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Keiva: Now matter how you post, you cannot cnange the fact that you used extortion to obtain re-instatement after being banned for starting a flamewarand refusing to stop adding fuel to it. You are contemptible. See what Anu Garg had to say…. http://
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P.S. With all due respect, I question the etymology I just quoted for echidna.Another source, http://www.geocities.com/etymonline/e1etym.htm, something similar, including I.E. *angwhi- "snake, eel." However, it also has the following entry: echinoderm - 1835, from Mod.L. Echinodermata, from Gk. ekhinos "sea urchin," originally "porcupine, hedgehog" + derma (gen. dermatos) (emphases added) And that echidna pictures certainly resembles a porcupine, does it not? or the type of sea urchin pictured in the link below: http://www.humboldt.edu/~natmus/NorthcoastNature/Tidepools/purple-urchin.jpg
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Keiva: you are very much unwelcome to post in AWADtalk.
You were banned for starting a flamewar, and refusing to
stop adding fuel to the fire. You were base enough to use
phony threats of a lawsuit to intimidate Wordsmith enough
to have him re-instate you. You are unpeakably contemptible.
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Eliminate (4 syl.). To turn out of doors; to turn out of an equation everything not essential to its conditions. (Latin, e limine,out of doors.)
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Emblem is a picture with a hidden meaning, the meaning is "cast into" or "inserted in" the
visible device. Thus, a balance is an emblem of justice, white of purity, a sceptre of sovereignty.
(Greek, en-ballo, which gives the Greek emblema.
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Embryo means that which swells inside something (Greek, en-bru'o, which gives the Greek embruon);
hence the child in the womb; the rudiment in a plant before it shows itself in a bud;
an idea not developed, etc.
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Emmet contracted into Ant thus, Em't, ent, ant (Anglo-Saxon, æmete).
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Emolument Literally, that which comes out of the mill. (Latin, e-mola.) It originally meant toll on what was ground
And I know it only as fancy term for salary.
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Empyrean According to Ptolemy, there are five heavens, the last of which is pure elemental fire and the seat of deity; this fifth
heaven is called the empyrean (from the Greek en-pur, in fire). (See Heaven.)
"Now had the Aln ighty Father from above,
From the pure empyrean where He sits
High throned above all height, bent down his
eye." Milton: Paradise Lost, iii. 56-58.
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Enfilade (French) means literally to spin out; to put thread in [a needle], as enfiler une aiguille; to string beads by putting them on a thread, as enfiler des perles. Soldiers being compared to thread, we get the following metaphors: to go through a place as thread through a needle - to string artillery by placing it in
a line and directing it against an enemy; hence, to scour or rake with shot.
I think this explanation is a bit off. From Military Medicine I remember that enfilade means to have a
file of column of the enemy in a line, with our artillery in line with it, so that instead of "killing two birds
with one stone" it may be possible to kill hundreds of the enemy because aiming is so easy, and shots
both high and low will hit target.
I am reminded of old timer who boasted of shooting a couple dozen starlings that were on a telephone line
perfectly enfiladed so that just about every pellet of his shotgun shell hit a bird. Starlings were very much
hated in those days for driving away more desirable songbirds.
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