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Dec 4, 2017
This week’s themeIllustrated words This week’s words bibliomania chatoyant gastronome quaggy robustious 
Illustration: Leah Palmer Preiss
A.Word.A.Day
with Anu GargA picture is worth a thousand words, but some pictures leave us wordless. That’s the case for illustrations by the artist Leah Palmer Preiss (curiouser AT mindspring.com). I gave her five words and you’ll see what she did with them this week. To see her illustrations from previous years, see 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011. bibliomania
PRONUNCIATION:
(bib-lee-o-MAY-nee-uh, -MAYN-yuh)
MEANING:
noun: An extreme fondness for books.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Greek biblio- (book) + -mania (excessive enthusiasm or craze).
Earliest documented use: 1734.
USAGE:
“If a cure for bibliomania was found, bibliophiles wouldn’t take it. We’re
determined to keep adding to our great mounds of books for as long as
we’re alive.” Ron Grossman; My Love Affair with Used Bookstores, Their Treasures; Chicago Tribune (Illinois); Dec 29, 2016. See more usage examples of bibliomania in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world. I may
not complete this last one but I will try. -Rainer Maria Rilke, poet and
novelist (4 Dec 1875-1926)
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