Members rudywoofs (Pam) Posted March 11, 2014 Members Posted March 11, 2014 ca-nard',noun, a false report or rumor; a hoax. The New York Times Everyday Readers Dictionary of Misunderstood, Misused, mispronounced, Words D. Allan 1 Quote Pam Meddle Not In the Affairs of Dragons; for You Are Crunchy and Taste Good with Ketchup. If we all sang the same note in the choir, there'd never be any harmony. Funny, isn't it, how we accept Grace for ourselves and demand justice for others?
D. Allan Posted October 17, 2014 Author Posted October 17, 2014 mince, verb 1. To walk with short steps in a prim manner."She minced down the street and then entered the five star hotel." ....from Braingle 2. To cut or chop up into small pieces; esp. food; esp. meat. “They dined on mince, and slices of quince, Which they ate with a runcible spoon; And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, They danced by the light of the moon” - Edward Lear dAb rudywoofs (Pam) 1 Quote dAb O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!
Members rudywoofs (Pam) Posted October 17, 2014 Members Posted October 17, 2014 “They dined on mince, and slices of quince, Which they ate with a runcible spoon; And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, They danced by the light of the moon” - Edward Lear dAb (do many know what a "runcible" spoon is nowadays?) D. Allan 1 Quote Pam Meddle Not In the Affairs of Dragons; for You Are Crunchy and Taste Good with Ketchup. If we all sang the same note in the choir, there'd never be any harmony. Funny, isn't it, how we accept Grace for ourselves and demand justice for others?
D. Allan Posted November 2, 2014 Author Posted November 2, 2014 Thanks, Rudywoofs for the photo. I had assumed 'runcible' was a made up word. Nice to find otherwise! Quote dAb O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!
D. Allan Posted November 2, 2014 Author Posted November 2, 2014 felicific is a nice adjective. - causing or intending to cause happiness. rhymes with beatific! Woody 1 Quote dAb O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!
D. Allan Posted November 25, 2014 Author Posted November 25, 2014 chaoplexity, noun “I also looked at attempts by “chaoplexologists,” notably Stuart Kauffman (also mentioned by Scharf), to estimate the probability of life, including intelligent, multicellular creatures like us. (I coined the term “chaoplexity” to describe research into chaos and complexity, which are virtually indistinguishable.)” - Are Scientists on “Cusp of Knowing” How Weird We Are? By John Horgan | November 21, 2014; Scientific American Online Magazine“And then there is the study of chaoplexity—the fascinating border between rigid order and total randomness, where things such as amoebas, bond traders, Chabad House rabbis and the like occur.” -The Temple Mount As Sacred Space; At the threshold of reality - By Tzvi Freeman at Chabad.org I don't see this word in dictionaries; but, it is all over the internet. Just google it! I think it will soon be in dictionaries; it you see it in one please put it up. Thanks! Quote dAb O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!
D. Allan Posted December 31, 2014 Author Posted December 31, 2014 Full Definition of GRUE now chiefly dialectal : to shiver or shudder especially with fear or cold <exposed to the gruesome so extensively … we simply don't any more — John Crosby> Origin of GRUE from earlier grow, from Middle English gruen, growen, probably from Middle Dutch grūwen; akin to Old High German ingrūēn to shiver, shudder, and probably to Old English grēot sand — more at grit ''And the grue wears on you Till you know, yes you do How true, oh so true Undeniably true Are the words spoke in glee By none other than me!'' - anon. from Merriam-Webster dictionary online. Quote dAb O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!
D. Allan Posted May 11, 2015 Author Posted May 11, 2015 Frabjous was coined by Lewis Carroll in Through the Looking-Glass, 1871, with elements suggestive of fabulous and joyous. "O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay! / He chortled in his joy." -Lewis Carroll Stan 1 Quote dAb O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!
Stan Posted May 11, 2015 Posted May 11, 2015 Frabjous was coined by Lewis Carroll in Through the Looking-Glass, 1871, with elements suggestive of fabulous and joyous. "O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay! / He chortled in his joy." -Lewis Carroll You have been missed my friend D. Allan 1 Quote If you receive benefit to being here please help out with expenses. https://www.paypal.me/clubadventist Administrator of a few websites like https://adventistdating.com
D. Allan Posted May 16, 2015 Author Posted May 16, 2015 Thank you, Stan. You are a very kind man is what I think! Stan 1 Quote dAb O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!
D. Allan Posted May 16, 2015 Author Posted May 16, 2015 Legerity physical or mental quickness; nimbleness; agility. Break up their drowsy grave and newly move / With casted slough and fresh legerity. William Shakespeare, Henry V, 1600 Nabokov's own tricky legerity discourages solemn praise; he makes his acolytes and exegetes seem ridiculous as they compile their check lists of puns and chase his butterfly allusions. John Updike, Picked-Up Pieces, 197 "....this enchiridion of arcane and recondite sesquipedalian items will appeal to the oniomania of an eximious Gemeinschaft whose legerity and sophrosyne, whose Sprachgefühl and orexis will find more than fugacious fulfillment among its felicific pages.” NY Times, August 26, 2008 - By BRUCE WEBER - Books - Print Headline: "Laurence Urdang, Language Expert Who Edited Dictionaries, Dies at 81" Stan 1 Quote dAb O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!
D. Allan Posted May 29, 2015 Author Posted May 29, 2015 "She was as adventurous, as imaginative, as agog to see the world as he was. But she was not sent to school." Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own, 1929 "I'm all agog to see London." "I'm all agog to read Ann Pachett's latest book!" " AS THE WEDDING DRAWS NEARER, BRITISH ARE AGOG" ; By R.W. APPLE Jr., Special to the New York Times; Published: July 15, 1981 rudywoofs (Pam) 1 Quote dAb O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!
D. Allan Posted May 30, 2015 Author Posted May 30, 2015 physics[ ˈfiziks ] NOUN the branch of science concerned with the nature and properties of matter and energy. The subject matter of physics, distinguished from that of chemistry and biology, includes mechanics, heat, light and other radiation, sound, electricity, magnetism, and the structure of atoms. Powered by OxfordDictionaries · © Oxford University Press (from Ancient Greek: φυσική (ἐπιστήμη) phusikḗ (epistḗmē) "knowledge of nature", from φύσις phúsis "nature") is the natural science that involves the study of matter[4] and its motion through space and time, along with related concepts such as energy and force.[5] More broadly, it is the general analysis of nature, conducted in order to understand how the universe behaves. -wikipedia Word Origin and History for physics n. 1580s, "natural science," from physic in sense of "natural science." Based on Latin physica (neuter plural), from Greek ta physika, literally "the natural things," name of Aristotle's treatise on nature. Specific sense of "science treating of properties of matter and energy" is from 1715. In my school, the brightest boys did math and physics, the less bright did physics and chemistry, and the least bright did biology. I wanted to do math and physics, but my father made me do chemistry because he thought there would be no jobs for mathematicians. - Stephen Hawking Other than the laws of physics, rules have never really worked out for me. -Craig Ferguson Most people have no concept of how an automatic transmission works, yet they know how to drive a car. You don't have to study physics to understand the laws of motion to drive a car. You don't have to understand any of this stuff to use Macintosh. -Steve Jobs Quote dAb O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!
Members rudywoofs (Pam) Posted May 30, 2015 Members Posted May 30, 2015 my grandma and her sisters always used to use the word, "physic" to mean an "enema"... D. Allan 1 Quote Pam Meddle Not In the Affairs of Dragons; for You Are Crunchy and Taste Good with Ketchup. If we all sang the same note in the choir, there'd never be any harmony. Funny, isn't it, how we accept Grace for ourselves and demand justice for others?
D. Allan Posted June 5, 2015 Author Posted June 5, 2015 Nice usage, Pam ! (chuckle) Quote dAb O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!
D. Allan Posted June 5, 2015 Author Posted June 5, 2015 epithalamion, noun defined as "a song or poem in honor of a bride and bridegroom." It is very close in meaning to the word prothalamion; both words are built on the Greek word for “bedroom” or “bridal chamber,” thalamus. The difference lies in their prefixes: epi- means "upon," and pro- means "before." Prothalamion, which refers to a song or poem written in celebration of a forthcoming wedding, was coined by the English poet Edmund Spenser, author of The Faerie Queene. "Epithalamion, marriage ode by Edmund Spenser, originally published with his sonnet sequence Amoretti in 1595. The poem celebrates Spenser’s marriage in 1594 to his second wife, Elizabeth Boyle, and it may have been intended as a culmination of the sonnets of Amoretti. Taken as a whole, the group of poems is unique among Renaissance sonnet sequences in recording a successful love affair culminating in marriage. Epithalamion is considered by many to be the best of Spenser’s minor poems. "The 24-stanza poem begins with the predawn invocation of the Muses and follows the events of the wedding day. The speaker, reflecting on the private moments of the bride and groom, concludes with a prayer for the fruitfulness of the marriage. The mood of the poem is hopeful, thankful, and very sunny." - Encyclopaedia Britannica A fabulous example is found here: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse/54/5#!/20581820/1 Quote dAb O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!
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