Careful Words

general (n.)

general (v.)

general (adv.)

general (adj.)

  Saturninus said, "Comrades, you have lost a good captain to make him an ill general."

Michael De Montaigne (1533-1592): Book iii. Chap. ix. Of Vanity.

  The play, I remember, pleased not the million; 't was caviare to the general.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Hamlet. Act ii. Sc. 2.