;Posted on 04/30/2014 5:27:05 AM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree
Word For The Day, Wednesday, April 30, 2014-- viatical
;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".
viatical [vahy-at-i-kuh l, vee‐]]
adjective
1. of or pertaining to a financial transaction in which a company buys life insurance policies from the terminally ill at less than their face value and may sell the policies to investors: viatical settlements.
2. of or denoting a road or a journey
3. botany (of a plant) growing by the side of a road
4. of or pertaining to a viaticum.
viaticum, noun
1. Ecclesiastical . the Eucharist or Communion as given to a person dying or in danger of death.
2. (among the ancient Romans) a provision or allowance for traveling, originally of transportation and supplies, later of money, made to officials on public missions.
3. money or necessities for any journey.
Origin: 1555–65; < Latin viāticum, neuter of viāticus, equivalent to viāt ( us ) (past participle of viāre to travel; see via, -ate1 ) + -icus -ic; cf. voyage
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i mean the rest of the letters describe various permutations of queer so that adding a Q as a separate category is redundant. i KNOW you think it lines up better with “Ps and Qs”, but i made the same point with fewer letters and avoided redundancy.
I think it means repetitive or unnecessary in an excessive way. But that's not important right now :)
attempting to out-pedant the pedant-in-chief... nice ; ) i do always have to think twice to make sure i don’t really mean pederast....
Carter was the left’s “Mumia” before Mumia. And before Carter, the left had the Rosenberg’s as their favorite innocent guilty people.
I’m probably not the right person to be answering theological questions, particularly regarding the Catholic Church, so I’ll assume your question was of the rhetorical variety. :)
The “Q” stands for “questioning.”
And yes, I think you stopped short, while you think I would have belabored the point.
belaboring is what @$$pains do... ; )
How many times do you have a big Q just hanging out there waiting to be used like that?
You can’t pass up that kind of opportunity.
i guess, if you are the sort that likes to hang out with big Qs.... not that there’s anything wrong with that ; )
You seem to know a lot about the lbgtqrsmtv community Dave.
So many jokes about this statement, where do I begin....
I did go to the college with the oldest degree-granting drama school in the country.
http://www.cmu.edu/news/stories/archives/2014/april/april28_tonyawardspartnership.html
That's super!
Not to belittle that degree, but most 15 year old girls could qualify for a degree in drama...
Big Gay Al!
I think Spock (CMU 1999) would find that highly illogical.
that’s a newer version of spock, correct? bc i was thinking no dang way is Leonard Nimoy younger than i am!
Yes, that is Zachary Quinto.
She still believes in some of the biographic fantasy.
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