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Thanks for the triggering comment 7. It jarred me from the land of Nod and I haven’t even had coffee yet.

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satanic must be the literal definition of plausible deniability with regard to double meanings.

Q has cracked opened my world with the instruction to look for dual meanings.

Just like the owl meanings. I have probably spent way more time on the owl = prostitute dual meaning aspect due to the human sex trafficking, coyotes, multiple venues (repeat captive clientele+superb barns stocked with varieties of owls = enormous revenues) than I have spent on their belief that we all become brothers under the law of Minerva/owl.

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Etymology
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mark (n.1)

The Middle English sense of “target” (c. 1200) is the notion in marksman and slang sense “victim of a swindle” (1883)

mark = victim of swindle
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beast (n.)

c. 1200, beste, “one of the lower animals” (opposed to man), especially “a four-footed animal,” also “a marvelous creature, a monster” (mermaids, werewolves, lamia, satyrs, the beast of the Apocalypse), “a brutish or stupid man,” from Old French beste “animal, wild beast,” figuratively “fool, idiot” (11c., Modern French bête), from Vulgar Latin *besta, from Latin bestia “beast, wild animal,” which is of unknown origin.

Beast = brutish or stupid man, fool, idiot.

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I wish I had paid more attention when I was digging into mark and letter of Marques and how it could possibly relate to Cain when the Lord put the mark on him and he went out into the land of Nod. (everyone sleeping?) Swindle victim was right there in the etymology. Is that how Cain took the land from everyone that would have murdered him, except that he had the Lord’s mark, marque which enabled him to survive and build the City of Enoch.

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marque (n.)
“action or right of seizure of persons or of property of subjects of a foreign ruler or state by way of reprisal for injuries committed by such persons,” early 15c., in letters of marque “official permission to capture enemy merchant ships,” from Anglo-French mark (mid-14c.), via Old French from Old Provençal marca “reprisal,” from marcar “seize as a pledge, mark,” probably from a Germanic source (compare Old High German marchon “delimit, mark;” see mark (n.1)), but the sense evolution is difficult.

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nod (v.)

late 14c., “to quickly bow the head; to assent, beckon, or salute quickly by an inclination of the head,” late 14c., nodden, a word of unknown origin, probably an Old English word, but not recorded, or perhaps from a Low German word related to Old High German hnoton “to shake,” from Proto-Germanic *hnudan (OED considers this “doubtful”). Apparently unrelated to Latin nuere “to nod.” Related: Nodded; nodding.

Meaning “droop the head forward with a short, involuntary motion,” as when drowsy, is by 1560s. Figurative sense of “be guilty of a lapse, be momentarily inattentive” is by 1670s, echoing Horace’s dormitat Homerus. Of flowers, etc., “to droop or bend downward,” c. 1600. Meaning “to drift in and out of consciousness while on drugs” is attested by 1968 (as a noun in this sense by 1942).

A nodding acquaintance (by 1821) is one you know just well enough to recognize with a nod. Land of Nod “state of sleep” (1731) is a pun on the biblical place name east of Eden (Genesis iv.16).

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Need covfefe.