Posted on 01/30/2014 4:35:16 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".
quondam (KWON-duhm) adjective
Former; onetime.
Example sentence:
"One of the assumptions Madison and others labored under was that Britain would be too preoccupied with beating Napoleon to pay much attention to its quondam colonies.
--Joyce Appleby; The Washington Post; A Stumbling, Fiery End to War of 1812; May 5, 2013.
Etymology:
From Latin quondam (formerly). Earliest documented use: 1535.
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
Historical Linguistics . the disappearance or loss of an unstressed initial vowel or syllable, as in theformation of the word slant from aslant . Review Thread Three: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/28/03: Obdurate
WFB's attempt to emulate us ; ) No pushing at the door please!
I saw a news bit on Megan Kelly’s show last night about the demonic possession and exorcism of that family. I do believe that evil is real, and can be brought into the world of the living, sometimes by careless or stupid people messing with stuff they should not. We were not allowed to play with oujia boards and stuff like that in certain places or in ways that called up the dead. Might be an ethnic thing, but I believe it is dangerous in the extreme...
Hah! I hadn’t seen that...
we didn’t know enough to not play with ouija boards back in 2d grade, but luckily no harm resulted. i def believe that it could have, though. I thought the former Satanist’s comments on the Eucharist were very powerful.
BTW, you could not pay me enough to mess with a oujia board-MrT5 felt the same, especially not on that property where someone died in a bad way.
We played with them as just a game as kids, and no harm done, but once we were into our teens it was discouraged-my great aunt who was something of an herbalist and curandera said it could be used as a gateway for evil, and that God would not like that. She told us to pray our rosaries for the souls of those who had died in a bad way on the property instead.
My first husband bought a very haunted house as his first one when he was single, and talked three of us into holding a séance in it-reluctantly, on my part, because a mentally ill woman had committed suicide there-bad juju-that was the last time I touched a oujia board, too...
Let it suffice to say that after candles blowing out repeatedly, doors slamming, toiletries crashing to the floor from a cabinet in the bathroom, and the heater turning off in the middle of the night when it was snowing outside, I never set foot in that place again. He put it on the market two weeks later and moved in with me since we were getting married that Spring anyhow. The new owner tore down the place within a year and built a new house and garage there.
honestly, i think i’d be in a nuthouse today had any of the stuff you have talked about happening to you, had happened to me. the nuns in my catholic elementary schools told vivid stories about the devil, so i never doubted him, but i have thoughout life had dreams where i was just praying and praying for protection from the devil.
Amen - i don’t see the point in screwing with it either. A couple of my brothers went to seminary high schools. One was telling me he knew a guy who was doing a senior project on exorcism. Stuff kept happening to him, and he backed off. Those guys have no doubt of it’s reality.
The nuns at the school(s) I went to didn’t do that, but many of them were Hispanic, too. They did encourage us girls to become nuns, though-I seriously thought about it until I was about 14.
Family members live on-and have lived on and ranched that property for way over a century, and the whole area was pretty much lawless into the 20th century-there is no getting away from haunting on those old places because bad things went down there in the far past-it was part of the old west. People are buried there that no one ever found.
Part of that is cultural, too-we were taught not to be afraid of death or the dead-they are just people that God has taken to where he wants them to be. I make an altar for my departed loved ones every year for dia de los muertos, same as everyone else does. My 1st husband was familiar with that, but MrT5 was mystified by it at first-he was from up north.
the Jubilee medal of St. Benedict. The medal is said to have many pious purposes: 1. It protects the wearer against the Devil 2. It obtains conversion for sinners 3. It protects against those tormented or tempted by the Devil and especially against temptations against purity 4. It procures assistance at the hour of death 5. It gives strength and healing to the sick and is a protection against pestilence 6. Expectant mothers have obtained special assistance for a safe delivery 7. It protects against storms and other perils on land and sea 8. It helps heal animals who are infected with disease St. Benedict is one of the most important saints of the Western Medieval Church. He had a key role in establishing monasticism as a vocation. He is said to have worked many miracles by use of the sign of the Cross and also to have vanquished many evil spirits.
I have rubbed the medal on chanel's chest when she has had one of her attacks.
and don’t the mexicans go and have picnics in the cemetery on dia de los difuntos too?
One of the psych courses I took was taught by a Jesuit prof I really thought made a lot of sense-he said if we believe in God, and that good exists, then why would we doubt the existence of the devil/evil? He told the class about exorcisms he knew about, or knew people who had participated in them, and how evil possession and mental illness can be related. If you were not a believer, he would make one of you...
Thanks-I’ll get one next time I’m at the Catholic store-I keep a St Francis one in the house, and a St Jude one and a prayer card in my purse with my rosary-and I need to ask a friend of mine who does business in the valley to go to the shrine of St. Jude there and bring me holy water-I like the holy water from there.
St Benedict is my kind of guy, and Pope Benedict was my kind of pope! ; )
heard on the radio they were going to do that. good.
of course his groupies will protest mightily, i’m sure.
We used to have one in the old cemetery when I was little, but after my grandparents died, that had been shortened to a visit to bring flowers and to sit and pray for awhile. When the aforementioned aunt was alive, she would tell the departed ones what all had been going on in the family. That is done when you make the altar, too, as you decorate it.
Oh, good-I was really worried they would not do that-I wonder if he is going to try to cop an insanity plea?
Please tell me I did not see that Jeb Bush is actually thinking about a run in 2016-has the whole party gone mad?
I’d better run to the store-I will need that hammer for a little project my compadre and I are doing tomorrow-back later...
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