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these were known as plaçage marriages
plaçage, n.
1. In 18th- and 19th-cent. Louisiana: the custom among many white men of setting up a black or mixed-race woman in her own household in addition to or in place of a wife.
2. In Haiti: a relationship similar to marriage but without religious sanction and conferring fewer legal rights upon the female partner, often polygynous and short-lived.
rescue his octoroon lover by marrying her in a morganatic ceremony
morganatic, adj.
2. a. Designating or relating to a marriage in which a man of high rank marries a wife of lower rank, but neither the wife nor any children of the marriage have any claim to the possessions or the title of the husband. Also (occas.): designating a similar arrangement between a woman of high rank and a man of lower rank. Also fig.
to hold suzerainty over the earth and the animals on it
suzerain, n.
a. A feudal overlord. In recent use, with reference to international relations, a sovereign or state having supremacy over another state which possesses its own ruler or government but cannot act as an independent power.
strutted his roaring eupeptic hour
eupeptic, adj. and n.
A. adj. 1. Promoting 'eupepsy,' assisting digestion. rare. 2. Having good digestion. 3. Of or pertaining to 'eupepsy' or good digestion; characteristic of, or resulting from, good digestion. 4. nonce-use. Studious of what conduces to good digestion. 5. Easy of digestion; easily digested.
other relicts survived on a humiliating charity
relict, n.
1. a. The widow of a man. Now chiefly hist. except in formal (or mock-formal) use. c. The surviving partner (male or female) of a person.
by the employment of such figures as the polyptoton
polyptoton, n.
A rhetorical figure involving the repetition of a word in different cases or inflections within the same sentence.
Restless anaphoric questions
anaphora, n.
1. a. Rhetoric. The repetition of the same word or phrase in several successive clauses. b. Grammar. The use of a word which refers to, or is a substitute for, a preceding word or group of words.
My trencher, Lord, with thy Roast Mutton dress
trencher, n.
1. A cutting or slicing instrument; a knife. 2. A flat piece of wood, square or circular, on which meat was served and cut up; a plate or platter of wood, metal, or earthenware. 4. a. A trencher and that which it bears; a supply of food. 5. b. Applied to a 'butcher's tray.'
two etiolated remnants of Salem's elites
etiolated, adj.
Blanched, pallid, colorless.
the treachery and cupidity of neighbors
cupidity, n.
1. a. gen. Ardent desire, inordinate longing or lust; covetousness. b. (with pl.) An inordinate desire or appetite.
2. spec. Inordinate desire to appropriate wealth or possessions; greed of gain.
Pastorius was a polymath, teacher, jurist, and community leader
polymath, n.
A person of great and varied learning; a person acquainted with many fields of study; an accomplished scholar.
versions of modesty or expressions of postlapsarian contrition
post-lapsarian, adj. Theol.
Occurring after or consequent on the fall of mankind through the sin of Adam and Eve.
"erect as a caryatid"
caryatid, n.
Archit. A female figure used as a column to support an entablature.
such regression signifies her obsolescence
obsolescence, n.
1. a. The process or fact of becoming obsolete or outdated, or of falling into disuse. b. spec. The process whereby or state at which machinery, consumer goods, etc., become obsolete as a result of technological advances, changes in demand, etc.
"the sparse and defunctive glass"
de'functive, adj.
Of or pertaining to defunction or dying. Also, becoming defunct; dying.