Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Word For The Day, Wednesday, July 23, 2014-- potentate

Posted on 07/23/2014 5:23:13 AM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree

Word For The Day, Wednesday, July 23, 2014-- potentate

;


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".

potentate [poht-n-teyt]

hear it pronounced

noun

a person who possesses great power, as a sovereign, monarch, or ruler.

Origin: [1350-1400: from Late Latin potentātus ruler, from Latin: rule, command, from potens powerful, from posse to be able]

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.




TOPICS: Word For The Day
KEYWORDS: wordfortheday
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-50 next last
To: TruthShallSetYouFree

Sorry Truthy no homework from me, still nursing my sick eye-/ turns out I have corneal abrasions.


21 posted on 07/23/2014 7:53:33 AM PDT by xsmommy
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: NeoCaveman
oh hell no.
22 posted on 07/23/2014 8:03:17 AM PDT by xsmommy
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 19 | View Replies]

To: TruthShallSetYouFree
Every member of this incompetent administration is a wannabe potentate, especially the heiress hunter.
23 posted on 07/23/2014 8:10:03 AM PDT by secret garden (Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: xsmommy

How does that happen?


24 posted on 07/23/2014 8:11:01 AM PDT by SoothingDave
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 21 | View Replies]

To: xsmommy

Take care with that, nothing to fool with ... Years ago, I got an abrasion on my right eye are (which has a tendency to run viral infections). Since then, there’s been a permanent blemish on the cornea —Herpes Keratitis— and unfortunately, any procedure would only aggravate the situation.


25 posted on 07/23/2014 8:17:56 AM PDT by mikrofon (Humpday BUMPty)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 21 | View Replies]

To: TruthShallSetYouFree
Can you imagine the outcry if Karl Rove or Dick Cheney were involved in this sort of company?
26 posted on 07/23/2014 8:25:38 AM PDT by secret garden (Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

To: xsmommy

How did that happen?


27 posted on 07/23/2014 8:26:37 AM PDT by secret garden (Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 21 | View Replies]

To: xsmommy

I’ve only flown on Southwest a few times (and am again on Sunday), but they sure like to do things differently. Which is mostly good, but any normal airline would let a person traveling with children board in a preferred fashion.


28 posted on 07/23/2014 8:28:01 AM PDT by SoothingDave
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 22 | View Replies]

To: TruthShallSetYouFree

Look who thinks he’s a potentate:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3183967/posts

He needs a lot of space to move around.


29 posted on 07/23/2014 8:45:43 AM PDT by MoochPooch (I'm a compassionate cynic.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: MoochPooch

i’m less shocked that it has nine places to keep its food than at the fact it found something that would marry it


30 posted on 07/23/2014 9:18:59 AM PDT by Hegewisch Dupa
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 29 | View Replies]

To: NeoCaveman

A++
As with everything our im-potentate does, this has FUBAR written all over it.


31 posted on 07/23/2014 10:21:28 AM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree (When using "he" or "him" to refer to Barack Obama, is it still okay to use the lower case "h"?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 19 | View Replies]

To: mikrofon

A+++ for your potent-eight.


32 posted on 07/23/2014 10:22:08 AM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree (When using "he" or "him" to refer to Barack Obama, is it still okay to use the lower case "h"?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 20 | View Replies]

To: xsmommy

Here’s to a quick recovery!


33 posted on 07/23/2014 10:23:31 AM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree (When using "he" or "him" to refer to Barack Obama, is it still okay to use the lower case "h"?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 21 | View Replies]

To: secret garden

A+++
One would have to pick from a subset of ten thousand people to find a Secretary of State as incompetent as Kerry. And that would only occur if Hillary were in that subset.


34 posted on 07/23/2014 10:26:12 AM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree (When using "he" or "him" to refer to Barack Obama, is it still okay to use the lower case "h"?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 23 | View Replies]

To: secret garden

Barack Obama was involved with terrorists (Bill Ayres) outspoken anti-American racists (”Reverend” Wright) and convicted felons (Tony Rezco) but he had the correct amount of melanin and was pretty good at reading someone else’s words on a teleprompter, so, to liberals, the positives outweighed the negatives and he became President of the United States, a job for which he is outstandingly unqualified.


35 posted on 07/23/2014 10:31:02 AM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree (When using "he" or "him" to refer to Barack Obama, is it still okay to use the lower case "h"?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 26 | View Replies]

To: TruthShallSetYouFree

If I’m a gonna BE impotent, I should look impotent.


36 posted on 07/23/2014 10:39:43 AM PDT by SoothingDave
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 31 | View Replies]

To: xsmommy

Who do they think they are? The gate potentates?


37 posted on 07/23/2014 10:49:02 AM PDT by NeoCaveman (DC, it's Versailles on the Potomac but without the food and culture)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 22 | View Replies]

To: SoothingDave

A++
I was wondering if anyone would go there. LOL!


38 posted on 07/23/2014 11:13:08 AM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree (When using "he" or "him" to refer to Barack Obama, is it still okay to use the lower case "h"?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 36 | View Replies]

To: TruthShallSetYouFree

Thanks!

Speaking of nobama, try abrogate one day.


39 posted on 07/23/2014 11:22:08 AM PDT by upchuck (It's a shame nobama truly doesn't care about any of this. Our country, our future, he doesn't care.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 18 | View Replies]

To: TruthShallSetYouFree

Obama’s minions reinforce
His grandiose delusions-
Enabling willful ignorance
And keeping out intrusions

From his fantasy of a reign
Where he owns all he sees-
Is revered like a potentate
By supplicants on their knees

And whenever reality intrudes
On his golf vacations and such
They tell him it’s on the news
And doesn’t really matter much...


40 posted on 07/23/2014 11:49:02 AM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-50 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson