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carpe diem
car·pe di·em C0123200 (kär′pĕ dē′ĕm′, -əm, dī′-)interj. Used as an admonition to seize the pleasures of the moment without concern for the future.n. Such an admonition.
[Latin : carpe, seize + diem, day.]carpe diem (ˈkɑːpɪ ˈdiːɛm) enjoy the pleasures of the moment, without concern for the future[literally: seize the day!]car•pe di•em (ˈkɑr pɛ ˈdi ɛm; Eng. ˈkɑr pi ˈdaɪ əm, ˈkɑr peɪ ˈdi əm) Latin. seize the day; enjoy the present, without thought of the future. carpe diem
carpe diemEnjoy and make the most of the present, especially opportunities as they arise. A Latin phrase used by the Roman poet Horace (65–8 BCE), it is popularly translated as "seize the day." You can't simply sit back and wait for good things to come tomorrow, you have to make things happen as you want them to. Carpe diem!carpe diemEnjoy the present and don't worry about the future, as in It's a beautiful day, so forget tomorrow's test-carpe diem! Latin for "seize the day," an aphorism found in the Roman writer Horace's Odes, this phrase has been used in English since the early 1800s. carpe diem
carpe diem (kär`pĕ dē`ĕm), a descriptive term for literature that urges readers to live for the moment [from the Latin phrase "seize the day," used by Horace]. The theme, which was widely used in 16th- and 17th-century love poetry, is best exemplified by a familiar stanza from Robert Herrick's "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time": Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
Old time is still a-flying;
And this same flower that smiles today
Tomorrow will be dying. Shakespeare's version of the theme takes the following form in Twelfth Night: What is love? 'Tis not hereafter;
Present mirth has present laughter;
What's to come is still unsure.
In delay there lies no plenty,
Then come and kiss me sweet and twenty;
Youth's a stuff will not endure. AcronymsSeeCD |