1) ............... : a person who corrects or changes pieces of text or films before they are printed or shown, or a person who is in charge of a newspaper or magazine.
Definition from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
2) ............... : a person who combines the judicial functions of Minos,
Rhadamanthus and Aeacus, but is placable with an obolus; a severely virtuous
censor, but so charitable withal that he tolerates the virtues of others and
the vices of himself; who flings about him the splintering lightning and sturdy
thunders of admonition till he resembles a bunch of firecrackers petulantly
uttering his mind at the tail of a dog; then straightway murmurs a mild,
melodious lay, soft as the cooing of a donkey intoning its prayer to the
evening star. Master of mysteries and lord of law, high-pinnacled upon the
throne of thought, his face suffused with the dim splendors of the
Transfiguration, his legs intertwisted and his tongue a-cheek, the ....... spills his will along the paper and cuts it off in lengths to suit. And at
intervals from behind the veil of the temple is heard the voice of the foreman
demanding three inches of wit and six lines of religious meditation, or bidding
him turn off the wisdom and whack up some pathos.
O, the Lord of Law on the Throne of
Thought,
A gilded impostor is
he.
Of shreds and patches his robes
are wrought,
His crown is
brass,
Himself an ass,
And his power is fiddle-dee-dee.
Prankily, crankily prating of naught,
Silly old quilly old Monarch of
Thought.
Public opinion's
camp-follower he,
Thundering,
blundering, plundering free.
Affected,
Ungracious,
Suspected,
Mendacious,
Respected contemporaree!
J.H. Bumbleshook
Definition from The Devil's Dictionary
who flings about him the splintering lightning and sturdy thunders of admonition till he resembles a bunch of firecrackers petulantly uttering his mind at the tail of a dog; then straightway murmurs a mild, melodious lay, soft as the cooing of a donkey intoning its prayer to the evening star..... DEAD GIVE AWAY - an editor! I cheated!
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