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WORD OF THE DAY..........courtesy of Dictionary.com
ifyoucantfixit:
obtest \ob-TEST\, verb:
1. To supplicate earnestly; beseech.
2. To invoke as witness.
3. To protest.
4. To make supplication; beseech.
I constrain, adjure, obtest and strongly command you.
-- Sir Walter Scott, Guy Mannering
And whosoever she be, even with the form of words which to miserable wretches is granted most exaudible, I pray, and do with those prayers most heartily obtest, which are in the ears of the hearers of them most effectual, that she may never taste of such bitter miseries.
-- Giovanni Boccaccio, Amorous Fiametta
Obtest comes from the Latin roots ob-, a prefix meaning "toward", and the root test, meaning "witness."
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I found it difficult to post this word in all its entirety. I was not aware of the word "exauidible." So I naturally went to the source of dictionary.com to try and get the exact definition to that word. Well to my surprise, they had no listing for that word. I found this particularly odd, since they used it in their explanitory sentence, when they had no real resourse for the word. I then sent them a notice, and asked them to let me know what the answer to this was. I even sent them an aside, saying maybe they could make that the word of the day for tomorrow. I did find it odd that they had even the root connection to the word, but not the definition?
In closing I would like to say I felt so ignorant at being unaware of even the best guess scenario for that word. I don't feel quite so stupid now. Thank goodness.
Mandy21:
So.... after all that, what does it mean?
ifyoucantfixit:
sibilant \SIB-uh-luhnt\, adjective:
1. Hissing.
2. Phonetics. Characterized by a hissing sound; noting sounds like those spelled with s in this.
noun:
1. Phonetics. A sibilant consonant.
This is the way the presence of a ghost was detected: Some sound would be heard, such as a sibilant noise, a soft whistle, or something like murmurs, or some sensation in a part of the body might be felt.
-- George H. Ellis, Legends of Gods and Ghosts: Hawaiian Mythology
He just drank his coffee, making a little sibilant sound, and watched the earth mover lumber back and forth, back and forth, its shovel going up and down and over and up and down and over again.
-- Anna Quindlen, Object Lessons
The wind in the patch of pine woods off there—how sibilant.
-- Walt Whitman, Prose Works 1892: Specimen Days
Sibilant stems from the Latin word sībilant- which meant "whistling or hissing." It is assumed to imitative of the sound itself.
ifyoucantfixit:
--- Quote from: Mandy21 on May 11, 2012, 10:40:35 am ---So.... after all that, what does it mean?
--- End quote ---
The notice was on the word that I did not know was; basically "we'll get back to you on that." :laugh:
ifyoucantfixit:
prorogue \proh-ROHG\, verb:
1. To defer; postpone.
2. To discontinue a session of (the British Parliament or a similar body).
It was enough to make him rise from his Governor's throne and tell them, in English instead of Latin just so the fools and dunderheads understood, that he was planning to prorogue Parliament within a week.
-- Julian Barnes, England, England
What I do hear is that Catulus—he's much better, so they say, he'll be back making a nuisance of himself in Senate and Comitia shortly—is organizing a campaign to prorogue all the current governors next year, leaving this year's praetors with no provinces at all.
-- Colleen McCullough, Caesar's Women
Prorogue is derived from the Latin word prōrogāre from the roots pro- meaning "advancing towards" and rogāre meaning "to ask."
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