1. not hallowed or consecrated; not regarded as holy or sacred: <unhallowed ground.> 2. impious; unholy. 3. wicked or sinful: <unhallowed practices.>
From ME unhalewed, OE unhālghod, ungehālghod.
"I press not to the quire, nor dare I greet The holy place with my unhallowed feet; My unwashed Muse pollutes not things divine, Nor mingles her profaner notes with thine; Here humbly at the porch she listening stays, And with glad ears sucks in thy sacred lays."
This ones for 12-31-2010 since I missed it because life got a little crazy.
1: Expressing a doubt or choice between alternatives <he seemed undecided whether to go or stay><it is still not clear whether or not he realizes> 2: Expressing an inquiry or investigation (often used in indirect questions) <I'll see whether she's at home> 3: Indicating that a statement applies whichever of the alternatives mentioned is the case <I'm going whether you like it or not>
Not to be confused with: weather: The state of the atmosphere at a given time and place, with respect to variables such as temperature, moisture, wind velocity, and barometric pressure.
Bonus use: Weathers: Changes of fortune: had known him in many weathers.
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1. of or pertaining to time. 2. pertaining to or concerned with the present life or this world; worldly: temporal joys. 3. enduring for a time only; temporary; transitory ( opposed to eternal). 4. Grammar . a. of, pertaining to, or expressing time: a temporal adverb. b. of or pertaining to the tenses of a verb. 5. secular, lay, or civil, as opposed to ecclesiastical. 6. a temporal possession, estate, or the like; temporality. 7. something that is temporal; a temporal matter or affair.
1300–50; ME (adj. and n.) < L temporālis, equiv. to tempor- (s. of tempus ) time + -ālis -al1
can also mean:
1. of, pertaining to, or situated near the temple or a temporal bone. –noun 2. any of several parts in the temporal region, esp. the temporal bone.
UIAS: The things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. -Anonymous
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* the spirit of the time; general trend of thought or feeling characteristic of a particular period of time. * the spirit, attitude, or general outlook of a specific time or period, esp as it is reflected in literature, philosophy, etc * The taste, outlook, and spirit characteristic of a period or generation.
Origin - German zeitgeist - 1848, from Ger. Zeitgeist , lit. "spirit of the age," from Zeit "time" (see tide) + Geist "spirit" (see ghost).
Used in a sentence: It's interesting to see how Americans always assume the zeitgeist always changes automatically with the arrival of a new decade. - Adam Robinson
1: Loosely made or held together; rickety; shaky: <a ramshackle house.>
from obsolete ransackle - to ransack
UIAS: He never ceases, as he reads, to run up some rickety and ramshackle fabric which shall give him the temporary satisfaction of looking sufficiently like the real object to allow of affection, laughter, and argument. - Virginia Woolf (1882–1941), British novelist, essayist, and diarist. The Common Reader, ch. 1 (1925).
1-5-2011 Ok I'm caught up now, Yeah!
1: To make limp, untidy, dirty, or soiled, as with rain, dirt, or mud.
1727, from be- + draggle , frequentative of drag.
UIAS: "The guy has baggy pants, flat feet, the most miserable, bedraggled-looking little bastard you ever saw; makes itchy gestures as though he's got crabs under his arms—but he's funny." - Sterling Ford (1883–1939), U.S. comic actor. Quoted in Charlie Chaplin, My Autobiography, ch. 10 (1964).
1. Parched with the heat of the sun; intensely hot.<The torrid sands> 2. Scorching; burning: <the torrid noonday sun.> 3. Passionate; ardent: highly charged emotionally <torrid love letters> 4. Hurried; rapid: set a torrid pace; torrid economic growth.
Latin torridus, from torrre, to parch or scorch
UIAP: There a captive sat in chains Crooning ditties treasured well From his Afric's torrid plains. Sole estate his sire bequeathed,— Hapless sire to hapless son,— Was the wailing song he breathed, And his chain when life was done. - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882), U.S. essayist, poet, philosopher.
–noun Also, pan·der·er. 1. a person who furnishes clients for a prostitute or supplies persons for illicit sexual intercourse; procurer; pimp. 2. a person who caters to or profits from the weaknesses or vices of others. 3. a go-between in amorous intrigues.
to act as a pander;<to pander to the vile tastes of vulgar persons.>
Origin: 1325–75; earlier pandar ( e ), generalized use of ME name Pandare Pandarus
From French esclave, which comes from Middle Latin sclavus, which was originally Sclavus, a Slav.
One who's the property of another, or solely subject to another...used metaphorically to refer to someone who's under the influence of something or another...one who labors like a slave...or a device wholly under the control of another device.
Not by any means to be regarded as a substitute for another familiar word as used in Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn.
Used in a sentence: "As honorary chairman of the welcoming committee, it's my privilege to present a laurel and hearty handshake to our new...slave."
1. one of the long, slender feathers on the neck or saddle of certain birds, as the domestic rooster, much used in making artificial flies for anglers. 2. the neck plumage of a male bird, as the domestic rooster. 3. hackles, a. the erectile hair on the back of an animal's neck: At the sound of footsteps, the dog raised her hackles. b. anger, esp. when aroused in a challenging or challenged manner: with one's hackles up.
—Idiom 4. raise one's hackles, to arouse one's anger: Such officiousness always raises my hackles.
1570–80; hack1 + -le; c. MD hakkelen
1: having or relating to a frequency below the audibility range of the human ear 2: utilizing or produced by infrasonic waves or vibrations
1925–30; infra- + sonic
1: the apparent displacement of an observed object due to a change in the position of the observer. 2. Astronomy . the apparent angular displacement of a celestial body due to its being observed from the surface instead of from the center of the earth (diurnal parallax or geocentric parallax) or due to its being observed from the earth instead of from the sun (annual parallax or heliocentric parallax). A parallactic ellipse. 3. the difference between the view of an object as seen through the picture-taking lens of a camera and the view as seen through a separate viewfinder. 4. an apparent change in the position of cross hairs as viewed through a telescope, when the focusing is imperfect.
1585–95; < Gk parállaxis change, equiv. to parallak- (s. of parallássein to cause to alternate
Sorry got behind, but here are three words into the pot to break even. W.
1. an act or instance of placing close together or side by side, esp. for comparison or contrast. 2. the state of being close together or side by side.
UIAS: "Juxtaposition marries men." - Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. Pierre (1852), bk. III, The Writings of Herman Melville
1660s, coined in Fr. 17c. from L. juxta "beside, near" + Fr. position (see position (n.)). Latin juxta is a contraction of *jugista (adv.), superlative of adj. *jugos "closely connected," from stem of jugum "yoke," from jungere "to join"
Ok, today is the thirty day review. Here is the list in the order of posts. Thank you to all who have contributed. Tomorrow starts another thirty days. Any words you don't know you can find in order. Thank you. W.
1: something given or received for something else; also : a deal arranging a quid pro quo
UIAS: In politics nobody does something for nothing: there's always a quid pro quo involved.
New Latin, something for something First Known Use: 1582
1: a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them (as in drowning in money)
Middle English methaphor, from Middle French or Latin; Middle French metaphore, from Latin metaphora, from Greek, from metapherein to transfer, from meta- + pherein to bear
1. agreement or similarity, esp in a certain limited number of features or details 2. a comparison made to show such a similarity to draw an analogy between an atom and the solar system 3. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Biology) Biology the relationship between analogous organs or parts 4. (Philosophy / Logic) Logic maths a form of reasoning in which a similarity between two or more things is inferred from a known similarity between them in other respects 5. (Linguistics) Linguistics imitation of existing models or regular patterns in the formation of words, inflections, etc. a child may use ``sheeps'' as the plural of ``sheep'' by analogy with ``dog'', ``dogs'', ``cat'', ``cats'', etc
from Greek analogia ratio, correspondence, from analogos analogous
"Taffeta phrases, silken phrases precise, Three-piled hyperbole, spruce affectation, Figures pedantical—these summer flies Have blown me full of maggot ostentation. I do forswear them." - Shakespeare - Love's labor's lost.
From Latin obsolescens, and from obsoletus...well, you can guess just what.
Noun (also obsolescent, adjective), something that's fallen into disuse or is no longer in use, something that's been replaced by something else. Also a certain specialized use in biology for something gradually disappearing or imperfectly developed.
Used: "The aging twenty-something former teenager found himself in a prolonged case of obsolescence."