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.

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Practice makes perfect.....post on....

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[Gabz]

OIC - thank you for splaning - Flurry was too interested in other stuff to bother with a splanation!!!!

I make my own BBQ sauce as does hubby - never comes out the same way twice!!!

It all depends on my mood and what's gettin' cooked!!!!

[honeygrl]

" teach her about thoroughly watching her boyfriend's hands after handling a baby in pubic..... "

dirty old man...

[Eala]

Robert's not that old.

[secret garden]

I think that guy lives in my neighborhood during the school year. He cranks it up every weeknight at 10 pm. I keep hoping it's a boyfriend leaving the girlfriend's house and they'll break up soon.

[Conspiracy Guy]

Are you not vivacious, bold, high spirited?

[Slip18]

"poot light"

Did you run out of ells, too?

Whatever you're having I want after I get back from the doc.

[honeygrl]

"Whatever you're having I want after I get back from the doc. "

Don't know what Flurry is having today but I'm having a nice strong percocet/xanax cocktail. My neck/shoulder is worse today than it was yesterday. I don't know WTF is wrng with it. I guess I really did pull the muscle. How do you tell if the muscle is pulled or just strained or what? I know one of you in here has to be a doctor or related to one or something.

[Slip18]

"This time of year there are much better picking than worms."

He'll be in the high desert. It is much cooler there, but they decided for an 18-hour period, there will be no MRIs. They have to live off the land. It's good training.

My favorite part is they have to get up at 5:00 a.m., be ready to exercise at 5:10, but in between their beds have to be made. Yahoooo! I could never train him to make his bed, but I bet a Drill Sergeant can.

[Conspiracy Guy]

Vinegar is fine if smothered with tomatoes and peppers and mashed into a decent mater based sauce. NC they use Mayo as a base. I make all my BBQ sauces, I'll use mayo as base for grilling pork chops or chicken but not for Beef or pork butt.

[Slip18]

Crimeny, it feels like the sun never goes down here. I'm praying for just one more week of this heat, then zappo, the rains come.

[Conspiracy Guy]

You don't know about poot lighting, it's a suthren thang.

[Slip18]

Nice blend of rx's there. Just give it some time. You'll be back to normal soon. Did you try some ice on it?

Hope you're feeling better by the 4th, honeygrl.

[NeoCaveman]

Crimeny, it feels like the sun never goes down here. I'm praying for just one more week of this heat, then zappo, the rains come.

Funny, it's finally sunny here, some people had forgotten what the sun looked like, it hadn;t been out in forever.

[NeoCaveman]

Mayo? I hadn't heard that one before. I guess there are a million diffrent ways to make sauce.

[CholeraJoe]

I know one of you in here has to be a doctor

That would be me. It started to hurt while you were rocking your baby? Where is the pain located?

[Argh]

CholeraJoe is a doctor.

[Slip18]

Thank goodness the doc is here! This poor little girl is in awful pain.

[Conspiracy Guy]

There's lot's of good eating in high desert withou worms. I'd have him doing perfect hospital corners in 5 minutes on the bed making too.

[Slip18]

I never, ever thought I would pray for rain, W. Cyber didn't believe me about the So.Calif. June gloom, but now he does. When we were there it was overcast and moist every single day. I love the sun, but too much of a good thing drives you crazy.

[xsmommy]

what of it??