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Its

did not come into use till the seventeenth century. Dean Trench points out that Chatterton betrayed his forgeries by the lineLife and its goods I scorn,” but the word its was not in use till several centuries after the death of the monk to whom the words are ascribed. In 1548 it was used for its.

“The lone and denotion towardes God also hath it infancie, and hath it commyng forward in growth of age.” (1548.)

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Itching Ears (To have)
Itching Palm (An)
Itching of the Eye
Itching of the Lips
Itching of the Nose
Itching of the Thumb
Ithacensian Suitors (The)
Ithuriel
Ithuriel’s Spear
Itinerary (An)
Its
Ivan
Ivanhoe
Ivanovitch
Ivories
Ivory Gate of Dreams (The)
Ivory Palaces
Ivory Shoulder
Ivy (Old English, ifig)
Ivy (in Christian art)
Ivy Bush