Word For The Day, Tuesday, 8/13/02

The Verbivores | 8/13/02 | Teacher

[RikaStrom]

must, in some way, relate to the news of the day. The Review threads are linked for your edification. ;-) Practice makes perfect.....post on....

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ecumenical \eh-yu-men-i-kul\, adjective; also: ecumenic \eh-yu-men-ik\:
ecumenical, ecumenicalism; noun
ecumenically; adverb

1. Of worldwide scope or applicability; universal.
2. 1. Of or relating to the worldwide Christian church.
   2. Concerned with establishing or promoting unity among churches or religions
3. worldwide or general in extent, influence, or application

   There wasn't an	7
   Archimandrite of Dane's Island and the townlands nor a minx	8
   from the Isle of Woman nor a one of the four cantins nor any on	9
   the whole wheel of his ecunemical conciliabulum nor nogent	10
   ingen meid on allad the hold scurface of the jorth would come	11
   next or nigh him, Mr Eelwhipper, seed and nursery man, or	12
   his allgas bumgalowre, Auxilium Meum Solo A Domino (Amsad),	13
   for rime or ration, from piles or faces, after that.
   --- James Joyce, Finnegan’s Wake, Book III, Episode III, Verse 496 Etymology: Late Latin oecumenicus, from Late Greek oikoumenikos, from Greek oikoumenE the inhabited world, from feminine of oikoumenos, present passive particle of oikein to inhabit, from oikos house. Date: circa 1587

[NeoCaveman]

Why thanks xs.

[xsmommy]

anything for you, oh subbie of my dreams....

okay, that is enough, i am gagging myself. how bout you?

[xsmommy]

you know you are horking me off by ignoring me, don't you? miss rika NEVER ignores me....sniff....