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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: xsmommy
SHEESH!!!!!!!!!!!!
321 posted on 09/16/2003 5:57:03 AM PDT by Gabz (anti-smokers - personification of everything wrong in this country.)
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To: Gabz
aw, c'mon, where is your sense of ROMANCE......; ) this is true luv.....
322 posted on 09/16/2003 5:58:07 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy
They sound like the Short Bus next door neighbors that LE and I have.
323 posted on 09/16/2003 6:04:02 AM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (Living fast is fine as long as you steer well and have good brakes.)
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To: xsmommy
It is my neighbors


324 posted on 09/16/2003 6:08:25 AM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (Living fast is fine as long as you steer well and have good brakes.)
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To: xsmommy; Gabz; secret garden; Laura Earl
Handsome family ain't it.
325 posted on 09/16/2003 6:09:59 AM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (Living fast is fine as long as you steer well and have good brakes.)
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To: Flurry
Truly lovely.
326 posted on 09/16/2003 6:11:06 AM PDT by Gabz (anti-smokers - personification of everything wrong in this country.)
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To: xsmommy
MILILF stories: not all that rare
MILIWTMs: Don't come across them too often at all...
327 posted on 09/16/2003 6:11:28 AM PDT by Hegewisch Dupa
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To: Flurry
Two words come to mind. Heeyuck and heeyuck. ;)
328 posted on 09/16/2003 6:12:36 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; Gabz
Don't you both want to leave your families and run off with that fine hunk of a man?
329 posted on 09/16/2003 6:15:13 AM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (Living fast is fine as long as you steer well and have good brakes.)
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To: Flurry
Jerry! Jerry! Jerry!
330 posted on 09/16/2003 6:15:21 AM PDT by NeoCaveman (Impeach the judges of the Ninth Circus Court of Appeals)
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To: Flurry
you had to go and ruin it for me, didn't ya? tole ya i din't want to see no piX!
331 posted on 09/16/2003 6:16:06 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: dubyaismypresident
Now that one was funny Dubya......lol......"Juan for the road".....ROFL...........
332 posted on 09/16/2003 6:16:15 AM PDT by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA
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To: xsmommy
I saw that nice story last night....... I was so stunned after watching Dallas play like a real team I couldn't sleep!
333 posted on 09/16/2003 6:17:17 AM PDT by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA
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To: Flurry
He's a hunk all right.
334 posted on 09/16/2003 6:17:46 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: WhyisaTexasgirlinPA
But the officiating was horrendous throughout.
335 posted on 09/16/2003 6:18:21 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: WhyisaTexasgirlinPA
i understand that Redskins are #1, ever so briefly.....
336 posted on 09/16/2003 6:18:56 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy
It sounds like appalachia! I didn't know there was trailer trash in Scotland...
337 posted on 09/16/2003 6:19:10 AM PDT by Texan5
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To: secret garden; WhyisaTexasgirlinPA
But the officiating was horrendous throughout.

The Giants had ZERO offense in the first half. I kept asking myself wtf is happening and is this all fixed.

338 posted on 09/16/2003 6:20:02 AM PDT by NeoCaveman (Impeach the judges of the Ninth Circus Court of Appeals)
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To: Flurry
Oh yes, I'm packing to leave right now..............
339 posted on 09/16/2003 6:26:41 AM PDT by Gabz (anti-smokers - personification of everything wrong in this country.)
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To: Flurry
Gah! That story was disgusting enough without the picture. They all look as inbred as the British royal family. Come to think of it, that is about the only reason they might do something that dimwitted...
340 posted on 09/16/2003 6:26:42 AM PDT by Texan5
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