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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 647 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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NICE  , an

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adjective which in
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present usage has two
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main meanings: (1) fastidious, particular, precise or scrupulous, andpleasant,
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kind or agreeable . The first meaning has been
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common since the 16th
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century, the second only since the end of the 18th . In O . Fr., from which the
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English
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form was adapted, the word is
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niche or nice, which are derivatives of
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Lat. nescius, not knowing, ignorant . The development in meaning is doubtful; some authorities take it as (1). foolish, (2) foolishly precise, (1) delicate, (4) pleasant .
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Skeat suggests an
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early confusion with the word " nesh," soft, delicate, still surviving dialectically . NICEPHORUS, the name of three emperors of the
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East .

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