MW Then gently said the Goddesse: Sirs, why doe you me forfendThe water? Nature doth to all in common water send.For neither Sunne, nor Ayre, nor yet the Water private bee,I seeke but that which natures gift hath made to…
Category: Word of the Day
Fons et origo
…Were all i’ the way o’ the brute who never onceCeases, amid all provocation more,To bear in mind the first tormentor, firstGiver o’ the wound that goaded him to fight:And, though a dozen follow and reinforceThe aggressor, wound in front…
Purloin
MW ‘Mine enemy was strong, my poor self weak,And far the weaker with so strong a fear:My bloody judge forbade my tongue to speak;No rightful plea might plead for justice there:His scarlet lust came evidence to swearThat my poor beauty…
Words of the day: April 13 – April 16, 2021 Foolery, Nab, Minatory, Discomfit, Obstreperous, Lodestone
I count religion but a childish toy,And hold there is no sin but ignorance.Birds of the air will tell of murders past!I am asham’d to hear such fooleries.Many will talk of title to a crown:What right had Caesar to the…
Gallant
MW Gallant in Shakespeare. But there the glorious LORD will be unto us a place of broad rivers and streams; wherein shall go no galley with oars, neither shall gallant ship pass thereby. Bible Looking far foorth into the ocean…
Nincompoop, Nincompoopiana
Etymology: < nincompoop n. + -iana suffix. “nincompoopiana, n.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, March 2021. Web. 12 April 2021. Nincompoop A simpleton, a foolish person. Etymology: Origin uncertain “nincompoop, n.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, March 2021. Web. 12…
Drub, drubbed, drubbing
MW ‘He was of opinion, that the English nation cultivated both their soil and their reason better than any other people: but admitted that the French, though not the highest, perhaps, in any department of literature, yet in every department…
Fatuous
MW The newspapers were at this time full of the pending strike of coal-miners and shearers: that is, the Australian papers. The European papers were in a terrific stew about finance, and the German debt, and the more imposing Allied…
Vendetta
MW Then the meaning of Earth in her children behold:Glad eyes, frank hands, and a fellowship real:And laughter on lips, as the birds’ outburstAt the flooding of light. No robbery thenThe feast, nor a robber’s abode the home,For a furnished…
Savvy
MW “Everybody make medicine,” he said lightly. And when I asked him if he were himself a good practitioner–“No savvy,” he replied, more lightly still. At length the leaves burst in a flame, which he continued to feed; a thick,…