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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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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.
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Just a case of the play pen being mightier than the sword.
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