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Post by Duchessa Douglas on Nov 8, 2006 13:49:35 GMT -5
tokology(to-KOL-uh-jee) noun, also tocology
Midwifery or obstetrics.
[From Greek toko, child, childbirth + logy.]
"Stockham sent a copy of her own book, Tokology: A Book for Every Woman ...This practical guide to childbearing and health had enjoyed great popularsuccess."
-- Robert Whittaker; Tolstoy's American Preachers: Letters on Religion and Ethics; TriQuarterly (Evanston, Illinois); Jan 1, 2000.
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Post by Duchessa Douglas on Nov 8, 2006 13:51:32 GMT -5
debark (di-BARK) verb tr., intr.
To disembark.
[From French debarquer, de- from + barque ship.]
debark (dee-BARK) verb tr.
To remove the bark from a log or a dog.
[De- + bark.]
"Another stop is scheduled for pad 34, site of the Apollo 1 tragedy that claimed the lives of astronauts Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee. Thomas asks tourists to remove their caps when they debark."
--Billy Cox; Tour Space History 'Then and Now'; Florida Today (Melbourne, Florida); May 28, 2000.
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Post by Duchessa Douglas on Nov 8, 2006 13:55:30 GMT -5
sartorial (sar-TOR-ee-uhl) adjective
Related to a tailor or tailored clothes.
[From Late Latin sartor, tailor.]
Today's word has a cousin, sartorius, a long narrow muscle in the leg, thelongest muscle in humans. What would tailored clothes have in common with a muscle of the leg? Sartorius is so named since it is concerned with producing the cross-legged position of tailors at work.
"The dignified Muganda man will appear at formal occasions dressed in a kanzu, the long, white robe introduced by the Arabs at about the same time the European missionaries were arriving with their own sartorial ideas."
--John Matshikiza; Uganda Lives With The Old And New; The Daily Mail & Guardian (South Africa); Apr 7, 2000.
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Post by Duchessa Douglas on Nov 8, 2006 14:08:57 GMT -5
cancrine (KANG-krin) adjective 1. Reading the same backwards as forwards, palindromic. For example, "A man, a plan, a canal: Panama." (letter cancrine) "So patient a doctor to doctor a patient so!" (word cancrine) 2. Crab-like. [From Latin cancr- (stem of cancer) cancer + -ine.] J.S. Bach's Crab Canon is an example of cancrine music: www.derek-hasted.co.uk/takeaway/free-guitar-music-gifs/crab.html"At Hingham Church in Norfolk there is a curious cancrine inscription over the font." -- R. Hart; Ecclesiastical Records; 1846. (from the OED)
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