Abuse of "literally"
Writing in the Toronto Sun last week, Douglas Fisher said that the prime minister, when pushing through the bill to compensate some but not all of those infected with hepatitis by tainted blood, "literally laid on his whip."
posted Thu 7 Oct 2004 in /words | link
consuetudinary
n : a manual describing the customs of a particular group (especially the ceremonial practices of a monastic order) [syn: {consuetudinal}]
posted Sat 24 Jan 2004 in /words | link
WotD: mythopœic
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Mythopoeic \Myth`o*p[oe]"ic\, a. [Gr. myqopoio`s making myths; my^qos myth + poiei^n to make.]
Making or producing myths; giving rise to mythical narratives.
The mythopœic fertility of the Greeks. --Grote.
posted Tue 20 Jan 2004 in /words | link
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