Word For The Day, Thursday, July 3, 2003 - Antaean

Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary | 07/03/2003 | The Verbivores

[VRWCmember]

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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".

Antaean \an-TEE-un\ adjective
1. mammoth
2. having superhuman strength *

* Indicates the sense illustrated in the example sentence.

Example sentence: In an emergency, an average person can become an Antaean powerhouse, capable even of lifting a car to rescue someone trapped underneath.

Did you know?
In Greek mythology, Antaeus was the gigantic and powerful son of Gaea the Earth goddess and Poseidon the sea god. Antaeus was a wrestler and whenever he touched his mother (the Earth), his strength was renewed, so he always won his battles even if his opponents threw him to the ground. He proved invincible until he challenged Hercules to wrestle. Hercules discovered the source of the giant's strength, lifted him off the ground, and crushed him to death. In 18th century England, the poet William Mason discovered the power of "Antaean" as a descriptive English adjective, when he used it in his _Ode to the Hon. William Pitt_:

"If foil'd at first, resume thy course
Rise strengthen'd with Antaean force."

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.

The Review threads are linked for your edification. ;-)
Practice makes perfect.....post on....

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[white rose]

By the way, I won't be around here tomorrow, so...

...a premature happy 4th to you all!

[Gabz]

I don't do blonde anymore. Last few times it was closer to auburn.

[Conspiracy Guy]

And I don't know what we'd do without that 7 figure income.

[Laura Earl]

Lu would have to eat Ol' Roy.

[NYC GOP Chick]

I used to do auburn, but everyone told me I'd look better as a blonde. :)

[Robert A Cook PE]

A triple doubled!

A wait.

Guess that'd be a sextupled, which is really twelve..

(But, is xsex excited yet about being doubled?)

[Conspiracy Guy]

Without knowledge that will be misconscrewed.

[Laura Earl]

Yeah, after I posted it I realized that....Ol' Roy is not Flurry's perverted old uncle. It is Wal-Mart's store brand dog food.

[Conspiracy Guy]

CJ did Auburn as did Flurrette and Flurry Jr.

[Laura Earl]

...and Charles Barkley. Who by the way is a fine conservative!

[Gabz]

LOL!!!!!

With me is total opposite!

[Conspiracy Guy]

Very Conservative place.

[Robert A Cook PE]

"Without knowledge that will be misconscrewed....

See? Flurry agrees without me! (Er, with me...)

I told ya yesterday that Miss Conscrewed can't get pregnant if you teach her about thoroughly watching her boyfriend's hands after handling a baby in pubic.....

'Cause now everybody knows that babies are infectious.

[CholeraJoe]

I got back from my meeting and y'all done turned this into a chick thread. Me and Flurry been freepmailing about important stuff like deer hunting and athulete's foot and all.

[Argh]

My favourite King book is The Stand, the 1100 page one, not the shorter one that originally came out. Stephen King at his best is a wonderful storyteller (well, he used to be). Never mind what the pinhead intellectuals say.

[Eala]

i like the henhouse convo!!!

Noted.

[Gabz]

I think The Stand was the last King book I was able to read - it was a good read.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Hey!

The coquettes WERE talkin' about green toes and pink fingers and and takin' showers and athelectric feet and blisters and replacing nails and gettin' screws and hammers and florrtilin' in the kitchen with the appliance delivery guy ....

(At least I think all them commnets about green toes and pink tips and red fingers came from hittin' 'em with a hammer in the shower ...)

[CholeraJoe]

My favourite King book is The Stand

Your Maple Leaf is showing, Argh.

[Slip18]

Happy 4th, white rose!