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WORD OF THE DAY..........courtesy of Dictionary.com
« on: March 08, 2012, 06:35:27 pm »



      pococurante

           caring little; indifferent; nonchalant.MORE


   His favorite topic was pococurante, to his friends.




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« Reply #1 on: March 09, 2012, 08:27:36 pm »



furcate \FUR-keyt\, verb:

1. To form a fork; branch.

adjective:
1. Forked; branching.

    The root systems of an ancient tree seemed to furcate and furrow the surface of his thighs, and where his skin was not covered in dark hair, it was strangely rippled with wild webs of some kind of tissue just beneath the skin.
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« Reply #2 on: March 10, 2012, 04:55:06 pm »



esculent \ES-kyuh-luhnt\, noun:

1. Something edible, especially a vegetable.

adjective:
1. Suitable for use as food; edible.

    The remainder of the garden presented a well-selected assortment of esculent vegetables, in a praiseworthy state of advancement.
    -- Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables



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Re: WORD OF THE DAY..........courtesy of Dictionary.com
« Reply #3 on: March 10, 2012, 05:16:00 pm »
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esculent \ES-kyuh-luhnt\, noun:

1. Something edible, especially a vegetable.

adjective:
1. Suitable for use as food; edible.

    The remainder of the garden presented a well-selected assortment of esculent vegetables, in a praiseworthy state of advancement.
    -- Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables

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« Reply #4 on: March 12, 2012, 10:42:57 pm »



 

antipode \AN-ti-pohd\, noun:

A direct or exact opposite.

    It seemed that this enthusiast was just as cautious, just as much alive to judgments in other minds as if he had been that antipode of all enthusiasm called "a man of the world."
    -- George Eliot, Daniel Deronda



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« Reply #5 on: March 12, 2012, 10:46:18 pm »




   remit \ri-MIT\, verb:

1. To slacken or relax.
2. To transmit money, a check, etc., as in payment.
3. To abate for a time or at intervals, as a fever.
4. To refrain from exacting, as a payment or service.
5. To pardon or forgive a sin, offense, etc.

    It matters not that we remit our attention, at times, to the pain or the pleasure; these are always in the background; and the strength of the appetite is their strength.
    -- Alexander Bain, Practical Essays



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« Reply #6 on: March 13, 2012, 09:44:31 pm »



     astringent \uh-STRIN-juhnt\, adjective:

1. Sharply incisive; pungent.
2. Medicine/Medical. Contracting; constrictive; styptic.
3. Harshly biting; caustic: his astringent criticism.
4. Stern or severe; austere.

noun:
1. Medicine/Medical. A substance that contracts the tissues or canals of the body, thereby diminishing discharges, as of mucus or blood.
2. A cosmetic that cleans the skin and constricts the pores.

    One endeavors to correct, flushing out error and misconception with the astringent power of historical detail; the other treats the myth as meaningful cultural phenomenon in its own right, accounting for its emergence and tracing its development across time.
    -- Beth Newman, Emily Brontë, "Introduction," Wuthering Heights







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« Reply #7 on: March 14, 2012, 01:38:59 am »
de·mesne
   [dih-meyn, -meen] Show IPA
noun
1.
possession of land as one's own: land held in demesne.
2.
an estate or part of an estate occupied and controlled by, and worked for the exclusive use of, the owner.
3.
land belonging to and adjoining a manor house; estate.
4.
the dominion or territory of a sovereign or state; domain.
5.
a district; region.



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« Reply #8 on: March 15, 2012, 05:25:56 pm »





   iniquitous \ih-NIK-wi-tuhs\, adjective:

Characterized by injustice or wickedness; wicked; sinful.

    The commission was charged now with the task of discovering the iniquitous conspiracy against the Citizen-Saviour of his country.
    -- Joseph Conrad, Nostromo

    Anything else would be iniquitous - iniquitous is the only word. You know as well as I do that there is not the remotest chance of her ever being able to earn any money for herself out here.
    -- Jean Rhys, Voyage in the Dark

Iniquitous literally meant "unfair" in Latin, as its clear roots betray.




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« Reply #9 on: March 17, 2012, 04:13:02 pm »
selcouth \SEL-kooth\, adjective:

Strange; uncommon.

    Its English is not more quaint than that of De Brunne himself; it contains no names more selcouth than he himself is in the custom of introducing…
    -- Sir Walter Scott, The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott

    To whom there's hardly any selcouth thing, but seems a juggling trick, that would delude their fancies with an empty wondering; therefore against it they with thundering words do ring.
    -- George Starkey, An Exposition Upon the Preface of Sir George Ripley

Selcouth has odd Old English roots. It is related to the word seldom and the Old English word couth meaning "to know."




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