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Word For The Day, Thursday, June 21, 2012 - divulse
dictionaries ad nauseam | 21 June 2012 | Thursday's sub

Posted on 06/21/2012 4:49:30 AM PDT by secret garden


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".

divulse \dahy-VUHLS\, verb
To tear away or apart.

Example sentences:
A perforation having been so made, it is safer to divulse the opening rather than to enlarge it by cutting in order to avoid the possibility of opening a blood vessel in an inaccessible region.
-- Eugene Fuller, M.D., The Journal of the American Medical Association

Even if you are the kooper of the winkel over measure never lost a license. Nor a duckindonche divulse from bath and breakfast.
-- James Joyce, Finnegans Wake

Etymology:
Divulse comes from the Latin root vellere meaning "plucked". The prefix di- is a variation of dis- before the letter v meaning "apart" or "away", as in disown.

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....


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

WFB's attempt to emulate us ; ) No pushing at the door please!


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To: NeoCaveman

Pa has a voter ID law set to take effect this fall. Of course the usual suspects are trying to get the courts to stop it. The county executive in PGH said that it would take millions of dollars to train poll workers.


81 posted on 06/21/2012 10:42:24 AM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: NeoCaveman

i can’t imagine any Rom scandal is possible, i don’t rule out Obams bombing the hell out of someone to look like a tough guy though.


82 posted on 06/21/2012 10:52:23 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: secret garden

How sad. The kitty had to divulse itself from its new friend:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2897714/posts


83 posted on 06/21/2012 10:58:17 AM PDT by MoochPooch (I'm a compassionate cynic.)
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To: SoothingDave; tioga; NeoCaveman

saw on the twit that the Sup Ct might issue decisions next week beyond monday, perhaps on tues and weds as well. informed speculation but still speculative...


84 posted on 06/21/2012 11:05:15 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: tioga; SoothingDave
the 27th anniversary of my nuptials is tomorrow : ) took place right here in the Heinz Chapel

i was almost late, xshub was sweating it! there was bad traffic on the parkway!

85 posted on 06/21/2012 11:14:48 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: MoochPooch

Oh that’s a sweet story. I don’t think my cat would have gone for a bird nestling on his back. I’m glad the enviros weren’t all over her about how a common person would not and should not even try to take care of a wild animal. A+ for you.


86 posted on 06/21/2012 11:15:03 AM PDT by secret garden (Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
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To: xsmommy
Very pretty Gothic architecture. I picture something smaller when I hear chapel.

Why I jog the park and the trails in the woods instead of being a gym rat.
87 posted on 06/21/2012 11:29:41 AM PDT by secret garden (Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
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To: secret garden

Those are just very small trees. ;-)


88 posted on 06/21/2012 11:32:15 AM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: tioga

it was down....my account is working right now.


89 posted on 06/21/2012 11:38:19 AM PDT by Scotswife
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To: secret garden; SoothingDave
well it IS small as compared to the Cathedral which is next to it on the lawn there!


90 posted on 06/21/2012 11:40:41 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy

That’s a very beautiful chapel.

Congratulations on your anniversary to you and xshub.


91 posted on 06/21/2012 11:45:44 AM PDT by NeoCaveman ("If I had a son he'd look like B.O.'s lunch" - Rin Tin Tin)
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To: NeoCaveman

Thanks, it was a cool place to get married.


92 posted on 06/21/2012 11:48:56 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: NeoCaveman

if i’d known ya, you coulda been ring bearer ; )


93 posted on 06/21/2012 11:49:54 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy

There was an article yesterday, and several others about Obama making race a factor in the campaign.

Clinton will let that set, then repudiate it, because they did OT t him in aught eight.


94 posted on 06/21/2012 12:32:01 PM PDT by hobbes1 (Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "St.Sarah, the1Tru Conservative that REFUSES to unite us and Save America"you)
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To: secret garden

Effing a.

They painted him as racist as well.


95 posted on 06/21/2012 12:33:31 PM PDT by hobbes1 (Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "St.Sarah, the1Tru Conservative that REFUSES to unite us and Save America"you)
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To: xsmommy

The Black Walter Mondale.


96 posted on 06/21/2012 12:35:46 PM PDT by hobbes1 (Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "St.Sarah, the1Tru Conservative that REFUSES to unite us and Save America"you)
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To: xsmommy

Frodo?


97 posted on 06/21/2012 12:36:57 PM PDT by hobbes1 (Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "St.Sarah, the1Tru Conservative that REFUSES to unite us and Save America"you)
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To: xsmommy

Late? Prior to getting married....?
Scandalous....


98 posted on 06/21/2012 12:38:12 PM PDT by hobbes1 (Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "St.Sarah, the1Tru Conservative that REFUSES to unite us and Save America"you)
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To: secret garden

It is getting interesting politically, isn’t it?

How many in Obama’s charmed circle
Will the latest scandal take down?
Will revelations from those divulsed
Deprive Louis Obama of his crown?

If he weren’t so effete and snobbish
And didn’t openly show disdain
For the very people who can’t wait
To toss him into the political rain

No matter which disgruntled henchman
Eventually turns and drops the dime
Obama won’t play daily golf games-
Seeking work will take too much time...


99 posted on 06/21/2012 12:48:02 PM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: NeoCaveman

Twitter is working for me again. I should have just used my phone, since I heard that stayed up.


100 posted on 06/21/2012 12:57:51 PM PDT by tioga ( ABO for president!)
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