Zucchetti, of Mantua, immediately followed with a similar opuscule.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day] Reference

Few lovers of old books and good binding will begrudge half a florin for this quaint opuscule.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes and Queries A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc] Reference

But in his snappy new opuscule Snark: A Polemic in Seven Fits (Simon & Schuster), Denby fulminates against the epidemic of verbal hazing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Steven G. Kellman: The Snark Ascending] Reference

These sacred practices and many others, on which Lucian complacently enlarges in his opuscule on the goddess of Hierapolis, daily revived the habits of a barbarous past in the temples of Syria.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism] Reference

There are people who collect every stray opuscule by prolific and disparate authors -- Henry Miller, say, or Ezra Pound -- and they will forever be chasing down that one pamphlet printed in an edition of 12 in Orvieto in 1932.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book Collection That Devoured My Life] Reference

Boethius's theological opuscule known as De Hebdomadibus and Alan of Lille's Regulae Caelestis Iuris are presented as axiomatic but also esoteric, with the express statement of the author that their principles are not accessible to the many.    From Wordnik.com.  [Literary Forms of Medieval Philosophy] Reference

This conviction is expressed in an early opuscule: “All the sciences are interconnected as by a chain; no one of them can be completely grasped without the others following of themselves and so without taking in the whole of the encyclopaedia at one and the same time” (Oeuvres, X, 255).    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

Why, a man who can say of a Christmas book that “it is an opuscule denominated so-and-so, and ostensibly intended to swell the tide of expansive emotion incident upon the exodus of the old year,” must evidently have had immense sums and care expended on his early education, and deserves a splendid return.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kickleburys on the Rhine] Reference

There is also an answer by Bonaventure to some questions concerning the Rule, a treatise on the guidance of novices, and an opuscule in which Bonaventure states why the Friars.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne] Reference

Why, a man who can say of a Christmas book that "it is an opuscule denominated so-and-so, and ostensibly intended to swell the tide of expansive emotion incident upon the exodus of the old year," must evidently have had immense sums and care expended on his early education, and deserves.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Christmas Books of Mr. M.A. Titmarsh] Reference

And I protest, for my part, I had no idea what I was really about in writing and submitting my little book for sale, until my friend the critic, looking at the article, and examining it with the eyes of a connoisseur, pronounced that what I had fancied simply to be a book was in fact “an opuscule denominated so-and-so, and ostensibly intended to swell the tide of expansive emotion incident upon the inauguration of the new year.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kickleburys on the Rhine] Reference

Or, to put it as some aspiring writers might: without embroiling us in superfluous polysemousness, it must be averred that the aesthetic propensities of a vainglorious tome toward prolixity or indeed even the pseudo-pragmatic co-optation — as by droit du seigneur — of an antiquitarian lexis, whilst purportedly an amendment to the erudition of said opuscule and arguably consanguinean (metaphorically speaking) and perhaps even existentially bound up with its literary apprizal, can all too facilely directionize in the azimuth of fustian grandiloquence or unmanacle unpurposed (or even dystelelogical) consequences on a pith and/or douceur de vivre level vis-à-vis even the most pansophic reader.    From Wordnik.com.  [Author! Author! » Blog Archive » Speaking of dialogue revision, part VI: and then there’s the fine art of doing it right, or, love, agent-style] Reference

Yet neither he nor any one else on his side has ever effectively shaken the solid argument which Diderot fancifully illustrated in the following passage from his reply to Voltaire's letter of thanks for the opuscule: “This marvellous order and these wondrous adaptations, what am I to think of them?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diderot and the Encyclopaedists]

And I protest, for my part, I had no idea what I was really about in writing and submitting my little book for sale, until my friend the critic, looking at the article, and examining it with the eyes of a connoisseur, pronounced that what I had fancied simply to be a book was in fact "an opuscule denominated so-and-so, and ostensibly intended to swell the tide of expansive emotion incident upon the inauguration of the new year.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Christmas Books of Mr. M.A. Titmarsh] Reference

May 28, 2009 2:17 PM opuscule said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oslo Grand Prix: Horserse] Reference