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Posted By: wwh disherison - 01/12/03 05:36 PM
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.

Posted By: wwh Re: disboard - 01/12/03 05:42 PM
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.

Posted By: wwh Re: disherison - 01/12/03 05:47 PM
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
n.


Posted By: wwh Re: dissentience - 01/12/03 05:50 PM
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.

Posted By: wwh Re: ditali - 01/12/03 05:52 PM
Ditali - yet another of the seemingly endless varieties of pasta. I found a picture of it,
but too blurry to be worth posting.

Posted By: wwh Re: divagation - 01/12/03 05:55 PM
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.


Posted By: wwh Re: divaricate - 01/12/03 05:59 PM
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.

Posted By: wwh Re:diverticulitis - 01/12/03 06:03 PM
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


Posted By: Wordwind Post deleted by Wordwind - 01/12/03 08:29 PM
Posted By: wwh Re: divagation/vaginati - 01/12/03 08:45 PM
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.

Posted By: Faldage Re: divagation/vaginati - 01/12/03 10:07 PM
I used to wonder why "gladius" never became one of the very long
list of synonyms for the membrum virile.


According to Feelthy Words in Latin AKA The Latin Sexual Vocabulary by J. N. Adams, it was. Petronius and Plautus both used it in that sense.

Posted By: wwh Re: divagation/vaginati - 01/12/03 10:41 PM
Just a case of the play pen being mightier than the sword.

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