February 2012
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DFW word of the day
Horripilation –
N:
The bristling of the body hair, as from fear or cold; goose bumps.
ETYMOLOGY:
Late Latin horripil ti , horripil ti n-, from Latin horripil tus, past participle of horripil re, to bristle with hairs : horr re, to tremble + pil re, to grow hair (from pilus, hair)
OTHER FORMS:
hor·rip i·late (Verb)
This word gave me horripilation because of how cool it is! I...
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DFW word of the day
Heteroplasty-
N:
pl. het·er·o·plas·ties
The surgical grafting of tissue obtained from one individual or species to another.
OTHER FORMS:
het er·o·plas tic(Adjective)
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Heterogeneous - ADJECTIVE:
1. also het·er·og·e·nous (h t -r j -n s) KEY Consisting of dissimilar elements or parts; not homogeneous. See Synonyms at miscellaneous.
2. Completely different; incongruous.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Medieval Latin heterogeneus, from Greek heterogen s : hetero-, hetero- + genos, kind, race; see gen - in Indo-European roots
OTHER FORMS:
het er·o·ge...
“Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life...”
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky (via mutualaddiction)
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Heterodox- ADJECTIVE:
1. Not in agreement with accepted beliefs, especially in church doctrine or dogma.
2. Holding unorthodox opinions.
ETYMOLOGY:
Greek heterodoxos : hetero-, hetero- + doxa, opinion (from dokein, to think; see dek- in Indo-European roots)
Yeah, this. All day, all week. (from bk to Greece even…)
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DFW word of the day
Hematuria - N:
The presence of blood in the urine.
OTHER FORMS:
he ma·tu ric(Adjective)
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“Desire is “the idea of an appetite,” the imaginative
construction one puts on...”
– David Graeber
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DFW word of the day –
Heliogabalus - Originally Varius Aritus Bassianus. a.d. 204-222
Emperor of Rome (218-222). A priest of Baal, he became emperor after the murder of his cousin Caracalla (217). His eccentricity and debauchery and the imposition of his religion on the Romans led to an insurrection in which he was killed.
Elagabalus or Heliogabalus is a Syro-Roman sun god
The cult statue was brought to Rome by...
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But with our night sports it’s all “making” and “score”;
We pay too high a price for nothing more
Than the power to boast. Do you really want to comb
The whole female population of Rome
Just to be able to tell friends you meet,
“I’ve had her too,” so that no street
Lacks examples to point at? And will you repeat
Some leering story about each?...
thisinfiniteevening:
“If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about answers.” — Gravity’s Rainbow
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“my working theory is that we live in a managerial age, which doesn’t want to...”
– Adam Curtis
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I have no mouth but I must scream →
By Ben Gabriel
Because a critique of Hello Kitty is, at its core, a critique of the affect of cuteness, not as a psychological but material condition, not as a feeling, but as a sign inscribed on the consuming body.
(I have a hello kitty phone case and I think it’s really hilarious, and also kind of sad, because she has her finger over her mouth like shhhh, but she doesn’t have a mouth.)
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DFW word of the day
Havelock - N:
A cloth covering for a cap, having a flap to cover and protect the back of the neck.
ETYMOLOGY:
After Sir Henry Havelock (1795-1857), British soldier
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DFW word of the day
Haik - N:
A large piece of cotton, silk, or wool cloth worn as an outer garment in Morocco.
ETYMOLOGY:
Moroccan Arabic ‘ik, from Arabic, weaver, active participle of ka, to weave; see wk in Semitic roots
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DFW word of the day
Hagiarchy –
N:
pl. hag·i·ar·chies
Government by people considered to be holy, such as priests or saints. Also called hagiocracy.
NO!
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DFW word of the day
Guttate - ADJECTIVE:
1. Having or resembling drops.
2. Spotted as if by drops.
ETYMOLOGY:
Latin gutt tus, speckled, from gutta, drop
Guttated.
Today I’ll post three words as catch up for missing the last two days while I was traveling.
Watchfriendsofoccupy:
Stop everything. Full stop.
STOP EVERYTHING
“It was true that I didn’t have much ambition, but there ought to be a place for...”
– Charles Bukowski (via neitherpath)
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DFW word of the day
Gravid - ADJECTIVE:
Carrying developing young or eggs: a gravid uterus; a gravid female.
ETYMOLOGY:
Latin gravidus, from gravis, heavy; see gwer -1 in Indo-European roots
OTHER FORMS:
gra·vid i·ty (gr -v d -t ) KEY or grav id·ness(Noun), grav id·ly(Adverb)
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Watch
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Look lean—it suggests passion; don’t blush to wear
A neat cap on top of your well-washed hair.
Night after sleepless night,
Loss of appetite,
Worry, love-sickness, they all make
The young lover as thin as a rake
For your purpose, look so pitiful that you move
The world to exclaim, “he’s in love!”
-Ovid
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Graminivorous- ADJECTIVE:
Feeding on grasses.
ETYMOLOGY:
Latin gr men, gr min-, grass + -vorous
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Gnosticism –
N:
The doctrines of certain pre-Christian pagan, Jewish, and early Christian sects that valued the revealed knowledge of God and of the origin and end of the human race as a means to attain redemption for the spiritual element in humans and that distinguished the Demiurge from the unknowable Divine Being.
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Want →
Except as much as I want some of these, I’m bummed they are selling them off one by one instead of keeping them together.
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Gnosis - N:
Intuitive apprehension of spiritual truths, an esoteric form of knowledge sought by the Gnostics.
ETYMOLOGY:
Greek gn sis, knowledge, from gign skein, to know; see gn - in Indo-European roots
My entire life might be based on this without my knowledge.
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Let the wax of the writing tablet smooth your way,
Let the wax, like a boat, cross over and convey
Your mind, and a cargo of flatteries in the style
Lovers use; however grand you are, pile
The entreaties on. By speaking fair
Priam made Achilles give back Hector’s body. Prayer
Moves even an angry god. By all means throw
Promises in. Do they do any harm? No.
We’re all rich men as...
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Read no more odes my son, read timetables:
they’re to the point. And roll the sea charts out
before it’s too late. Be watchful, do not sing,
for once again the day is clearly coming
when they will brand refusers on the chest
and nail up lists of names on people’s doors.
Learn how to go unknown, learn more than me:
To change your face, your documents, your country.
Become adept at...
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DFW word of the day
Glans penis - N:
The bulbous head or tip of the penis.
ETYMOLOGY:
New Latin gl ns p nis : Latin gl ns, glans + Latin p nis, genitive of p nis, penis
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