Posted on 06/21/2012 4:49:30 AM PDT by secret garden
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".
divulse \dahy-VUHLS\, verb
To tear away or apart.
Example sentences:
A perforation having been so made, it is safer to divulse the opening rather than to enlarge it by cutting in order to avoid the possibility of opening a blood vessel in an inaccessible region.
-- Eugene Fuller, M.D., The Journal of the American Medical Association
Even if you are the kooper of the winkel over measure never lost a license. Nor a duckindonche divulse from bath and breakfast.
-- James Joyce, Finnegans Wake
Etymology:
Divulse comes from the Latin root vellere meaning "plucked". The prefix di- is a variation of dis- before the letter v meaning "apart" or "away", as in disown.
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 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
WFB's attempt to emulate us ; ) No pushing at the door please!
How much do you wanna bet that the Obamas will spend about as much time in the same state, let alone country, as the Clintons when we throw them out?
It is probably a given-Obama won’t have as much fun when he returns to the regular world as Clinton or Bush are having-he doesn’t have a ranch to go to like Bush does, and his wife isn’t charming, like Laura.
He isn’t all that great a lawyer or in-demand-for-big-bucks speaker, and women don’t hang all over him like Clinton-and as for Hillary, she will likely be so damn glad to get away from Obama, the employer from hell that she’ll probably write a scathing book about working for him, digging up the dirt, and go all over the country promoting it. She is a very vengeful woman, as X42 found out while dodging ashtrays and obscenities...
I just noticed the Finnegan’s Wake reference, and it reminded me of a favorite sci-fi story-Winnegan’s Fake.
Are you technically still a lawyer when you no longer have a law license? Both O and his wife surrendered theirs.
I don’t know, but I bet xs does-I suppose you can get your bar license back unless you have been disbarred.
I love when you remind me of growing up in Jersey. ;)
I saw political drain the first time I read it. ROR! A+ for you.
Sometimes I choose a word just for the good examples. :-)
Thank you! Whether in the rain or circling the drain, we are safer with him doing it...
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