Word Of The Day

[Altobelli]

VAUNTING adjective (vawn-ting)

adjective
1. having a boastfully proud disposition: a vaunting dictator.
2. marked by boastful pride: a vaunting air of superiority.

Quotes
The time is coming when all men will see that the gift of God to the soul is not a vaunting, overpowering, excluding sanctity, but a sweet, natural goodness, a goodness like thine and mine ...
--*Ralph Waldo Emerson,*"An Address Delivered Before the Senior Class in Divinity College, 1838," Nature; Addresses, and Lectures, 1849

Kilgore is a vaunting, strutting caricature of military prowess, yet when we watch him in action, riding in with him as the copters pulverize a village, we may experience for the first time the insane electric fantasy of power that draws some men into war.
--*David Denby,*"Hollow Movie," New York, August 27, 1979


Origin
Vaunting entered English in the late 1500s. It comes from Middle English vaunten, from Middle French vanter “to boast,” from Late Latin vānitāre. Vaunting shares its roots with Latin vānus “vain.”

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Watching Arsenal today, Wenger's vaunting days are well and truly over.

[Altobelli]

I didn't have time to post yesterdays so here it is.

SMARAGDINE adjective (smuh-rag-din)



adjective
1. emerald-green in color.
2. of or relating to emeralds.
noun
1. Rare. smaragd.

Quotes
The big doors to the water were open, giving an occasional draft of welcome cool air, and you could see smudges of black woodsmoke drifting out over the smaragdine brightness of the harbor.
--*S. M. Stirling,*Island in the Sea of Time, 1998

He loomed above them turning his head back and forth with malevolent smaragdine-colored eyes.
--*Byron Tetrick,*"The Collegeum of Mauge," Songs of the Dying Earth, edited by George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois, 2009


Origin

The Greek words smáragdos, máragdos “emerald” are not Greek in origin. Most likely the words are borrowed from Prakrit (any of the ancient or medieval Indic languages, e.g., Pali, the language of the Buddha, derived from Sanskrit) maragada- (from Sanskrit marakata), and are related to Akkadian barraqtu and Hebrew bāreqeth “gemstone, emerald,” from the Semitic root brq “to shine, flash.” Smaragdine entered English in the 14th century.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

England got a real taste of the good old emerald green smaragdine today in Dublin.

[Balanbam00]

Taqiyya: (Deception, Lying and Taqiyya)

......is an Islamic term referring to precautionary dissimulation or denial of religious belief and practice in the face of persecution.
Muslim scholars teach that Muslims should generally be truthful to each other, unless the purpose of lying is to "smooth over differences."
There are several forms of lying to non-believers that are permitted under certain circumstances, the best known being taqiyya. These circumstances are typically those that advance the cause of Islam - in some cases by gaining the trust of non-believers in order to draw out their vulnerability and defeat them.

Quran (16:106) - Establishes that there are circumstances that can "compel" a Muslim to tell a lie.
Quran (3:28) - This verse tells Muslims not to take those outside the faith as friends, unless it is to "guard themselves" against danger, meaning that there are times when a Muslim should appear friendly to non-Muslims, even though they should not feel that way..
Quran (2:225) - "Allah will not call you to account for thoughtlessness in your oaths, but for the intention in your hearts"

Taken collectively these verses are interpreted to mean that there are circumstances when a Muslim may be "compelled" to deceive others for a greater purpose.

[Altobelli]

Taqiyya: (Deception, Lying and Taqiyya)

......is an Islamic term referring to precautionary dissimulation or denial of religious belief and practice in the face of persecution.
Muslim scholars teach that Muslims should generally be truthful to each other, unless the purpose of lying is to "smooth over differences."
There are several forms of lying to non-believers that are permitted under certain circumstances, the best known being taqiyya. These circumstances are typically those that advance the cause of Islam - in some cases by gaining the trust of non-believers in order to draw out their vulnerability and defeat them.

Quran (16:106) - Establishes that there are circumstances that can "compel" a Muslim to tell a lie.
Quran (3:28) - This verse tells Muslims not to take those outside the faith as friends, unless it is to "guard themselves" against danger, meaning that there are times when a Muslim should appear friendly to non-Muslims, even though they should not feel that way..
Quran (2:225) - "Allah will not call you to account for thoughtlessness in your oaths, but for the intention in your hearts"

Taken collectively these verses are interpreted to mean that there are circumstances when a Muslim may be "compelled" to deceive others for a greater purpose.

Each to their own Balanbam, I don't recognise any religion or faith, but I also don't have anything against folk who believe in religion, be it Islamic, Christian or any other, even if I do think there are flaws in all of them, and your quotes above from the Quran IMO are totally off the wall.

[Altobelli]

OVERWINTER verb (oh-ver-win-ter)

verb
1. to pass, spend, or survive the winter: to overwinter on the Riviera.

Quotes

Each fall, millions of delicate orange and black butterflies fly more than two thousand miles from the United States and Canada to overwinter in the mountains of central Mexico.
--*Mary Alice Monroe,*The Butterfly's Daughter, 2011

Most bee species in northern climates overwinter in dormant stages.
--*C. Claiborne Ray,*"The Bee Solution to Winter," New York Times, January 26, 2015


Origin

Old English had the verb oferwintran “to get through the winter,” but it became obsolete at the end of the Old English period (about 1150). Overwinter was formed anew at the end of the 19th century on the model of Scandinavian, e.g., Danish and Norwegian overvintre, Swedish övervintra; Dutch overwinteren; or German überwintern.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Next year I intend to overwinter in Fuerteventura and sod this climate for a game of soldiers.

[Altobelli]

Next year I intend to overwinter in Fuerteventura and sod this climate for a game of soldiers.

Good for you Terrier, I'm pleased for you, if only Matron would do the same and follow me to Turkey.

[SERVERNOTRESPONDING]

Next year I intend to overwinter in Fuerteventura and sod this climate for a game of soldiers.

Absquatulate
VERB

North American
humorous
no object, with adverbial Leave abruptly.

The Terrier was middle aged and a successful Lancashire financier with ****age children when he absquatulated to Fuertevetura to become a drinker.’