I read to him and to the audience from the Dictionary the definitions of "animus" and of "mens."
"Memoirs of Orange Jacobs"
Orange Jacobs
It is true that the new scholarship with its clearer estimate of literary values and its appreciation of the individual's proprietary rights in his own writings made itself strongly felt in the sphere of secular translation and introduced new standards of accuracy, new definitions of the latitude which might be accorded the translator; but much of the old freedom in handling material, with the accompanying vagueness as to the limits of the translator's function, persisted throughout the time of Elizabeth.
"Early Theories of Translation"
Flora Ross Amos
I shall show more fully that our definitions of what is poetry and what is a poem have been faulty.
"The Literature of Ecstasy"
Albert Mordell