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Word For The Day: Monday, July 28, 2003
Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
| July 28, 2003
| The Verbivores
Posted on 07/28/2003 7:01:14 AM PDT by VRWCmember
Word For The Day, Monday, July 28, 2003: Fugacious
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".
quietus \kwye-EE-tus\ noun
1. final settlement (as of a debt)
2. removal from activity; especially death *
3. something that quiets or represses
*Indicates the sense illustrated in the example sentence.
Example sentence: "This book is also about the death of Lavrenti Pavlovich Beria, a quietus that for reasons not satisfactorily explained has been placed a year later than it actually occurred." (Ruth Rendell, _The New York Times Book Review_, April 6, 1986)
Did you know?
In the early 1500s, English speakers adopted the Medieval Latin phrase "quietus est" (literally "he is quit") as the name for the writ of discharge exempting a baron or knight from payment of a knight's fee to the king. The expression was later shortened to "quietus" and applied to the termination of any debt. William Shakespeare was the first to use "quietus" as a metaphor for the termination of life: "For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, ...When he himself might his quietus make / With a bare bodkin?" (_Hamlet_). The third meaning, which is more influenced by "quiet" than "quit," appeared in the 19th century. It sometimes occurs in the phrase "put the quietus on" (as in, "The bad news put the quietus on their celebration").
Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the Word for 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....
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Good Morning Class. Welcome to School! Class is now in session. The rules are simple, you get a grade if you use the WFTD in a sentence, haiku, limerick, or quatrain. You get a "+" if you make a link, or make the teacher laugh, or you offer the appropriate bribes. I will not be able to monitor the class today, so I'm asking xsmommy to hold the grade book, and the whip and chair.
Here is my example with WFTD.
The attempts by a group of black parents in Oberlin, Ohio to prevent a white teacher from teaching a "Black History" class is an inexcusable quietus (3) of his rights and his professionalism, not to mention blatant racism and discrimination.
Parents: White Teacher Should Not Teach Black History
Review Threads:
Review Thread One: Word For The Day, Thursday 11/14/02: Raffish (Be SURE to check out posts #92 and #111 on this thread!)
Review Thread Two: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/14/03: Roister
Review Thread Three: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/28/03: Obdurate
Review Thread Four: Word For the Day, Friday 7/25/03: Potation
No pushing at the door please!
To: dubyaismypresident; xsmommy; Slip18; hobbes1; Argh; TheGrimReaper; SeaDragon; RikaStrom; ...
To: VRWCmember
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To: VRWCmember
i'm here, vast. : )
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posted on
07/28/2003 7:02:32 AM PDT
by
xsmommy
To: Eala; LonePalm; MeeknMing; TxBec; Cyber Liberty; Dan from Michigan; EODGUY; pankot; ...
To: dubyaismypresident
!
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posted on
07/28/2003 7:03:48 AM PDT
by
hobbes1
( Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "I know everything so you don't have to" ;)
To: xsmommy
You did it on purpose.
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posted on
07/28/2003 7:04:18 AM PDT
by
Gabz
(anti-smokers - personification of everything wrong in this country.)
To: dubyaismypresident; xsmommy
One in front, One Behind....Like she doesn't plan it that way.
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posted on
07/28/2003 7:04:30 AM PDT
by
hobbes1
( Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "I know everything so you don't have to" ;)
To: VRWCmember
Scientists have discovered that
this female bug provides food to her mate to ensure quietus after coitus... ; )
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posted on
07/28/2003 7:04:33 AM PDT
by
xsmommy
To: Gabz
did WHAT?
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posted on
07/28/2003 7:04:59 AM PDT
by
xsmommy
To: hobbes1; dubyaismypresident; xsmommy
Well, what have we here? A coquette sandwich!
To: VRWCmember
Here
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posted on
07/28/2003 7:06:01 AM PDT
by
Laura Earl
(A bad day at the beach is better than the best day at work.)
To: xsmommy
Kept me talking on the other thread so the croqs would beat me to the classroom :(
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posted on
07/28/2003 7:06:04 AM PDT
by
Gabz
(anti-smokers - personification of everything wrong in this country.)
To: Gabz
did NOT!
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posted on
07/28/2003 7:06:38 AM PDT
by
xsmommy
To: VRWCmember; All
morning vast, morning folks
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posted on
07/28/2003 7:08:13 AM PDT
by
camle
(this space for rent. send cash)
To: xsmommy
Calm down dear - just funnin' with you!!!!
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posted on
07/28/2003 7:08:30 AM PDT
by
Gabz
(anti-smokers - personification of everything wrong in this country.)
To: xsmommy
Sounds to me like it's to PREVENT quietus after coitus. But what is she worried about? It's usually the female that devours the male after mating (see Praying Mantis and Black Widow Spider). A+ anyway
To: xsmommy
That reminds me. Did you have a good birthday celebration?
To: VRWCmember
it was very nice, thanks for asking ; )
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posted on
07/28/2003 7:10:26 AM PDT
by
xsmommy
To: dubyaismypresident
Looks like W wins the prize today:
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