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Saturday, May 24, 2025

In other words, caesura-plex

  • caesura, noun. A break, especially a sense pause, usually near the middle of a verse.
  • Chrislam, noun. A blending of Christian and Islamic principles and practices into a single unifying theological perspective.
  • coeval, noun. One of the same age or period; a contemporary in age or active existence; equally old.
  • collectivism, noun. A theory or political system based on the principle that all of the farms, factories, and other places of work in a country should be owned by (or for) all the people in that country.
  • cozenage, noun. The practice of cozening (i.e., fraud, trickery).
  • decoct, verb. To extract the flavor or essence of by boiling.
  • dight, verb. To dress; adorn.
  • doula, noun. A person, usually a woman, who is not medically trained but who gives help and support to a woman during pregnancy, as well as during and after the birth of her baby.
  • eldritch, adjective. Eerie; weird; spooky.
  • erstwhile, adverb. In the past, formerly; (adjective) former, previous.
  • flood the zone, verb. To put forth a very large quantity of something (idiomatic expression from sports, to apply a large amount of pressure to a particular area of play).
  • fustian, noun. A coarse sturdy cloth made of cotton and linen or flax; or, pretentious speech or writing; pompous language.
  • hemistich, noun. The exact or approximate half of a stich, or poetic verse or line; an incomplete line, or a line of less than the usual length (cf. stich).
  • hysteron proteron, noun. (Rhetoric) A figure of speech in which the conventional order of words, actions, or ideas are revesed; i.e., an inversion of the natural order (Latin, latter as former).
  • incunabula, plural noun. (singular, incunabulum) Extant copies of books produced in the earliest stages (before 1501) of printing from movable type; the earliest stages or first traces of anything.
  • indent, verb. To set in from the margin (cf. outdent).
  • ineluctable, adjective. Incapable of being evaded or avoided; inescapable.
  • irredentist, noun. Someone who calls for the seizure or recovery of territories or states currently subject to other countries.
  • Jehovah, noun. A name of God in the Old Testament, a rendering of the ineffable name, JHVH, in the Hebrew Scriptures.
  • Jehovic, adjective. Of or relating to Jehovah.
  • ketovangelist, noun. An individual who promotes and educates about the ketogenic diet and lifestyle (a portmanteau of ketogenic + evangelist).
  • leucistic, adjective. Affected by an abnormal condition of reduced pigmentation (i.e., leucism).
  • outdent, verb. To set out from the margin (cf. indent).
  • skulduggery, noun. Underhanded or unscrupulous behavior; trickery.
  • steerage, noun. The inferior or lowest category of passenger accommodation in a ship.
  • stich, noun. A verse or line of poetry.
  • Texaplex, noun. A triangular region of Texas framed in by the cities of Austin, Dallas–Fort Worth, Houston, and San Antonio, and Interstates 10, 35, and 45 (Texas + plex, from author David Winans; also known as the Texas Triangle).

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