wonderful words | 2016-09-14
longanimity
forbearance; endurance of hardship/injuries/offence with patience
| origin: Latin > longanimitas “long-spirited-ness” (anima = spirit)
chimerical
wildly fanciful/unrealistic; unreal; visionary
| origin: related to the Chimera — the great, fire-breathing, mythical beast with lion’s head, goat’s body, and serpent’s tail
pulverulent
covered with or consisting of dust/powder
| origin: Latin > pulverulentus > pulver/pulvis = dust
corybantic
unrestrained; frenzied
| origin: Corybant was a Greek priest of Cybele, a Phrygian goddess of nature who performed wild dances
abeyance
temporary cessation/inactivity; suspension
| origin: Anglo-French > abeance = “gaping at or toward”
vilipend
to vilify; to regard as of little value
| origin: Latin > vilipendere > vili = cheap/vile + pendere = to consider
lucubrate
to work/study/write at night; to write learnedly
| origin: Latin > lucubratus = to work by artificial light
mountebank
a charlatan or quack
| origin: Italian > montimbanco = one who climbs onto/mounts a bench
bumptious
offensively self-assertive
| origin: combination of bump and fractious (quarrelsome/peevish/refractory)
animadversion
censorious comment; the act of criticizing
| origin: Latin > animus (enmity/intention/spirit) + advertere (to turn toward/pay attention to)
I thank you for your longanimity during my trivial abeyance last week. I trust your animadversion will not be corybantic. I vilipend any mountebank who should find my chimerical lucubrations bumptious.
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