1/5/2024 0 Comments Blood lust first 48![]() New (or fresh ) blood, in reference to new members of an organization or group, especially ones bringing new ideas and fresh vigor or strength, is from 1880. From the world building to the intriguing characters, this story held me captive from the first page to the very last. This is the first book I have read by this author, but it wont be the last. Expression blood is thicker than water is attested by 1803, in reference to family ties of those separated by distance. Blood Lust, written by Katherine Diane, is the first book in The Vampire Defense Agency series. To get blood from a stone "do the impossible" is from 1660s. 1900 during early experiments in transfusion. That there were different types of human blood was discovered c. Blood money is from 1530s originally money paid for causing the death of another.īlood type is from 1928. The slang meaning "hot spark, a man of fire" is from 1560s. The gruesome murder of a 58-year-old woman found naked and dead under a highway overpass is investigated by Tucson detectives who worry they have a serial killer on their. 1300 and been given many figurative extensions. As the fluid of life (and the presumed seat of the passions), blood has stood for "temper of mind, natural disposition" since c. The meanings "person of one's family, race, kindred offspring, one who inherits the blood of another" are late 14c. Inheritance and relationship senses (also found in Latin sanguis, Greek haima) emerged in English by mid-13c. There seems to have been an avoidance in Germanic, perhaps from taboo, of other PIE words for "blood," such as *esen- (source of poetic Greek ear, Old Latin aser, Sanskrit asrk, Hittite eshar) also *krew-, which seems to have had a sense of "blood outside the body, gore from a wound" (source of Latin cruour "blood from a wound," Greek kreas "meat"), but which came to mean simply "blood" in the Balto-Slavic group and some other languages. Old English blod "blood, fluid which circulates in the arteries and veins," from Proto-Germanic *blodam "blood" (source also of Old Frisian blod, Old Saxon blôd, Old Norse bloð, Middle Dutch bloet, Dutch bloed, Old High German bluot, German Blut, Gothic bloþ), according to some sources from PIE *bhlo-to-, perhaps meaning "to swell, gush, spurt," or "that which bursts out" (compare Gothic bloþ "blood," bloma "flower"), from suffixed form of root *bhel- (3) "to thrive, bloom." But Boutkan finds no certain IE etymology and assumes a non-IE origin. ![]()
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