king ubu Posted February 5, 2014 Report Share Posted February 5, 2014 eupeptic Yes indeed - great word! As for "praxis", in german it's most common ... a doctor's office (what do you actually call that?) is called "Praxis", meanings 1b and 2 are common usage (not 1a, I think). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Kart Posted February 6, 2014 Report Share Posted February 6, 2014 You know, I'm not sure I was using "eupeptic" correctly when I said that Szell's Prokofiev 5th was eupeptic. What I meant was "fizzily energetic" and/or bright-eyed and bushy tailed -- more so that way than the piece should be IMO. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Dolan Posted February 6, 2014 Report Share Posted February 6, 2014 "Blowed". As in, "I done blowed the snow off of the sidewalk over yonder". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leeway Posted February 6, 2014 Report Share Posted February 6, 2014 (edited) Iris Murdoch novels tend to be vocabulary builders. The latest word I had to look up was: exiguous. Not something you would expect to find in a novel. ex·ig·u·ous igˈzigyo͞oəs,ikˈsig-/ adjective formal 1. very small in size or amount. "my exiguous musical resources" synonyms: meager, inadequate, insufficient, small, scanty, paltry, negligible,modest, deficient, miserly, niggardly, beggarly; More Edited February 6, 2014 by Leeway Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
king ubu Posted February 6, 2014 Report Share Posted February 6, 2014 You know, I'm not sure I was using "eupeptic" correctly when I said that Szell's Prokofiev 5th was eupeptic. What I meant was "fizzily energetic" and/or bright-eyed and bushy tailed -- more so that way than the piece should be IMO. I guess you didn't then ... but it fits (some) Karajan like a glove Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted February 6, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 6, 2014 Still, learned a new word. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry_L Posted February 6, 2014 Report Share Posted February 6, 2014 (edited) ad·um·brate transitive verb \ˈa-dəm-ˌbrāt, a-ˈdəm-\ ad·um·brat·ed ad·um·brat·ing Definition of ADUMBRATE 1 : to foreshadow vaguely : intimate 2 : to suggest, disclose, or outline partially <adumbrate a plan> 3 : overshadow, obscure — ad·um·bra·tion noun — ad·um·bra·tive adjective — ad·um·bra·tive·ly adverb Edited February 6, 2014 by Jerry_L Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry_L Posted February 18, 2014 Report Share Posted February 18, 2014 Stertorous is a medical term used to express a respiratory sound characterized by heavy snoring or gasping. It is caused by partial obstruction of airway above the level of the larynxand by vibrations of tissue of the naso-pharynx, pharynx or soft palate. (This distinguishes it from stridor which is caused by turbulent air flow below or in the larynx). It is low pitched, nonmusical and occurs during the inspiratory phase only. In general terms it is a snoring or snuffly sound. The patient is said to suffer from stertor. Stertorous breathing will be audible in the epileptic patient during the post-ictal phase following a tonic-clonic seizure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillF Posted February 18, 2014 Report Share Posted February 18, 2014 How about "stercoraceous"? "The stable yields a stercoraceous heap" (William Cowper, The Task 1785) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spontooneous Posted February 20, 2014 Report Share Posted February 20, 2014 I'm a back-to-monocoraceous guy myself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Lark Ascending Posted February 20, 2014 Report Share Posted February 20, 2014 'hagiolatry' Seems to conflate hagiography and idolatry. Never heard it before but John Eliot Gardener uses it in his Bach book to describe responses to the composer over the years. I've always used hagiography but I suspect that might be specific to written accounts that promote people to sainthood. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillF Posted February 20, 2014 Report Share Posted February 20, 2014 I'm a back-to-monocoraceous guy myself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted February 25, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 25, 2014 Clickbait Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted February 27, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 27, 2014 Normcore Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillF Posted February 27, 2014 Report Share Posted February 27, 2014 Normcore http://www.theguardian.com/fashion/fashion-blog/2014/feb/27/normcore-the-next-big-fashion-movement Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
king ubu Posted March 21, 2014 Report Share Posted March 21, 2014 meretricious Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul secor Posted March 21, 2014 Report Share Posted March 21, 2014 My wife was reading a book and came to a phrase which mentioned "a herd of elephant". Sounded odd to her and to me. I checked the dictionary and elephant can be both singular and plural. News to me, perhaps not to others. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlhoots Posted March 22, 2014 Report Share Posted March 22, 2014 rompecabezas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillF Posted March 23, 2014 Report Share Posted March 23, 2014 sub rosa Had seen it before, but didn't know the meaning (= in confidence.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul secor Posted March 23, 2014 Report Share Posted March 23, 2014 (edited) While reading Penelope Lively's Dancing Fish and Ammonites, I came across "palimpsest" - "Something having usu. diverse layers or aspects apparent beneath the surface" - in the context in which she places it. For that matter, I didn't know what Ammonites were - "A member of a Semitic people who in Old Testament times lived east of the Jordan between the Jabbok and the Arnon". edit - I'm just finishing reading the Penelope Lively book and Find that she uses ammonite with it's alternative meaning - a type of fossil. I had assumed she would be using the first meaning I posted, since she lived in the mid-east as a child. Edited March 25, 2014 by paul secor Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillF Posted March 24, 2014 Report Share Posted March 24, 2014 Manichaean keeps coming up - perhaps because I can never grasp what it means. :-( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aparxa Posted March 26, 2014 Report Share Posted March 26, 2014 Hubcap.Thanks Alison! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted October 3, 2014 Author Report Share Posted October 3, 2014 dedifferentiated Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuck Nessa Posted October 3, 2014 Report Share Posted October 3, 2014 undedifferentiated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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