latitudinarian
adjective

1. Holding or expressing broad or tolerant views, especially in religious matters.

1. Not restrained; not confined by precise limits.

2. Indifferent to a strict application of any standard of belief or opinion; hence, deviating more or less widely from such standard; lax in doctrine; as, latitudinarian divines; latitudinarian theology.

Latitudinarian sentiments upon religious subjects. --Allibone.

3. Lax in moral or religious principles.


noun
A member of a group of Anglican Christians active from the 17th through the 19th century who were opposed to dogmatic positions of the Church of England and allowed reason to inform theological interpretation and judgment.

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Anthony impressed everyone in his theatre project group with his latitudinarian ways of thinking--he presented ideas for lighting and set design that no one in the group had even previously imagined.

 

riparian \rih-PAIR-ee-uhn; ry-PAIR-ee-uhn\, adjective:

Of or pertaining to the bank of a river or stream.

 

Riparian is from the Latin, ripari-us + -an, from Latin ripa, the bank of a river.

 

Along its serpentine course, the Charles River widens and narrows, and its riparian sounds swell to crescendos in places or relax to the low purr of a river at peace.

-- Craig Lambert, Mind Over Water: Lessons on Life from the Art of Rowing

sophistry / sof-uh-stree
noun
1. a subtle, tricky, superficially plausible, but generally fallacious method of reasoning.
2. a false argument; sophism.

Example: The deceitful leader often used sophistries in speeches to his people.

Origin: 1300–50; ME sophistrie < MF, equiv. to sophistre
(Also see sophism of Ancient Greece.)

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salubrious suh-loo-bree-uhs
--adjective

favorable to or promoting health; healthful: salubrious air.

Favorable to health of mind or body; "not the most salubrious campsite"; "one of the less salubrious suburbs"

This story collection takes its title from a quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne about the salubrious effects of sending "roots into unaccustomed earth" rather than replanting succeeding generations "in the same worn-out soil."

[Origin: 1540–50; < L salūbr(is) promoting health (akin to salūs health) + -ious]

Ophiophagy
Noun
a specialized form of feeding or alimentary behavior of animals which hunt and eat snakes

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ophiophagy

Bob was starting to think that perhaps all he saw in the movies was not true; he had take 12 flights across the country and not been able to capture and eat a single snake. Granted, ophiophagy was a fairly fringe diet fad; perhaps, however he should be hunting rattlers in Arizona, rather than looking for Snakes on a Plane.

Inspired by the fact that I was flying on a plane all night last night, and didn't see a single ophidian

You get two words today since I missed last week (again).

pinguitudinous [also: see Pinguidinous] Pin*guid"i*nous
adjective

Fat, obese. Also: oily, greasy.

Containing fat; fatty.

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"No, we will not go to McDonalds!" said Sally's mother. "I will not have my children growing up on disgusting, pinguitudinous burgers!"


malapropism [mal-uh-prop-iz-uhm]
noun

an act or habit of misusing words ridiculously, esp. by the confusion of words that are similar in sound.

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Five-year-old Benjamin was unfortunately cursed with malapropism, and even now his parents laughed at him as he tried to tell them that his teacher had gotten a proposal of marriage by saying, "Miss Geraty got a composal!"


True story up there, except it was me, not some kid named Benjamin. Also, I was seven, not five...

 

irenic \eye-REN-ik; -REE-nik\, adjective:

Tending to promote peace; conciliatory.

 

Irenic comes from Greek eirenikos, from eirene, "peace."

 

With an irenic spirit they join the debate, at times ugly and vicious, about the historicity of the Bible (by which they mean the Hebrew Scriptures, also known as the Old Testament). - Phyllis Trible, "God's Ghostwriters", New York Times, February 4, 2001

soporific / sop-uh-rih-fik
adjective, noun
1. causing or tending to cause sleep.
2. pertaining to or characterized by sleep or sleepiness; sleepy; drowsy.
3. something that causes sleep, as a medicine or drug.

Example: Her doctor prescribed a soporific to help her sleep better.

Origin: 1690, from Fr. soporifique (1687), formed in Fr. from L. sopor (gen. soporis) "deep sleep."

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unregenerate
1612, from un- "not" + regenerate (see regeneration)

-adjective
1. not regenerate; not renewed in heart and mind or reborn in spirit; unrepentant: an unregenerate sinner.
2. refusing to believe in the existence of God: an unregenerate atheist; an unregenerate skeptic.
3. unconvinced by or unconverted to a particular religion, sect, or movement; unreconstructed.
4. persisting in the holding of prior convictions; opposing new ideas, causes, etc.; stubborn; obstinate: an unregenerate reactionary.
5. not reformed; wicked; sinful; profligate; dissolute: an unregenerate way of life.
–noun
6. an unregenerate person.

Even for those of us reared in "the land of the Book" and thus with some understanding of the Biblical doctrine of "the fall" and the unthinkable depths of depravity to which unregenerate human nature can plumb, such allegations almost beggar belief.--David A. Young

po·ta·tion [ pō táysh'n ] (plural po·ta·tions)
noun
Definition:
1. drinking: the act or an instance of drinking
2. alcoholic drink: a drink, especially an alcoholic drink

[15th century. Directly or via French< Latin potation-< potare "to drink" (see potion)]

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Example:
Bob sashayed up to the bar and addressed the barkeep, "Pardon me, proprietor, please prepare me a particularly powerful potation; I'm parched. Pal, perchance you would partake; I will provide prerequisite pecuniary particulars?"
Bob gets thrown out of more bars than anyone he knows; he really doesn't mean to spit at the bartenders.

 

inveigle \in-VAY-guhl; -VEE-\, transitive verb:
1. To persuade by ingenuity or flattery; to entice.
2. To obtain by ingenuity or flattery.

 

 

Inveigle comes from Anglo-French enveogler, from Old French aveugler, "to blind, to lead astray as if blind," from aveugle, "blind," from Medieval Latin ab oculis, "without eyes."

 

Deep Blue had tried to inveigle Kasparov into grabbing several pawn offers, but the champion was not fooled. -- Robert Byrne, "Kasparov and Computer Play to a Draw", New York Times, February 14, 1996

 

My sincerest apologies for missing last Sunday.

ferriferous / fuh-riff-er-uhs
adjective
1. producing or yielding iron

Example: For a patient with anemia, a doctor might recommend some ferriferous dietary supplements.

Origin: 1805–15; ferri- + -ferous (Latin)

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afflatus[uh-fley-tuhs]
[Origin: 1655–65; < L afflātus a breathing on, equiv. to af- af- + flā- (s. of flāre to blow) + -tus suffix of v. action]

Afflatus is from Latin afflatus, past participle of afflare, "to blow at or breath on," from ad- + flare, "to puff, to blow." Other words with the same root include deflate (de- "out of" + flare; inflate (in- "into" + flare); souffle', the "puffed up" dish (from French souffler, "to puff", from Latin sufflare, "to blow from below, hence "to blow up, to puff up," from sub-"below" + flare); and flatulent.

1. A breath or blast of wind.

2. A divine impartation of knowledge; supernatural impulse; inspiration.


"Aristophanes must have eclipsed them...by the exhibition of some diviner faculty, some higher spiritual afflatus."
--John Addington Symonds, Studies of the Greek Poets

"The miraculous spring that nourished Homer's afflatus seems out of reach of today's writers, whose desprate yearning for inspiration only indicates the coming of an age of exhaustion."
--Benzi Zhang "Paradox of Origin(ality), Studies in Short Fiction, March 22, 1995

per.i.pa.tet.ic [per-uh-puh-tet-ik]
- adjective
1. walking or traveling about; itinerant.
2. (inital capital letter) of or pertaining to Aristotle, who taught philosophy while walking in the Lyceum of ancient Athens.
3. (inital capital letter) of or pertaining to the Aristotelian school of philosophy.
- noun
4. a person who walks or travels about.
5. (inital capital letter) a member of the Aristotelian school.

[Origin: 1400-50; late ME < L peripatéticus < Gk peripatétikós of Aristotle and his school, lit., walking about, equiv. to peripaté-(verbid s. of peripatein to walk about, equiv. to peri- + patein to walk; akin to path) + -tikos]

peripatetic.dictionary.com Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1)
Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2006.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/peripatetic - (accessed: April 25, 2008).

Example:
Bob grew tired of the daily grind and took a peripatetic journey. Each step tinged with purpose, a philisophical connection from who he was to who he will be. He envisioned ahead, a line of Bobs separated by single steps walking toward infinity - a journey without end. Behind, he saw a similar trail of Bobs stretching back to his past. An infinite row of peripatetics growing older, growing younger, wiser, more innocent - all that he had been and will be.
Bob, ever the mathematician and never the philosopher, left the line and went for a beer at the local pub; if there is an infinite number, one less won't matter.

Termagant/TUR-muh-guhnt/ noun

1. A scolding, nagging, bad-tempered woman; a shrew.
2. A violent, turbulent, or brawling woman.


Note: Termagant can also be used as an adjective to describe a person as being shrewish and scolding.

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 "We gods are continually suffering in the most cruel manner at one another's hands while helping mortals; and we all owe you a grudge for having begotten that mad termagant of a daughter, who is always committing outrage of some kind."- The Iliad, Homer.

imperturbable-adjective [im-per-tur-buh-buhl]
incapable of being upset or agitated; not easily excited; calm: imperturbable composure.

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Though normally it took a lot to upset her, her imperturbable composure at being told her test scores were lost was kind of worrisome.

 

supercilious \soo-puhr-SIL-ee-uhs\, adjective:
Disdainfully arrogant; haughty. 

Supercilious is from Latin superciliosus, from supercilium, "an eyebrow, arrogance," from super, "over" + cilium, "an eyelid."

Russian emissaries used to be received at European courts and chanceries with a supercilious courtesy as representatives of a lower social and political culture seeking to be patronized by European elites.
-- Abba Eban, Diplomacy for the Next Century

e-ruc-ta-tion
Noun
1. The act of belching wind from the stomach; a belch.
2. A violent belching out or emitting, as of gaseous or other matter from the crater of a volcano, geyser, etc.

["belching," 1533, from L. eructatio (gen. eructationis) "a belching forth," from eructatos, pp. of eructare, from ex- "out" + ructare "to belch," from PIE *reug- "to belch" (cf. Lith. rugiu "to belch," Gk. eryge, Arm. orcam), probably of imitative origin.]

eructation. Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. http://dictionary.reference.com/search?r=2&q=Eructation (accessed: April 18, 2008).

Example:
Bob remembered hearing that in Japan it was considered a great compliment to belch after a meal. His eructation did not have the desired effect. His date, freshly back from the bathroom, looked horrified; all the other patrons stared. Apparently it was not considered a compliment at a fancy French restaurant.

Mellifluous/muh-lif-loo-uhs / adjective

1. Sweetly or smoothly flowing
2. Sweet-sounding

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"Put upon his good faith, and finding it in collision with his inclinations, Sloppy threw back his head and uttered a mellifluous howl, rounded off with a sniff." Our Mutual Friend, Charles Dickens.

 

philomath \FIL-uh-math\, noun:

A lover of learning; a scholar.  From Greek philos ("beloved," "loving," as in philosophy or philanthropy) + Greek manthanein, math- ("to learn," as in polymath).

 

It's nothing to laugh about, he says. "Strange things happen in this country -- things that philosophers and other philomaths had never dreamed of."

-- Tomek Tryzna, Miss Nobody

 

P.S. When I try and tag my entry I get the following.   I post from the LJ website at work and am not sure why this is happening. 

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