Word Meanings - CONTINENTALPRONUNCIATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A method of pronouncing Latin and Greek in which the vowels have their more familiar Continental values, as in German and Italian, the consonants being pronounced mostly as in English. The stricter form of this method of pronouncing Latin approaches the Roman, the modified form the English, pronunciation. The Continental method of Greek pronunciation is often called Erasmian.

• Belibel
  To libel or traduce; to calumniate.
• Beau ideal
  A conception or image of consummate beauty, moral or physical, formed in the mind, free from all the deformities, defects, and blemishes seen in actual existence; an ideal or faultless standard or model.
• Bevy
  A company; an assembly or collection of persons, especially of ladies.
• Bemourn
  To mourn over.
• Bedquilt
  A quilt for a bed; a coverlet.
• Greekish
  Peculiar to Greece.
• Bepuffed
  Puffed; praised.
• Begat
  of Beget
• BEDSTEPS
  Steps for mounting a bed of unusual height.
• Beslaver
  To defile with slaver; to beslobber.
• Bestraddle
  To bestride.
• Belittling
  of Belittle
• Beaver
  An amphibious rodent, of the genus Castor.
• Bewigged
  of Bewig
• Bent
  of Bend
• Bedrug
  To drug abundantly or excessively.
• Latinizing
  of Latinize
• Berate
  To rate or chide vehemently; to scold.
• Beggestere
  A beggar.
• BELESPRIT
  A fine genius, or man of wit. "A man of letters and a bel esprit." W. Irving.

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