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Word For The Day, Tuesday, 2/25/03
2/25/03

Posted on 02/25/2003 12:14:47 AM PST by Bella_Bru

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”. Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the “word of the day”; in a sentence. The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day. The Review threads are linked for your edification. ;-) Practice makes perfect.....post on....


chimerical\ky-MER-ih-kuhl; -MIR-; kih-\, adjective:

1. Merely imaginary; produced by or as if by a wildly fanciful imagination; fantastic; improbable or unrealistic.
2. Given to or indulging in unrealistic fantasies or fantastic schemes.

Her name is Dulcinea; her country El Toboso, a village in La Mancha; her degree at least that of Princess, for she is my Queen and mistress; her beauty superhuman, for in her are realized all the impossible and chimerical attributes of beauty which poets give to their ladies.
--Miguel De Cervantes, Don Quixote.

Etymology: Chimerical is ultimately derived from Greek khimaira, "she-goat" or "chimera," which in Greek mythology was a monster having the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a dragon.

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To: maxwell
LOL ...
161 posted on 02/26/2003 2:59:10 AM PST by MeekOneGOP (Bu-bye SADdam. You're soon to meet your buddy Stalin in Hades.)
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To: xsmommy
Hey ! Guess who I heard from late last night ?...

North Texas may get more sleet, freezing rain (Tuesday night)
      Posted by VRWCmember to MeeknMing
On News/Activism 02/25/2003 10:03 PM CST #7 of 7

Hey MnM. I got up this morning and thought about going in to work. I looked outside, turned on the tv for weather and traffic and decided it wasn't worth risking life, limb, and major auto damage to go in today.

162 posted on 02/26/2003 3:06:05 AM PST by MeekOneGOP (Bu-bye SADdam. You're soon to meet your buddy Stalin in Hades.)
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To: MeeknMing; VRWCmember
yep, guess vast was an icicle, just like we thought!
163 posted on 02/26/2003 4:50:35 AM PST by xsmommy
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