Word For The Day: COCTILE

2000 Most Challenging and Obscure Words | 12/23/15 | Norman Schur

[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.

[tioga]

Muslims think we are in End Times.

[Yaelle]

Hillary got coctiled in 2008 by Barack Obama.

[PLMerite]

“Word For The Day: COCTILE”

I was thinking a combination of ‘tactile’ and ‘erectile,’ but apparently not.

[Texan5]

I’ve thought the end times were coming soon for awhile-and I’m pretty sure that Jews, Christians and some other faiths believe that muslims are going to get their asses kicked when it does-since the jihadis world-end scenario belief is in the minority, they might want to rethink that coming of the last imam stuff...

[Elsie]

yer needed here...

[Mark17]

yer needed here...

Are you conjuring up a Limerick? If you do, you will force me to respond with equal or greater force.

:-)

[Elsie]

#63 has given us some fodder.

[Mark17]

I have to admit, I never heard the word till today.