Word Of The Day

[The Bedlington Terrier]

HUBRIS. Dedicated to Theresa May.

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[Altobelli]

Is that photo one of only a few that make her look good BT ?

[The Bedlington Terrier]

No! I am accumulating a library Alto!

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[Altobelli]

Jesus Christ !

And our Donz fancies that

[Altobelli]

AEGIS noun (ee-jis)

noun
1. protection; support: under the imperial aegis.
2. sponsorship; auspices: a debate under the aegis of the League of Women Voters.
3. Classical Mythology. the shield or breastplate of Zeus or Athena, bearing at its center the head of the Gorgon.

Quotes

Certainly the protecting aegis of his rank and title would be over the lad, but she might depend upon it any indiscretion of hers would damage him in his future career, the Major assured her.
--*George Meredith,*Evan Harrington, 1861

Ten days earlier, he surrendered under the aegis of the amnesty program.
--*Nicholas Schmidle,*"The Hostage Business," New York Times, December 4, 2009



Origin

The aegis or an aegis is associated with Zeus in the Iliad and Odyssey in the phrase “aegis-bearing.” It is usually imagined as a goatskin cloak worn over the shoulders, or as a (goatskin?) shield worn over the left arm, the “shield arm” (aíx, stem aig- means “goat” in Greek). Zeus also entrusts his aegis to Athena and Apollo to scatter their enemies and rescue their friends. The tragedian Aeschylus (525-456 b.c.) imagines the aegis as a storm cloud or hurricane wind (Greek kataigís means “squall, wind storm.”) This sense may be the original one because Zeus is the Greek development of Proto-Indo-European dyēus, the name of the god of the bright sky, and “aegis-bearing Zeus” may be “the sky god who holds the storm wind.” Aegis (in the sense “shield”) entered English in the 15th century.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Jesus Christ !

And our Donz fancies that

No Donzy fancies a threesome...

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[Altobelli]

PRELAPSARIAN adjective (pree-lap-sair-ee-uh n)

adjective

1. characteristic of or pertaining to any innocent or carefree period: a prelapsarian youth.
2. Theology. occurring before the Fall: the prelapsarian innocence of Eden.
3. supralapsarian.

noun
1. supralapsarian.


Quotes

Looking back, I think I had what is best described as a prelapsarian fondness for fifth grade, its lack of complication.
--*Colson Whitehead,*Sag Harbor, 2009

The show has a bifocal demographic appeal: it’s designed to charm both nostalgic Gen-X’ers and younger viewers who are drawn to a prelapsarian world of walkie-talkies, landlines, and suburban kids left free to roam wherever they want on their bicycles.
--*Emily Nussbaum,*"'Stranger Things' and 'The Get Down'," The New Yorker, August 22, 2016



Origin

Prelapsarian is distinctively Christian in its meaning “before the Fall” (lapsus in Latin) of Adam and Eve from their state of bliss in the Garden of Eden, especially with regard to Adam and Eve’s unselfconscious nudity and innocence. The word is also used in nonreligious or secular contexts to refer to a person’s unselfconscious naturalness. Prelapsarian entered English in the 19th century.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Like running shoeless through the wheat fields Alto?

[Altobelli]

Like running shoeless through the wheat fields Alto?

I never understood people and films showing folk naked running through fields, it must have been the drugs I suppose

[The Bedlington Terrier]

The thought of watching Theresa May running naked through fields of wheat has just ruined a perfectly good erection!