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crapulous\KRAP-yuh-lus\ , adjective: 1. Given to or characterized by gross excess in drinking or eating. 2. Suffering from or due to such excess.
These were the dregs of their celebratory party: the half-filled glasses, the cold beans and herring, the shouts and smells of the crapulous strangers hemming them in on every side, the dead rinsed-out April night and the rain drooling down the windows.
-- T. Coraghessan Boyle, Riven Rock
The new money was spent in so much riotous living, and from end to end there settled on the country a mood of fretful, crapulous irritation.
-- Stephen McKenna, Sonia
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Crapulous is from Late Latin crapulosus, from Latin crapula, from Greek kraipale, drunkenness and its consequences, nausea, sickness, and headache.
If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animating contest of freedom, go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you,
S Adams
I thought that was a made-up word .. at least it was the few times I've heard it .. and it had a more vulgar definition ..
"Budge up, yeh great lump." -- Hagrid, HP:SS
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The gelding is what the gelding is, unlike people who change in response to their perceptions of events that may benefit or threaten their power. -- Lorn, Chapter LXXXII, Magi'i of Cyador
After a midnight post-coital cigarette, Mina was suddenly agog when Vlad 'the Impaler' Dracul finally brought her up to speed on one of the Dracul family's darker and less savory secrets ... that he had a mentally deranged half-brother, named Vlid 'the Craptacular', whom they kept isolated in a seperate masoleum connected directly to the city's sewer system - not just because of his poor personal hygene, but mostly because the rest of coven found his addiction to crapulous cropophilia to be quite disturbing.
"coprophilia" may be the word Hiram intended in "crapulous cropophilia". I regret I know more than I want about coprophagia because of my dog.
My own excesses are simply crapulous. For many years a follower of the famous "see food" diet, and also an adherent to the parental edict to clean my plate. Obese as a result, but working to deal with it.
Nonetheless, both Hiram and I may be fans of crops, mine in the form of food and his possibly in "hopped" format.
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a more interesting neologism, associating a greek suffix to an energetic, vivid term of colloquial (if not gutter) english would be
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lucubration\loo-kyoo-BRAY-shun; loo-kuh-\ , noun: 1. The act of studying by candlelight; nocturnal study; meditation. 2. That which is composed by night; that which is produced by meditation in retirement; hence (loosely) any literary composition.
A point of information for those with time on their hands: if you were to read 135 books a day, every day, for a year, you wouldn't finish all the books published annually in the United States. Now add to this figure, which is upward of 50,000, the 100 or so literary magazines; the scholarly, political and scientific journals (there are 142 devoted to sociology alone), as well as the glossy magazines, of which bigger and shinier versions are now spawning, and you'll appreciate the amount of lucubration that finds its way into print.
-- Arthur Krystal, "On Writing: Let There Be Less", New York Times, March 26, 1989
One of his characters is given to lucubration. "Things die on us," he reflects as he lies in bed, "we die on each other, we die of ourselves."
-- "Books of The Times", New York Times, February 7, 1981
Naturally, these fictions ran the risk of tumbling down the formalist hill and ending up at the bottom without readers -- except the heroic students of Roland Barthes or Umberto Eco, professors whose lucubrations were much more interesting than the books about which they theorized.
-- Mario Vargas Llosa, "Thugs Who Know Their Greek", New York Times, September 7, 1986
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lucubration comes from Latin lucubratus, past participle of lucubrare, "to work by night, composed at night (as by candlelight)," ultimately connected with lux, "light." Hence it is related to lucent, "shining, bright," and lucid, "clear." The verb form is lucubrate.
If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animating contest of freedom, go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you,
S Adams
Now you guys really have me thinking dirty .. I swear I read "lubrication" the first time I glanced at this ..
"Budge up, yeh great lump." -- Hagrid, HP:SS
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The gelding is what the gelding is, unlike people who change in response to their perceptions of events that may benefit or threaten their power. -- Lorn, Chapter LXXXII, Magi'i of Cyador
Though their works may not actually be lucubrations, several current authors capitalize on the popularity of vampire characters who wander the night in search of esophageal lubrications. Heck of a "day job". Does Bram Stoker feel vindicated for his own literary efforts, or is he emulating his most famous creation by rolling over in his grave?
Abraham Lincoln is said to have prepared for his life through lucubration along with splitting rails.
A student may follow the basic steps of lucubration by "pulling an all-nighter", but the paper written as a result does not necessarily show the benefits of significant meditation.
Ghost seems to be choosing words with great potential for letter transposition. Nice work!
codeblower wrote:Now you guys really have me thinking dirty .. I swear I read "lubrication" the first time I glanced at this ..
I can only speak for myself, but whenever I'm at home cerebating in the privacy of my own study, I usually require LOTS of lucubration in order to be able to handle otherwise dry reading materials.
/me cerebates vigorously, and eventually achieves a well-earned epiphany.
...I usually require LOTS of lucubration in order to be able to handle otherwise dry reading materials.
I find myself imagining the flow of fluid from bottle to cup to lip for sip and subsequent swallow, followed by the none too crisp delivery of the line above...
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My my, don't we form a merry circle of reading jerks, with polyglotic double entendres stooping to penetrate every available linguistic opening, be it hetero or homogeneous.
In a different thread, Darb wrote:Say, is MidasKnight one of the MontyPython grail nights, and if so did he soil his armor at the same time as SirRobin, back when TimTheEnchanter spotted the vorpal bunny ?
(emphasis is mine)
So Did Midas<strike>K</strike>night reach this honor through long lucubrations?
There once was a linguist named Polly.
Though her parents moaned at her folly,
She dated and caught
Mr. Timothy Glott
Who French kisses nicely, by golly.
By his own measure, he is a man of many contradictions, beginning with the fact that he is famous as a listener but suffers from "a touch of logorrhea." He is so voluble that one wonders how his subjects get a word in edgewise.
-- Mel Gussow, "Listener, Talker, Now Literary Lion: It's Official.", New York Times, June 17, 1997
It's also not good if your date has logorrhea.
-- Monte Williams, "8 Minutes in the Life of a Jewish Single: Not Attracted? Next!", New York Times, March 5, 2000
Mr. King, who possesses an enviable superabundance of imagination, suffers from a less enviable logorrhea.
-- Michele Slung, "Scare Tactics.", New York Times, May 10, 1981
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Logorrhea is derived from Greek logos, "word" + rhein, "to flow."
[Not to be confussed with gonorrhea]
If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animating contest of freedom, go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you,
S Adams
I think I read on a blog somewhere that Vlid the Craptacular picked up** a severe case of logorrhea from a log left by chronically logorrhic mathematician specializing in logarithms.
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** Picked Up: I suppose that'd be literally, figuratively, medically, mathematically and coprophilically ... if we called that a pentangular entendre, would that extend the progression geometically and thus make it hexangular ? Non-sequitur: if someone turns white from blood loss, what color would they turn if they then suffered from dysentery - and would that constitute a double-negative entendre, and thus make it a positive one in the end ... a metaphorical hole in one ?
efficacious\ef-ih-KAY-shuhs\ , adjective: 1. Capable of having the desired result or effect; effective as a means, measure, remedy, etc.
Lawyers make claims not because they believe them to be true, but because they believe them to be legally efficacious.
-- Paul F. Campos, Jurismania
Henri IV wrote to his son's nurse, Madame de Montglat, in 1607 insisting 'it is my wish and my command that he be whipped every time he is stubborn or misbehaves, knowing full well from personal experience that nothing in the world is as efficacious'.
-- Katharine MacDonogh, Reigning Cats and Dogs: A History of Pets at Court Since the Renaissance
Plagued by rats, the citizens of Hamelin desperately seek some efficacious method of pest control.
-- Francine Prose, review of The Pied Piper of Hamelin, as retold by Robert Holden, New York Times, August 16, 1998
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Efficacious is from Latin efficax, -acis, from efficere, "to effect, to bring about," from ex-, "out" + facere, "to do or make."
If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animating contest of freedom, go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you,
S Adams
Voralfred: I must humbly confess it'd take far too much time and effort to write up a sufficiently efficacious and linguistically thorough explanation for my previous post.
alacrity\uh-LACK-ruh-tee\ , noun: 1. A cheerful or eager readiness or willingness, often manifested by brisk, lively action or promptness in response.
As for his homemade meatloaf sandwich with green tomato ketchup, a condiment he developed while working in New York, I devoured it with an alacrity unbecoming in someone who gets paid to taste carefully.
-- R.W. Apple Jr., "Southern Tastes, Worldly Memories", New York Times, April 26, 2000
Arranged in long ranks, ten-, twelve-, or thirteen-year-old girls, pale and hollow-eyed, their pinned-back hair sprouting tendrils limp with perspiration, operated the machinery with such alacrity that arms and hands were a flying blur.
-- Patricia Albers, Shadows, Fire, Snow: The Life of Tina Modotti
So, I am sure that I was thrilled when I got the letter offering me the fellowship and equally sure that I wrote back to accept with alacrity.
-- Joan L. Richards, Angles of Reflection
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Alacrity comes from Latin alacritas, from alacer, "lively."
If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animating contest of freedom, go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you,
S Adams
hiram wrote:Voralfred: I must humbly confess it'd take far too much time and effort to write up a sufficiently efficacious and linguistically thorough explanation for my previous post.
I'm sure that if you had half as much alacrity in explaining your puns as the one you demonstrate when drinking beer, I would not be left in the dark!
Human is as human does....Animals don't weep, Nine
equivocate\ih-KWIV-uh-kayt\ , intransitive verb: 1. To be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or to avoid committing oneself to anything definite.
The witness shuffled, equivocated, pretended to misunderstand the questions.
-- Thomas Babington Macaulay, History of England
By equivocating, hesitating, and giving ambiguous answers, she effected her purpose.
-- Harriet Martineau, Letters from Ireland
Dr. Lindzen does not equivocate. "We don't have any evidence that this is a serious problem," he says flatly.
-- William K. Stevens, "Skeptic Asks, Is It Really Warmer?", New York Times, June 17, 1996
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To equivocate is literally to call equally one thing or the other: It comes from Medieval Latin aequivocare, from the Latin aequus, equal + vocare, to call (from Latin vox, voice).
If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animating contest of freedom, go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you,
S Adams
There is no doubt. It is certain. It is written. I am positive. Absolutely.
The only problem is that all this absolute certainty lacks attachment to any specific idea or even general concept. Hence, I equivocate; I'm sure of it.
"Budge up, yeh great lump." -- Hagrid, HP:SS
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The gelding is what the gelding is, unlike people who change in response to their perceptions of events that may benefit or threaten their power. -- Lorn, Chapter LXXXII, Magi'i of Cyador
cognoscente\kon-yuh-SHEN-tee; kog-nuh-; -SEN-\ , noun: 1. A person with special knowledge of a subject; a connoisseur.
However, I thought it well to acquaint myself with the latest scientific thinking, so as not to write a tale that would embarrass me among the cognoscenti.
-- Ronald Wright, A Scientific Romance
In the early 1600s, however, beliefs that decried curiosity and restricted information about the "secrets" of nature to a handful of cognoscenti were under attack.
-- Tom Shachtman, Absolute Zero and the Conquest of Cold
Greenspan, to his credit, tells the truth about what he does, but until now, he has done it in a way that only the cognoscenti can understand.
-- Paul Krugman, "Labor Pains", New York Times Magazine, May 23, 1999
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Cognoscente derives from the Obsolete Italian, from Latin cognoscens, cognoscent-, present participle of cognoscere, "to know."
If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animating contest of freedom, go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you,
S Adams
