metaphrastic \met-uh-FRAST-ik\, adjective:
- Having the quality of a literary work that has been translated or changed from one form to another, as prose into verse.
Metaphrastic comes into English from the medieval Greek metaphrastes, "one who translates."
Eater's Remorse
- The deep feeling of regret one feels after eating a large some of food, eating something unhealthy, or just eating in general.
I always suffer eater's remorse after thanksgiving, thinking of the pounds I'll have gained when I return to school.
History
- Malaya: became independent of the United Kingdom (1957); a few years later this federation of states became Malaysia
- Trinidad and Tobago: island nation of the southern Caribbean, birthplace of limbo, became independent of the United Kingdom (1962)
- Jack the Ripper: first victim was found with her throat cut in London's East End (1888)
- Princess Diana: was killed in a car crash along with her companion, Dodi Fayed, and her driver as they attempted to evade paparazzi (1997)
- Baghdad bridge stampede: 1,000 pilgrims were killed when panic over a supposed suicide bomber caused a crush of people on the Al-Aaimmah bridge over the Tigris River (2005)
- Caligula (Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus) 0012
- Maria Montessori 1870
- Wilhelmina (Netherlands) 1880
- Frederic March 1897
- Arthur Godfrey 1903
- William Saroyan 1908
- Sir Benrard Lovell 1914
- Daniel Schorr 1916
- Alan Jay Lerner 1918
- Richard Basehart 1919
- G.D. Spradlin 1920
- Buddy Hackett 1924
- James Coburn 1928
- Frank Robinson 1935
- Eldridge Cleaver 1935
- Warren Berlinger 1937
- Jerry Allison (Buddy Holly and the Crickets) 1939
- Jack Thompson 1940
- Roger Dean 1944 - Artist
- Itzhak Perlman 1945
- Van Morrison (Them) 1945
- Richard Gere 1949
- Rudolph Schenker (Scorpions) 1952
- Anthony Thistlewaite (The Waterboys) 1955
- Gina Shock (The Go-Go's) 1957
- Glenn Tillbrook (Squeeze) 1957
- Edwin Moses 1958
- Chris Whitley 1960
- Tony DeFranco (The DeFranco Family) 1960
- Larry Waddell (Mint Condition) 1963
- Jeff Russo (Tonic) 1969
- Debbie Gibson 1970
- Tamara (Trina & Tamara) 1977
- Yara Martinez (Ms Lint from The Tick) 1979
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