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Word For The Day, Wednesday, January 12, 2011 - plinth
Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary Word of the Day ^ | 01/12/2011

Posted on 01/12/2011 6:12:03 AM PST by VRWCmember



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".

plinth \PLINTH\ noun


1. the lowest part of the base of an architectural column

2. a block used as a base (as for a statue)

Example sentence:

The museum workers reverently set the newly restored statue back onto an imposing plinth.

Extra example: "Anthony put on his glasses and bent down, searching for a minute label taped to the marble plinth on which the Atlas figures stood." -- From Rose Tremain's 2010 novel Trespass

Did you know?
"These ivy-clad arcades -- / These mouldering plinths ... are they all -- / All of the famed, and the colossal left…?" In these lines from "The Coliseum," Edgar Allan Poe alludes to a practical feature of classical architecture. The plinth serves the important purpose of raising the base of the column it supports above the ground, thus protecting it from dampness and mold. The humble plinth is usually a mere thick block. It’s humbly named, too, for the Greek word "plinthos" means simply "tile" or "brick." English writers have used "plinth," a shortened version of the Latin form "plinthus," since the beginning of the 17th century. The meaning was extended to bases for statues, vases, or busts in the 18th century.

Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the Word for the Day in a sentence.
The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day.

The Review threads are linked for your edification. ;-)
Practice makes perfect.....post on....


Review Threads:
Review Thread One: Word For The Day, Thursday 11/14/02: Raffish (Be SURE to check out posts #92 and #111 on this thread!)
Review Thread Two: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/14/03: Roister
Review Thread Three: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/28/03: Obdurate
Review Thread Four: Word For the Day, Friday 7/25/03: Potation
Review Thread Five: Word For the Day, Monday 8/19/03: Stolid
Review Thread Six: Word for the Day, Tuesday 11/09/2004: Peripatetic (Post #125 may be my best anagram post ever)


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Good Morning Class. Welcome to School!

Here is my example with today's WFTD:

When even the plinth upon which a decent civic education should stand has been reduced to a pile of rubble, how long before both Liberty and Justice are toppled entirely. Both left and right oriented opinionists have a tendancy to invoke the First Amendment and accusations of "censorship" against private sector publishers, broadcasters, and other service providers while completely ignoring literal acts of Congress (the only party actually enjoined by the First Amendment from restrictive acts toward others) that have the specific purpose of restricting freedom of speech.

Leftists Upset About “Huck Finn” Censorship Have Only Themselves to Blame
Dem Congressman: If Violent Rhetoric Didn't Cause This Shooting, It Will Cause Next One
Congresswoman Wants to Kill the Phrase ‘Job Killing’

No pushing at the door please!

Happy Humpday Everybody!

Only days left until BO's replacement is sworn in.

1 posted on 01/12/2011 6:12:05 AM PST by VRWCmember
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To: xsmommy; secret garden; VRWCmember; Slip18; SoothingDave; Gabz; Guenevere; Texan5; NicknamedBob; ...
IT'S ABOUT DANG TIME!!!

Get to class you slackers! I've opened a new classroom, but Dave forgot to get the gradebook from xsmommy. So if you're looking for a grade you'll have to ping her. Secret Garden and Tioga are usually pretty generous with the plusses if you compliment their shapely legs, so you might try submitting your homework to them instead. My secret for getting extra plusses on my A+ from xs will remain a secret between me and her, so you're on your own if you want her to review your work.

2 posted on 01/12/2011 6:12:54 AM PST by VRWCmember (Veritas vos Liberabit)
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To: VRWCmember
i swear i thought FLea Bailey was dead and buried at the foot of a plinth.
3 posted on 01/12/2011 6:18:20 AM PST by xsmommy
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To: VRWCmember; xsmommy

Erect a plinth upon which Sarah Palin can stand. Just watched her video response to the shooting, and just damn, but that was good. I have been traditionally somewhat lukewarm to Palin, but holy schmoly that was good.


4 posted on 01/12/2011 6:18:39 AM PST by Explorer89 (And now, let the wild rumpus start!!)
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To: xsmommy

Another long past due dirtnap. Maybe he and jimmuh could go on a trip together and never return.


5 posted on 01/12/2011 6:24:46 AM PST by VRWCmember (Veritas vos Liberabit)
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To: VRWCmember

Obamacare stands on a plinth
From a sculptor drunk on absinthe
Almost three thousand pages
Of affronts and outrages
In this sad socialist labyrinth


6 posted on 01/12/2011 6:27:07 AM PST by TruthShallSetYouFree (Obama joined the Tea Party. His favorite brand: Constant Commie.)
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To: Explorer89
Erect a plinth upon which Sarah Palin can stand.

Now there are some around here who would either scold you or make jokes about using "erect" in the same sendtence with Sarah Palin. (Obviously I'm not one of those people.)

7 posted on 01/12/2011 6:30:13 AM PST by VRWCmember (Veritas vos Liberabit)
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To: VRWCmember

just shaking my head.....


8 posted on 01/12/2011 7:01:33 AM PST by Explorer89 (And now, let the wild rumpus start!!)
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To: VRWCmember

I’m tardy, but here. Can I have more time?


9 posted on 01/12/2011 7:21:00 AM PST by Miss_Meyet (Currently between taglines)
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To: Explorer89

that’s interesting, i will have to watch it later one when i get home. i am lukewarm myself.


10 posted on 01/12/2011 7:24:30 AM PST by xsmommy
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To: VRWCmember
Here's a fave sculpture of Pliny the Elder on a plinth.

PS, pliny died in the eruption of mt vesuvius.

11 posted on 01/12/2011 7:32:31 AM PST by xsmommy
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To: VRWCmember

Do we have to ping her and knock her of her plinth?


12 posted on 01/12/2011 7:51:31 AM PST by brytlea
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To: Explorer89

I agree on all counts. I am wishy washy about her, but that was an excellent response. Right on target. Oops.... poorly chosen words. Oh well.


13 posted on 01/12/2011 7:52:39 AM PST by brytlea
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To: xsmommy

I did not know that. Or if I did, that was information lost to me. Thank you for restoring it to my organic hard drive. :)


14 posted on 01/12/2011 7:54:23 AM PST by brytlea
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To: VRWCmember

Leonard Plinth Garnell.

15 posted on 01/12/2011 8:01:46 AM PST by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: VRWCmember
It's not so much a defined plinth, but the Chihuly glass exhibits were breathtaking, in town at the museum last month and in a Nashville outdoor garden exhibition.
16 posted on 01/12/2011 8:16:30 AM PST by secret garden (Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
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To: VRWCmember
Plinth: The sound made when you drop the change we can believe in on the floor
17 posted on 01/12/2011 8:35:30 AM PST by Cowman (How can the IRS seize property without a warrant if the 4th amendment still stands?)
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To: secret garden

I wonder if the Chihuly sculptures that Hillary and Tipper stole at the end of their husbands’ terms of office were displayed on plinths?


18 posted on 01/12/2011 8:42:54 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
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To: VRWCmember

I thought that when you had more than 1 plethora you had a plinth. Musta been my Midwest education ...


19 posted on 01/12/2011 9:16:07 AM PST by RideForever
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To: secret garden

That is beautiful! I just can’t hear the word, Chihuly, without thinking of the clintons... lol


20 posted on 01/12/2011 9:23:18 AM PST by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA ("The View" is the new Maury Povich inspired "Fight Club in Heels")
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