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WORD OF THE DAY..........courtesy of Dictionary.com
ifyoucantfixit:
hustings \HUHS-tingz\, noun:
1. The political campaign trail.
2. (Before 1872) the temporary platform on which candidates for the British Parliament stood when nominated and from which they addressed the electors.
3. Any place from which political campaign speeches are made.
4. Also called hustings court. A local court in certain parts of Virginia.
But he still had to go out to the hustings, a word whose meaning he'd never learned, and campaign for people, or at least give speeches.
-- Tom Clancy, Executive Orders
This is one thing I am very familiar with. I have polycythemia vera, and i recently had surgery. I have to have blood tests to measure the effect of my meds at least once a month, during the normal times. If I have other problems come up.? I have to go iin as often as three times a week. I had surgery, and needed two units at first, then four later because of the loss of blood. I have to take blood thinners to counteract the disease. If I have surgery, then other issues come into play. I am completely aware of the word hem
Now, do not let them lure you to the hustings, my dear Mr. Brooke.
-- George Eliot, Middlemarch
Hustings is derived from the Old Danish word hūs-thing which meant "house meeting."
ifyoucantfixit:
boisterous; noisy.
But what strepitous sounds, what harmonious tumult diverts my attention to another part ?
-- José Francisco de Isla, The History of the Famous Preacher, Friar Gerund de Campazas
Here is no idyllic meditative retreat from the strepitous city but a scene of virile action—fields sounding with human labor, vibrating with human energy.
-- Beulah B. Amram, "Swinburne and Carducci," The Yale Review
Strepitous stems from the Latin word strepit which meant "noise."
ifyoucantfixit:
hematic \hi-MAT-ik\, adjective:
1. Of or pertaining to blood; hemic.
2. Acting on the blood, as a medicine.
noun:
1. Hematinic.
However, if you think such drinks smack too much of medicine, you can console yourself with bread or tofu fortified with DHA (docosahexaenoic acid), a substance that is good for the retina and brain and the hematic level of cholesterol.
-- Carlo Petrini, Slow Food
A love transfusion is essentially the same as a blood transfusion. Just as humans are divided into four hematic groups, they're also grouped into four erotic types…
-- Juan Filloy, Op Oloop
Hematic was invented in the 1850s. It comes from the Greek word haîma meaning "blood.
This is one thing I am very familiar with. I have polycythemia vera, and i recently had surgery. I have to have blood tests to measure the effect of my meds at least once a month, during the normal times. If I have other problems come up.? I have to go iin as often as three times a week. I had surgery, and needed two units at first, then four later because of the loss of blood. I have to take blood thinners to counteract the disease. If I have surgery, then other issues come into play. I am completely aware of the word hematic.
ifyoucantfixit:
pharisaic \far-uh-SEY-ik\, adjective:
1. Practicing or advocating strict observance of external forms and ceremonies of religion or conduct without regard to the spirit; self-righteous; hypocritical.
2. Of or pertaining to the Pharisees.
"And yet that reverend gentleman," said Pleydell, "whom I love for his father's sake and his own, has nothing of the sour or pharisaical pride which has been imputed to some of the early fathers of the Calvinistic Kirk of Scotland."
-- Sir Walter Scott, Guy Mannering or the Astrologer
"Of course," he said gloomily, "it is one of those Pharisaical cruelties of which only such heartless men are capable."
-- Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
Pharisaic comes from the story in the Bible about the Pharisees, a religious sect who purportedly only practiced the doctrine and ritual of their faith without corresponding inner devotion
ifyoucantfixit:
austral \AW-struhl\, adjective:
1. Southern.
2. (Initial capital letter) Australian.
That, at least, was not difficult to do; as they filtered through branches and thick treetops, the rays of the austral sun covered bodies and houses and all the objects of the inhabited area with undulating patterns of light and shadow that blended spectrally into random jungle forms.
-- Carlos Fuentes, Terra Nostra
The church, from the north, seems a precious stone, on its austral side it is blood-colored, to the west white as snow, and above it shine countless stars more splendid than those in our sky.
-- Umberto Eco, Baudolino
Austral is derived from the Latin word austrālis meaning "southern."
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