Word For The Day, Tuesday, August 12, 2003

The Verbivores | 8/12/03 | Teacher

[RikaStrom]

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”. Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the “word of the day”; in a sentence. The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day. Practice makes perfect.....post on....

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attenuate \at*ten*u*ate\, verb; adjective
attenuating, attenuates, attenuated; intransitive verb
attenuation; noun

1. To make slender, fine, or small: The drought attenuated the river to a narrow channel.
2. To reduce in force, value, amount, or degree; weaken: Medicine attentuated the fever's effect.
3. To lessen the density of; rarefy.
4. Biology: To make (bacteria or viruses) less virulent.
5. Electronics.: To reduce (the amplitude of an electrical signal) with little or no distortion.
6. To become thin, weak, or fine.
7. Reduced or weakened, as in strength, value, or virulence.
8. Botany: Gradually tapering to a slender point.

We may reject and reject till we attenuate history into sapless meagerness. --Sir F. Palgrave

Etymology: [Latin attenu re, attenu t- : ad-, ad- + tenu re, to make thin (from tenuis, thin. See ten- in Indo-European Roots).]

[Eala]

Morning, Miss Rika!

Having now attentuated one major denomination, ECUSA, into meaninglessness, I see they are now focusing their efforts elsewhere.

[xsmommy]

i had 4 grandparents come off the boat from the Old Country and whose first language was not English. so yeah, i can prove it.

[xsmommy]

that was my homework also, Eala, but it's ok you copied. I don't think John Paul is going to buy into that crap. he is taking hits from Patches Kennedy and John HorseFace Kerry for his homophobic edicts.

[Conspiracy Guy]

Need more context. The pic itself just doesn't do it. Too much clothing involved. Is there a story that goes with it?

[Conspiracy Guy]

Oh you're new then. Mine go back before the boats.

[xsmommy]

they be snoggin'. Dang Brits just don't talk RIGHT!

[xsmommy]

yep, i'm new. first job offer in DC was from the DAR (daughters of the American Revolution) a perk they were offering, to supplement the annual salary of $6500 (below poverty level even in the late 70s) was allowing me to trace my ancestry. Um, don't really need to do that, grannies and grampies were all fresh off the boat.

[Gabz]

Delaware liberals just don't seem to like being called what they are. This bimbette columnist sure dislikes Ann Coulter.......

'Treason' dips anyone going left in poison

[Conspiracy Guy]

Well the context ruined that one. BARF.

[xsmommy]

they need to get over Ann. she could bake them in a pie afore they even knew they were cooked.

[Gabz]

jax is actually eligible for DAR membership because of hubby's lineage to the Hale family.

[xsmommy]

plus sharon is looking authentically dykey in that pic, IMO.

[Gabz]

Great analogy.

[xsmommy]

well don't have her apply for a job there, they are dang cheap!

[Gabz]

LOL!!!!

[Eala]

Hold the line tight. It's been sickening to see the church I grew up in to finally go down in (hellfire) flames -- even when I cut ties 20 years ago I could not have predicted this.

[P.O.E.]

Good thing he didn't order a Waldorf salad. That contains walnuts, apples and $50's

[xsmommy]

Eala, i am reading Armageddon, the most recent in the Left Behind series, and i tell ya. we are living in the End Times. i would lay $ on it. The past year of this homosectional crap is just ramping up and up, trying to ram through to some type of legitimacy and acceptance. If the Catholic church gives way on it, it is truly the end and i better have been raptured up by then.

[Laura Earl]

1 pm-at your office or the restaurant?

[xsmommy]

i am starving and you guys are talking about waldorf salads and pancakes. i need to eat lunch and it is only 11 AM.