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#122942 - 02/15/04 03:17 PM dionysian
wwh Carpal Tunnel Registered: 01/18/01 Posts: 13858	Date: Thu Feb 27 00:05:21 EST 1997 Subject: A.Word.A.Day--dionysian Di-o-nys-i-an adj. 1. a. Of or relating to Dionysus or the Dionysia. b. Of or relating to any of several historical persons named Dionysus. 2. a. Of or devoted to the worship of Dionysus b. Often dionysian. Of an ecstatic, orgiastic, or irrational nature; frenzied. 3. Often dionysian. In the philosophy of Nietzsche, of or characteristic of creative-intuitive power as opposed to critical-rational power.
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#122943 - 02/16/04 10:37 AM Re: dionysian
jheem veteran Registered: 01/06/04 Posts: 1474 Loc: California	The name Dennis in English is dionysian. Saint Dionysius?
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#122944 - 02/16/04 11:35 AM Re: dionysian
Fiberbabe old hand Registered: 01/12/01 Posts: 771 Loc: Portland, Oregon	I'll see that and raise you Dionysus the Menace.
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#122945 - 02/16/04 11:47 AM Re: dionysian
wwh Carpal Tunnel Registered: 01/18/01 Posts: 13858	Dear Fiberbabe: your "menace" prompted me to get etymology: menace (n.) - c.1300, "declaration of hostile intent," also "act of threatening," from O.Fr. menace, from V.L. minacia "threat, menace," sing. of L. minaciæ "threatening things," from minax (gen. minacis) "threatening," from minari "threaten, jut, project," from minæ "threats, projecting points." Applied to persons from 1936. The verb is attested from 1303. Which reminded me of a word I have found useful:" "minatory" meaning threatening.
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