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.
generous - not petty in character and mind; unusually generous in his judgment of people. meanspirited, ungenerous - lacking in magnanimity; it seems ungenerous to end this review of a splendid work of scholarship on a critical note- Times Litt.