1) cynosure, sinecure. The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. 1993
...attention : Resplendent in uniform, the general was the cynosure of all eyes that night. A sinecure is a post that brings rewards without requiring much service in...
2) sinecure. The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. 1993
...See CYNOSURE. 1...
3) sinecure. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth
Edition. 2000.
...Archaic An ecclesiastical benefice not attached to the spiritual duties of a parish. From Medieval Latin (beneficium) sine cr, (benefice) without cure (of souls)...
4) Bible-Clerk. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898
...pecuniary advantages for reading the Bible aloud at chapel. The office is almost a sinecure now, but the emolument is given, in some colleges, to the sons of poor...
5) 46319. Rich, Adrienne. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...precious chronic invalid,-would we, darlings, resign it if we could?Our blight has been our sinecure:mere talent was enough for us-glitter in fragments and rough...
6) §20. Resignation. XVIII. Prescott and Motley. Vol. 16. Early National
Literature, Part II; Later National Literature, Part I. The Cambridge
History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen
Volumes. 1907–21
...His office was no sinecure. In addition to the complications arising from the war, there were others connected with Maximilian s expedition to Mexico, in which he...
7) §2. "The Seasons". V. Thomson and Natural Description in Poetry. Vol. 10.
The Age of Johnson. The Cambridge History of English and American
Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...Thrown out of employment by the death of his pupil in 1733, he received from Talbot the sinecure secretaryship of briefs in chancery. He could afford, on the failure...
8) 681. Inaction. Mawson, C.O. Sylvester. 1922. Roget s International
Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases
...idle hands, time hanging on one s hands, dolce far niente [It.]; shore duty; interregnum; sinecure; soft snap, soft thing, cinch [all three slang]. VERB: NOT DO,...
9) §15. The Installation Ode. VI. Gray. Vol. 10. The Age of Johnson. The
Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in
Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...pleaded Gray s claims to the professorship of history, and with success. The office was a sinecure; he had some intention of delivering lectures, but the form of...
10) Objects. Stein, Gertrude. 1914. Tender Buttons
...and sometime, surely any is unwelcome, sometime there is breath and there will be a sinecure and charming very charming is that clean and cleansing. Certainly glittering...
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