2006-12-06 bloodletting Bloodletting (or blood-letting, in modern medicine referred to as phlebotomy) was a popular medical practice from antiquity up to the ...
doldrums Although the PC market overall has lurched into the doldrums again, notebooks have fared better than desktops in a variety of markets for some time. ...
2006-12-08 denouement ... I was not a little astonished to discover that the literary world has hitherto been strangely in error respecting the fate of the ...
2006-12-11 confer Having fulfilled this vow for many years to the letter, and with a religious punctuality and method that conferred great credit upon him as a...
2006-12-12 munificent No sooner had we got rid of these birds, which occasioned us great annoyance, than we were terrified by the appearance of a fowl of ...
006-12-13 behest People observed the planets going around the sun according to the law of gravitation, and they thought that God had given a behest to these ...
2006-12-16 voluble There the voluble mouth and bright penetrating eye are ever directed toward the Master of the household Source: Flatland by Edwin A Abbott. ...
2006-12-17 heckle In another instance, Coulter was heckled while speaking at a crowd of 2,600 at the University of Connecticut to the point that she ended her...
2006-12-17 rabble Had the acute-angled rabble been all, without exception, absolutely destitute of hope and of ambition, they might have found leaders in some...
2006-12-18 career ... the dashing and flashing of the five-coloured and six-coloured Pentagons and Hexagons careering across the field in their offices of ...
2006-12-18 pretension that upon the confidence of some merit, the war being at an end, he went to Rome, and solicited at the court of Augustus to be preferred ...
2006-12-19 cognizance With them, the eye is situated so far from their vertex that they can scarcely take cognizance of what goes on at that extremity of their...
2007-01-02 copious it was easy to be eloquent on so copious and delightful a subject, especially to me, who had been often apt to amuse myself with visions of...
2007-01-02 sonorousness The tact and skill which suffice to avert a Woman's sting are unequal to the task of stopping a Woman's mouth; and as the wife has ...
2007-01-03 demur «In the myth sung by the bard in the hall of Alcinous (Odyssey viii. 300ff) the Sun-God, Helios, once spied Ares and Aphrodite enjoying each...
2007-01-03 whole cloth Roman mythology, the mythological beliefs of the people of Ancient Rome, can be considered as having two parts. One part, largely later ...
2007-01-04 avarice Otherwise, as avarice is the necessary consequence of old age, those immortals would in time become proprietors of the whole nation, and ...
2007-01-07 grist These and other historical matters became grist for the mills of his imagination, and by his treatment they provide transforming revelations...
2007-04-27 higgledy-piggledy «I have that book. It is passing strange, lots of nice bits but all higgledy-piggledy. Made me wonder if this was a sign of a...
2007-07-27 internecine Sometime between the eighteenth century European visits to the Island and the mid nineteenth century all of the Moai that had been...
2007-07-28 lassitude On the darker side, the leadership has often experienced in its hybrid system the worst results of socialism (bureaucracy, lassitude, ...
vitiated Boolos was an authority on the 19th-century German mathematician and philosopher Gottlob Frege. Boolos proved a conjecture due to Crispin Wright (and...
augury The bog bodies seem consistently to have been members of the upper class: their fingernails are manicured and tests on hair protein routinely record...
2007-08-29 sortie He [Peter Vladimirov] also expressed frustration at not being allowed by the Chinese Communists to visit the frontline, although as a foreign...
whitewash The Japanese invasion of its neighbours is often glorified or whitewashed, and wartime atrocities, most notably the Nanjing Massacre, comfort women,...
rove Only my affectionate Wife, alarmed by my continued absence, had quitted her room and was roving up and down in the Hall, anxiously awaiting my return. ...
altercation In the 2000s, Crumb became increasingly ambivalent about continuing to contribute to new issues of Zap. By issue #14 he announced to the other...
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