;Posted on 11/11/2015 1:25:48 AM PST by Louis Foxwell
;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".
(emunctory) [ih MUNCK tuh ree]
adjective
As an adjective, emunctory describes anything pertaining to the conveying of waste matter from the body, especially nose blowing. As a noun it denotes any body cleansing organ or canal, such as the execretory ducts, kidneys and pores. The word is derived from late Latin emunctorous (excretory) and emunctorium (a means of cleansing through ecretion; in classical Latin, a pair of nostrils). It all goes back to the Latin verb emungere (to cleanse a nose and with the reflexive pronoun - se emungere - to wipe one's nose) and its past participle emunctus.
The Latin phrase emunctae naris (literally, "with a clean nose") was used figuratively to mean "shrewd, discerning", and taking it a step further, as the poet Horace used it, "with a keen scent for other people's faults" (Why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the bean this is in thine own eye?" - Matt. 7:3 - or, as the New English Bible puts it, "Why do you look at the spec of sawdust in your brother's eye, with never a thought for the great plank in your own?"); but some say all Horace meant by homo emunctae naris was "a man of keen perception." You can take your choice of bibles and interpretations of Horace. In Tristan Shandy (1767) Laurence Sterne adivses: "Blow your noses, - cleanse your emunctories, - sneeze, my good people."
Chris Christie.
LOL, I don’t even want to buy anything from a company that deluded.
Drudge is saying it's a wig and proof is she never shows her scalp. Hmmm. One tweet.......she's wearing real hair wigs all right, the scalps of Bill's former girlfriends. This should be good.
don’t doubt it’s a wig, though i don’t know about showing scalp, i am not conscious of that. i can tell when i need a dye job [like now, i go on friday for mine] bc there’s grey visible at the part. is that what he means?
"I want the people to know that they still have two out of three branches of the government working for them, and that ain't bad."
The distorted thinking at Ithaca would elicit an emunctory reaction from me. But unfortunately it is the tip of the iceberg — & what I long ago predicted. It will get worse. People who really don’t belong in college but don’t fit in the real world either are feeding narcissistic wounds.
Heard about Ithaca College. The world has gone mad.
The MSM’s emunctory praise for the welfare state grows tedious. :)
The emunctory function, joinly and severally,in extravagant slow motion:
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