faerie|faeries in English

noun

[fa·er·ie || 'ferɪ /'feərɪ]

fairy, small supernatural being that is believed to help humans, sprite, pixie

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1. From Old French faerie; re-introduced into English in deliberately Archaising spelling in 1590 by Edmund Spenser in authoring the Faerie Queene.

2. What does Appeach mean? 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.viii

3. Help the young faeries, Delfbert, Wilf, and Angelica, save their village from a giant menace!

4. Avengeresses) (rare) A female avenger.Spenser Faerie Queene, III-viii - That cruell Queene Avengeresse; 2004: Brian P

5. As long as you control a Faerie, Boggart Sprite-Chaser gets +1/+1 and has flying.

6. Banality is disbelief, pure and simple — disbelief in what people cannot see and hear, disbelief in magic, monsters and faeries

7. Follows your Power Word: Shield.Benevolent Faerie: Increases the cooldown recovery rate of your target's major ability by 100%.

8. The adverb Blatantly comes from a word coined by Edmund Spenser in his allegory The Faerie Queen

9. In Spenser's The Faerie Queene, a fiend from Hell disguised as a beautiful woman is called Ate

10. Niall Brigant, also known as the King of Fae and Faerie Grandpa, is a character on HBO's True Blood

11. But even the Bogbeans, the normally elusive faerie folk of the dark forests and marshlands, seem set to block their path

12. Cantrips are the complex ways of faerie magic (also referred to as Draocht by some Grumps), that are used by modern Changelings

13. But even the Bogbeans, the normally elusive faerie folk of the dark forests and marshlands, seem set to block their path

14. 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene: And, passing forward with furious Affret, / Pierst through his bever and quite into his brow.

15. Word Origin for Braggadocio C16: from Braggadocchio, name of a boastful character in Spenser's Faerie Queene; probably from braggart + Italian -occhio (augmentative suffix)

16. 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.11: More loathd then Lerna, or then Stygian lake, / That any man would night Awhaped make […].

17. 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.12: Yet the bold Britonesse was nought ydred, / Though much emmov'd, but stedfast still persevered.

18. McManaway notes an additional allusion to Faerie Queene in 'Satyra Secunda': "A compound mist of May deaw and Beane flowre, Do these Acrasias on …

19. 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, VI.8: They downe him hold, and fast with cords do bynde, / Till they him force the Buxome yoke to beare […].

20. [from 14th c.] 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, VI.8: Sometimes aloft he layd, sometimes Alow, / Now here, now there, and oft him neare he mist […]

21. 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.vi: No Arboret with painted blossomes drest, / And smelling sweet, but there it might be found […] (obsolete) A grove, shrubbery or arbour; Anagrams

22. The IT Crowd is a clever and hilarious satire of the everyday struggles of a brilliant mind trapped in an office of those who think computers run on magic and faerie dust

23. The Beldam is a former faerie member of the Court of Oberon, was one of the original Dark Spawn Lords during the first Cartoonian War, and is the main antagonist from Coraline

24. 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.2: I have been trained up in warlike stowre, / To tossen speare and shield, and to Affrap / The warlike ryder to his most mishap

25. Cataplasm is a lethal poison, made of concentrate of the rare Atropa belladonna mixed with demon poison.12 In 1940, Brother Zachariah was injured with a Cataplasm-poisoned blade by a faerie