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Word For The Day: COCTILE
2000 Most Challenging and Obscure Words | 12/23/15 | Norman Schur

Posted on 12/22/2015 7:11:55 PM PST by Louis Foxwell

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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".

coctile [COCK tuhl]

hear it pronounced

adjective

Here is a word virtually unused in modern language with a deep and long history of very common usage.
Coctile means simply "heated" as in a stew or a baked brick. The Latin derivation is to cook, bake, boil or roast.
Ovid used to word to describe the walls of Babylon in the sense of "made of baked brick."
The Latin noun coctio gave us coction, boiling, cooking, which, in the old days, denoted the attainment of a more nearly perfect, more mature or generally more desirable state, either through natural processes or through human processes such as the application of heat, and, more specifically, the digestion of food.
We might use the word today to denote refined by fire or thrust into the fire and made pure. Concoction and concocted are modern derivatives.


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To: Louis Foxwell

Hey mate, here in Australia we prefer a Foster’s any day over a coctile.


21 posted on 12/22/2015 8:57:11 PM PST by super7man (Madam Defarge, knitting , knitting, always knitting.)
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To: Louis Foxwell

“Every nait befowa dinna, I have a coctile,” said the man from Melbourne.


22 posted on 12/22/2015 9:26:35 PM PST by Jack Hammer
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To: Louis Foxwell

The rhetoric against the Omnibus Bill on FRee Republic has been downright cocktile.


23 posted on 12/22/2015 10:13:25 PM PST by afraidfortherepublic
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To: StormEye

“Doxy” is used frequently in British dramas on PBS and in Murdoch the 1890s detective series from Canada.


24 posted on 12/22/2015 10:16:29 PM PST by afraidfortherepublic
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To: Louis Foxwell

Definitely a coctile argument:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3375515/posts?q=1&;page=1


25 posted on 12/23/2015 12:29:55 AM PST by MoochPooch (I'm a compassionate cynic.)
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To: digger48

For The Win!


26 posted on 12/23/2015 4:02:58 AM PST by Old Sarge
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To: Louis Foxwell

Barack’s plans—half-baked, semi-coctile
Will keep the US deep in hock ‘til
Welfare is ended
Entitlements mended
Repubbies do nothing but mock, ‘til ...


27 posted on 12/23/2015 4:28:26 AM PST by TruthShallSetYouFree (If Hillary's last name were anything but Clinton, she'd already be behind bars.)
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To: Louis Foxwell

Coctile cocktail weenies with my coctails make me feel all nice and coctile inside.


28 posted on 12/23/2015 5:23:01 AM PST by Travis T. OJustice (I miss my dad.)
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To: o_1_2_3__; Louis Foxwell; xsmommy; NicknamedBob; SoothingDave

The rooster laid the farmer’s stone driveway every sunny winter day ...

The hens were confused (they would have preferred to be laid themselves) but he wanted to be, well, warm and cocktiled.


29 posted on 12/23/2015 5:55:47 AM PST by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: All

Some words are better left dead. After careful consideration of the varied usages of “coctile” as presented by some of our most gleeful FR bards, I am firmly convinced this is such a one.
I hereby declare today’s “word” open season on silly, bawdy and inane and will award entries accordingly.


30 posted on 12/23/2015 6:06:50 AM PST by Louis Foxwell (Stop Islam and save the world.)
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To: Louis Foxwell
Trump's coctile comments did Hillary sting
Causing a meltdown that left a ring
In her cocktail glass
the woman has no class
Can't Hillary's fat lady just already sing?

...her cocky cocktail

31 posted on 12/23/2015 6:40:54 AM PST by tioga ("God is Love" 1John4:8)
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To: tioga

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32 posted on 12/23/2015 6:42:41 AM PST by tioga (Stupid people are like glosticks, just snap them and shake them till the light comes on.)
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To: tioga
An heroic effort. 9 coctails for you:
33 posted on 12/23/2015 7:02:34 AM PST by Louis Foxwell (Stop Islam and save the world.)
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To: o_1_2_3__
2 coctails for you.


34 posted on 12/23/2015 7:07:41 AM PST by Louis Foxwell (Stop Islam and save the world.)
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To: G Larry

No, actually, the word just popped into my view, probably due to the ethers influence.


35 posted on 12/23/2015 7:08:38 AM PST by Louis Foxwell (Stop Islam and save the world.)
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To: ClearCase_guy
Excellent usage. A panoply of libations for you


36 posted on 12/23/2015 7:11:25 AM PST by Louis Foxwell (Stop Islam and save the world.)
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To: ClearCase_guy
Heated it will be.


37 posted on 12/23/2015 7:14:13 AM PST by Louis Foxwell (Stop Islam and save the world.)
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To: digger48
Good digging digger48. A tribute to Hill(hick)ary.
38 posted on 12/23/2015 7:18:08 AM PST by Louis Foxwell (Stop Islam and save the world.)
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To: Rembrandt
I dare say you are correct.


39 posted on 12/23/2015 7:23:05 AM PST by Louis Foxwell (Stop Islam and save the world.)
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To: SAJ
Only one for you. But it's a beauty.


40 posted on 12/23/2015 7:33:55 AM PST by Louis Foxwell (Stop Islam and save the world.)
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