Where do you get these strange/odd/off the wall but unique words alf ?Quote:
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Where do you get these strange/odd/off the wall but unique words alf ?Quote:
Originally Posted by alfinyalcabo
SHRIVE verb (shrahyv)
verb
1. to grant absolution to (a penitent).
2. to impose penance on (a sinner).
3. to hear the confession of (a person).
4. Archaic. to hear confessions.
5. Archaic. to go to or make confession; confess one's sins, as to a priest.
Quotes
Father Hugo says that in time of war, even if there is no priest to shrive you, your sins can be forgiven this way. --*Diana Gabaldon,*Dragonfly in Amber, 1992 "Shrive me quickly, then," she said, laughing. "Now, without confession? Would you have me read your thoughts and give penance?" --*H. Bedford-Jones,*"The Mardi Gras Mystery," Short Stories, August 1920
Origin
Shrive is a borrowing from Latin scrībere “to write, draw” and occurs in all the Germanic languages except Gothic, e.g., Old Norse skrifa “to write, draw,” Old High German scrîban, German schreiben. Old English scrīfan and Middle English shriven, schrifen mean “to impose a penance on (a penitent)” and by extension “to hear (someone’s) confession, absolve (someone).” Shrive entered English before 900.
BILBOES
PLURAL NOUN
An iron bar with sliding shackles, formerly used for confining a prisoner's ankles.
I'm sure Turfmoorspirit knows about the above ;DQuote:
Originally Posted by SERVERNOTRESPONDING
DUDGEON noun (duhj-uh n)
noun
1. a feeling of offense or resentment; anger: We left in high dudgeon.
Quotes
We had only been married three weeks and she had already walked out in high dudgeon five or six times. I could never understand what I did to put her in high dudgeon, but whatever it was I always felt utterly to blame. --*Larry McMurtry,*All My Friends Are Going to Be Strangers, 1972 Carson bent, showing patches on the back of faded clothes, clawed the air at one side of him without turning his head, and spoke with injured tones of imperial dudgeon. --*Raymond Knister,*White Narcissus, 1929
Origin
Dudgeon entered English in the 1560s and is of uncertain origin.
DORYPHORE
NOUN
rare
A pedantic and annoyingly persistent critic.
Theres a few on this forum at times !! O:)
Alto, it's because Alf lives in a world of strange/odd/off the wall dudes and dudesses:D.Quote:
Originally Posted by Altobelli
I'm sure Mrs Alf has a lot to do with it Terrier.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Bedlington Terrier
EXCORIATE verb (ik-skawr-ee-eyt)
verb
1. to denounce or berate severely; flay verbally: He was excoriated for his mistakes.
2. to strip off or remove the skin from: Her palms were excoriated by the hard labor of shoveling.
Quotes
Jonathan Swift once observed, “Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own,” and so it might be charged, too, of satirists who excoriate others while exempting themselves from blame. --*Joyce Carol Oates,*"Showtime," The New Yorker, October 27, 2003 The accompanying editorial went on to excoriate him and those who served under him. --*Leighton Gage,*Dying Gasp, 2010
Origin
In Latin the verb excoriāre meant only “to strip the skin, bark, shell” (it also had an obscene sense). The modern sense “to denounce, upbraid” arose in English in the late 19th century. Excoriate in its Latin senses entered English in the late 15th century.
MALFEASANCE noun (mal-fee-zuh-ns)
noun
1. Law. the performance by a public official of an act that is legally unjustified, harmful, or contrary to law; wrongdoing (used especially of an act in violation of a public trust).
Quotes
The mid-nineteen-seventies was a revolutionary moment in investigative reporting—the perhaps inevitable aftermath of Woodward and Bernstein, with stories on C.I.A. operations, military cover-ups, and Congressional malfeasance all over the front pages. --*Seymour M. Hersh,*"Scooped by Mike Wallace," The New Yorker, April 8, 2012 All reports in Tahiti declared her husband to have been precisely the man he'd always seemed: a gentle virtuous soul, incapable of malfeasance, too good for this world. --*Elizabeth Gilbert,*The Signature of All Things, 2013
Origin
Tracing the history of the word malfeasance (with an earlier spelling male-feasance) “illegal act, official misconduct” is as disorienting as getting lost in a hall of mirrors. The phrase Male-feasance and Mis-feasance is first recorded in 1663. Misfeasance (spelled misfeasance) “wrongful use of lawful authority” is first recorded in Sir Francis Bacon’s The Elements of the Common Lawes of England (1630). Male-feasance may be a reworking of misfeasance with replacement of the combining form mis- with mal-. The law being very traditional in its terminology, the change of prefix may have been influenced by malfeasor (variously spelled) “malefactor,” which had a very brief history in print—less than a century—and was obsolete by the late 15th century.