Word For The Day, Wednesday, August 14, 2013-- suzerain

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

Word For The Day, Wednesday, August 14, 2013-- suzerain

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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".

suzerain [soo-zuh-rin, -reyn]

hear it pronounced

noun

1. a sovereign or a state exercising political control over a dependent state.
2. History/Historical . a feudal overlord.

adjective

3. characteristic of or being a suzerain.

Origin:

["sovereign, ruler," c.1470 (implied in suzerainty), from O.Fr. sus "up, above" (from V.L. susum, from L. sursum "upward, above," contraction of subversum, from sub "up from below") + vertere "a turning" (see versus). With ending from sovereign.]

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.

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[TruthShallSetYouFree]

Having taught Constitutional Law, one would think that Obama would understand the difference between being the President of the United States and being a suzerain.

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

It’s a beautiful day here in northern NJ, with early temps below 60. But I still need to see some homework.

[count-your-change]

Suzerain

Today young Milford explained his history lesson about the Roamin rulers called Suzers and when they rained. Suzerain!

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

A+

[afraidfortherepublic]

Obama is the suzerain of a fiefdem called DC.

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

A++

Fiefdom and "thiefdom."

[SoothingDave]

53 today on my drive in. High maybe getting to 70 today.

Funny thing is they have new rules about high school football practice this year. They have to do so many hours of “heat acclimation” before allowing them to do a full practice.

So, of course it is not hot at all.

The best laid plans of bureaucrats, eh?

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

[SoothingDave]

There is no way I'm going to be a "Suze."

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

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Good use of “shrinkage” to cut “suzerain” down to “Suze.”

[SAJ]

A tort lawyer in an agricultural state has it made. When the sun doesn’t shine enough, he sues the sun. When it doesn’t rain enough, he suzerain.

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

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Clever!

[NeoCaveman]

The suzerain of San Diego is banned from Hooters.

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

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Filner is way too tacky for Hooters, but he fits right into the mainstream of the democrat party.

[tioga]

[SoothingDave]

When did they move Buffalo?

[tioga]

Heck, they moved all of them. Since when is Binghamton not on the southern border?

[SoothingDave]

And Syracuse is nearer the lake, not Vermont. And Scranton is farther east.

They really hit that one out of the park.

[NeoCaveman]

I'll give the Dems credit, their climate change rally had zero carbon footprint. No one attended.

[Robert A Cook PE]

When did they move Buffalo?

It's that hole Eire Canal thing: Them there New Yorkers done did cut a notch in the hill up near Niagara Falls, and ol' Buffalo has been sliding downhill ever since ...

Yeah: For a talk show hostess and public speaker on personal finances, you'd think ole' Suz would at least try to be honest: but being a lesbo has warped her perspective enough that, if she were in politics, suzran as a democrat liar anyway.