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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--vetitive This week's theme: yours to discover. vetitive (VET-i-tiv) adjective 1. Relating to a veto. 2. Having the power to forbid. [From Latin vetare (to forbid).] -Anu Garg (garg AT wordsmith.org) "The only case in which our executives have a real vetitive power, is the case of pardon, and most unfortunately it is used in an alarming degree, against the supremacy of the law and the stability of the right -- both essential to civil liberty." Francis Lieber; On Civil Liberty and Self-government; 1853. X-Bonus The object of most prayers is to wangle an advance on good intentions. -Robert Brault, software developer, writer (1938- )

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