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Karl King - Hosts of Freedom
Today in Ancient History
[ante diem xv kalendas maias]
ludi Cereri (day 6)
69 A.D. -- suicide of the emperor wannabe Otho (this might have happened on April 16)
Today's WWFTD
scurryfunge [used in various senses with little obvious connection] also scurrifunge
Brit. dial. (jocular) a.) ? to scrub, scour, b.) ? to wriggle about
(also a Maine colloquialism?) a hasty tidying of the house between the time you see a neighbor coming and the time she knocks on the door. - Paul Dickson, Words
Karl King - Hosts of Freedom
Today in Ancient History
[ante diem xv kalendas maias]
ludi Cereri (day 6)
69 A.D. -- suicide of the emperor wannabe Otho (this might have happened on April 16)
Today's WWFTD
scurryfunge [used in various senses with little obvious connection] also scurrifunge
Brit. dial. (jocular) a.) ? to scrub, scour, b.) ? to wriggle about
(also a Maine colloquialism?) a hasty tidying of the house between the time you see a neighbor coming and the time she knocks on the door. - Paul Dickson, Words
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Date: 2008-04-17 02:17 pm (UTC)Today's WWFTD
elenctic
[Gk elenktikos, fr. elenktos] /ee LENC tic/
variants: elenchtic, elenctical, elenchtical
serving to refute; refutative (used of indirect modes of proof)
opposed to deictic
"His duty is elenchtic." - Blackwood's Magazine, v. XXXIII (1833)
"Because he has spent so much of his life in elenctic argument, we are sometimes tempted to infer that Socrates knows more than he is letting on about the subject matter at hand." - Brickhouse & Smith, Plato's Socrates (1994)