Posted on 05/25/2005 5:16:48 AM PDT by VRWCmember
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".
threnody \THREN-uh-dee\ noun
a song of lamentation for the dead; elegy
Example sentence:
In the opera's final scene, the leading lady sings a threnody to mourn the murdered king.
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"Threnody" encompasses all genres. There are great threnodies in prose (such as the lines from Charles Dickens' _Bleak House_ upon the death of Little Jo: "Dead, your Majesty. Dead, my lords and gentlemen. Dead..."), in poetry (as in W.H. Auden's "Funeral Blues": "The stars are not wanted now: put out every one, / Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun..."), and in music (Giovanni Pergolesi's "Stabat Mater," for one). "Threnody," which we borrowed from the Greek word "threnoidia" (from "threnos," the word for "dirge"), has survived in English since the early 1600s. "Melody" and "tragedy" are related to "threnody" through the Greek root that forms their ending -- "aeidein," which means "to sing." By the same token, "comedy" is related as well.
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Practice makes perfect.....post on....
so what was your point?
my point about what?
how that should change the design criteria
There is something very endearing about the voice of the Church singing: " Up in the Air, Junior Birdman..."
So much better than those Latin hymns...
Bobby's now taking patton's ballet class with him I heard. But Bobby's lifting tutus right and left. Patton can at least focus and is graceful in his soubresauts. Bobby thinks soubresuats is a kind of salty wiener.
don't need flaps.
One of the guys at work was goofing around a few days ago, and threw a punch at me. I threw him down the hall. ooops.
time and place for latin hymns.
It somehow made me not want to borrow his car...oh.
Yeah, I didn't reckon you did - that's why I suggested CHAPS.
Maybe I should get one for the Mustang. LOL.
LOL, Dutchgirl. Sounds like something my dad would want to put on his car...along with side flames. I kid you not. My mom is constantly sweating bullets that he'll put them on. My poor mom.
only slightly on topic, but while at the dentist with xsboy this week i looked at one of the "ladie's" mags while waiting and it had an article on 20 wayhow to embarrass your teenager....and one of them was to allude to the fact that you and your spouse still have sex. i died laughing, that would about kill them.
Bobby, TELL me that you don't look like that. I won't play french tag with you anymore.
LOL, xs. I will NEVER get over my gag reflex at the thought of my parents being randy. I know that I'm not being adult about it, but I just can't help it.
french tag? intrigueing.
robt is much more handsome a string bean.
I run REALLY fast.
Maybe, but like you said, you wouldn't want to break him.
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