The Calling of the Estates General. In late 1788 Necker announced that the meeting of the Estates General would be brought forward to January 1st 1789 (in reality, it didn't meet until May 5th of that year). However, this edict neither defined the form the Estates General would take nor set out how it would be chosen.
hellacious (comparative more hellacious, superlative most hellacious) 1  horrible, awful, hellish, agonizing Dan Horgan; Bringing Back Boxing: A Young Journalist's Attempt to Revive the Sweet Science, pg. 2  nasty, repellent. ( 3 slang) Remarkable, unbelievable, unusual.
If presented with an opportunity to drink shamelessly and in large quantities, and if in the mood for a drunken good time, a lush generally wonât pass up on it. Its not that you're a lush ALL the time, but when given the opportunity, you're definately a lush. Akin to a hedonist, a lush is a person that lives for pleasure; specifically, a person that spends alot of time intoxicated. My uncle George is an unemployed, drunken lush.