tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88942842522260443552024-03-15T21:09:41.298-04:00Word-EA Word-A-DayJim Gepphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01208098965191073561noreply@blogger.comBlogger292125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8894284252226044355.post-22252964239457752882011-07-05T06:00:00.009-04:002011-07-13T22:07:22.880-04:00frowardfro•ward (FROH-werd, FROH-erd) <i>adj</i><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Definition: </span></b><br />
willfully contrary; not easily managed<br />
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<i>frowardness </i>noun; <i>frowardly</i> adverb<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Origin:</span></b><br />
1150–1200; O.E. <i>fromweard</i> "turned from or away," from <i>from</i> + -<i>weard</i>; opposite of toward, it renders L. <i>pervertus</i> in early translations of the Psalms, and also meant "about to depart, departing," and "doomed to die"<br />
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<b>Synonyms:</b> adverse, balky, contrary, headstrong, insubmissive, obstinate, refractory, stubborn, unyielding, antagonistic, antipodal, antipodean, contradictory, contrariant, contumacious, discordant, dissentient, opposed, ornery, recusant<br />
<b>Related Words:</b> afterward, toward, backward, awkward, steward, forward, untoward<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Sentence Examples:</span></b><br />
• "Tell your sister for me," I recall his saying, "what a kind, good, and deserving man I am. How I love little children and [with a dry chuckle] elderly spinsters. Relate how I was born of rich yet honest parents, was reared in the 'nurture and admonition of the Lord,' and, according to the bent of a <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12984/12984-h/12984-h.htm"><b>froward</b></a> youth, have stumbled along to become the <a href="http://word-e.blogspot.com/2010/12/cynosure.html">cynosure</a> of a ribald age." - Eugene Field, A Study In Heredity And Contradictions, Slason Thompson<br />
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• The <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext04/g114v10.txt"><b>froward</b></a> fellow put his fingers to his lips, as the little children do to blow a kiss, and when his eyes fell on that wench's, meseemed that this was not the first time they had met. - Margery, by Georg Ebers<br />
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• It may suffice to touch very slightly on some other arguments, which it would hardly be right to leave altogether unnoticed: one of these (the justice of which, however denied by superficial moralists, parents of strict principles can abundantly testify) may be drawn from the perverse and <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/25709/25709-h/25709-h.htm"><b>froward</b></a> dispositions perceivable in children, which it is the business and sometimes the ineffectual attempt of education to reform. - A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians, in the Middle and Higher Classes in this Country, Contrasted with Real Christianity, William Wilberforce<br />
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<b>Sources:</b> <a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/froward">Dictionary.com</a>, <a href="http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=froward&searchmode=none">Online Etymology</a> <br />
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<a href="http://word-e.blogspot.com/">Word-E: A Word-A-Day</a>Jim Gepphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01208098965191073561noreply@blogger.com255tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8894284252226044355.post-2853791711622838982011-07-04T06:00:00.035-04:002011-07-12T22:42:15.257-04:00onomasticson•o•mas•tics (on-uh-MAS-tiks) <i>n</i><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Definition: </span></b><br />
1. the study of the origin, history, and use of proper names<br />
2. the system underlying the formation and use of words especially for proper names or of words used in a specialized field<br />
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<i>onomastician </i>noun; <i>onomastic</i> adjective<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Origin:</span></b><br />
1936; from Fr. <i>onomastique</i>, from Gk. <i>onomastikos</i> "of or belonging to naming," from <i>onomastos</i> "named," verbal adj. of <i>onomazein</i> "to name," from <i>onoma</i> "name" <br />
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<b>Related Words:</b> onomatopoeia, anonymous, eponymous, synonym, homonym<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Sentence Examples:</span></b><br />
• Essentially we can identify two periods in the development of <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=MLChUpf_66EC&pg=PA241"><b>onomastics</b></a> in the GDR. ... In the first period the basis was established for the mining of knowledge; in this period, the methodological bases of interdisciplinary research in the field of <b>onomastics</b> and the history of settlement were generally firmly established, and a major part of the material basis for analysis was processed. - Le nom propre au carrefour des études humaines et des sciences, Jean-Claude Boulanger<br />
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• The first inventory of Greek names is that of W. Pape and G. Besnlser. ... This work remains a useful catalogue of literary names, but its utility is limited by the fact that it includes on inscriptions listed in CIG and no names attested in papyri. ... Fortunately, many other <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=x2AD3M77TgMC&pg=PA74"><b>onomastic</b></a> reference aids have been published over the past century. - An introduction to Greek epigraphy of the Hellenistic and Roman, Bradley Hudson McLean<br />
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• Of the other names, Shellu, Kushshu, Ḥuluḳḳu, and Zinu seem to be Semitic; at any rate they occur frequently, or in cognate forms, well known among the Assyrians and Babylonians. The others are all very unfamiliar. We are as yet so imperfectly acquainted with the <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/28674/28674-h/28674-h.html"><b>onomastics</b></a> of the nations surrounding the Semites that it is hazardous to attempt to locate these people. Supposing them to be all of one race, they may belong to a colony settled near Sippara, but the whole style of the language is so unlike the Sippara documents that we can hardly suppose that to be the case. - Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters, C. H. W. Johns<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Wikipedia:</span></b><br />
<blockquote><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onomastics">Onomastics</a> or onomatology is the study of proper names of all kinds and the origins of names. ... Toponymy or toponomastics, the study of place names, is one of the principal branches of onomastics. Anthroponomastics is the study of personal names.</blockquote><br />
<b>Sources:</b> <a href="http://i.m-w.com/dictionary/onomastics">Merriam-Webster</a>, <a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/onomastics">Dictionary.com</a>, <a href="http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=onomastics&searchmode=none">Online Etymology</a><br />
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<a href="http://word-e.blogspot.com/">Word-E: A Word-A-Day</a>Jim Gepphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01208098965191073561noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8894284252226044355.post-72398624440945256432011-07-03T06:00:00.019-04:002011-07-07T23:14:12.834-04:00desultorydes•ul•tor•y (DES-uhl-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee) <i>adj</i><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Definition: </span></b><br />
1. having no set plan; haphazard or random; lacking in consistency, constancy, or visible order<br />
2. moving or jumping from one thing to another; digressing from or unconnected with the main subject<br />
<i>desultoriness </i>noun; <i>desultorily</i> adverb<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Origin:</span></b><br />
1580s; from L. <i>desultorius</i>, adj. form of <i>desultor</i> "hasty, casual, superficial," lit. a noun meaning "a rider in the circus who jumps from one horse to another while they are in gallop," from <i>desul</i>-, stem of <i>desilire</i> "jump down," from <i>de</i>- "down" + <i>salire</i> "to jump, leap"; sense of "irregular, without aim or method" is c.1740<br />
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<b>Synonyms:</b> aimless, chance, chaotic, deviating, erratic, haphazard, orderless, rambling, unmethodical, unstable, unsystematic<br />
<b>Related Words:</b> salient, salacious, saute, resilience, consilience, assail, assault, insult<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Sentence Examples:</span></b><br />
• The Devil's Dictionary was begun in a weekly paper in 1881, and was continued in a <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/972/972-h/972-h.htm"><b>desultory</b></a> way at long intervals until 1906. - The Devil's Dictionary, Ambrose Bierce<br />
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• If she had appeared to be catching a train, he might have inferred that he had come on her in the act of transition between one and another of the country-houses which disputed her presence after the close of the Newport season; but her <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/284/284-h/284-h.htm"><b>desultory</b></a> air perplexed him. She stood apart from the crowd, letting it drift by her to the platform or the street, and wearing an air of irresolution which might, as he surmised, be the mask of a very definite purpose. - House of Mirth, Edith Wharton<br />
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• His measured, springless walk was the walk of the skilled countryman as distinct from the <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/143/143.txt"><b>desultory</b></a> shamble of the general labourer; while in the turn and plant of each foot there was, further, a dogged and cynical indifference personal to himself, showing its presence even in the regularly interchanging fustian folds, now in the left leg, now in the right, as he paced along. - The Mayor of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy<br />
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<b>Sources:</b> <a href="http://www.thefreedictionary.com/desultory">Free Dictionary</a>, <a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/desultory">Dictionary.com</a>, <a href="http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=DESULTORY&searchmode=none">Online Etymology</a><br />
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<a href="http://word-e.blogspot.com/">Word-E: A Word-A-Day</a>Jim Gepphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01208098965191073561noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8894284252226044355.post-81646341149815542812011-07-02T06:00:00.006-04:002011-07-06T22:39:09.627-04:00ungulateun•gu•late (UHNG-gyuh-lit, -leyt) <br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Definition: </span></b><br />
<i>n</i><br />
1. a hoofed mammal<br />
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<i>adj </i><br />
2. having hoofs<br />
3. hooflike<br />
4. belonging or pertaining to the Ungulata, a former order of all hoofed mammals, now divided into the odd-toed perissodactyls and even-toed artiodactyls<br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;">Origin:</span></b><br />
1802; from L.L. <i>ungulatus</i> "hoofed," from <i>ungula</i> "hoof, claw, talon," dim. (in form but not sense) of <i>unguis</i> "nail" <br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Sentence Examples:</span></b><br />
• The giraffe is separated from all living <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/10445/10445.txt"><b>ungulates</b></a> by the primitive character of its so-called "horns," which are not horns in the usual sense, but simply bony prominences of the skull covered with hair. - American Big Game in Its Haunts<br />
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• A few moments later, a rifle flash and a bang, and then a fusillade brought Jack’s heart into his throat. The pickup car jetted toward it; by the time it reached the spot, the shooting had stopped, and a crowd was gathering around something white on the ground. He had to force himself to look, then gave a shuddering breath of relief. It was a zaragoat, a three-horned domesticated <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/18137/18137-h/18137-h.htm"><b>ungulate</b></a>. - Little Fuzzy, Henry Beam Piper<br />
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• Professor Cope, the American paleontologist, was a strong believer in the effect of activity, both upon the individual and upon his descendants. He believed that the insistent beating of the foot of an animal upon the hard soil of the drying Tertiary plateau, had influenced the production of a firmer nail, which spread around the entire end of the toe and made the hoof of the <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/29422/29422-h/29422-h.htm"><b>ungulate</b></a>. - The Meaning of Evolution, Samuel Christian Schmucker<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Wikipedia:</span></b><br />
<blockquote><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ungulate">Ungulates</a> are several groups of mammals, most of which use the tips of their toes, usually hoofed, to sustain their whole body weight while moving. They make up several orders of mammals, of which six to eight survive. There is some dispute as to whether Ungulata is a cladistic (evolution-based) group, or merely a phenetic group or folk taxon (similar, but not necessarily related), because not all ungulates appear as closely related as once believed. </blockquote><br />
<b>Sources:</b> <a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/ungulate">Dictionary.com</a>, <a href="http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=ungulate&searchmode=none">Online Etymology</a><br />
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<a href="http://word-e.blogspot.com/">Word-E: A Word-A-Day</a>Jim Gepphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01208098965191073561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8894284252226044355.post-31566875829177180152011-07-01T06:00:00.001-04:002011-07-05T21:56:55.180-04:00sapidsap•id (SAP-id) <i>adj</i><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Definition: </span></b><br />
1. perceptible to the sense of taste; having flavor<br />
2. having a strong pleasant flavor; savory<br />
3. pleasing to the mind; engaging<br />
<i>sapidity, sapidness </i>noun<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Origin:</span></b><br />
1623; from L. <i>sapidus</i> “savory,” from <i>sapere</i> "to taste, have taste, be wise," from PIE base *<i>sep</i>- "to taste, perceive" <br />
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<b>Synonyms:</b> savory, palatable, tasty, delectable, delicious, ambrosial, appetizing<br />
<b>Related Words:</b> sapient, insipid, sage, savant, savvy<br />
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• Measured by any standard commensurate to his remarkable faculties, Pattison's life would be generally regarded as pale, negative, and ineffectual. Nevertheless, it is undeniable that he had a certain singular quality about him that made his society more interesting, more piquant, and more <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/20844/20844-h/20844-h.htm"><b>sapid</b></a> than that of many men of a far wider importance and more commanding achievement. - Critical Miscellanies, John Morley<br />
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• Butter-soft and <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/14293/14293-h/14293-h.htm"><b>sapid</b></a>, Limburger has brought <a href="http://word-e.blogspot.com/2010/10/gustatory.html">gustatory</a> pleasure to millions of hardy gastronomes since it came to light in the province of Lüttich in Belgium. - The Complete Book of Cheese, Robert Carlton Brown<br />
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• "What is a sardine?" was a question much before the Courts some few years ago, not unprofitably for certain gentlemen wearing silk, and the correct solution I never heard; but I can supply, from personal observation, one answer to the query, and that is, "An essential ingredient in London humour." For without this small but <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/11429/11429-h/11429-h.htm"><b>sapid</b></a> fish—whatever he may really be, whether denizen of the Sardinian sea, immature Cornish pilchard, or mere plebeian sprat well oiled—numbers of our fellow-men and fellow-women, with all the will in the world, might never raise a laugh. - Punch, or the London Charivari, 1919<br />
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<b>Sources:</b> <a href="http://www.thefreedictionary.com/sapid">Free Dictionary</a>, <a href="http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=sapid">Online Etymology</a> <br />
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<a href="http://word-e.blogspot.com/">Word-E: A Word-A-Day</a>Jim Gepphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01208098965191073561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8894284252226044355.post-23288756644356455932011-06-30T06:00:00.012-04:002011-07-04T20:49:21.960-04:00quiescentqui•es•cent (kwee-ES-uhnt, kwahy-) <i>adj</i><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Definition: </span></b><br />
1. marked by inactivity or repose<br />
2. causing no trouble or symptoms<br />
<i>quiescence, quiescency </i>noun; <i></i><i>quiescently</i> adverb; <i>quiesce</i> verb<i><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Origin:</span></b><br />
1605; from L. <i>quiescens</i>, prp. of <i>quiescere</i>, from <i>quies</i> "rest, quiet", from PIE base *<i>qwi</i>- "rest"; <i>quiescence</i> is from 1630s; <i>quiesce</i> is used in English from 1828<br />
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<b>Synonyms:</b> inactive, dormant, fallow, idle, immobile, inert, inoperative, motionless, passive, quiet, still, calm, placid, reposeful, reposing, restful, tranquil, undisturbed<br />
<b>Related Words:</b> quiet, acquiesce, requiem<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Sentence Examples:</span></b><br />
• He acknowledged that Virginia was "not as ready as South Carolina;" but declared that "The first drop of blood spilled on the soil of South Carolina would bring Virginia, and every Southern State, with them." He thought "it was perhaps better that Virginia, and all other border States, remain <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/7/1/3/7134/7134.txt"><b>quiescent</b></a> for a time, to serve as a guard against the North. By remaining in the Union for a time, she would not only prevent coercive legislation in Congress, but any attempt for our subjugation." - The Great Conspiracy, John Alexander Logan<br />
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• Where so many living creatures are to ply their respective powers, in pursuing the end for which they were intended, we are not to look for nature in a <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12861/12861-8.txt"><b>quiescent</b></a> state; matter itself must be in motion, and the scenes of life a continued or repeated series of agitations and events. - Theory of the Earth, James Hutton<br />
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• I now strove to be entirely care-free and <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/11231/11231.txt"><b>quiescent</b></a>; and my conscience justified me in the attempt; though indeed it was not so successful as I could have wished. - Bartleby, The Scrivener, Herman Melville<br />
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<b>Sources:</b> <a href="http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/quiescent">Merriam-Webster</a>, <a href="http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=quiescent&searchmode=none">Online Etymology</a><br />
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<a href="http://word-e.blogspot.com/">Word-E: A Word-A-Day</a>Jim Gepphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01208098965191073561noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8894284252226044355.post-65112624165750715922011-06-29T06:00:00.004-04:002011-07-01T21:21:11.316-04:00apodicticap•o•dic•tic (ap-uh-DIK-tik) <i>adj</i><br />
<i>also</i> apodeictic (ap-uh-DAHYK-tik)<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Definition: </span></b><br />
1. incontestable because of having been demonstrated or proved to be demonstrable<br />
2. (of a logical proposition) necessarily true or logically certain<br />
<i>apodictically</i> adverb<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Origin:</span></b><br />
1650s, from L. <i>apodicticus</i>, from Gk. <i>apodeiktikos</i>, from <i>apodeiktos</i>, verbal adjective of <i>apodeiknynai</i> "to show off, demonstrate," lit. "to point away from" (other objects, at one), from <i>apo</i> "off, away" + <i>deiknynai</i> "to show"<br />
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<b>Synonyms:</b> certain, inarguable, incontestable, incontrovertible, indisputable, indubitable, irrebuttable, irrefragable, proven, unassailable, undeniable, unimpeachable, unquestionable <br />
<b>Related Words:</b> paradigm<br />
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• The Chatelaine of a certain sugar plantation in Louisiana, in preparing a list of guests for her house-party, discovered, in one of those explosive moments of inspiration, that all people were easily divided into two fundamental groups or families, the Sulphites and the Bromides. The revelation was <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/10870/pg10870.txt"><b>apodictic</b></a>, convincing; it made life a different thing; it made society almost plausible. - Are You A Bromide?, Gelett Burgess<br />
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• When we add further that, unless we deny that the notion of morality has any truth or reference to any possible object, we must admit that its law must be valid, not merely for men, but for all rational creatures generally, not merely under certain contingent conditions or with exceptions, but with absolute necessity, then it is clear that no experience could enable us to infer even the possibility of such <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext04/litpe10.txt"><b>apodictic</b></a> laws. For with what right could we bring into unbounded respect as a universal precept for every rational nature that which perhaps holds only under the contingent conditions of humanity? - Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Moral, Immanuel Kant<br />
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• If it be assumed that those principles only are practical, which may be applied immediately by every reader, in practice, this work must disclaim all pretensions to that title. I doubt very much if, in this sense, there is a single science susceptible of a practical exposition. Genuine practitioners, who know life with its thousands of relations by experience, will be the first to grant that such a collection of prescriptions, when the question is the knowledge and guidance of men, would be misleading and dangerous in proportion as such prescriptions were positive and <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/27698/27698-h/27698-h.html"><b>apodictic</b></a>, that is non-practical and doctrinarian. - Principles Of Political Economy, William Roscher<br />
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<b>Sources:</b> Dictionary.com, Online Etymology<br />
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<a href="http://word-e.blogspot.com/">Word-E: A Word-A-Day</a>Jim Gepphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01208098965191073561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8894284252226044355.post-44538924017892424012011-06-28T06:00:00.011-04:002011-06-30T22:48:49.012-04:00inquinatein•qui•nate (IN-kwuh-neyt) <i>v tr</i><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Definition: </span></b><br />
to defile; to corrupt; to pollute; to contaminate<br />
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<i>inquination </i>noun<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Origin:</span></b><br />
from Latin <i>inquinatus</i>, past part. of <i>inquinare</i> “polluting”, from <i>in</i>- + -<i>quinare</i><br />
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<b>Synonyms:</b> <a href="http://word-e.blogspot.com/2011/06/maculate.html">maculate</a>, taint, infect, contaminate, poison, empoison, corrupt, exulcerate, pollute, vitiate, defile, deprave, degrade, ulcerate, stain<br />
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• Spanish clay should, prior to its use, be finely pulverised, and then be kept for twenty-four hours in water, in which about 1 oz. of sulphuric acid has been mixed for every gallon. After twenty-four hours, the acidulated water is decanted, and the clay then washed in fresh water two or three times. This is necessary to remove all the carbonates which <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=T5csAQAAIAAJ&pg=RA1-PA460"><b>inquinate</b></a> commercial Spanish clay. - The Agricultural gazette of New South Wales, Charles Lennox Anderson, W. H. Clarke, F. G. Chomley<br />
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• The individual soul is absolutely different from the highest Self; it is <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16295/16295-h/16295-h.htm"><b>inquinated</b></a> by the contact with its different limiting adjuncts. But it is spoken of, in the Upanishad, as non-different from the highest Self because after having purified itself by means of knowledge and meditation it may pass out of the body and become one with the highest Self. - The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary, Sankaracarya<br />
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• Mists and fogs, containing commonly vegetable spirits, when they dissolve and return upon the earth, may fecundate and add some fertility unto it, but they may be more unwholesome in great cities than in country habitations: for they consist of vapours not only elevated from simple watery and humid places, but also the exhalations of draughts, common sewers, and foetid places, and decoctions used by unwholesome and sordid manufactures: and also hindering the sea-coal smoke from ascending and passing away, it is conjoined with the mist and drawn in by the breath, all which may produce bad effects, <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=4No0AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA340"><b>inquinate</b></a> the blood, and produce catarrhs and coughs. - The Works of Sir Thomas Browne<br />
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<b>Sources:</b> <a href="http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Inquinate">Free Dictionary</a>, <a href="http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/inquinate">Merriam-Webster</a><br />
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<a href="http://word-e.blogspot.com/">Word-E: A Word-A-Day</a>Jim Gepphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01208098965191073561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8894284252226044355.post-24165055495482292432011-06-27T06:00:00.016-04:002011-06-29T22:44:43.898-04:00graduandgrad•u•and (GRAJ-oo-and) <i>n</i><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Definition: </span></b><br />
a student who is about to graduate or receive a degree<br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;">Origin:</span></b><br />
1882, from M.L. graduandus, gerundive of graduari "to take a degree," from L. gradus "step, grade", from PIE *ghredh-<br />
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<b>Related Words:</b> graduate; grade, degree, progression, congress<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Sentence Examples:</span></b><br />
• It was from the 'hopeful gatherings', to a large extent rehearsals for the following stage, that the <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=qgYdycfeJyAC&pg=PA204"><b>graduands</b></a> set forth to meet the chief examiner and to perform the ceremony of gratitude. - State and court ritual in China, Joseph Peter McDermott<br />
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• According to the 1545 statutes, the <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=AK74D-qTC4kC&pg=PA146"><b>graduand</b></a> at the Studio pisano had to swear in the hands of the prior of the college that he had studued for five years in the faculty in which he sought his degree. - Culture and power: Tuscany and its universities 1537-1609, Jonathan Davies<br />
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• The degrees which Oxford and Cambridge conferred in Grammar did not involve residence or entitle the recipients to a vote in Convocation; but the conferment was accompanied by ceremonies which were almost parodies of the solemn proceedings of graduation or inception in a recognised Faculty, a birch taking the place of a book as a symbol of the power and authority entrusted to the <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/20958/20958-h/20958-h.htm"><b>graduand</b></a>. - Medieval University, Robert S. Rait<br />
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<b>Sources:</b><a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/graduand"> Dictionary.com</a>, O<a href="http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=graduand&searchmode=none">nline Etymology</a><br />
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<a href="http://word-e.blogspot.com/">Word-E: A Word-A-Day</a>Jim Gepphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01208098965191073561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8894284252226044355.post-29698104121342577992011-06-26T06:00:00.003-04:002011-06-28T22:48:48.790-04:00maculatemac•u•late<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Definition: </span></b><br />
<i>ad</i>j (MAK-yuh-lit)<br />
1. spotted; stained<br />
2. defiled; impure<br />
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<i>n</i> (MAK-yuh-leyt)<br />
3. to mark with a spot or spots; stain<br />
4. to sully or pollute<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Origin:</span></b><br />
1375–1425; from L. <i>maculatus</i>, pp. of <i>maculare</i> "to make spotted, to speckle," from <i>macula</i> "spot, stain"<br />
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<b>Synonyms:</b> befoul, besmirch, contaminate, dirty, discolor, pollute, soil, stain, sully, taint, tar, tarnish; mottled, speckled, blotchy, motley, spotted<br />
<b>Antonym: </b>immaculate<b><br />
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<b>Related Words:</b> macular, immaculate, emaculate<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Sentence Examples:</span></b><br />
• A steady twitching commenced in a muscle at the flange of his nose. Woolfolk was aware of an increasing tension in the other, that gained a peculiar oppressiveness from the lack of any corresponding outward expression. His heavy, blunt hand fumbled under the <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/30466/30466-h/30466-h.htm"><b>maculate</b></a> apron; his chest heaved with a sudden, tempestuous breathing. - Wild Oranges, Joseph Hergesheimer<br />
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• John sat in dumb agony. Colette's foul walls and <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext96/tlfns10.txt"><b>maculate</b></a> table-linen, and even down to Colette's villainous casters, seemed like objects in a nightmare. - Tales and Fantasies, Robert Louis Stevenson<br />
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• In its single garment, in its woollen hair, and upon its <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/27934/27934.txt"><b>maculate</b></a> body the doll carried, perhaps, the germs of typhoid, of pneumonia, of tetanus, and of consumption; but all night it lay in the arms of its little mother, and was not permitted to harm her or hers. - IT and Other Stories, Gouverneur Morris<br />
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<b>Sources:</b> <a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/maculate">Dictionary.com</a>, <a href="http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=maculate&searchmode=none">Online Etymology</a><br />
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<a href="http://word-e.blogspot.com/">Word-E: A Word-A-Day</a>Jim Gepphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01208098965191073561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8894284252226044355.post-42818193820205578852011-06-25T06:00:00.010-04:002011-06-28T06:59:32.844-04:00excogitateex•cog•i•tate (eks-KOJ-i-teyt) <i>v tr</i><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Definition: </span></b><br />
1. to devise, invent, or contrive<br />
2. to think out in detail<br />
3. to study intently and carefully in order to grasp or comprehend fully<br />
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<i>excogitated</i> past participle; <i>excogitated</i> past tense; <i>excogitating</i> present participle; <i>excogitates</i> 3rd person singular present; <i>excogitation, excogitator </i>noun; <i>excogitable, excogitative</i> adjective<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Origin:</span></b><br />
circa 1530; from Latin <i>excogitatus</i>, past participle of <i>excogitare</i> "to devise, invent, think out", from <i>ex</i>- + <i>cogitare</i> "to think", apparently from <i>co-agitare</i>, from <i>com</i>- "together" + <i>agitare</i>, here in a sense of "to turn over in the mind," lit. "to put in constant motion, drive, impel," frequentative of <i>agere</i> "to move, drive" <br />
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<b>Synonyms:</b> conceive, consider, contemplate, contrive, deliberate, derive, develop, devise, educe, invent, perpend, ponder, ruminate, study<br />
<b>Related Words:</b> cogitate<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Sentence Examples:</span></b><br />
• The Father Brown of these stories—moon-faced little man—is a peculiar creation. No other author would have taken the trouble to <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/7/0/8/27080/27080-h/27080-h.htm"><b>excogitate</b></a> him, and then treat him so badly. - G. K. Chesterton, A Critical Study, Julius West<br />
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• His income, as collector of rents and manager of estates large or small, totalled about a pound a week. But, he walked forth in the town, smiled, joked, spoke vaguely, and said, "Do you?" to such a tune that his income might have been guessed to be anything from ten pounds a week to ten thousand a year. And he had four days a week in which to <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12986/12986-h/12986-h.htm"><b>excogitate</b></a> new methods of creating a fortune. - The Card, Arnold Bennett<br />
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• To make only passing mention of less spiritual amusements, with which he could not wholly dispense--he spent most of his time in writing a polemic against the slanderer Voltaire, hoping that the publication of this document would serve, upon his return to Venice, to give him unchallenged position and prestige in the eyes of all well-disposed citizens. One morning he went out for a walk beyond the town limits to <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/9310/9310-8.txt"><b>excogitate</b></a> the final touches for some sentences that were to annihilate the infidel Frenchman. - Casanova's Homecoming, Arthur Schnitzler<br />
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<b>Sources:</b> <a href="http://www.thefreedictionary.com/excogitate">Free Dictionary</a>, <a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/excogitate">Dictionary.com</a>, <a href="http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/excogitate">Merriam-Webster</a>, <a href="http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=cogitare&searchmode=none">Online Etymology</a><br />
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<a href="http://word-e.blogspot.com/">Word-E: A Word-A-Day</a>Jim Gepphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01208098965191073561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8894284252226044355.post-75552062346011411462011-06-24T06:00:00.041-04:002011-06-26T23:27:04.319-04:00collocatecol•lo•cate (KOL-uh-keyt <br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Definition: </span></b><br />
<i>v tr</i><br />
1. to set or place together, especially side by side or in a particular relation<br />
2. to arrange in proper order: to collocate events<br />
3. to be habitually juxtaposed with another with a frequency greater than chance (of a word)<br />
<i>v intr</i><br />
4. to enter into a collocation (linguistics)<br />
<i>n</i><br />
5. a word that is habitually juxtaposed with another with a frequency greater than chance<br />
<i>collocated</i> past participle; <i>collocated</i> past tense; <i>collocating</i> present participle; <i>collocates</i> 3rd person singular present; <i>collocation </i>noun<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Origin:</span></b><br />
early 13c; from L. <i>collocatus</i>, pp. of <i>collocare</i> "to arrange, place together, set in a place," from <i>com</i>- "together" + <i>locare</i> "to place"<br />
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<b>Related Words:</b> locate, allocate, couch<br />
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• Mr. Forsyth says: "Nothing can exceed the beauty of the language, the rhythmical flow of the periods, and the harmony of the style. The structure of the Latin language, which enables the speaker or writer to <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/28676/28676.txt"><b>collocate</b></a> his words, not, as in English, merely according to the order of thought, but in the manner best calculated to produce effect, too often baffles the powers of the translator who seeks to give the force of the passage without altering the arrangement." - The Life of Cicero, Anthony Trollope<br />
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• Or, to put it in other words, though certain causes, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/34656/34656-h/34656-h.htm"><b>collocated</b></a> in the proper way, would, on this view of evolution, explain everything which ensued from that <b>collocation</b>, we should still want to know why the causes were <b>collocated</b> in that particular way rather than in any other. - Evolution, Frank B. Jevons<br />
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• When he hears a nightingale-"sad Philomel!"-he concludes that the bird was originally created for no other purpose than to prophesy in Paradise the fall of man, or, as he chooses to <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/11251/11251-8.txt"><b>collocate</b></a> the words, "Prophetic to have mourned of man the fall," but he does not tell us what she has been doing ever since. - Famous Reviews, R. Brimley Johnson<br />
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<b>Sources:</b> <a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/collocate">Dictionary.com</a>, <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=collocate">Google</a>, <a href="http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=collocate&searchmode=none">Online Etymology</a><br />
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<a href="http://word-e.blogspot.com/">Word-E: A Word-A-Day</a>Jim Gepphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01208098965191073561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8894284252226044355.post-68360029485115266712011-06-23T06:00:00.037-04:002011-06-23T06:00:16.998-04:00bovarismbo•va•ris•m (BOH-vuh-riz-uhm) <i>n</i><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Definition: </span></b><br />
1. an exaggerated, especially glamorized, estimate of oneself; conceit<br />
esp : domination of one's general behavior by such an unreal conception of oneself that it results in dramatic personal conflict (as in tragedy), in markedly unusual behavior (as in paranoia), or in great achievement<br />
2. an anxiety to escape from a social or sentimental condition judged to be unsatisfactory, sometimes by building a fictitious personality (psychology)<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Origin:</span></b><br />
1900–05; from French <i>bovaryisme</i>, after <i>Emma Bovary</i>, a character in Flaubert's novel Madame Bovary<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Sentence Examples:</span></b><br />
• Flaubert, on the other hand, is indicted for having created an inverted kind of <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=eq8-oI5Ov-cC&pg=PA62"><b>bovarism</b></a>, one in which emulation of his narrator leads to persistent refusal to give in to representation, while yielding to it by the very process of imitating his stance. Flaubertism is also a form of <b>bovarism</b>, one from which Carpentier seems incapable of escaping. - Poetics of the Americas: race, founding, and textuality, Bainard Cowan, Jefferson Humphries<br />
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• Whether the distinguished French philosopher still complacently accepts the permanence of war in human affairs, or whether he now suspects that his defence of war was a manifestation of that <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=FrVaAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA57"><b>Bovarism</b></a> he so luminously defined, there is no public evidence to show. - The philosophy of conflict: and other essays in war-time, Havelock Ellis<br />
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• With her unquenchable <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=6Lnmelt7epUC&pg=PA317"><b>bovarism</b></a>, Oriane needed to find a new role for me. ... She soon found it: I became for her 'mon juene ecrivain', her young writer, whose career she nursed. - Quicksands, Sybille Bedford<br />
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<b>Sources:</b> <a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/bovarism">Dictionary.com</a>, <a href="http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bovarism">Merriam-Webster</a>, <a href="http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bovarism">Wiktionary</a><br />
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<a href="http://word-e.blogspot.com/">Word-E: A Word-A-Day</a>Jim Gepphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01208098965191073561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8894284252226044355.post-30754794232901936452011-06-22T06:00:00.029-04:002011-06-22T06:00:10.068-04:00peccantpec•cant (PEK-uhnt) <i>adj</i><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Definition: </span></b><br />
1. sinning; guilty of a moral offense<br />
2. violating a rule, principle, or established practice; faulty; wrong<br />
3. producing disease; morbid (medicine)<br />
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<i>peccancy </i>noun; <i>peccantly</i> adverb<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Origin:</span></b><br />
c.1604; from L. <i>peccantem</i>, prp. of <i>peccare</i> “to sin”<br />
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<b>Synonyms:</b> corrupt, erring, guilty, sinful <br />
<b>Related Words:</b> peccadillo, impeccable<br />
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• More than ever does he tremble on his perch; tighter than ever clutching the throat of his canine companion. For he is sure, that the man whose footsteps speak approach, is his master, or rather his master’s son. The sounds seem to indicate great haste—a retreat rapid, headlong, confused. On which the <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/23140/23140-h/23140-h.htm"><b>peccant</b></a> slave bases a hope of escaping observation, and too probable chastisement. - The Death Shot, Mayne Reid<br />
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• "But they say, my trusty miller, that this chapel of the fairies may not be visited, forbidden as it is to all catholic and devout Christians, after nightfall." At this intimation the <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/25256/25256-h/25256-h.htm"><b>peccant</b></a> miller displayed his broad thumbs, and looked so dolorous and apprehensive, sprawling out his large ungainly proportions, that Eleanor, though not prone to the indulgence of mirth, was mightily moved thereto by the cowardly and dismal aspect he betrayed.- Traditions of Lancashire, John Roby<br />
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• This figure, which is copied from Caylus, ... represents Osiris grasping his phallus while taking an oath. A custom greatly resembling this manner of swearing existed also in the north of Europe, as is proved by an ancient law still extant: thus, one of the articles of the Welsh laws enacted by Hoel the Good, provides that, in cases of rape, if the woman wishes to prosecute the offender, she must, when swearing to the identity of the criminal, lay her right hand upon the relics of the saints and grasp with her left one, the <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/27752/27752-h/27752-h.htm"><b>peccant</b></a> member of the party accused. - Aphrodisiacs and Anti-aphrodisiacs: Three Essays on the Powers of Reproduction, John Davenport<br />
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<b>Sources:</b> <a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/peccant">Dictionary.com</a>, <a href="http://www.thefreedictionary.com/peccant">Free Dictionary</a>, <a href="http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=peccant&searchmode=none">Online Etymology</a><br />
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<a href="http://word-e.blogspot.com/">Word-E: A Word-A-Day</a>Jim Gepphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01208098965191073561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8894284252226044355.post-67440518317265384112011-06-21T06:00:00.020-04:002011-06-21T21:30:33.101-04:00nocentno•cent (NOH-suhnt) <i>adj</i><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Definition: </span></b><br />
1. harmful; injurious<br />
2. guilty (archaic)<br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;">Origin:</span></b><br />
1400–50; late Middle English from Latin <i>nocent</i>, stem of <i>nocens</i>, present participle of <i>nocere</i> "to do harm"<br />
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<b>Synonyms:</b> damaging, deleterious, detrimental, disadvantageous, evil, harmful, injurious, mischievous, nocuous, prejudicial, ruinous, harmful<br />
<b>Related Words:</b> innocent, <a href="http://word-e.blogspot.com/2011/01/nocuous.html">nocuous</a>, noxious, nuisance, pernicious, innocuous<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Sentence Examples:</span></b><br />
• But the law, except when it was on their own side, was of little importance to the church authorities. As they had failed to prove Philips guilty of heresy, they called upon him to confess his guilt by <a href="http://word-e.blogspot.com/2011/06/abjure.html">abjuring</a> it; "as if," he says, "there were no difference between a <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/29687/29687.txt"><b>nocent</b></a> and an innocent, between a guilty and a not guilty." - History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth, James Anthony Froude<br />
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• These were demonstrated in your own observations made years ago. They show that Algæ are parasitic in the living spleen of healthy turtles. This leads to the remark that all parasitic growths are not <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/8950/pg8950.html"><b>nocent</b></a>. - Scientific American Supplement, 1883<br />
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• Shortly, if an expurgatory index were compiled of those, and all other sorts of men, who either through their careless and neutral on looking, make no help to the troubled and disquieted church of Christ, or through their <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/26849/26849-h/26849-h.html"><b>nocent</b></a> accession and overthwart intermeddling, work out her greater harm, alas! how few feeling members were there to be found behind who truly lay to heart her estate and condition? - The Works of Mr. George Gillespie<br />
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<b>Sources:</b> <a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/nocent">Dictionary.com</a>, <span id="goog_1091712631"></span><a href="http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=nocere&searchmode=none">Online Etymology</a><br />
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<a href="http://word-e.blogspot.com/">Word-E: A Word-A-Day</a>Jim Gepphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01208098965191073561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8894284252226044355.post-17114880004120127822011-06-20T06:00:00.028-04:002011-06-20T23:10:40.799-04:00roborantrob•or•ant (ROB-er-uhnt) <br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Definition: </span></b><br />
<i>adj</i><br />
restoring vigor or strength<br />
<i>n</i><br />
a restorative or tonic<br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;">Origin:</span></b><br />
1655–65; from Latin roborare "to strengthen", from robur, robus "strength," also "a special kind of oak"<br />
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<b>Synonyms:</b> tonic, energizing, invigorating, refreshing, reinvigorating, renewing, restorative, rousing, stimulating<br />
<b>Related Words:</b> corroborate, robust<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Sentence Examples:</span></b><br />
• Extract of malt I have employed as a <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/26366/26366-h/26366-h.htm"><b>roborant</b></a>, either alone or in conjunction with iron, in cases of debility and malnutrition, and found it of service. - The Electric Bath, George M. Schweig<br />
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• Like so many other things in medicine we owe the use of <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=fdVXAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA244"><b>roborants</b></a> to empiricism. The beneficial <b>roborant</b> action of a large number of remedies was determined in an empirical manner, and these were employed for a long time without any scientific explanation of their action. - Clinical excerpts, 1904<br />
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• The therapeutic action of the albumoses may be briefly summarized as follows: They act, first, as appetizers: second, by promoting intestinal functions; and, third, as nutrients. Their general effect is eminently <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=PBogAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA478-IA4"><b>roborant</b></a>, and hence their supply for therapeutic purposes the best, because the most natural tonics. - Occidental Medical Times, 1902<br />
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<b>Sources:</b> <a href="http://www.thefreedictionary.com/roborant">Free Dictionary</a>, <a href="http://wordsmith.org/words/roborant.html">WordSmith </a><br />
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<a href="http://word-e.blogspot.com/">Word-E: A Word-A-Day</a>Jim Gepphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01208098965191073561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8894284252226044355.post-89666979984194932592011-06-19T06:00:00.021-04:002011-06-20T22:26:54.876-04:00tenesmuste•nes•mus (tuh-NEZ-muhs, -NES-) <i>n</i><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Definition: </span></b><br />
a distressing but ineffectual urge to evacuate the rectum or bladder<br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;">Origin:</span></b><br />
1527; from L. tenesmos, from Gk. tenesmos “straining,” from teinein “to stretch”<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Related:</span></b> <br />
<b>Related Words:</b> tetanus, hypotenuse, neoteny, tendon<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Sentence Examples:</span></b><br />
• The general complaints of disease among us, were a dizziness in the head, great weakness of the joints, and violent <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/0/3/3/20337/20337.txt"><b>tenesmus</b></a>, most of us having had no evacuation by stool since we left the ship. I had constantly a severe pain at my stomach; but none of our complaints were alarming; on the contrary, every one retained marks of strength, that, with a mind possessed of any fortitude, could bear more fatigue than I hoped we had to undergo in our voyage to Timor. - The Mutiny, On Board His Majesty's Ship Bounty; And The Subsequent Voyage Of Part Of The Crew, In The Ship's Boat, William Bligh<br />
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• This may be given as an emulsion with pancreatic extract. This will suit some people well, and result in a single passage daily, but in others may be annoying, and be either badly retained or not retained at all, and may give rise to <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16230/16230-8.txt"><b>tenesmus</b></a>. - Fat and Blood, S. Weir Mitchell<br />
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• One of the people had been so provident as to bring away with him from the ship a copper pot: by being in possession of this article, we were enabled to make a proper use of the supply we now obtained; for, with a mixture of bread, and a little pork, we made a stew that might have been relished by people of far more delicate appetites, and of which each person received a full pint. The general complaints of disease among us were a dizziness in the head, great weakness of the joints, and violent <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/18405/pg18405.txt"><b>tenesmus</b></a>. - Great Sea Stories<br />
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<b>Sources:</b> <a href="http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tenesmus">Merriam-Webster</a>, <a href="http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=tenesmus&searchmode=none">Online Etymology </a><br />
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<a href="http://word-e.blogspot.com/">Word-E: A Word-A-Day</a>Jim Gepphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01208098965191073561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8894284252226044355.post-62553194294348861172011-06-18T06:00:00.008-04:002011-06-18T06:00:00.719-04:00satyriasissa•ty•ri•a•sis (sey-tuh-RAHY-uh-sis, sat-uh-) <i>n</i><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Definition: </span></b><br />
excessive, often uncontrollable sexual desire in and behavior by a man<br />
<i>satyric</i> adjective<br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;">Origin:</span></b><br />
1650s, medical Latin, from Gk. satyriasis, from satyros<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Related:</span></b> <br />
<b>Synonyms:</b> gynecomania, satyrism, satyromania. Cf. nymphomania<br />
<b>Related Words:</b> satyr<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Sentence Examples:</span></b><br />
• "If a man wears about his neck a card inscribed with these identical words written in this juice, he will beget a male. Conversely, if a woman, she will conceive a female". Gilbert, however, cautions the bearer of this potent charm of the possible dangers of <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16155/16155-h/16155-h.htm"><b>satyriasis</b></a> incurred thereby, and offers suitable remedies for so alarming a condition. - Gilbertus Anglicus, Henry Ebenezer Handerson<br />
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• "The men most liable to <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/13614/13614-8.txt"><b>satyriasis</b></a>," Bouchereau states, "are those with vigorous nervous system, developed muscles, abundant hair on body, dark complexion, and white teeth." - Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Havelock Ellis<br />
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• Maniacs are prone to <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/29895/29895-h/29895-h.htm"><b>satyriasis</b></a> and bacchanalian excesses. They commit rape and indecent acts in public and often appropriate strange objects, hair or wearing apparel, with the idea of obtaining means to satisfy their vices, either because they are unconscious of doing wrong or because, like true megalomaniacs, they believe the stolen goods to be their own property. - Criminal Man, Gina Lombroso-Ferrero<br />
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<b>Sources:</b> <a href="http://www.thefreedictionary.com/satyriasis">Free Dictionary</a>, <a href="http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=satyriasis&searchmode=none">Online Etymology</a><br />
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<a href="http://word-e.blogspot.com/">Word-E: A Word-A-Day</a>Jim Gepphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01208098965191073561noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8894284252226044355.post-2360101060607826982011-06-17T06:00:00.008-04:002011-06-17T06:00:11.231-04:00abjureab•jure (ab-JOOR, -JUR) <i>v tr</i><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Definition: </span></b><br />
1. to renounce, repudiate, or retract, especially with formal solemnity; recant<br />
2. to renounce or give up under oath; forswear<br />
3. to avoid or shun<br />
<i>abjured</i> past participle; <i>abjured</i> past tense; <i>abjuring</i> present participle; <i>abjures</i> 3rd person singular present; <i>abjuration, abjurer </i>noun; <i>abjuratory</i> adjective<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Origin:</span></b><br />
early 15c., from M.Fr. abjurer or directly from L. abjurare "deny on oath," from ab- "away" + jurare "to swear," related to jus (gen. juris) "law"<br />
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<b>Synonyms:</b> forswear, recant, renege, renounce, retract, withdraw<br />
<b>Related Words:</b> jury, conjure, adjure, perjury<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Sentence Examples:</span></b><br />
• This literary trifle, “A Message to Garcia,” was written one evening after supper, in a single hour. ... The thing leaped hot from my heart, written after a trying day, when I had been endeavoring to train some rather delinquent villagers to <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/17195/17195-h/17195-h.htm"><b>abjure</b></a> the comatose state and get radio-active. - A Message to Garcia, Elbert Hubbard<br />
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• It is true that two of these Little People have no friends at all, but then it was their own choice, for did they not deliberately cast themselves away, and <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/24697/24697-h/24697-h.htm"><b>abjure</b></a> all society but that of their mute companion? - Seven Little People and their Friends, Horace Elisha Scudder<br />
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• Now, Faustus,<br />
Must thou needs be damn'd, canst thou not be sav'd.<br />
What boots it, then, to think on God or heaven?<br />
Away with such vain fancies, and despair;<br />
Despair in God, and trust in Belzebub:<br />
Now, go not backward, Faustus; be resolute:<br />
Why waver'st thou? O, something soundeth in mine ear,<br />
"<a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/811/811-h/811-h.htm"><b>Abjure</b></a> this magic, turn to God again!"<br />
Why, he loves thee not;<br />
The god thou serv'st is thine own appetite,<br />
Wherein is fix'd the love of Belzebub:<br />
To him I'll build an altar and a church,<br />
And offer lukewarm blood of new-born babes.<br />
- Dr. Faustus, Christopher Marlowe<br />
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<b>Sources:</b> <a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/abjure">Dictionary.com</a>, <a href="http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=abjure&searchmode=none">Online Etymology</a><br />
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<a href="http://word-e.blogspot.com/">Word-E: A Word-A-Day</a>Jim Gepphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01208098965191073561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8894284252226044355.post-94017308951320182011-06-16T06:00:00.001-04:002011-06-16T06:00:06.808-04:00xylographxy•lo•graph (ZAHY-luh-graf) <i>n</i><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Definition: </span></b><br />
1. an engraving on wood<br />
2. an impression from a woodblock<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Origin:</span></b><br />
1860–65; from Gk. <i>xylon</i> "wood" + -<i>graph</i> "something written"<br />
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<b>Synonym: </b>woodcut <b><br />
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<b>Related Words:</b> xylophone<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Sentence Examples:</span></b><br />
• The better rooms are frescoed with Buddhistic paintings, and on the third floor is a library, now used as a hospital, where <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/33359/pg33359.txt"><b>xylograph</b></a> editions of the Lamaist scriptures and lives of the saints are pigeon-holed in lockers in the wall. - The Unveiling of Lhasa, by Edmund Candler<br />
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• There can be no doubt of the whole of this production being <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=kQU_AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA182"><b>xylographical</b></a>. Unluckily, this fine copy has the first and last pages of the text in MS. The other pages, with blank reverses, are faintly impressed in brown ink: especially the first, which seems to be injured. - Principia typographica, Samuel Leigh Sotheby<br />
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• Manuscripts, whether handsomely embellished or copied simply without ornament, were expensive luxuries which only the rich could purchase. With the revival of learning, for students in general, for the poorer classes, for school children, cheap books costing as little as possible, but serving the same end as the manuscript, were necessary, and the <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=GkADAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA4"><b>xylograph</b></a> came at its hour. - Early woodcut initials, Oscar Jennings<br />
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<b>Sources:</b> <a href="http://www.thefreedictionary.com/xylograph">Free Dictionary</a>, <a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/xylograph">Dictionary.com</a><br />
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<a href="http://word-e.blogspot.com/">Word-E: A Word-A-Day</a>Jim Gepphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01208098965191073561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8894284252226044355.post-46565672992928739412011-06-15T06:00:00.015-04:002011-06-15T06:00:09.255-04:00funambulatefu•nam•bu•late (fu-NAM-byoo-leyt) <i>v</i><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Definition: </span></b><br />
to walk or dance on ropes; to tightrope walk<br />
<i></i><i>funambuted</i> past participle; <i>funambut</i><i>ed</i> past tense; <i>funambut</i><i>ing</i> present participle; <i>funambute</i><i>s</i> 3rd person singular present; <i>funambulation</i>, <i>funambulist, funambulism, funambulater </i>noun;<i></i> <i>funambulatingly</i>, <i>funambulatedly</i> adverb<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Origin:</span></b><br />
from French <i>funambule</i> from, Latin <i>funambulus</i>, from <i>funis</i> "rope" + <i>ambulare</i> "walk"<br />
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<b>Related Words:</b> funicular, ambulate, amble, ambulance<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Sentence Examples:</span></b><br />
• Walking the tight rope In the olden day, <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=O56A3HB4jo4C&pg=PA159"><b>funambulists</b></a> (pelhoonash: roughly: 'free fliers') were crowd favourites throughout Vainakh lands and they were a source of pride to their families. Cadets were taught the art of funambulation from early age. - The Chechens, Amjad M. Jaimoukha<br />
• In due course the intrepid rope-walker — who, despite all predictions to the contrary, did not break his neck and dash himself to pieces, but perversely lived on to a great old age, dying comfortably in his bed a few years ago—betook himself to Sydenham Grounds to arrange the fixing of his high rope in order that he might airily <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=TT1AAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA72"><b>funambulate</b></a> from tower to tower, so to speak. - Sixty years' stage service, Henry Chance Newton<br />
• Hither my father proposed to wade or swim, or, who knows, perhaps proceed by some private method of <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=GlxzmKO1D-8C"><b>funambulation</b></a>, should he be surprised in Scarborough by the returning Germans and unable to make a get-away in Dr. Mallard's motor. - Laughter in the Next Room, Osbert Sitwell<br />
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<b>Sources:</b> <a href="http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/definitions/Funambulate">Websters</a>, <a href="http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/funambulist">Wiktionary</a><br />
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<a href="http://word-e.blogspot.com/">Word-E: A Word-A-Day</a>Jim Gepphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01208098965191073561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8894284252226044355.post-54431353857261613462011-06-14T06:00:00.043-04:002011-06-14T06:00:03.665-04:00lubriciouslu•bri•cious (loo-BRISH-uhs) <i>adj</i><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Definition: </span></b><br />
1. arousing or expressive of sexual desire; lustful; lecherous<br />
2. having a slippery or smooth quality<br />
3. shifty or tricky<br />
<i>lubriciousness, lubricity </i>noun; <i></i> <i>lubriciously</i> adverb<br />
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<b style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">lubricous</span> </span></b><br />
lu•bri•cous (LOO-bri-kuhs) adj<br />
1. (of a surface, coating, etc.) having an oily smoothness; slippery<br />
2. unstable; shifty; fleeting <br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Origin:</span></b><br />
1580s, from L. <i>lubricus</i> "to make slippery or smooth," from <i>lubricus</i> "slippery"<br />
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<b>Synonyms:</b> <a href="http://word-e.blogspot.com/2011/01/concupiscent.html">concupiscent</a>, lascivious, carnal, immoral, indecent, lecherous, lewd, libertine, libidinous, licentious, lustful, obscene, prurient, salacious, sensual, wanton; slick, greasy, oily, oleaginous, sleek, slippery; crafty, crooked, cunning, deceptive, devious, dishonest, disingenuous, fraudulent, guileful, shady, shifty, sneaky, stealthy, surreptitious, treacherous, tricky, underhanded, unscrupulous, wily <br />
<b>Related Words:</b> lubricant<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Sentence Examples:</span></b><br />
• The great number of severe accidents annually caused by the idiotic custom of casting orange-peel and such other <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext05/8p10210.txt"><b>lubricious</b></a> integuments recklessly about the side-walks, has long furnished a topic for public animadversion. Some of our leading citizens have taken the matter in hand--or, to speak more correctly, on foot. - Punchinello, 1870<br />
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• Schiller is always in pursuit of the intense, the extraordinary, the ecstatic, and sometimes fails to impress through sheer superabundance of the impressive. His imagination wanders between a wild sensuality,--so <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext05/7lwfs10.txt"><b>lubricious</b></a> in its suggestions, now and then, as to occasion gossip to the effect that he had become a libertine,--and a sublimated philosophy based on Platonic conceptions of a prenatal existence, or upon Leibnitzian conceptions of a pre-established harmony. - The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller, Calvin Thomas<br />
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• It is on the side of sex that the appointed virtuosi of virtue exercise their chief repressions, for it is sex that especially fascinates the <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/19355/19355-h/19355-h.htm"><b>lubricious</b></a> Puritan mind; but the conventual reticence that thus becomes the enforced fashion in one field extends itself to all others. - A Book of Prefaces, by H. L. Mencken<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Why This Word:</span></b><br />
<i>Lubricious</i> and <i>lubricous</i> are synonyms excepting <i>lubricous</i> lacks the sense of being wanton or lascivious. <br />
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<b>Sources:</b> <a href="http://www.thefreedictionary.com/lubricious">Free Dictionary</a>, <a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/lubricious">Dictionary.com</a>, <a href="http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=lubricious&searchmode=none">Online Etymology</a><br />
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<a href="http://word-e.blogspot.com/">Word-E: A Word-A-Day</a>Jim Gepphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01208098965191073561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8894284252226044355.post-5143997515214550822011-06-13T06:00:00.011-04:002011-06-13T06:00:12.020-04:00zaftigzaf•tig (ZAHF-tik, -tig) <i>adj</i><br />
<i>also</i> zoftig<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Definition: </span></b><br />
1. (of a woman) having a pleasantly plump figure<br />
2. full-bodied; well-proportioned<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Origin:</span></b><br />
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1937; from Yiddish <i>zaftik</i>, lit. "juicy," from <i>zaft</i> "juice," from Middle High German <i>saft</i> "juice," from Old High German <i>saf</i><br />
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<b>Synonyms:</b> buxom, ample, built, busty, chubby, comely, curvaceous, curvy, full-bosomed, full-figured, healthy, hearty, lusty, plump, robust, shapely, stacked, voluptuous<br />
<b>Related Words:</b> sap<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Sentence Examples:</span></b><br />
• The phase is familiar, and Raquel Welch is going through it. "People think of me as some <a href="http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,840043,00.html#ixzz1P69dXTdt"><b>zaftig</b></a> lady with two stereo nose cones staring everyone in the face," she admits. "The American idea of sex is two outsized mammary glands." - Time, 1969<br />
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• When I started out, I was kind of <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=MGIEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA104"><b>zaftig</b></a>. I would have had to get anorexia. They would have said, "She is way too chubby." - Out, 2006<br />
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• Artist Piet Parra animates the song's explicit cheekiness with a menu of salaciously dancing <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=XJj9SR3-aSgC&pg=PA28"><b>zaftig </b></a>female forms being spooned out of cereal bowls and slurped out of straws, and having their breasts tweaked to the beat. - Spin, 2008<br />
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<b>Sources:</b> <a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/zaftig">Dictionary.com</a>, <a href="http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=zaftig&searchmode=none">Online Etymology </a><br />
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<a href="http://word-e.blogspot.com/">Word-E: A Word-A-Day</a>Jim Gepphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01208098965191073561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8894284252226044355.post-88556421934024850772011-06-12T06:00:00.017-04:002011-06-12T16:39:25.983-04:00yipsyips (yips) <i>n</i><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Definition: </span></b><br />
the apparent loss of certain fine motor skills seemingly without explanation in one of a number of different sports, esp golf<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Origin:</span></b><br />
[Golfer Tommy] Armour is believed to have coined the term "yips" to describe the nervous affliction that makes short putts treacherous for some golfers. He said of the yips, "Once you've had 'em, you've got 'em."<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Sentence Examples:</span></b><br />
• But during the playoffs, Ankiel got a case of the <a href="http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1916608_1916614_1916631,00.html"><b>yips</b></a> as he couldn't find the strike zone. In one inning, he walked four batters and threw five wild pitches — an event not witnessed since 1890 — before manager Tony La Russa mercifully removed him. - Time, 2009<br />
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• And he was far from alone; the <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=9TrSg8jxzcQC&pg=PA72"><b>yips</b></a> often robs a golfer of the ability to sink even the most routine putts. - The Body Has a Mind of Its Own, Sandra Blakeslee, Matthew Blakeslee<br />
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• The <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=H3AtuWM6ZPUC&pg=PA262"><b>yips</b></a> afflict people performing a variety of professions, including musicians, stenographers, dentists, and surgeons. Thy are most likely to hit folks who overuse the muscles involved in guiding precision movements. So it's no surprise that as Mia's dad ups his time on the green, his likelihood of experiencing the <b>yips</b> increases as well. - Defending a Small Continent, Hugh White, Sian Beilock<br />
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<b>Sources:</b> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yips">Wikipediia</a>, <a href="http://golf.about.com/od/golfersmen/p/tommy_armour.htm">About.com</a><br />
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<a href="http://word-e.blogspot.com/">Word-E: A Word-A-Day</a>Jim Gepphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01208098965191073561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8894284252226044355.post-52911502231613434652011-06-11T06:00:00.034-04:002011-06-12T16:07:01.349-04:00habilimentha•bil•i•ment (huh-BIL-uh-muhnt) <i>n</i><br />
<i>often plural </i><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Definition: </span></b><br />
1. clothing, especially the special dress or garb associated with an occasion or office<br />
2. characteristic furnishings or equipment; trappings (<i>habiliments</i>)<br />
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<i>habilimental, habilimentary, habilimented</i> adjective<i></i><br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;">Origin:</span></b><br />
early 15c.; from M.Fr.<i> habillement</i>, from <i>abiller</i> "prepare or fit out," probably from <i>habile</i> "fit, suitable"; alternative etymology makes the French verb originally mean "reduce a tree by stripping off the branches," from <i>a</i>- "to" + <i>bille</i> "stick of wood"; sense of "clothing, dress" developed late 15c., by association with <i>habit</i><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Related:</span></b> <br />
<b>Synonyms:</b> clothing, apparel, attire, clothes, dress, garb, gown, trappings <br />
<b>Related Words:</b> able, habit<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Sentence Examples:</span></b><br />
• A lackey, whose <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/20484/20484-h/london3.htm"><b>habiliment</b></a>, neat but not gaudy, indicated the unostentatious disposition of his master,, answered the summons of the knocker: "Mr. C. was gone to his office at the Royal Exchange." - Real Life in London<br />
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• The bedroom was shockingly cold. Going to bed is a test of character. I pride myself on the fact that generally, even when my room is cold, I can, with steady nerve and resolute hand, remove the last <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/22715/22715-h/22715-h.htm"><b>habiliment</b></a>, and without undignified precipitation reach for and indue the nocturnal garment, I admit, however, that on this occasion I gave way to a weak irresolution at the critical instant and shivered for some moments in constantly increasing demoralization, before I could make up my mind to the final change. - The Cold Snap, Edward Bellamy<br />
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• Shaw passed on to the camp, while I remained to call upon Colonel Kearny. I found him still at table. There sat our friend the captain, in the same remarkable <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1015/1015-h/1015-h.htm"><b>habiliments</b></a> in which we saw him at Westport; the black pipe, however, being for the present laid aside. - The Oregon Trail, Francis Parkman, Jr.<br />
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<b>Sources:</b> <a href="http://www.thefreedictionary.com/habiliment">Free Dictionary</a>, <a href="http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=habiliment&searchmode=none">Online Etymology</a><br />
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