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Word For The Day, Monday, September 15, 2003
The Verbivores | 9/15/03 | Teacher

Posted on 09/15/2003 5:21:37 AM PDT by 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....


adumbrate \AD-uhm-brayt\, verb:
adumbrating, adumbrates, adumbrated; transitive verb
adumbration noun
adumbratively; adverb
adumbrative; adjective

1. To give a faint shadow or slight representation of; to outline.
2. To foreshadow; to intimate.
3. To overshadow; to shade.
4. To disclose partially or guardedly.

Both in the vastness and the richness of the visible universe the invisible God is adumbrated.
--L. Taylor.

Etymology: [Latin adumbr re, adumbr t-, to represent in outline : ad-, ad- + umbra, shadow.]


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To: secret garden
i thought it was interesting how she chose to rearrange her talk based on what she heard there, and to focus on just the main point. there are so many areas that need focus, but then you lose the ability to make your points to them, if you cover too much.
101 posted on 09/15/2003 6:52:50 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy
That's because she's brilliant. She's one of the large brains(token Buckaroo Banzai reference).
102 posted on 09/15/2003 6:54:56 AM PDT by secret garden (Courage is not the lack of fear. It is acting in spite of it. - Mark Twain)
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To: secret garden
i absolutely love the way she writes. very plainspoken, down to earth, yet eloquent.
103 posted on 09/15/2003 6:57:05 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy
Were you a presenter at the workshops at this event? "Loving You: Female Sexual Self-Esteem."
104 posted on 09/15/2003 7:01:20 AM PDT by VRWCmember
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To: Gabz
Tnat makes perfect sense, because there is always someone who thinks you really can drive safely on ice. If they are fined, they might learn that you really can't.
105 posted on 09/15/2003 7:03:11 AM PDT by Texan5
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To: VRWCmember
yes, my signature leave panties on the plate move, i shared that with the world. ; )
106 posted on 09/15/2003 7:05:41 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: secret garden; xsmommy
Peggy Noonan made some very good points, but how many of those clerics really heard her, I wonder?
107 posted on 09/15/2003 7:06:59 AM PDT by Texan5
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree
Absolutely fantastic, TSSYF!
108 posted on 09/15/2003 7:08:02 AM PDT by Slip18
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To: Texan5
i don't know, she said she didn't get much feedback. sounds like she just needed to get it off her chest and said. it seems to me that, not unlike the Episcopals, they hear only what they want to hear, and even that through their own particular filter. I think the Catholic church's future, in the near term, pretty much hangs on who the put in to replace the ailing JPII...if it is a leftwinger, well then....
109 posted on 09/15/2003 7:09:22 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: Slip18
Thank you kindly.
110 posted on 09/15/2003 7:10:46 AM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree
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To: VRWCmember
"Seated in the museum's gift shop where fake fur-covered handcuffs and vibrators . . ."

Ummmmm, has she been in our classroom?

111 posted on 09/15/2003 7:10:53 AM PDT by Slip18
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To: Slip18; RikaStrom
I thought those were kept in Miss Rika's locked file cabinet.
112 posted on 09/15/2003 7:15:38 AM PDT by secret garden (Courage is not the lack of fear. It is acting in spite of it. - Mark Twain)
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To: VRWCmember
Somehow, I just don't think a man who would be turned on by panties being dropped in his plate is my kind of guy....my husband would probably laugh out loud, thereby getting the attention of everyone in the place, which would really spoil my dinner.
113 posted on 09/15/2003 7:19:02 AM PDT by Texan5
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To: Slip18
You beat me to it! Someone better check to see if ours are missing.
114 posted on 09/15/2003 7:21:22 AM PDT by Texan5
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To: xsmommy
You only fessed up, because you knew i was going to out you ; )

We'll keep that eye contact thing between us ; )

115 posted on 09/15/2003 7:22:48 AM PDT by hobbes1 ( Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "I know everything so you don't have to" ;)
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To: hobbes1; RikaStrom
How come you pinged everyone but me

Almost everybody.

116 posted on 09/15/2003 7:25:08 AM PDT by NeoCaveman (This tagline is 100% Ben & JayLo free.)
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To: hobbes1
you are an unbelievable jagoff.....
117 posted on 09/15/2003 7:25:44 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: dubyaismypresident; hobbes1; RikaStrom
can't yunz two take a hint...; )
118 posted on 09/15/2003 7:26:36 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: Texan5
"Somehow, I just don't think a man who would be turned on by panties being dropped in his plate is my kind of guy...."

Just EWWWWWWWWW! I would be pissed, she would have ruined a perfectly good piece of prime rib! Why would they drop them on the plate, instead of just in his lap. That would be a much more private way to get the message across!
119 posted on 09/15/2003 7:26:57 AM PDT by CSM ("We have been assigned to the hall of Freep. No other work is allowed" - Equality 7-2521)
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To: xsmommy
I agree wholeheartedly with that assessment. I am hoping against hope that this future pope will be more conservative and reality centered than the present one. I don't want to see the kind of schism in the Catholic church that has developed in the Episcopal church. Our priest is conservative, and doesn't mind reminding everyone what the bible says about abortion, homosexuality, etc, but there are obviously way too many who sit in the shadows talking about "peace" and not speaking out on these issues.
120 posted on 09/15/2003 7:28:57 AM PDT by Texan5
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