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]

To be honest - it was an absolute fluke.

I was doing stuff in the kitchen and walked passed the puter with something and just hit refresh - and VOILA!!!

[Slip18]

I don't care for clowns either. Verbal ones are cool, but the ones who dress up scare the beegeesus out of me. I used to cringe when I took my nephews to the circus. They would take care of their auntie, and split a gut that I was afraid of clowns.

We had a WFTD that was "fear of clowns" a couple of years ago. Wasn't it something like claundrophobia or something?

[VRWCmember]

turns out it is Consuela day and i had forgotten, so i had to shower up and get out of her way upstairs.

Funny, our sapphic fantasies always had you showering AFTER Consuela finished her services.

[xsmommy]

i don't remember the WFTD but i also hate clowns, i thought i was just weird!

[xsmommy]

lotsa showering going on.... ; )

[camle]

Dunno if I recall that word. but I used to love clowns. I havge several friends who are clowns.

[CholeraJoe]

You named your beautiful boys Ho and Mo?

I named them Midnight and Hershey but after I caught them being bad, NYC Chick said I should rename them Ho and Mo.

[xsmommy]

i think i always hated them, but it was more intense after that steven king book, which was it that had the evil clown?

[Gabz]

I know a lot of folks that don't like clowns - for a variety of reasons.

[xsmommy]

those are good nicknames, but you should keep Hershey and Midnight on their birth certificates....

[Slip18]

They scare me, camle! You would never know if that person beneath the makeup was an axe murderer or something.

[camle]

I don't care for "evil" clowns, and that pic annoys me. looks like something out of the simpsons.

[NYC GOP Chick]

I suppose we shouldn't be surprised that the horse-faced Kerry Kennedy Cuomo exhibits the same antaean proclivity for infidelity and other sexual deviancies for which her scummy clan is famous.

Friends: Cuomo Walked Over Wife's Affair

[CholeraJoe]

Have you read "It" by Stephen King? You'll never think about clowns the same way, again.

[NYC GOP Chick]

That's funny -- I just got out of the shower a little while ago too. ;)

[NYC GOP Chick]

That's my favorite Stephen King book! :)

[xsmommy]

or a cereal killer even....

[NeoCaveman]

don't care for "evil" clowns, and that pic annoys me. looks like something out of the simpsons.

It is from the Simpsons it's Crusty the Clown.

[VRWCmember]

Have you read "It" by Stephen King? You'll never think about clowns the same way, again

If this doesn't bring about horror just at the mention of the word "clown", I don't know what will:

[NYC GOP Chick]

AAAACCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKK! The horror!