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Post by David on Dec 28, 2021 5:06:18 GMT
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through,
but rather how many can get through to you. -
Mortimer J. Adler, philosopher, educator, and author (28 Dec 1902-2001) |
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Post by David on Dec 30, 2021 8:18:55 GMT
quaestuary or questuary
PRONUNCIATION:
(KWES/KWIS-chuh-ree)
MEANING:
adjective:
1. Relating to financial matters.
2. Done only for monetary gain.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin quaestus (gain), from quaerere (to seek, gain, or inquire). Earliest documented use: 1581.
NOTES:
In Ancient Rome, a quaestor was an official dealing with financial matters. Later it was the term for a prosecutor.
In the Roman Catholic Church, a quaestor was the official removing sins in exchange for money (aka granting indulgences).
In modern times, in the European Parliament, quaestors are officials elected to oversee financial matters.
USAGE:
“The quaestuary 12 football clubs creating the European Super League have forgotten in their avariciousness the vital element of successful sporting competition: tradition.”
Mark Boyle; The European Super League Clubs Cannot Buy Tradition, Their Lifeblood; The Daily Telegraph (London, UK); Apr 20, 2021.
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Post by David on Dec 30, 2021 8:19:24 GMT
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.
-John Vance Cheney, poet (29 Dec 1848-1922)
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Post by David on Dec 30, 2021 8:20:18 GMT
habitus
PRONUNCIATION:
(HAB-i-tuhs)
MEANING:
noun:
1. The physical characteristics of a person, especially as relating to disease.
2. The way someone of a particular social group perceives and responds to the world.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin habit (state, appearance), from habere (to have). Ultimately from the Indo-European root ghabh-
(to give or to receive), which also gave us give, gift, able, habit, prohibit, due, duty, habile, and adhibit. Earliest documented use: 1886.
USAGE:
“He suffered from sleep apnea and also without question his body habitus, his morphology, contributed to the problem.”
Warren J. Stucki; The Reluctant Carnivore; Sunstone Press; 2018.
“Her customers were probably more interested in her numerous connections and great potentials than her habitus and unorthodox behavior.”
Charles Uzoaru; Trapped in Broad-Day Light; AuthorHouse; 2015.
See more usage examples of habitus in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.
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Post by David on Dec 30, 2021 8:20:46 GMT
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
The most important discoveries will provide answers to questions that we do not yet know how to ask and will concern objects we have not yet imagined.
-John N. Bahcall, astrophysicist (30 Dec 1935-2005) |
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Post by David on Dec 31, 2021 8:55:43 GMT
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Post by David on Dec 31, 2021 8:56:08 GMT
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Post by David on Dec 31, 2021 8:56:29 GMT
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Post by David on Dec 31, 2021 8:56:56 GMT
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Post by David on Dec 31, 2021 8:58:36 GMT
eschatology PRONUNCIATION: (es-kuh-TOL-uh-jee)
MEANING: noun: The doctrine or the study of final or ultimate matters, such as, death, judgment, end of the world, etc.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek eschatos (last) + -logy (study). Ultimately from the Indo-European root eghs (out), which also gave us strange, extreme, and external. Earliest documented use: 1844.
NOTES: What happens after we die? There are as many eschatologies as there are religions, none with any evidence in support of its claims (“My favorite book says so” doesn’t count). In some, you get assigned a whole planet to yourself, in others you get to play a harp and float on a cloud. Here’s something we do have evidence for: We go back to Earth where we came from. If you need more eschatology, the Earth itself gets burned in about five billion years when our Sun runs out of juice and burns out and expands taking down its planets. Meanwhile, let’s enjoy a few rides on our planet around our Sun, take good care of this ride, and everyone traveling with us. Let’s do the best we can in the time we have: a split second on the cosmic scale.
USAGE: “And now climate change has given us an eschatology for reckoning with our guilt: coming soon, some hellishly overheated tomorrow, is Judgment Day.” Jonathan Franzen; Carbon Capture; The New Yorker; Apr 6, 2015.
See more usage examples of eschatology in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.
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Post by David on Dec 31, 2021 8:59:05 GMT
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc.
-Henri Matisse, artist (31 Dec 1869-1954) |
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Post by David on Aug 5, 2022 15:12:19 GMT
Aug 1, 2022 This week’s theme Verbs
This week’s words obtrude mundify discerp elute micrify
omnishambles Illustration: Karen Folsom #kgfolsart
Previous week’s theme Words derived after names Bookmark and Share Facebook Twitter Digg MySpace Bookmark and Share A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg
Eat, pray, love Eat, shoot and leave
What do you see above? Sure, lots of eating going on there, but we are not telling you to eat or what to eat or what to do before/after eating. We’re not even telling you to read or what to read.
Rather we are giving examples of verbs. Verbs are the words that keep the world going. Imagine how you’d eat, drink, and be merry, if there were no verbs!
This week we’ll see five unusual verbs, actions some of which you probably don’t do every day, and others, you hopefully do
obtrude PRONUNCIATION: (uhb/ob-TROOD)
MEANING: verb tr.: To impose one’s ideas, opinions, etc. verb intr.: To thrust forward or to intrude.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin obtrudere (to thrust at), from ob- (against) + trudere (to push). Ultimately from the Indo-European root treud- (to squeeze), which also gave us extrude, intrude, threat, thrust, and abstruse. Earliest documented use: 1575.
USAGE: “I shall allow you neither to entangle yourself in an engagement, nor to embarrass my affianced wife by obtruding yourself upon her.” Georgette Heyer; Bath Tangle; William Heinemann; 1955.
“Part of a pale-blue window obtrudes. But nothing disrupts the composition’s essential harmony.” Peter Schjeldahl; Going Flat Out; The New Yorker; May 16, 2022.
See more usage examples of obtrude in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.
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Post by David on Aug 5, 2022 15:12:59 GMT
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes.
I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator.
-Mother Jones (Mary Harris Jones), schoolteacher, dressmaker, organizer, and activist (1 Aug 1837-1930)
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Post by David on Aug 5, 2022 15:15:03 GMT
discerp PRONUNCIATION: (di-SUHRP) MEANING: verb tr.: To tear off or to rip into pieces.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin discerpere (to tear to pieces), from dis- (apart) + carpere (to pick, pluck). Earliest documented use: 1483.
USAGE: “Trace shook her head and inhaled through o’d lips, imagining a mother bear or cougar finding, catching, and killing the fawn, discerping it to share with April-born cubs or kits.” Scott Elliott; Temple Grove; University of Washington Press; 2013.
See more usage examples of discerp in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary. |
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Post by David on Aug 5, 2022 15:15:37 GMT
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.
-P.D. James (Phyllis Dorothy James), novelist (3 Aug 1920-2014)
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