;Posted on 06/30/2014 5:09:10 AM PDT by xsmommy
Word For The Day, Monday, 6/3/14
;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".
rident; adj. laughing; smiling; cheerful.
He flashed her a smile, but she didn't miss the fact that this rident expression did nothing to alter the bleakness in his eyes.
-- Elizabeth George, Deception on His Mind , 1997
Hetty was radiant and rident . It was quite like an evening at home at Oakhurst. Never for months past, never since that fatal cruel day, that no one spoke of, had they spent an evening so delightful.
-- William Makepeace Thackeray, The Virginians , 1857–1859
Origin:
Rident came to English in the early 1600s from the Latin rīdēre meaning "to laugh."
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Practice makes perfect.....post on....
You’ll wonder where the yellow went if you brush your teeth with rident.
yeesh!
A++++ excellent!
I think that’s an R.O.U.S. My favorite movie of all time.
In dealing with the Socialist left in this nation, it is much better to have a rident attitude in dealing with them since we are on the Right.
SCOTUS sided with Hobby Lobby!
Hobby Lobby wins! Like I said, there is no way that this was the “least restrictive means” to accomplish the gov’t’s goal.
not sure what that is? A+++
A+++ and they are such sourpusses!
the ever helpful Kennedy. RME.
You go right out to your library RIGHT NOW and borrow “Princess Bride”.
I am suspending you of your duties until you watch it and get back to us.
When the left can accomplish their STATED goals with means other than those that result in them attaining more control over your life,
you have de facto proof that control was the goal, not the stated goal.
Once again, crucial issues rest on one vote. Meanwhile, the GOP is attacking its base and the base is holding out for the One True Conservative.
I saw Princess Bride, but I don’t commit movies to memory!
xshub has been emailing me nonstop about the decision, synopsizing it for me bc I have not had time to follow it. He said Obama will prob have the gov’t pay for HL employees. He’s bound to have some sort of reaction.
Of course control is the goal.
Hey, that’s pithy enough for a bumper sticker.
“Liberalism: Control is the Goal”
He can just decree that insurance companies cover all of this for free!
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