inkhorn

Rod reached out a hand to steady the inkhorn.

These were dubbed inkhorn terms, as if they had spilled from a pot of ink.

An inkhorn is an inkwell made out of horn.

He replaced the pen in the inkhorn, which closed the horn, shook the paper a bit and held it up.

I came back to find Jamie standing by the small shelf where he kept his inkhorn, quills and paper.

He had an inkhorn in his left hand, and a quill in his right.

The phrase "inkhorn term" appeared as early as 1553.

Dipping the pen into an ancient inkhorn, The Shadow wrote.

See Inkhorn term for this meaning.

The idea dates at least to the inkhorn term controversy of the 16th and 17th centuries.

With pen dipped into an inkhorn at his belt Tamirus was signing a paper.

Where be your inkhorn nonsensicalities?

Athelstan returned to the table, rolled up the piece of parchment and put away his quills and inkhorn.

I think it was six apiece, sir,' said Adams, standing there with an inkhorn in his buttonhole and a watch in his hand, taking notes.

Athelstan picked up a quill with a modest flourish, uncapped the inkhorn and dipped in his pen.

There was, Cornwall saw in a rapid glance, no quill or inkhorn, no sanding box, and that seemed passing strange.

This may be well contrasted with the so-called inkhorn debate of English, in which proponents of Saxon-based words were largely defeated.

Many of these so-called inkhorn terms, such as dismiss, celebrate, encyclopedia, commit, capacity and ingenious, stayed in the language and are commonly used.

The schoolmaster took the long inkhorn from his belt, opened a large sheet of paper and went to the little shop to begin the in- ventory.

He remained for two years at Edinburgh after taking his diploma, living chiefly 'out of his inkhorn', teaching, lecturing, translating, and conducting a small private practice.

'Quills, pens, writing tray, parchment, and I have ensured the inkhorn is well sealed, so if it spills don't blame me.'

In the 16th and 17th centuries, controversy over needless foreign borrowings from Latin and Greek (known as "inkhorn terms") was rife.

However, the critic objected to their "inkhorn" and "didactic" aspects, raising concern that the author's tendency to "reveal the conventions of her own narratives" echoed "pedantry".

Controversy over inkhorn terms was rife from the mid-16th to the mid-17th century, during the transition from Middle English to Modern English.

He'll pick up the inkhorn and paper, the Twelfth Cake, the New Year gifts, the children's toys, even this little sucking pig, and away with them all!