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DEPOSE
PRONUNCIATION: (di-POHZ)
MEANING:
verb tr.: 1. To remove from a high office or throne suddenly and forcefully.
2. To examine under oath.
verb intr.: To give testimony.
ETYMOLOGY: From Old French deposer, from Latin deponere (to testify, to put down), from de- + ponere (to put). Ultimately from the Indo-European root apo- (off or away), which also gave us after, off, awkward, post, puny, repose, pungle, apropos, and apposite. Earliest documented use: 1300.
The word depose is often used in another form, depone; the noun forms are deposer or deponent.
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DEDOSE - administer Narcan®
DÉPOUSE - get a divorce in Paris
DEOPOSE - God sits for his portrait in the Sistine Chapel
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Denose- to cut off your nose
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to spite your face, obviously.
----please, draw me a sheep----
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SURREBUTTAL
PRONUNCIATION: (suhr-ri-BUHT-l)
MEANING: noun: The response to a rebuttal.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin sur- (over, above) + rebuttal, from rebut (to refute), from Old French rebouter (to push back), from boute (to push). Ultimately from the Indo-European root bhau- (to strike), which also gave us refute, beat, button, halibut, buttress, and prebuttal. Earliest documented use: 1889.
NOTES: It all starts with the verb butt (to strike or push), which leads to rebut (to refute), which, in turn, leads to surrebut, and so on. The English language has enough prefixes that you can continue this back and forth forever. There’s also surrejoinder, a reply to a rejoinder. Also see hemidemisemiquaver.
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SOURREBUTTAL - "Oh yeah? Well, your mudder wears Army boots!"
SUBREBUTTAL - Catalina aircraft and Radar and Destroyers with depth charges
SUCREBUTTAL - cellulite in your rear end from eating too much sugar
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SUBROGATE
PRONUNCIATION: (SUHB-ro-gayt)
MEANING: verb tr.: To substitute one person or entity for another in a legal claim.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin subrogare, from sub- (in place of) + rogare (to ask, propose a law). Ultimately from the Indo-European root reg- (to move in a straight line, to lead, or to rule), which also gave us regent, regime, direct, rectangle, erect, rectum, alert, source, surge, abrogate, arrogate, and derogate. Earliest documented use: 1427.
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SURROGATE - scandal about a horse-drawn carriage with the fringe on top
SUBROMATE - bromide of sulfur, sort of
SUBROSATE - "under the Rose;" clandestine
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GRIMTHORPE
PRONUNCIATION: (GRIM-thorp)
MEANING: verb tr.: To restore or remodel something without paying attention to its original character, history, etc.
ETYMOLOGY: After Edmund Beckett, first Baron Grimthorpe (1816-1905), an architect whose restoration of St. Albans Cathedral in England was criticized for radical changes made to the building. Earliest documented use: 1890.
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GRAMTHORPE - what Jim called his mother's mother
GRIMT-HORSE - a horse that's been bred for grimming
GRIM.THOR.BE - a description of Thor's demeanor after the fall of Asgard
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MITHRIDATIZE
PRONUNCIATION: (MITH-ri-day-tyz)
MEANING: verb tr.: To develop immunity to a poison by gradually increasing the dose.
ETYMOLOGY: After Mithridates VI, king of Pontus (now in Turkey) 120-63 BCE, who is said to have acquired immunity to poison by ingesting gradually larger doses of it. Earliest documented use: 1866. The noun form is mithridatism.
NOTES: Mithridates VI’s father was poisoned. No wonder VI wanted to develop tolerance to poison. The story goes that after VI’s defeat by Pompey, he didn’t want to be captured alive. So he tried to end his life by taking poison. That didn’t work, so he had a servant stab him with a sword.
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MITHRIDASIZE, -TIME - the precise schedule of administering sub-toxic doses, stipulating size and frequency
MYTHRIDATIZE - to expunge all mention of gods and goddesses, and stories of creation and epic deeds and conflict, from folklore and libraries
MITCHRIDATIZE - what Democrats would like to do to the United States House of Representatives
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PENELOPIZE
PRONUNCIATION: (puh-NEL-uh-pyz)
MEANING: verb intr.: To delay or gain time to put off an undesired event.
ETYMOLOGY: From Penelope, the wife of Odysseus and mother of Telemachus in Greek mythology. She waited 20 years for her husband’s return from the Trojan War (ten years of war, and ten years on his way home). She kept her many suitors at bay by telling them she would marry them when she had finished weaving her web, a shroud for her father-in-law. She wove the web during the day only to unravel it during the night. Earliest documented use: 1780. Her name has become a synonym for a faithful wife: penelope.
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PENNELOPIZE - to be pound-foolish
PENELOPHIZE - to discourse on the vagaries of the judicial system (see also PENELOPINE)
PENELOPRIZE - what Odysseus found waiting when he finally got home
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ROBINSON CRUSOE
PRONUNCIATION: (ROB-in-suhn KROO-soh)
MEANING: verb tr.: To maroon, to isolate, or to abandon.
noun: A castaway; a person who is isolated or without companionship.
ETYMOLOGY: After the title character of Daniel Defoe’s 1719 novel Robinson Crusoe. Crusoe was a shipwrecked sailor who spent 28 years on a remote desert island. Earliest documented use: 1768. Crusoe’s aide has also become an eponym in the English language: man Friday.
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ROBING SON CRUSOE - Let's get you some clothes, kid
ROBINSON CRUISOE - baseball player sponsored a boat trip and nobody cared
ROBINS ON CARUSOE - hear the birds critique a real tenor!
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OUT-HEROD
PRONUNCIATION: (out-HER-uhd)
MEANING: verb tr.: To surpass in cruelty, evil, extravagance, etc.
ETYMOLOGY: After Herod the Great (74/73 BCE - 4 BCE), who was depicted as a tyrant in old mystery plays. Earliest documented use: 1604.
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OTHER-OD - take much too much, but not of an opioid
OUTRE-ROD - a weird wooden staff
OUT-HERD - keep the cattle under better control
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