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Post by art on May 20, 2016 9:24:41 GMT
Tergiversate: when you've spotted somebody wriggling and being evasive; attempts from them avoid giving anyone their straight answer for someone's straight question, then you have observed: 'Tergiversation'.
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Post by dieseldyke on Jun 7, 2016 15:37:47 GMT
Usufructuary: this term comes from Roman law. Usufruct, some right for temporary possession and enjoyment for something whom belongs from somebody else, so far they can be done without causing damage or changing substance. For example, slave in classical Rome couldn't own anything. Things they acquired by some result from their labour, they merely held usus (et) fructus, under 'use (and) enjoyment'; was their master who actually owned them.
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Post by pharlapjones on Jun 8, 2016 20:04:27 GMT
Velocipedist: appeared on English roads around 1818. This strange vehicle with two wheels, one behind another, joined by their horizontal beam on which this rider sat, pushing their contraption along with his feet.
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Post by atm on Jun 10, 2016 15:05:34 GMT
Acersecomic: means somebody whose hair has never been cut. Though that may appear comic for some people, there's nothing humorous in this etymology. This word came from classical Latin Acersecomes (long-haired youth). This word borrowed from earlier Greek one, which was made up from Kome.
Hair from head (where comic comes from in ending), Keirein (cut short) and prefix a- (not). Though this sounds like an aged curmudgeon's way for talking about unkempt youngsters, whom weren't like that in his day. This was actually neutrally descriptive; being usual for Roman and Greek youths, whom wore their hair long, until they reached manhood.
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Post by qtee on Jun 23, 2016 15:33:52 GMT
Anadiplosis: yet another term from that repository with extraordinary expressions, within field for rhetoric. Referring about this trick, by repeating every last word used in sentence, line or clause; somewhere near beginning for next.
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Post by jet on Aug 17, 2016 13:19:41 GMT
Analemmatic: well-known technical term among those skilled in mathematics needed for designing sundials. Refers for some scale that shows seasonal difference between time, shown from clocks and sun.
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Post by art on Aug 26, 2016 9:52:05 GMT
Aposiopesis: used in this rhetorical trick, from suddenly breaking off in speech and method. Used for implying something without spelling this out. During same time, suggesting unwillingness or inability for continuing. Results being overcome from passion, like anger, fear or modesty.
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Post by blondie on Sept 5, 2016 14:43:23 GMT
Callipygian: this word for having well-shaped buttocks. Although, possibly generating many puns, thereby making some ass from oneself and becoming your butt for jokes. From such subject matter and rather beautiful form for this word, has lent ownself adopting from word-hungry authors with erotic intent.
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Post by qtee on Sept 15, 2016 12:27:20 GMT
Astrobolism: refers blasting plants by hot sun, during high Summer. Etymologically, results in being star struck. Came from Greek Astron (like astronomy and many other words), plus bolis or missile (which also were source for Bolide).
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Post by dieseldyke on Sept 20, 2016 18:53:30 GMT
Atrabilious: now literary or poetic, thus anyone you stumble across using this word, likely exposing their erudition. This refers about somebody whose bad-tempered, gloomy, irritable or morose. This came into English by Seventeenth Century from Latin atra bilis: black bile. Some direct Latin equivalent, what linguists call loan translation, for Greek word which gave us melancholy, which came from Greek melas (black) plus khole (bile).
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Post by pharlapjones on Sept 28, 2016 17:40:57 GMT
Cheat-bread: in Elizabethan England, took this representative moment in English history, where bread came in many types, each with own name.
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Post by jet on Oct 26, 2016 11:45:38 GMT
Comeuppance: common enough word for punishment or penalty that someone deserves; just retribution or just deserts. The OED and some other dictionaries suggest it refers to coming up before a judge or court for judgement. That's supported by the earliest evidence for the related expression come-uppings, known in American English from rather later: "I was led away, and I got my come-uppings, or the other fellow's come-uppings, for I wasn't to blame any, and I always said so, and I guess the judge would say so too, if it were to do over again."
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Post by barbie on Feb 1, 2017 21:00:14 GMT
Dactylonomy: defines this artistic word for counting on fingers and shouldn't severely underestimate skill for those who employ this technique.
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Post by art on Feb 3, 2017 10:51:24 GMT
Criticaster: means some inferior person whom writes bad poetry and Philosophaster (shallow or pretentious Philosopher), are least rare.
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Post by tinkerbell on Feb 4, 2017 15:01:56 GMT
Enchiridion: in origin, literally means some small thing held in hand. From Greek Enkheiridion, which comprises parts: en-, within, plus kheir, hand, and diminutive suffix -idion. In English, has become this name for some handbook or concise treatise.
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