19 April 2017
rebus
[ree-buh s]
noun, plural rebuses.
1. a representation of a word or phrase by pictures, symbols, etc., that suggest that word or phrase or its syllables:
Two gates and a head is a rebus for Gateshead.
2. a piece of writing containing many such representations.
Origin of rebus
Latin
1595-1605; < Latin rēbus by things (ablative plural of rēs), in phrase nōn verbīs sed rēbus not by words but by things
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Examples from the Web for rebus
Historical Examples
The Major chuckled, and admitted this might be so; his old governor used to say, “Est modus in rebus, sunt certi denique fines.”
Somehow Good
William de Morgan
A cask; the rebus of the final syllable TON in many surnames.
The Handbook to English Heraldry
Charles Boutell
More than three weeks, and rebus Newmarketianis versatus, I have written nothing.
The Greville Memoirs
Charles C. F. Greville
Beckington’s rebus (a beacon and a tun) occurs in the bosses.
The Cathedrals of Great Britain
P. H. Ditchfield
rebus sic stantibus, what’s the use of talking about quantitative and accentual verse, as if they were really two kinds of verse?
The Voice and Spiritual Education
Hiram Corson
The rebus of the master-mason, Hyndeley (a hind lying) occurs in the capitals.
The Cathedrals of Great Britain
P. H. Ditchfield
Ita facillime quae volemus, et privatis in rebus et in re publica consequemur.
De Officiis
Marcus Tullius Cicero
One class was formed as were the canting arms in heraldry, that is, by a rebus.
The Religious Sentiment
Daniel G. Brinton
In the cases of these two gods we got the chiffre, and the rebus is still to seek.
Studies in Central American Picture-Writing
Edward S. Holden
This rebus may be found in various places where the work was due to him.
Bell’s Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Saint Albans
Thomas Perkins
Anagram
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Today’s quotes
Those who suffer are not those at the top, but are the less privileged members of society.
– Bianca Jagger
On this day
19 April 1987 – The Simpsons is first aired on television in the United States.
19 April 1993 – 70 members of the cult Branch Davidian sect, led by David Koresh, perish following a fire at their Waco compound. It is believed they lit the fire deliberately as federal agents stormed the compound following a siege that began in February 1993.
19 April 1995 – Terrorist Timothy McVeigh detonates a bomb in front of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people, including 19 children, and injuring 680 people. McVeigh was executed by lethal injection on 11 June 2001.