Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: ptrey

In my personal framework of logic, defenestrate would mean "to render windowless," like unto defoliate. To throw out from (through) a window would be to "exfenestrate," a word not recognized by my Webster's, more's the pity.


37 posted on 10/24/2005 10:24:08 AM PDT by Elsiejay (Forever wondering)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 35 | View Replies ]


To: Elsiejay; Hildy; ptrey

as an oldtimer, I believe that "defenestration" came from the Yugoslavia as the Stalinists purged the Party from those that wouldn't toe the line.


47 posted on 10/24/2005 11:19:54 AM PDT by KC Burke (Men of intemperate minds can never be free....)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 37 | View Replies ]

To: Elsiejay

http://members.aol.com/eurostamm/prague.html


53 posted on 10/24/2005 3:34:50 PM PDT by gusopol3
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 37 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson