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Posted: Wed Mar 29, 2006 4:49 pm
by Richard Ruck
Sorry, missed a couple of days again.
Here's today's :
feudatory
• adjective - owing feudal allegiance to another: a feudatory state.
• noun (pl. feudatories) - a person who holds land under the conditions of the feudal system.
— origin late 16th cent.: from medieval Latin feudatorius, from feudare ‘enfeoff’, from feudum.
Posted: Wed Mar 29, 2006 4:58 pm
by Katharine
Richard Ruck wrote:Sorry, missed a couple of days again.
Here's today's :
feudatory
• adjective - owing feudal allegiance to another: a feudatory state.
• noun (pl. feudatories) - a person who holds land under the conditions of the feudal system.
— origin late 16th cent.: from medieval Latin feudatorius, from feudare ‘enfeoff’, from feudum.
Nothing to do with fighting feuds then - I assumed it would be when I saw the word, I really shouldn't jump to conclusions!
Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2006 8:12 am
by Richard Ruck
Fallen behind again - sorry!
spanakopita
• noun (in Greek cooking) - a filo pastry stuffed with spinach and feta cheese.
— origin modern Greek, literally ‘spinach pie’.
Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2006 11:45 am
by Richard Ruck
And another.......
satisfice
• verb [no obj.] formal - decide on and pursue a course of action that will satisfy the minimum requirements necessary to achieve a particular goal.
— origin mid 16th cent. (in the sense ‘satisfy’): alteration of satisfy, influenced by Latin satisfacere. The formal use dates from the 1950s.
Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2006 11:53 am
by Rory
that's pretty much what I do...
Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2006 11:55 am
by Richard Ruck
And it's more or less how I used to approach my academic work.....
Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2006 2:37 pm
by J.R.
Nothing to do with trying to say 'satisfied', when totally p1ssed, then ??
Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2006 1:05 pm
by Richard Ruck
J.R. wrote:Nothing to do with trying to say 'satisfied', when totally p1ssed, then ??
Is that not 'shatishfied'? Or does Sean Connery say that?
Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2006 1:06 pm
by Richard Ruck
Back to architecture for today's word:
peripteral
• adjective Architecture (of a building) - having a single row of pillars on all sides in the style of the temples of ancient Greece.
— origin early 19th cent.: from Greek peripteron (from peri- ‘around’ + pteron ‘wing’).
Posted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 10:14 am
by Richard Ruck
Still in use?
jankers
• noun [mass noun] - Brit. military slang punishment for those who have committed a military offence: the sergeant put me on jankers.
— origin early 20th cent.: of unknown origin.
Posted: Sun Apr 09, 2006 9:23 am
by Richard Ruck
Yesterday's word:
stratopause
• noun the interface between the stratosphere and the ionosphere.
— origin 1950s: from stratosphere, suggested by tropopause.
So now you know!
Posted: Mon Apr 10, 2006 9:48 am
by Rory
so it's not the bit in between the guitar solo then??
Posted: Mon Apr 10, 2006 10:09 am
by Richard Ruck
Rory wrote:so it's not the bit in between the guitar solo then??
Please tell me you haven't found an old 'Yes' album?
1 solo = 1 weekend.
Posted: Mon Apr 10, 2006 10:13 am
by Rory
Yes???
No!!!
That wasn't me - that was my eldest brother.....
I have never owned one - and never want to.
Posted: Mon Apr 10, 2006 10:21 am
by Richard Ruck
Phew!!