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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; xsmommy
no - let me!
361 posted on 09/16/2003 6:39:48 AM PDT by Hegewisch Dupa
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To: secret garden
i am neither a redskin nor cowboy fan. or fan of ANY pro football team. but living here, i do know that game has always been HUGE and the hate is intense.
362 posted on 09/16/2003 6:40:31 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: Hegewisch Dupa
oooh HD, feeling feisty today, are ya? ; )
363 posted on 09/16/2003 6:41:54 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: Hegewisch Dupa
no discernable downgrade.......ROFL......
364 posted on 09/16/2003 6:41:54 AM PDT by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA
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To: secret garden
Without sounding like a kiss-up, I've always loved the Cowboys. I don't know why. In CA had the Rams and the Foreign Team, but they were so sucky. Who was the coach for the Cowboys years ago, Tom something?

In AZ now, we have the Cardinals. There is not a bird by that name in sight anywhere in this state. Maybe they should have changed their name to the Gheckos.

365 posted on 09/16/2003 6:42:34 AM PDT by Slip18
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Just remembered. Tom Landry.
366 posted on 09/16/2003 6:43:03 AM PDT by Slip18
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To: xsmommy
I like a good rivalry. I misread your post and thought you had said YOU despised the Cowboys. Between the server and my tired eyes, this is getting ridiculous.
367 posted on 09/16/2003 6:43:26 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: xsmommy; dubyaismypresident; hobbes1
This is a question for the experts...... ahem...... hobbes and/or Dubya.... why is there such an extreme rivalry between American's Team and those jerks in Washington?

Ok, just kidding..... do you have any idea about the background on this rivalry?

368 posted on 09/16/2003 6:43:56 AM PDT by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA
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To: Hegewisch Dupa
There is no discernible downgrade as far as I can tell, and he has less time to wait to be a widower with the 'new' wife.

But now he has an ex who is his mother in law, and a wife who is his ex mother in law. If that's not like being in Dante's seventh ring of hell, I don't know what is.

369 posted on 09/16/2003 6:45:40 AM PDT by NeoCaveman (Impeach the judges of the Ninth Circus Court of Appeals)
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To: Slip18
It's no worse than the Utah Jazz or Tennessee Oilers or LA Lakers or Indianapolis Colts or...
370 posted on 09/16/2003 6:45:58 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; dubyaismypresident
ain't hardly no steel left in the Burgh either....
371 posted on 09/16/2003 6:46:37 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: dubyaismypresident
wait - I know it's early, but I can't figure how his ex is his mother in law...
372 posted on 09/16/2003 6:47:02 AM PDT by Hegewisch Dupa
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To: xsmommy

373 posted on 09/16/2003 6:47:52 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: Hegewisch Dupa
wait - I know it's early, but I can't figure how his ex is his mother in law...

Woops. His ex is his step-daughter. My bad. I need more coffee.

374 posted on 09/16/2003 6:47:58 AM PDT by NeoCaveman (Impeach the judges of the Ninth Circus Court of Appeals)
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To: Hegewisch Dupa
i couldn't follow that either, i thought his ex was his Daughter in Law.
375 posted on 09/16/2003 6:48:23 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy
ahhhhh - looks like home...
376 posted on 09/16/2003 6:48:30 AM PDT by Hegewisch Dupa
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To: Hegewisch Dupa
His ex is his stepdaughter and ex-wife.
377 posted on 09/16/2003 6:49:06 AM PDT by Slip18
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To: Hegewisch Dupa
dang EPA....


378 posted on 09/16/2003 6:50:12 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: Slip18; xsmommy
I know everyone on the East Coast is a tad bit busy this morning.

Not really that busy - in fact hubby and I will be having our normal Friday date this afternoon. His RDO got switched to today because he is (supposedly scheduled to work Friday evening, doing an install at the beach. BWAAHAAHAA - I'll believe it when I see it.

379 posted on 09/16/2003 6:51:18 AM PDT by Gabz (anti-smokers - personification of everything wrong in this country.)
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To: xsmommy
dang EPA....

Ahh back when the money was good, the jobs were plentiful, and pollution-enhanced sunsets were really cool.

380 posted on 09/16/2003 6:51:41 AM PDT by NeoCaveman (Impeach the judges of the Ninth Circus Court of Appeals)
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