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University of Vigo

English-Galician CLUVI Dictionary, 2nd edition (revised version 2.2)

(Based on the CLUVI Corpus of the University of Vigo)



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- escribano, Eskimo, esoteric, especial, especially, Esperanto, espionage, esplanade, espouse, essay, essayist, essence, essential, essentially, establish, establishment, estate, esteem, esthetic


essay


- noun
- composición

EN Mr Tate, the English master, pointed his finger at him and said bluntly: --This fellow has heresy in his essay.
GL O señor Tate, o profesor de Inglés, dixera bruscamente mentres o apuntaba co dedo: --Este rapaz ten unha herexía na composición.
- Fonte: RET (1665)
- ensaio

EN The book reviewed by the Edinburgh reviewer, and relied on for his account of the Kantean philosophy, is the essay of Villars --a book so entirely childish that perhaps no mortification more profound could have fallen upon the reviewer than the discovery of the extent to which he had been duped by his author.
GL O libro revisado polo comentador de Edimburgo, e no que se basea para a súa avaliación da filosofía kantiana é o ensaio de Villars; un libro tan enteiramente infantil, que quizás non caia unha mortificación máis fonda sobre o comentador cá do descubrimento da extensión na que fora enganado polo autor.
- Fonte: LET (585)
- redacción

EN Her most intimate friend at school had been one of rather exceptional intellectual gifts, who wrote fine-sounding essays, which Edna admired and strove to imitate; and with her she talked and glowed over the English classics, and sometimes held religious and political controversies.
GL A amiga máis íntima do colexio, de excepcionais dotes intelectuais, escribía fermosas redaccións que Edna admiraba e se esforzaba en imitar; ámbalas dúas rapazas sostiñan conversacións e apaixonábanse cos clásicos ingleses, e mesmo discutían de política e relixión.
- Fonte: ESP (401)
- escrito

EN Mr Tate withdrew his delving hand and spread out the essay.
GL O señor Tate afastou a man das coxas e estendeu o escrito.
- Fonte: RET (1674)


- transitive verb
- ensaiar

EN He wagged his spear and essayed fierceness.
GL Acenoulle coa pica, ensaiando un xesto fero.
- Fonte: SEN (5769)