dissolute Falstaff, Vice, miles gloriosus, self-denial'Sowing the Seeds'

"People think of me as a dissolute person, but I’m a walking example of self-denial."


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Falstaff
Meaning #1: a dissolute character in Shakespeare's plays
Synonym: Sir John Falstaff

Wikipedia article "Falstaff"

Global Interdependence:'Sowing the Seeds' for the Next Crisis?

Global Interdependence: Are the U.S and Other Markets 'Sowing the Seeds' for the Next Crisis? 
Despite renewed GDP growth and other positive signs, the U.S. isn't out of the woods, says Wharton finance professor Franklin Allen. In fact, the country could be heading into a "double dip" scenario that tips it back into a recession. That depends on how a number of factors play out in the coming months -- or even years -- not only in the U.S., but also around the world. Global interest rate policies, property markets and public deficits will all demand attention, Allen notes in a recent interview with Knowledge@Wharton.


sowv., sowed, sown (sōn), or sowed, sow·ing, sows. v.tr.

1. To scatter (seed) over the ground for growing.
2. To spread (land, for example) with seed.
3. To strew something around or over (an area); distribute something over.
4. To propagate; disseminate: sow rumors.

v.intr.

To scatter seed for growing.

idiom:

sow (one's) oats (or wild oats)

1. To indulge in dissolute or licentious behavior, especially to be sexually promiscuous, when young. Usually used of men.

[Middle English sowen, from Old English sāwan.]

sower sow'er n.

sow² (sou) 

n.

1. 1. An adult female hog.
   2. The adult female of several other animals, such as the bear.
2. 1. A channel that conducts molten iron to the molds in a pig bed.
   2. The mass of metal solidified in such a channel or mold.

[Middle English, from Old English sugu and Old English sū.]

dissolute
adjective LITERARY ━━ a. 放蕩(ほうとう)な, 身を持ちくずした.
(of a person) living in a way that other people strongly disapprove of; immoral:
He led a dissolute life, drinking and womanising till his death.

Vice, the, a stock character in medieval morality plays; he is a cynical kind of fool in the service of the Devil, and tries to tempt others in a comical but often sinister manner. The Vice is believed to be the ancestor of some later dramatic villains like Shakespeare's Iago, and of some more comic characters like his Falstaff.

miles gloriosus

(mē'lās glôr'ē-ō'səs, glōr'-) 
n., pl. mi·li·tes glo·ri·o·si (mē'lĭ-tās glôr'ē-ō'sē, glōr'-).
A bragging and often cowardly soldier, especially as a stock character in comedy.

[Latin mīles glōriōsus, after Mīles Glōriōsus, a comedy by Plautus.]

Mīlēs glōriōsus (‘the boastful soldier’), Roman comedy by Plautus;