Kevin's Watch

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.

Thranathiril

thranathiril wrote: There were a couple more - one beginning with 'S' that I can't recall right now - but please feel free to add others.

"Surquedry" - pride, arrogance.

chary - adj.

1. cautious or careful; wary: He was chary of investing in oil wells.
2. shy; timid.
3. fastidious; choosy: She is excessively chary about her friends.
4. sparing (often fol. by of): chary of his praise.

good one - "chary" must've appeared in the book a dozen times.

"Clinquant" appears twice.

"Caliginous" was the first one that caught my notice

More interesting was "fug" showing the SRD doesn't have to mine obscure multi-syllabic Latinisms to send us running for the dictionary.

I thought "fug" was interesting! WTH does it MEAN??

MrKABC wrote:I thought "fug" was interesting! WTH does it MEAN??

fug - n.

stale air, esp. the humid, warm, ill-smelling air of a crowded room, kitchen, etc.

[Origin: 1885–90; of obscure orig.; cf. earlier Brit. slang fogo stench]

dlbpharmd wrote: "Surquedry" - pride, arrogance.

That was it! Thanks.

Thranathiril

I saw "ensorcelled" several times. It appears to mean "under the effect of sorcery or a spell," or something along those lines. Love the vocabulary lessons. Love love love..........I wish I had made notes of the new words so I could share the meanings when I looked them up. SRD is a linguistic genius.

..no so much repeated ,,and even used only once or twice:

elegiac..of mournful quality

threnody..a lament

cantrip..a mischievous playful act ( a trick)

lenitive...arcane medicine,,( a laxative..?)

crepuscular..resembling or relating to twilight

pennon,,,swallow tailed flag,,another term for pennant

numinous,,have a strong religous or spiritual quality

sensorium..all the faculties considered as a whole

and of course,,

lurch... the nom de plume of a poster at KW

I got extra points on this philanthropic site because of SRD!

www.freerice.com/index.php

what about <i>munificence</i>?

I had to look that one up, and it appears in FR with different variations.
I've read near to 40 novels in the last 2 years and that's the first time I remember seeing that word.
It's certainly a word that I've never heard anyone use in daily converse.

howabout,,coign,,rite there in the opening line..Interesting a dictionary mentions,, the phrase,,coign of vantage,,being first used by Shakespeare in Macbeth...Now..I take one step further...on page two,,Donaldson completes the homage' with the words,,"vantage point".

Banquo in Macbeth uses Coign Of Vantage in a small way before Macbeth's Castle,(Act 1 Scene VI,)basically a stating of how Macbeth's home seems so very nice..Its a statement of naivete'...So..Donaldson begins FR with a tip of the hat to the bard,,referring to Linden's naivete'..a bit of wit and Humor?.I swear to the Creator.. If I hear one more person going on about being disappointed with this book..

Here's a mouth full: "Ahead of her, they implied a bedecked panolpy clinquant with Gilden sunshine."

FR seems to have a plethora of laudable multifarious locutions.

lurch wrote: sensorium..all the faculties considered as a whole

If you're talking about the Viles conversation, the word was actually "synesthesia," I think: A condition in which one type of stimulation evokes the sensation of another, as when the hearing of a sound produces the visualization of a color.

If you're talking about something beyond page 377, then don't tell me.

Good to have you back, Lurch! I've missed your quirky locutions!

'Theurgy' and 'supernal' showed quite a bit.

Also, Linden saying "all right" every time somebody suggested something or gave her advice. I think she said it way too much.

'Innominate' appears to have attached itself to SRD's mind like Anna Nicole Smith to an octogenarian billionaire.

And yes, I know both she and the billionaire are dead. Maybe that's part of the point.

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.

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.

Indeed. You are not yet puissant enough to master the puissance. But it will come with time. Or maybe it was thyme. I can't remember. Anyway, to be sure, make an infusion of thyme and keep on reading, and we'll do this again in a month.