Date: Mon Aug 25 00:01:09 EDT 2003
Subject: A.Word.A.Day--facinorous
facinorous (fa-SIN-uhr-uhs) adjective

Extremely wicked.

[From Latin facinorous, from facinus (bad deed), from facere (to do or make).]

"O ambitious Marius! O cruel Catiline! O facinorous Sylla!"
Miguel de Cervantes; Don Quixote (Translation by Thomas Shelton).

I remember a Pogo episode wherein he and the lovely Miz Mamselle were enjoying a quiet picnic when they were interrupted by Beauregard the Hound Dog et al., who ran over the picnic blanket scattering picnickeries about. Pogo called the miscreants 'facinorous runagates!'

Beauregard run over the gateaux?