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A legal term, used in many longwinded juridical diatribes about "waste" which has a complicated
legal meaning, I kid you not.
All I could actually find was an over simplified definition:
Disherison- Disinheritance, depriving one of an inheritance.
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A really stupid word. Only use of it I could find was in newspaper story about mass transit,
as the opposite of boarding a train. As is a special word were needed.
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Another sort of stupid opposite, in this case to "limn":
limn
vt.
limned, limn[ing 7lim4i%, 3ni%8 5ME limnen, contr. < luminen, for enluminen < OFr enluminer < L illuminare, ILLUMINATE6
1 to paint or draw
2 to portray in words; describe
3 [Obs.] to illuminate (manuscripts)
limn[er 7lim4!r, 3n!r8
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From AHD:
dissentience
NOUN:
A state of disagreement and disharmony: clash, conflict, confrontation, contention,
difference, difficulty, disaccord, discord, discordance, dissension, dissent, dissidence,
dissonance, faction, friction, inharmony, schism, strife, variance, war, warfare. See
CONFLICT.
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Ditali - yet another of the seemingly endless varieties of pasta. I found a picture of it,
but too blurry to be worth posting.
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divagate
vi.
3gat#ed, 3gat#ing 5< pp. of LL divagari, to wander about < L dis3, from + vagari, to wander: see VAGABOND6
1 to wander about
2 to stray from the subject; digress
di#va[ga4tion
n.
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divaricate
vi., vt.
3cat#ed, 3cat#ing 5< L divaricatus, pp. of divaricare, to spread apart < dis3, apart + varicare, to straddle: see PREVARICATE6 to spread widely apart; separate into diverging parts or branches; fork; branch
adj.
spreading or branching far apart; widely diverging
If "prevaricate" means to lie, why not say "divaricate" means to tell two lies about same topic.
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Inflammation of a diverticulum. Can be either a chonic discomfort or potentially lethal.
sometimes but not always surgically correctivle.
diverticulum
n.,
pl. 3la 73l!8 5L diverticulum, var. of deverticulum, a bypath < devertere, to turn aside: see DE3 & VERSE6Anat. a normal or abnormal pouch or sac opening out from a tubular organ or main cavity
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Re vaginati: In Latin class, I used to wonder why "gladius" never became one of the very long
list of synonyms for the membrum virile.
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