When I saw this post's all-caps "PUISSANT!", what I really read was "PISS ANT!"ur-Thor wrote:PUISSANT! puissance etc ....man ..it was really starting to puiss me off, it just doesn't seem to roll off the tongue for me, but I kinda got used to it.
Wordy words from FR
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dlbpharmd wrote:When I saw this post's all-caps "PUISSANT!", what I really read was "PISS ANT!"ur-Thor wrote:PUISSANT! puissance etc ....man ..it was really starting to puiss me off, it just doesn't seem to roll off the tongue for me, but I kinda got used to it.
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Re: Wordy words from FR
thranathiril wrote:Part of the pleasure of a SD book is the rarely-used words that pop out the page at you. IDHTBIFOM, but I know there were several in FR.
"Lacustrine" appears at least three times, including the punchy phrase "lacustrine roborant".
"Chabdys" is used to describe the Harrow's clothing at one point. I am off to find out what that means.
There were a couple more - one beginning with 'S' that I can't recall right now - but please feel free to add others.
ISTR there was also a great one line paragraph that I may adapt as my sig, something about Linden thinking she was destined to live surrounded by halfhands.
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ones I noticed right away were
numinous
panoply
lambent
Caliginous
When I came across this word it triggered a memory the instant I read it. Anyone remember in the Wizard of Oz where the Tin Man is called a 'clinking, clanking, collection of caliginous junk'?
So I thought it meant a collection of loose parts (or something like that). But I looked it up anyway (always have the dictionary at the ready when reading TC) and found it meant something completely different.
anyway.
So I thought it meant a collection of loose parts (or something like that). But I looked it up anyway (always have the dictionary at the ready when reading TC) and found it meant something completely different.
anyway.
If SRD includes the word 'Theurgy' in AATE i will kill him.
But if you're all about the destination, then take a fucking flight.
We're going nowhere slowly, but we're seeing all the sights.
And we're definitely going to hell, but we'll have all the best stories to tell.
Full of the heavens and time.
We're going nowhere slowly, but we're seeing all the sights.
And we're definitely going to hell, but we'll have all the best stories to tell.
Full of the heavens and time.
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I always liked 'incondign' from the First Chronicles.
If 'condign' = "deserved, appropriate" then it's obvious what 'incondign' should mean.
I used it in another forum recently and someone said that I meant 'incondite' since "there is no such word as 'incondign'". I gave the above quotation.In the stillness, Caerroil Wildwood lifted his gnarled scepter. "No," he trilled, "I cannot permit this. It is a breaking of Law. And you forget the price that is owed to me. Perhaps when you have gained an incondign mastery over the wild magic, you will use it to recant the price."
If 'condign' = "deserved, appropriate" then it's obvious what 'incondign' should mean.
Emotional Leper wrote:Gods below, yes, please, please wait till TLD is done.dlbpharmd wrote:At least wait until TLD is finished.Warmark wrote:If SRD includes the word 'Theurgy' in AATE i will kill him.
Emotional Leper wrote:dlbpharmd wrote:Warmark wrote:
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Guerdon was used again.
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adumbrating
littoral
arrogate
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I really like "adumbration," because of its use in the history of phenomenology. Edmond Husserl used it to talk about how our apprehension of objects is an adumbration (1. To give a sketchy outline of. 2. To prefigure indistinctly; foreshadow. 3. To disclose partially or guardedly. 4. To overshadow; shadow or obscure.) of a collection of sensory input. We never see any object from all sides at once. Rather, we transcend our individual impression of objects to intuit a whole. I really like that word.
I also really like "numinous." What a cool way to say "supernatural."
"Lambent" was cool until it was overused.
"Incondign" is now officially overused.
"Fug" is fuggen' cool. What a neat way to describe Kevin's Dirt.
I also really like "numinous." What a cool way to say "supernatural."
"Lambent" was cool until it was overused.
"Incondign" is now officially overused.
"Fug" is fuggen' cool. What a neat way to describe Kevin's Dirt.
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Function: adjective
Etymology: Latin augustus; akin to Latin augur
Date: 1581
: marked by majestic dignity or grandeur <her august lineage>
Function: adjective
Etymology: Latin augustus; akin to Latin augur
Date: 1581
: marked by majestic dignity or grandeur <her august lineage>
It was the fetid halitus of the most diseased mortality condensed to its essence and elevated to the transcendence of prophecy, promise, suzerain truth—the definitive commandment of darkness.
Boy...SRD talks about subconscious influences in the GI. Earlier today I was working and used that word in my own writing. I've seen it before, used it before, so I don't think it registered as one of SRDs $10,000 words (I've yet to find demnify--it's not in the OED). Yet...there it is.Luke The Unbeliever wrote:what about <i>munificence</i>?
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That's what I thought at first, but it didn't seem to fit. The line is:Emotional Leper wrote:Demnify would be Indemnify with the in- chopped off.
Indemnify means, according to the OED:It was of the croyel-beings of hunger and sustenance which demnify the dark places of the Earth.
1. trans. To preserve, protect, or keep free from, secure against (any hurt, harm, or loss); to secure against legal responsibility for past or future actions or events; to give an indemnity to.
2. To compensate (a person, etc.) for loss suffered, expenses incurred, etc.
b. To compensate for disadvantages, annoyances, hardships, etc.
3. To compensate, make up for. Obs. rare.
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Croyel -- beings of hunger and sustenance which destroy, desecrate and harm the dark places of the earth.burgs wrote:That's what I thought at first, but it didn't seem to fit. The line is:Emotional Leper wrote:Demnify would be Indemnify with the in- chopped off.Indemnify means, according to the OED:It was of the croyel-beings of hunger and sustenance which demnify the dark places of the Earth.
1. trans. To preserve, protect, or keep free from, secure against (any hurt, harm, or loss); to secure against legal responsibility for past or future actions or events; to give an indemnity to.
2. To compensate (a person, etc.) for loss suffered, expenses incurred, etc.
b. To compensate for disadvantages, annoyances, hardships, etc.
3. To compensate, make up for. Obs. rare.
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Why would croyel harm the dark places of the earth? In what way to the dark places of the earth need protection?
The opposite of indemnify is damnify, BTW.
I interpreted demnify to mean about the same as damn (verb). Or, more specifically, to make something damned. As in, the croyel make a hell of the dark places of the Earth.
The opposite of indemnify is damnify, BTW.
I interpreted demnify to mean about the same as damn (verb). Or, more specifically, to make something damned. As in, the croyel make a hell of the dark places of the Earth.
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