Rubicon

Quick meaning: Rubicon is a noun meaning A limit that when surpassed cannot be returned from, or an action that when taken cannot be reversed.

Meaning

A limit that when surpassed cannot be returned from, or an action that when taken cannot be reversed.

More Meanings

1. (card games) Especially in bezique and piquet: a score which, if not achieved by a losing player, increases the player's penalty.
2. (transitive, card games) Especially in bezique and piquet: to defeat a player who has not achieved the rubicon.

Example Sentences

Fortunately for England ſhe is yet on the peaceable ſide of the Rubicon; but as the flames once kindled are not alway eaſily extinguiſhed, the hopes of peace are not ſo clear as before the late myſterious diſpute began.

Forgive me, ghosts of patriots,— [...] / [...] —for being taught in vain / That while the illegitimate Cæsars show / Of meaner stature than the first full strain, / (Confessed incompetent to conquer Gaul) / They swoon as feebly and cross Rubicons / As rashly as any Julius of them all.

But, my hearers, there are Rubicons to be passed in our religious and moral course, as well as in our temporal—occasions in the experience of our hearts, which extend their influence so far into the future, that it mainly depends on the decision we then make, and the purposes we then form, whether we shall at last be saved or lost for ever.

So when friends are lied into distrust of each other, and the rubicon has been passed, either by the death of one, or that the light of truth will not break in upon the mist resting upon the other, [...] at a day too late a discovery arises, and the perpetrators of this fruitless crime, console themselves with the saying that it was "all for the sufferer's good.["]

Word Forms

• rubicons
• rubiconing
• rubiconed

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include riviera, romanesco, rialto, roma, riva, rubine.

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