What's the difference between elizabethan and groundling?
Elizabethan
Definition:
(a.) Pertaining to Queen Elizabeth or her times, esp. to the architecture or literature of her reign; as, the Elizabethan writers, drama, literature.
(n.) One who lived in England in the time of Queen Elizabeth.
Example Sentences:
(1) My older sister had the improving Young Elizabethan magazine, with earnest articles on Edmund Hillary climbing Mount Everest.
(2) Among the buyers was England striker Michael Owen, who spent £1.6m on the Elizabethan Grade II-listed Lower Soughton Hall in North Wales.
(3) The chapter on the Tudors and the Stuarts requires readers understand "how and why religion changed during this period; the importance of poetry and drama in the Elizabethan period; the involvement of Britain in Ireland; the development of parliament and the only period in history when England was a republic; why there was a restoration of the monarchy; how the Glorious Revolution happened."
(4) Fleas were placed on cats that were declawed, fitted with Elizabethan collars and housed in specially designed metabolic cages.
(5) Beams, exposed brick, lots of dark wood – everything you might expect in an Elizabethan inn – plus some things you wouldn't.
(6) Two quotations from Elizabethan playwrights are relevant to the theme of this paper: 'Beware you do not conjure up a spirit you cannot lay' Ben Johnson, The New Inn (Act III, Scene ii) 'Farewell the tranquil mind: farewell content.'
(7) In 1968, Roger Deakin bought the ruined remains of an Elizabethan house, and 12 acres of surrounding meadow, on the edge of Mellis Common in Suffolk.
(8) The first, in the grounds of one of Britain's greatest Elizabethan mansions, gave him a sense of history and the power of wealth.
(9) From the ex-bishop to the chief executive of Mumsnet, from the TaxPayers' Alliance to Amnesty International, from the joint select committee on human rights, through the … well, all the relevant committees, they rose as one, channelling the outrage of Joan of Arc through the baffled derision of (Elizabethan era) Blackadder .
(10) But then, few would have once thought giant Elizabethan ballgowns and hot-pink hair were what a female hip-hop artist should wear, yet I have seen Nicki Minaj doing precisely that, so fashion codes are a flexible affair in the crazy hazy world of hip-hop.
(11) It might be tricky to limit your time at this Elizabethan mansion, with its parkland sculpture trails, wonderful herbaceous borders and a prize-winning produce garden.
(12) The patron saint of the British Industrial Revolution was Francis Bacon, the great Elizabethan philosopher and crusading apostle for science.
(13) A history play about history yet to be made, Bartlett’s script imagines a post-Elizabethan world in which the accession of Prince Charles thrusts the UK into social and political chaos.
(14) Those of us who are nearly her age can remember the Queen’s ascension to the throne and the cheerful delight with which people talked of the “New Elizabethan age”.
(15) Elizabethan tapestry map to be displayed at University of Oxford's Bodleian library Read more The musical angel was once part of a cope – a ceremonial priestly cloak – which became an altar cloth for the small parish church of Steeple Aston in Oxfordshire.
(16) It’s an architectural mix-up of Elizabethan, Jacobean and William & Mary.
(17) We may also be out of the EU and, if so, Scotland will be gone too, the Queen’s realm diminished physically, morally, socially and culturally from those Young Elizabethan ideals.
(18) His Elizabethan comedy Sweet William (2005) for Rutter was a tremendous knees-up set in the Boar's Head, following "wee Willy Shaggers of Stratford town".
(19) Elizabethan English changed and became immensely rich by borrowing from other languages and by inventing words continuously.
(20) The former Elizabethan history doctoral student speaks about Europe with an enthusiasm rarely heard on the Tory benches.
Groundling
Definition:
(n.) A fish that keeps at the bottom of the water, as the loach.
(n.) A spectator in the pit of a theater, which formerly was on the ground, and without floor or benches.
Example Sentences:
(1) Shakespeare definitely knew how to keep the groundlings happy – that's something we all strive for as writers.
(2) While actorly logorrhea flows into the outstretched mics of the presenters – the usual effluvia of "gifts", "blessings", "journeys", "privileges" and "honours" – my fellow groundlings turned their attention to their McDonald's and Doritos instead.
(3) From the outset, reviewers were nonplussed by this new-old space, especially the tendency for its groundlings (standing audience members) to exercise a form of mob rule.
(4) Williams said the jig is not an exhibition of dance skills, not a take-a-bow presentation, give ’em ye olde razzle-dazzle, but the actors’ generous sharing of the play experience with the audience, especially the Globe’s crowd of groundlings who have stood still throughout.
(5) For a moment, as he gathered up his possessions and rejoined the groundlings wondering if they will ring in the new year never mind Christmas at the airport, Michael's zen-like calm almost shattered.