Re: Word connections - malaise and sit

Raymond Brown wrote:
>>With "nice", the meaning changed dozens of times over a few decades,
>>apparently something like:
>>Foolish -> shy -> fastidious -> refined -> pleasant
>
>Somewhere along the line it also aquired the meaning "precice, exact",
>which was still extant in ordinary speech in the first half of the 20th
>cent.   My grandfather used the word with that meaning.>

Still used, I think-- as when we accuse someone (usually a lawyer) of making
"nice distinctions".