Posted on 02/28/2013 4:50:56 AM PST 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".
paraph \PAR-uhf\, noun
a flourish made after a signature, as in a document, originally as a precaution against forgery.
Example sentences:
The manuscript's most tantalizing feature is a scribal paraph with the initials IB at the end of Certain sonnets...
-- H. R. Woudhuysen, Sir Philip Sidney and the Circulation of Manuscriptsa
His worried expression, however, was not just a mask for the moment. Of late, it had become his most distinctive feature, his peculiar paraph.
-- Ken Anderson, The Statue Of Pan
The paraph is only a schematic and marginal countersignature, a fragment of signature; indeed, who can claim to decipher a whole signature?
-- Jacques Derrida, Mémoires
Etymology:
Though early incarnations of paraph appear in Italian, Middle French, and Middle English, its earliest origins are Greek with para-meaning "beside" and the final -ph resulting from graphos, referring to text.root alloquī address."
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 Thread One: Word For The Day, Thursday 11/14/02: Raffish
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!
Good for you and that’s hardly frivolous. It’s a useful piece of equipment and the embroidery keeps it from growing legs.
Very nice, thanks-I like Queensryche...
Doesn’t mix so well with Percocet!
I Tried that. They wanted my last two years tax returns and every bit about my private life revealed to them. Forget that. I’ll just pay my bills, no matter how long it takes. I refuse to be a part of the “system”.
I guess I’m not the correct “demographic’ to partake in “programs”.
Thanks anyway. It was a kind thought.
“Alcohol may intensify this effect”
I guess you could read that as a warning rather than a suggestion.
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