Crossword clues for shavian
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1903, "in the style or manner of George Bernard Shaw" (1856-1950), from Latinized form of his name. An earlier form was Shawian (1894).
Wikipedia
Shavian is a Unicode block containing characters of the Shavian alphabet (also known as the Shaw alphabet), an orthography invented to write English phonetically and funded by the will of George Bernard Shaw. The Shavian block was derived from an earlier private use encoding in the ConScript Unicode Registry, like the Deseret and Phaistos Disc encodings.
Shavian (foaled 31 March 1987) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. He showed his best form over one mile and usually ran his races from the front. As a two-year-old in 1989 he showed promising form, winning the second of his two starts. In the following year he was beaten twice in spring but then established himself as a top-class miler with wins in the St James's Palace Stakes and the Celebration Mile. He was retired at the end of the year and stood as a breeding stallion in Europe and Japan, but had little success as a sire of winners.
Usage examples of "shavian".
Glamdrul Feynt was on his way to keep a very important, and secret, appointment with Deputy Enforcer Bormas Tyle, and with Shavian Bossit, Lord Maintainer of the Household.
The perfect picture of conspirators, Shavian thought, shaking his head at them warningly.
And then Lees Obol, with Shavian Bossit to take his place as Protector of Manthree votes in the council guaranteed: Bormas, Glamdrul, and his ownand the assembly already primed to vote for him.
But the average representative of them undoubtedly treats the Shavian meaning as tricky and complex, when it is really direct and offensive.
One of the best thrusts in all the Shavian fencing matches is that which occurs when Richard Dudgeon, condemned to be hanged, asks rhetorically why he cannot be shot like a soldier.
Bret Harte preaching the usual Shavian evangel, has no more relation to Irish life than it has to literature.
But Shaw, who knew better than the Shavians, was at this moment on the very eve of confessing his moral origin.