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219 nil conscire sibi, nulla pallescere culpa
neue Menschen [Ger], lit., new men; upstarts; parvenus.
neuere Richtung [Ger], new, or modern, method; specif., the reform
movement in the teaching of languages.
Neujahr [Ger], New Year.
névé [Fr], an expanse of partially compacted snow at the upper end
of a glacier (a transitional stage between loose snow and glacier ice);
field of granular snow.
n'è vero? [It], is it not true? isn't it so?
ne vile velis [L], incline to nothing base.
nez retroussé [Fr], upturned nose.
niais [Fr; fern, niaise], adj. silly; foolish; simple; n. simpleton.
niaiserie [Fr], foolishness; silliness; trifling; also, piece of foolishness;
foolery; trifle; nonsense.
nichevo [Russ nichebo, nothing], it doesn't matter; don't mention it;
nothing.
Nichts halb zu tun [Ger], to do nothing by halves.
nicht so redlich wäre redlicher [Ger], not so honest were more honest:
Lessing.
nicht wahr? [Ger], isn't that so?
niente affatto [It], nothing at all.
ni fìrmes carta que no leas, ni bebas agua que no veas [Sp], never
sign a paper you have not read, nor drink water you have not seen
(or examined).
nigaud [Fr; fern, nigaude], booby; simpleton.
niger cycnus [L], black swan; prodigy. Cf. RARA AVIS IN TERRIS.
nihil [L], nothing. —nihil ad rem, nothing to the point; irrelevant.
—nihil amori iniuriam est, there is no wrong that love will not
forgive. —nihil débet, lit., he owes nothing; a plea denying a debt:
law. •—nihil dicit, lit., he says nothing; a common-law judgment when
the defendant declines to plead or answer: law. —nihil est ab omni
parte beatum, nothing is blessed in every respect (i.e., there is no
perfect happiness): Horace. —nihil ex nihilo, nothing comes from
nothing. —nihil quod tetigit non ornavit, he touched nothing he
did not adorn. See NULLUM QUOD TETIGIT NON ORNAVIT (the correct
form). —nihil obstat, there is no objection: eccl. —nihil sub sole
novum, there is nothing new under the sun.
νίκη δ' έτταμείβετοα άνδρας [Gr; nikë d' epameíbetai ándras], victory
comes in turn to men (i.e., now to this man, now to that): Homer.
nil admirari [L], to be astonished at nothing: Horace.
nil agit exemplum, litem quod lite resolvit [L], an example is nothing
to the purpose, which decides one controversy by creating another:
Horace.
nil conscire sibi, nulla pallescere culpa [L], to be conscious of no
wrongdoing, to turn pale at no crime (or with no guilt): Horace.