The verb "to list," most commonly found in the imperative, meaning
"hark!" is another form of "listen," and is to be referred, as to its
ultimate origin, to an Indo-European root _klu_-, seen in Gr. [Greek:
klyein], to hear, [Greek: kleos], glory, renown, and in the English
"loud." The same root is seen in Welsh _clûst_ and Irish _clûas_, ear.
Another word "list," meaning pleasure, delight, or, as a verb, meaning
"to please, choose," is chiefly found in such phrases as "the wind
bloweth where it listeth." This is from the O.E. _lystan_, cf. Dut.
_lusten_, Ger. _lüsten_, to take pleasure in, and is also found in the
English doublet "lust," now always used in the sense of an evil or
more particularly sexual desire. It is probably an application of this
word, in the sense of "inclination," that has given rise to the
nautical term "list," for the turning over of a ship on to its side.
LISTA Y ARAGON, ALBERTO (1775-1848), Spanish poet and educationalist,
was born at Seville on the 15th of October 1775. He began teaching at
the age of fifteen, and when little over twenty was made professor of
elocution and poetry at Seville university. In 1813 he was exiled, on
political grounds, but pardoned in 1817. He then returned to Spain and,
after teaching for three years at Bilbao, started a critical review at
Madrid. Shortly afterwards he founded the celebrated college of San
Mateo in that city. The liberal character of the San Mateo educational
system was not favoured by the government, and in 1823 the college was
closed. Lista after some time spent in Bayonne, Paris and London was
recalled to Spain in 1833 to edit the official _Madrid Gazette_. He was
one of the founders of the Ateneo, the free university of Madrid, and up
till 1840 was director of a college at Cadiz. All the leading spirits of
the young generation of Spaniards, statesmen, writers, soldiers and
diplomatists came under his influence. He died at Seville on the 5th of
October 1848.
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