espy, unprepossessing , pre-exist, beforehand, propaedeutic, heavenwards, highest rates of pre-existing health conditions

Native Americans’ life expectancy is 4.4 years below the American average and they have the highest rates of pre-existing health conditions

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The Elixir

BY GEORGE HERBERT 1593-1633

         Teach me, my God and King,

         In all things Thee to see,

And what I do in anything

         To do it as for Thee.

         Not rudely, as a beast,

         To run into an action;

But still to make Thee prepossest,

         And give it his perfection.

         A man that looks on glass,

         On it may stay his eye;

Or it he pleaseth, through it pass,

         And then the heav'n espy.

These rather gloomy tidings were much in my mind when I recently went to Exeter to deliver a lecture at the university. With time to spare beforehand, I paid a visit to the cathedral, which was, like so many of its kind, a combination of comforting familiarity and breathtaking surprise.


 There's a homely and attractive cathedral close, and a welcoming if slightly unprepossessing west front. But that's no preparation for the spectacular view which opens up once you go in: a high and heady vault running the whole length of the nave and the choir, constructed in the most elaborate Decorated style of the early 14th Century.

 It's a glorious vista, lifting the eye and the spirit heavenwards; and it's easy to see why the great architectural historian, Nikolaus Pevsner, included Exeter Cathedral as one of his twelve favourite English buildings



Fortunately, our story is set in 2014, and the Cratchits have health insurance. Not from their employer: Ebenezer Scrooge doesn’t do employee benefits. And just a few years earlier they wouldn’t have been able to buy insurance on their own because Tiny Tim has a pre-existing condition, and, anyway, the premiums would have been out of their reach.


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espy

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Pronunciation: /ɪˈspʌɪ 

  

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VERB (espies, espying, espied)

[WITH OBJECT]• literary

• Catch sight of:she espied her daughter rounding the corner

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  • ‘I want that,’ my sister Molly says, espying my purchase.
  • We espy the professor and his assistant in the distance and amble over to them.
  • Later, I am in a supermarket, and I espy a former teacher whom I did not like.
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Origin

Middle English: from Old French espier, ultimately of Germanic origin and related to Dutch spieden and German spähan. Compare with spy.

pro·pae·deu·tic (prō'pĭ-dū'tĭk, -dyū'-)
adj.
Providing introductory instruction.

n.
Preparatory instruction.

[From Greek propaideuein, to teach beforehand : pro-, before; see pro-² + paideuein, to teach (from pais, paid-, child; see pedo-²).]

pre·ex·ist or pre-ex·ist (prē'ĭg-zĭst')

v., -ist·ed, or -ist·ed, -ist·ing, or -ist·ing, -ists, or -ists. v.tr.
To exist before (something); precede: Dinosaurs preexisted humans.

v.intr.
To exist beforehand.

preexistence pre'ex·is'tence n.
preexistent pre'ex·is'tent adj.

heavenward[heav・en・ward]

• 発音記号[hévənwərd]

[副]((文))天に向かって.

━━[形]天に向かう.

beforehand[be・fore・hand]

• 発音記号[bifɔ'ːrhæ`nd]
• [副][形]((叙述))あらかじめ（の）, 前もって（の）, かねて（の）（⇔behindhand）；早計で

get a thing ready beforehand
あることをあらかじめ用意する.

be beforehand with ［in］ ...

…に前もって備える；…の先手を打つ, を出し抜く

We are beforehand in our preparations.
手回しよく準備をしている.

prepossessing

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Pronunciation: /priːpəˈzesɪŋ

  

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ADJECTIVE

[OFTEN WITH NEGATIVE]

• Attractive or appealing in appearance:he was not a prepossessing sight
  

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  • She was young, but attractive and quite prepossessing.
  • She is neither particularly prepossessing in her appearance nor outwardly warm, as even David admits remembering his first acquaintance with her.
  • Gap-toothed, bold in face, and of a ruddy complexion, the Wife was no longer prepossessing in appearance, if she ever had been.
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  SYNONYMS

Derivatives

prepossession

Pronunciation: /-ˈzɛʃ(ə)n/

NOUN

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• Subjective analysis always leads to flawed determination due to the inherent inability to view things apart from personal prejudices and dogmatic prepossessions.
• However I am well pleased to find that the truth will at length prevail when men have laid aside their prepossessions and prejudices.
• Such a prepossession serves to vitiate all of Freud's subsequent clinical presentations.

ùnpreposséssing[ùn・preposséssing]

[形]（外観が）魅力的でない, 感じのよくない, 好印象を与えない.

prèposséssing[prè・posséssing]

[形]((形式))よい印象を与える, 感じのよい.

prè・posséssing・ly

[副]

prè・posséssing・ness

[名]