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Kildare (2 syl.) is the Irish Kill dara, church of the oaks.
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Kill Two Birds with One Stone (To). To effect some subsidiary work at the same time as the main
object is being effected.
Birdlovers may invent their own euphemism.
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Kismet The fulfilment of destiny. (Turkish, gismet, a lot.)
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Kiss as a mode of salutation, comes from its use to express reverence or worship. Thus to adore idols and
to kiss idols mean the same thing. Indeed, the word adore signifies simply to carry the hand to the mouth,
that is, to kiss it to the idol. We still kiss the hand in salutation. Various parts of the body are kissed to
distinguish the character of the adoration paid. Thus, to kiss the lips is to adore the living breath of the
person saluted; to kiss the feet or ground is to humble oneself in adoration; to kiss the garments is to
express veneration to whatever belongs to or touches the person who wears them. “Kiss the Son, lest He
be angry” (Ps. ii. 12), means Worship the Son of God. Pharaoh tells Joseph, “Thou shalt be over my
house, and upon thy mouth shall all my people kiss,” meaning they shall reverence the commands of
Joseph by kissing the roll on which his commands would be written. “Samuel poured oil on Saul, and
kissed him,” to acknowledge subjection to God's anointed (1 Sam. x. 1). In the Hebrew state, this mode
of expressing reverence arose from the form of government established, whether under the patriarchal or
matrimonial figure.
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Kissing under the Mistletoe Balder, the Apollo of Scandinavian mythology, was killed by a mistletoe
arrow given to the blind Höder, by Loki, the god of mischief and potentate of our earth Balder was
restored to life, but the mistletoe was placed in future under the care of Friga, and was never again to be
an instrument of evil till it touched the earth, the empire of Loki. It is always suspended from ceilings, and
when persons of opposite sexes pass under it, they give each other the kiss of peace and love in the full
assurance that the epiphyte is no longer an instrument of mischief
A correspondent in Notes and Queries suggests that the Romans dedicated the holly to Saturn, whose
festival was in December, and that the early Christians decked their houses with the Saturnian emblems to
deceive the Romans and escape persecution.
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Knee Greek, gonu; Latin, genu; French, genou, Sanskrit, janu; Saxon, cneow German, knie, English,
knee.
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Knight means simply a boy. (Saxon, cniht.) As boys (like the Latin puer and French garcon) were used
as servants, so cniht came to mean a servant. Those who served the feudal kings bore arms, and persons
admitted to this privilege were the king's knights; as this distinction was limited to men of family, the word
became a title of honour next to the nobility. In modern Latin, a knight is termed auratus (golden), from
the gilt spurs which he used to wear.
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I happen to have a special affection for that name. Who were the Kantii, please?
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Welcome to you, rjwill6.
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Dear Jackie: I don't know how to get more detail. Evidently the Latin name for the area was
Cantium, and the inhabitants then were the Cantii.
If I could, I would offer you a "waterglass" of bourbon. Cross threading as usual.
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Careful Bill, that's my middle name you're talkin' about... :)
(well, my parents wanted a keepsake when they thought they were emigrating to Canada, I don't change costumes in phone boxes!)
OK, your research mission, should you choose to accept it, is to define to the Board the difference between a Man of Kent and a Kentish Man.
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