Wines : scriptural and ecclesiastical / by Norman Kerr.

  • Kerr, Norman, 1834-1899.
Date:
[1881]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Wines : scriptural and ecclesiastical / by Norman Kerr. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and extent of alteration being dependent on a variety of circumstances. “ Permanence is more or less regulated by circumstances. A language which resists influence for a century may fail to do so for a millennium ; or a language which, with no altera- tive influence to touch it, may remain unchanged for a century, may, under conditions unfavourable to its permanence, transform itself into something else in a generation or two” (R. G. Latham, M.D., F.R.S., “ El. of Comp. Phil.,” p. 528. Lond. 1862). THE MEANING OF WORDS CHANGES. Words have a significance to-day altogether dif- ferent from their meaning a few centuries back. Take, for example, the word “ sherab,” represented by our modern English word “syrup.” Though with us designating only an unintoxicating sweet preparation, it was at one time, and in fact is now, in the East, a name for wine. Persian.—“ Sherap, wine. Ungee koob (good) sherabbas ?—Is there good wine ? Sherap bedee (some) zood—Give me some wine ” (Sir Thos. Her- bert, “ Gloss. Trav.,” p. 46. Lond. 1634). “ Chiraup Zjieraas ; noen Yesgadaes ; seu de Yes”—Schiraz for wine; Yesdecast for bread; and Yestfor women (Old Pers. prov.—Le Bruyn, “ Muse. Pers. and E. I.,” ii. 4. Lond. 1737). “The word scharab, which