Meanings
2025-12-21
- Ecclesiastical
- Churched up (Christianwise)
- I had it in my head that the book of Ecclesiastes belonged to the letters
of Paul, but it's from the old testament.
- Synodic
- Regarding the alignments of heavenly bodies
- (Great) Chronocrator
- A heavenly body that shapes your life, often timebound
- Betteridge's Law
- Any headline ending in a question mark can be answered with "no"
- Vagina Dentata
- Hegel
- Baudrillard
- The Word
- The Bible, God
- I had thought that this usage originated in Genesis, which would have
been the Hebrew word dabar -- but the book of John has a parallel
opening as Genesis (In the beginning...) that got me mixed up.
- Upshot is that the original "God is the Word" was Greek! Logos,
(mirroring Dabar) which means a lot more than language - "reason"
that which separated man from animal.
- Ersatz
- German loanword meaning "substitute". Originally had a neutral
connotation, but English speakers use it negatively
- Virgil
- Nominal
- In name only
- Insignificant
- Enzyme
- Liturgy
- Nymphet
- Archon
- Samuel Beckett
- Disjunction
- An inconsistency
- Logical OR
- Conjunction
- An alignment (spatial or temporal)
- Connecting word - and/but/if
- Logical AND
- Largesse
- Boltzmann (entity/brain)
- Abattoir
- Monad
- Grousing
- Graven
- rien faire comme une bĂȘte
- satyr
- screed
- Ludibria
- Pseudepigrapha
- Quodlibets
- Anaximander
- Hine-nui-te-po
- Nitrocellulose
- Mucilage
- Electromechanical transduction
- ratissage
- frantz fanon
- efflorescence
- kegan level
- Eyrie/Aerie
- Nest of bird of prey - lofty dwelling