Cheap

The dictionaries define this adjective as meaning, bearing a low price, or to be had at a low price; but nowadays good usage makes it mean that a thing may be had, or has been sold, at a bargain. Hence, in order to make sure of being understood, it is better to say low-priced , when one means low-priced, than to use the word cheap . What is low-priced, as everybody knows, is often dear , and what is high-priced is often cheap . A diamond necklace might be cheap at ten you sand dollars, and a pinchbeck necklace dear at ten dollars. Cherubim. The Hebrew plural of cherub . "We are authorized," says Dr. Campbell, "both by use and analogy, to say either cherubs and seraphs , according to the English idiom, or cherubim and seraphim , according to the Oriental. The former suits better the familiar, the latter the solemn, style. As the words cherubim and seraphim are plural, the terms cherubims and seraphims , as expre ing the plural, are quite improper."—"Philosophy of Rhetoric."