Adages is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.
You can make 84 anagrams from letters in adages (aadegs).
1540-50; French Latin adagium, equivalent to ad- ad- + ag- (stem of āio I say) + -ium -ium
One seems to detect several grades or qualities of friendship in these adages.
Pythagoras drew up a collection of adages for his disciples, and Plato, Theophrastus, and Chrysippus accumulated stores of them.
A person who would be always dragging in these adages would be a terrible nuisance in conversation, and no less so in literature.
"Avoid a man who neither drinks nor smokes," was one of Don's adages.
I am tempted here to say "A stitch in time saves nine," but adages are sometimes dangerous.
He speaks to the same purpose in the adages, c. 189, as Jortin observes.
As an example of Palmer's exposition, we will give that based on two adages of like import.
He quotes many French proverbs, and then gives English adages that more or less match them.
The adages or proverbs of all nations are the outgrowths of their first attempts at civilization.
At that day there was the same tendency that is familiar to-day,—to cast alleged feminine inconsistencies into the form of adages.
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