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Word For The Day, Wednesday, February 4, 2015-- polymath

Posted on 02/04/2015 5:54:09 AM PST by TruthShallSetYouFree

Word For The Day, Wednesday, February 4, 2015-- polymath

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In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".

polymath [pol-ee-math]

hear it pronounced

noun

1. a person of great learning in several fields of study

Origin: 1615-25; < Greek polymathḗs learned, having learned much, equivalent to poly- poly- + -mathēs, adj. derivative of manthánein to learn

Related forms

polymathic, adjective
polymathy (po-lim -a-thee) noun

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Examples from the web for polymath:

He has been a polymath all his life, plunging into one discipline after another.

He was deeply engaged with real-world technology, exotic and well traveled, and a polymath respected in so many circles.


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To: tioga

Is that..is that a pen?


21 posted on 02/04/2015 7:06:50 AM PST by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

I’m going to play racquetball. Will be back this afternoon to grade papers.


22 posted on 02/04/2015 7:09:51 AM PST by TruthShallSetYouFree ( When dems win, it's a mandate. When we win, we must compromise.)
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

Good morning, and that was a perfect description of the emperor


23 posted on 02/04/2015 7:16:48 AM PST by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA (Tactical Firearms,Katy Tx: "the two enemies of guns, rust and politicians")
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

Obama called oh so brilliant
by the left’s voting contingent
57 states in the United States
an example of how unintelligent.

A polymath he is certainly not
A constitutional scholar a joke.
Washington slept in the White House
American history clearly not his yoke.

“The future must not belong to those
who slander the prophet of Islam”
Spoken by our president Obama
a Muslim living an American sham.


24 posted on 02/04/2015 7:20:46 AM PST by tioga
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To: WhyisaTexasgirlinPA

Both Cruz and Walker are at the top of my list, but there is one significant difference getting some press. While Cruz is a polymath having graduated both Princeton and Harvard, Walker did not graduate from the college he attended. Hmmm. Something to ponder.


25 posted on 02/04/2015 7:22:30 AM PST by tioga
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To: Darksheare

Looks like it.


26 posted on 02/04/2015 7:23:26 AM PST by tioga
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To: tioga

“Snowman was stabbed with multiple knives and one pen.”
I imagine SnowTowns news would be abuzz with that one.
*heh heh heh*


27 posted on 02/04/2015 7:29:33 AM PST by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: tioga

Love them both too!


28 posted on 02/04/2015 7:32:49 AM PST by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA (Tactical Firearms,Katy Tx: "the two enemies of guns, rust and politicians")
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

Thomas Jefferson was our polymath President, and James Madison and John Quincy Adams were polymaths, too.

obama has been touted as a polymath intellectual by his propagandists and sycophants. However, in reality he is a drug-addled puppet for a cabal of New World Order conspirators, none of whom have America’s best interests at heart.

Without his teleprompter, all obama can do is babble incoherently!!!!


29 posted on 02/04/2015 8:34:44 AM PST by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: tioga

BUMP!!!!


30 posted on 02/04/2015 8:35:13 AM PST by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

I’m reading Mona Lisa; A Life Discovered while en route to Grand Cayman. The word polymath appeared in the last chapter, as a descriptor for DaVinci (the artist not my puppy ; ))


31 posted on 02/04/2015 8:54:19 AM PST by xsmommy
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree
Parrot1 + Parrot2 = Parrots

Polly Math

32 posted on 02/04/2015 9:27:35 AM PST by mikrofon (Humpday BUMPty)
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To: Louis Foxwell

A++++
Excellent! You nailed it!!


33 posted on 02/04/2015 9:56:03 AM PST by TruthShallSetYouFree ( When dems win, it's a mandate. When we win, we must compromise.)
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To: tioga

A+++
Apparently, it is easier to describe the opposite of a polymath since we have such a perfect counterexample in the White House.


34 posted on 02/04/2015 9:58:01 AM PST by TruthShallSetYouFree ( When dems win, it's a mandate. When we win, we must compromise.)
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To: Honorary Serb

A+++
It has been a long and winding road from the intellectualism of Thomas Jefferson, who is on the two-dollar bill, to the Marxist spewings of Barack Obama, who belongs on the three.


35 posted on 02/04/2015 10:01:11 AM PST by TruthShallSetYouFree ( When dems win, it's a mandate. When we win, we must compromise.)
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To: xsmommy

A+++
DaVinci was the first name to come to my mind when I saw the word. Ben Franklin was the seconds.


36 posted on 02/04/2015 10:02:29 AM PST by TruthShallSetYouFree ( When dems win, it's a mandate. When we win, we must compromise.)
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To: mikrofon

A++++ for making me crack, er up!


37 posted on 02/04/2015 10:03:38 AM PST by TruthShallSetYouFree ( When dems win, it's a mandate. When we win, we must compromise.)
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

I’ve had Polly by Nirvana stuck in my head all morning.


38 posted on 02/04/2015 10:20:15 AM PST by NeoCaveman (DC, it's Versailles on the Potomac but without the food and culture)
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

It is still chilly and drizzly-no work today other than to deliver a couple of invoices...

Those who state the obvious-
Obama is not even a polymath
Will make him have a tantrum
And vent his childish wrath

He’ll demand media attention
As one of his hapless minions
Tries to smear whoever dared
Express their true opinions

The effort is always in vain
We know that the liberal junk
Served by family-and Harvard
Just made him an adult punk


39 posted on 02/04/2015 11:19:40 AM PST by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: NeoCaveman

Thanks-not a favorite Nirvana song-even more depressing than a lot of their stuff-”Let me clip your dirty wings”...


40 posted on 02/04/2015 11:22:01 AM PST by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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