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
  • Generosity
• Boltzmann (entity/brain)
• Abattoir
  • A slaughterhouse
• Monad
• Grousing
• Graven
• rien faire comme une bête
• satyr
• screed
• Ludibria
• Pseudepigrapha
• Quodlibets
• Anaximander
• Hine-nui-te-po
• Nitrocellulose
• Mucilage
• Electromechanical transduction
• ratissage
• frantz fanon
  • black skin, white masks
• efflorescence
• kegan level
  • orders of consciousness
• Eyrie/Aerie
  • Nest of bird of prey - lofty dwelling