Bugis of South Celebes, effeminate priests or sorcerers among the, vi.
To waste time ineffeminate or voluptuous pleasures, or in idleness; to fool away time; to delay unnecessarily; to tarry; to trifle.
In aneffeminate or womanish manner; weakly; softly; delicately.
Such traces, for example, are to be found in Lydia and Cos,(691) in both of which the effeminate Hercules had his home.
Bugis of South Celebes, effeminate priests or sorcerers among the, ii.
On the type of the effeminate Dionysus in art see E.
In legend and art there are clear traces of an effeminate Dionysus, who perhaps figured in a strange ceremony for the artificial fertilization of the fig.
Her dancing, we both agreed, was perfection: speaking of what was most truly graceful, effeminate and ladylike.
There was a voluptuous and purely effeminate languor about Julia's character, which was well adapted to the eastern style of dress.
XXXII-41] The Egyptians were early acquainted with the effeminate sumptuousness of table couches.
The effeminate inhabitants of Tarentum, the abode of luxury, delighted in good living, and boasted of possessing the finest scallops of Campania, and of the whole empire.
There were also the effeminate in the land, and they did according to all the abominations of the people, whom the Lord had destroyed before the face of the children of Israel.
Nor the effeminate nor liers with mankind nor thieves nor covetous nor drunkards nor railers nor extortioners shall possess the kingdom of God.
And he took away the effeminateout of the land, and removed all the filth of the idols, which his fathers had made.
And I will give children to be their princes, and theeffeminate shall rule over them.
Fear casteth down the slothful: and the souls of the effeminate shall be hungry.
They on no account permit wine to be imported to them, because they consider that men degenerate in their powers of enduring fatigue, and are rendered effeminate by that commodity.
In Kadiak such a companion was on the contrary regarded as a great acquisition; and the effeminate men themselves, far from being despised, were held in repute by the people, most of them being wizards.
Among some American tribes, however, these effeminate men are said to be despised, especially by the women.
These were of various forms and sizes, and had backs to them; it was considered effeminatefor the male sex to use them.
During the short reign of the profligate and effeminate Elagabalus, Maximin withdrew from the court, but he returned when Alexander Severus, one of the noblest of Roman emperors, came to the throne.
When he rode into the camp of Marius at the head of the cavalry he had seen no service, and the rugged soldier looked with contempt on this effeminate pleasure-seeker who had been sent as his lieutenant.
She chatted and laughed, flirting her fan, humouring the effeminate creature beside her by yielding her hand and wrist to his flabby kisses.
Elegant too, always immaculately, nay daintily dressed, he wore with that somewhat stiff grace peculiar to the English gentleman the showy and effeminate costume of the time.
Don Pedro, her husband, rendered desperate by the loss of his mistress, is succeeded by the weak and effeminate Ferdinand.
Those arts only, the abuse of which have a certain and fatal tendency to enervate the mind, the arts of music and cookery, were passionately cultivated in all the refinement of effeminate abuse.
But the effeminate sensualists of those ages were not men of intellectual cultivation.
Effeminate kingdoms and empires are spread from the sea of Corea to the Atlantic ocean.
They were the outcome, partly of his temperament, and partly of the effeminate training he had received.
Clementina had not anticipated the effect of these words on her susceptible and effeminate adorer.
It was due chiefly to his solitary and effeminate youth.
He looked like a toy soldier--that is to say, he was of the effeminate military type.
Either by nature, or perhaps in consequence of this rather effeminate education, Raimundo was a timid boy, indifferent to the sports of his companions; and he grew up a melancholy youth, and a serious and uncommunicative man.
They do not enter into business, they do not study, and they have lost their martial qualities and become as effeminate as Chinamen.
And besides the pleasing of an effeminate mind, what the better are you for their applause?
He had been insulted by satires and libels; in his turn, he composed, under the title of the Enemy of the Beard, an ironical confession of his own faults, and a severe satire on the licentious and effeminate manners of Antioch.
He indignantly contrasted the effeminate Syrians with the brave and honest simplicity of the Gauls, and almost forgave the intemperance, which was the only stain of the Celtic character.
One of the orations of Julian is consecrated to the honor of Cybele, the mother of the gods, who required from her effeminate priests the bloody sacrifice, so rashly performed by the madness of the Phrygian boy.
While the martial nations of Europe followed the standards of his brothers, Constantius, at the head of the effeminate troops of Asia, was left to sustain the weight of the Persian war.
The splendid and effeminate dress of the Asiatics, the curls and paint, the collars and bracelets, which had appeared so ridiculous in the person of Constantine, were consistently rejected by his philosophic successor.
The assurance of wealth demonstrated the justice of his cause; and they viewed, as the inheritance of the brave, the fruitful land which was oppressed byeffeminate tyrants.
In his epistles, or in a personal interview, he revealed the wealth and nakedness of his country; the weakness of an unpopular prince; the degeneracy of an effeminate people.
It is not cruelty only with which we may reproach these effeminate individuals: it is every vice which springs from baseness of character.
The latter has especially been the case in degenerate and effeminate times; and this has sometimes been accompanied by remarkable consequences.
Most welcome, are you to our native land, and well have you shown this day that, among the effeminate nations in whose lands you have journeyed, you have not forgotten the use of your sharp sword.
Shall we act like the weak and effeminate Georgians, and tamely submit to be dragged in chains to the foot-stool of their Czar?
