Pp: Palimpset

Palimpset:

n.

1. A manuscript, typically of papyrus or parchment, that has been written on more than once, with the earlier writing incompletely erased and often legible.

2. An object, place, or area that reflects its history: "Spaniards in the sixteenth century . . . saw an ocean moving south . . . through a palimpsest of bayous and distributary streams in forested paludal basins" John McPhee.

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From the Latin Word meaning to scrape, or scrape again...

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Mm: Word Family Mar

Mm MAR:
from the Latin word mare, meaning sea, brings its salty tang to English words in marine, and submarine...
Aquamarine Marina Mariner Maritime

Tt:: Terr

TERR comes from the Latin terra, "earth." Terra firma is a Latin phrase that means "Firm Ground" as opposed to the swaying seas; a terrace is a levled area along a sloping hill; the French call potatoes pommes de terre, litterally "apples of the earth", territory is a specific piece of land.

Ww: Wriggles V.

Wriggles:
The second (form of time) squirms and wriggles like a blue fish in a bay.
From: p.23 of Alan Lightman's Einstein's Dreams a Novel

1. To turn or twist the body with sinuous writhing motions; squirm.

2. To proceed with writhing motions.

3. To worm one's way into or out of a situation; insinuate or extricate oneself by sly or subtle means.

v.tr.

1. To move with a wriggling motion: wriggle a toe.

2. To make (one's way, for example) by or as if by wriggling: He wriggled his way into favor.

n.

1. A wriggling movement.

2. A sinuous path, line, or marking.

Aa: Apologist

Aa: Apologist: Noun

a person who argues to defend or justify some policy or institution; "an apologist for capital punishment"

justifier, vindicator advocate, advocator, exponent, proponent - a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea

Rr: RECAPITULATION

v. re·ca·pit·u·lat·ed, re·ca·pit·u·lat·ing, re·ca·pit·u·lates

1. To repeat in concise form.

2. Biology To appear to repeat (the evolutionary stages of the species) during the embryonic development of the individual organism.
3. Christ repeated Adam only in reverse.

Cc: Calcified ADV.

Calcified was found in the poem The O's by Baron Wormser, Writers Almanac Nov. 25, 2008:

A sack of calcified lust.

Calcified: Adverb

1. To make or become stony or chalky by deposition of calcium salts.

2. To make or become inflexible and unchanging.

Pp: Propagandize

n.

1. The systematic propagation of a doctrine or cause or of information reflecting the views and interests of those advocating such a doctrine or cause.

2. Material disseminated by the advocates or opponents of a doctrine or cause: wartime propaganda.

3. Propaganda Roman Catholic Church A division of the Roman Curia that has authority in the matter of preaching the gospel, of establishing the Church in non-Christian countries, and of administering Church missions in territories where there is no properly organized hierarchy.
Short for New Latin Sacra Congrgatio de Propanda Fide, Sacred Congregation for Porpogating the fatih (established 1622) propagare to propagate)

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Is it Child Abuse to propagandize a Christian belief system to them?

Pp: Word Family PUT

Pp
PUT, from the Latin Verb putare, meaning "to think, consider, or believe," has come into English in a variety of forms. A reputation, for example is what others think of you; a deputy is someone "considered as" the person who appointed him or her.
Words in the family are: disputatious, impute, putative, reputed.

From:
Websters New Explorer Vocabulary Skill Builder, Spring Field, Massachusetts: Meriam Webster, 2000.

Ff: Flummoxed

Sited: Tom Peters used the word in the book, RE-Imagine! Business Excellence in a Disruptive Age:
IBM nailed Control Data's scalp to the wall, but was flummoxed by the new kid on the block, geeky Bill Gates.
Flummoxed:

tr.v. flum·moxed, flum·mox·ing, flum·mox·es Informal

To confuse; perplex.

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[Probably of English dialectal origin.]

S s: secular

adj. (describing a person, place or thing):

1. Worldly rather than spiritual.

2. Not specifically relating to religion or to a religious body: secular music.

3. Relating to or advocating secularism.

4. Not bound by monastic restrictions, especially not belonging to a religious order. Used of the clergy.

5. Occurring or observed once in an age or century.

6. Lasting from century to century.

n.

1. A member of the secular clergy.

2. A layperson.

Definitions from: THE FREE DICTIONARY from FARLEX

A-a
Antinomian:

1. Opposed to or denying the fixed meaning or universal applicability of moral law: "

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[From Medieval Latin Antinom, antinomians, pl. of antinomus, opposed to the moral law : Greek anti-, anti- + Greek nomos, law; see nem- in Indo-European roots.]
B-b

benevolent
adj.

1. Characterized by or suggestive of doing good.

2. Of, concerned with, or organized for the benefit of charity.

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[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin benevolns, benevolent- : bene, well; see deu-² in Indo-European roots + volns, present participle of velle, to wish; see wel-¹ in Indo-European roots.]

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be·nevo·lent·ly adv.

Synonyms: benevolent, charitable, eleemosynary, philanthropic
These adjectives mean of, concerned with, providing, or provided by charity: a benevolent fund; a charitable foundation; eleemosynary relief; philanthropic contributions. See Also Synonyms at kind¹.

E-e
eschatology
1. The branch of theology that is concerned with the end of the world or of humankind.

2. A belief or a doctrine concerning the ultimate or final things, such as death, the destiny of humanity, the Second Coming, or the Last Judgment.

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[Greek eskhatos, last; see eghs in Indo-European roots + -logy.]

Eucharist

n.

1. A sacrament and the central act of worship in many Christian churches, which was instituted at the Last Supper and in which bread and wine are consecrated and consumed in remembrance of Jesus's death; Communion.

2. The consecrated elements of this rite; Communion.

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[Middle English eukarist, from Old French eucariste, from Late Latin eucharistia, from Greek eukharisti, from eukharistos, grateful, thankful : eu-, eu- + kharizesthai, to show favor (from kharis, grace; see gher-² in Indo-European roots).]

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M-m
malevolent

adj.

1. Having or exhibiting ill will; wishing harm to others; malicious.

2. Having an evil or harmful influence: malevolent state.

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ma·levo·lent·ly adv.

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malevolent [mal-lev-a-lent]

Adjective

wishing evil to others; malicious [Latin malevolens]

malevolence n
malevolently adv

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