna Duska, Mariusz Frodyma, Beata Hejmo, Dorota Janeczko, Katarzyna Jasińska, Krystyna Kajtoch, Joanna Kozioł, Marian Kucała, Dorota Mika, Gabriela Niemiec, Urszula Poprawska, Elżbieta Supranowicz, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, Piotr Szpor, Bartłomiej Borek, editors (2011–2015), “list”, inSłownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków:IJP PAN,→ISBN
Ewa Deptuchowa, Mariusz Frodyma, Katarzyna Jasińska, Magdalena Klapper, Dorota Kołodziej, Mariusz Leńczuk, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, editors (2023), “list”, inRozariusze z polskimi glosami. Internetowa baza danych [Dictionaries of Polish glosses, an Internet database] (in Polish), Kraków:Pracownia Języka Staropolskiego Instytut Języka Polskiego Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Majtán, Milan et al., editors (1991–2008), “list”, inHistorický slovník slovenského jazyka [Historical Dictionary of the Slovak Language] (in Slovak), volumes 1–7 (A – Ž), Bratislava: VEDA,→OCLC
According toSłownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990),list is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 10 times in scientific texts, 18 times in news, 18 times in essays, 31 times in fiction, and 32 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 109 times, making it the 567th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]
^Ida Kurcz (1990) “list”, inSłownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page220
Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “list”, inSłownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
“LIST”, inElektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century],20.02.2014
“list”, inSlovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak),https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk,2003–2025
a long, thinstrip (of wood (or metal or the like), to conceal a joint (or for isolation or decoration), like for example a thin and longboard), aborder, abeading,edging
