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Show linBMBHaMmaMnHnnMaMB ALTERED MEANING OF WORDS Some Instances of How They Have Departed From Their Derivations and Original Definitions. In tho Now York panic of 1857 a Frenchman declared that he should loso all his "propriety " It sounds llko something to laugh nt. Nevertheless Neverthe-less "property" and "propriety" hnvo the samo French derivation Words have n knack of shifting not only frqni their sources but nlso out of their own original mennlngs. We accept an nnccdoto as n short, diverting story. Etymologlcally It means something ns yet unpublished To prevent, which Is now to hinder, meant In Its Latin original to antici pate A girl was anciently a young person per-son of cither sex. Mountebank wns tho term applied of old to tho patent medicine vender who mounted a bench to proclaim blB wares. It Is from tho Italian. Paradise In Orlontnl tongues mennt only a royal ark. , Astonished means literally thundor-' thundor-' struck, coming from "attonarc." ' A knnvo wns onco merely a lad and n villain only a peasant To be silly was In its ancient sonso to bo blessed To bo ofllcious wns to bo courteously courteous-ly ready to do kindly ofllco. If, n man was facotlous, In tho early English, ho was but urbane. An Idiot was a prlvnto citizen, as distinguished from an ofllco bolder, Frontispiece, if considered from its Latin source, Ib not a ploturo in the front of a book, but the front ot something. some-thing. Iho Latin word Is "frontis-plclum." "frontis-plclum." "Boldnm" Is not an abuslvo term, in its French source, but means o fair lady Shamefaced comes from a good An glo-Snxon term which means not one exhibiting shamo, but ouo protected by shame, being thcroforo Innocent and modest |