MW The trees are white with dust, that o’er their sleepWave their broad curtains in the south-wind’s breath,While underneath such leafy tents they keepThe long, mysterious Exodus of Death. Author and Text In a psychological point of view, it is…
Category: Word of the Day
Words of the day: March 18 – March 26, 2021 Fiscal, Prevaricate, Equinox, Inimitable, Quash, Sesquipedalian
Fiscal Why, Excellency, we and his Highness hereWould settle the matter as sufficientlyAs ever will Advocate This and Fiscal ThatAnd Judge the Other, with even–a word and a wink–We well know who for ultimate arbiter.Let us beware o’ the basset-table–lestWe…
Blarney
MW All the better. He could have kicked himself for wanting to help mankind, join in revolutions or reforms or any of that stuff. And he kicked himself still harder thinking of his frantic struggles with the “soul” and the…
Replete
MW Fish (fly-replete, in depth of June,Dawdling away their wat’ry noon)Ponder deep wisdom, dark or clear,Each secret fishy hope or fear.Fish say, they have their Stream and Pond;But is there anything Beyond? This life cannot be All, they swear,For how…
Circumlocution and Circumlucency
MW Circumlucency — not recorded in the OED or Merriam-Webster: The lagoon was calm, as we landed; not a breath stirred the plumes of the trees; and as we entered the voiceless shades, lifting his hand, Babbalanja whispered:–“This silence is…
Attitudinize
MW An unusual word: for each of the two main senses of the word (of striking an attitude and of practising affected and self-conscious deportment) the OED cites only three examples. Interestingly, this word was “frequently” used–on three occasions–by Henry…
Ungainly
MW Now the relation subsisting between the Pilot fish above mentioned and their huge ungainly lord, seems one of the most inscrutable things in nature. At any rate, it poses poor me to comprehend. That a monster soferocious, should suffer…
Tutelary
MW Therefore for Spirits, I am so far from denying their existence, that I could easily believe, that not onely whole Countries, but particular persons, have their Tutelary and Guardian Angels: It is not a new opinion of the Church…
Felicitate, Felicitated, Felicitating
Sir, I am made of the self mettle as my sister,And prize me at her worth. In my true heartI find she names my very deed of love;Only she comes too short, that I professMyself an enemy to all other…
Words of the Day: March 5 – March 9 2021, Abhor Impunity Meticulous Pivot Luminary
Merriam-Webster: March 5: Abhor And out of dust reduce our scattered rimes,Th’reiected iewels of these slouthfull times,Who with the Muses would mispend an hower,But let blind Gothish Barbarisme deuoureThese feuerous Dogdayes, blest by no record,But to be euerlastingly abhord. Author…