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The point in the orbit of a celestial body when it is
furthest from the sun.
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An inhabitant of an equatorial, or torrid, zone.
Something which does not cast a shadow.
Also a fictional language, invented by author Gene
Wolfe for his series, The Book of the New Sun.
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Writing about oneself in an adulatory way. First
used in The Confessions of Aleister Crowley; An
Autohagiography, published in 1970.
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Incomprehensible or pretentious verbiage.
Invented in 1952 by Milton A. Smith, a lawyer for
the US Chamber of Commerce. Smith was
awarded with a plaque by an Oregon newspaper
for his creation of the useful word.
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To fleck, or streak with color.
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To hit with a club; to cudgel.
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To look, or stare at, longingly. To watch others eat
in the hopes of being invited to join in.
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Haecceity (transliterated from the Latin haecceitas)
is a term from medieval philosophy first coined by
Duns Scotus which denotes the discrete qualities,
properties or characteristics of a thing which make
it a particular thing. Haecceity is a person's,
object's, or moments "thisness". The aspect of
exisence on which individuality depends.
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Impluvium- the basin in the center of the roofless
atrium of an ancient Roman home for the collection
of rainwater. All truly green homes should have
one!
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A measure of time. In Hinduism, it is equal to 4,320
million years, a "day of Brahma"; a "month of
Brahma" is supposed to contain thirty such Kalpas,
or 129.6 billion years. According to the
Mahabharata, 12 months of Brahma constitute his
year, and 100 such years the life cycle of the In
Buddhism, there are four different lengths of
kalpas. A regular kalpa is approximately 16 million
years long, and a small kalpa is 1000 regular
kalpas, or 16 billion years. Further, a medium kalpa
is 320 billion years, the equivalent of 20 small
kalpas. A great kalpa is 4 medium kalpas, or 1.28
trillion years.
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A rhetorical device, often an understatement, in
which the affirmative is given as the negative of the
contrary. The speaker either strengthens or
weakens the emphasis of a claim by denying its
opposite. As in: "The food was not bad."
Also can include double negatives, as in: "I am not
NOT licking toads."
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The point in the orbit of a celestial body when it is
closest to the sun.
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To throb, to quiver.
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HIghbrow, conceited or entitled. From the Dr.
Seuss book, The Star-bellied Sneetches.
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The very best wine. The word is Low Latin for
“upon the nail,” meaning that the wine is so good
the drinker leaves only enough in his glass to make
a bead on his nail. The French say of first-class
wine, “It is fit to make a ruby on the nail” (faire rubis
sur l'ongle).
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Permitting people to do as they like. Derived from
the name of the fictional abbey of Thélème in the
first part of Rabelais’ sixteenth-century Gargantua
and Pantagruel: “In all their rule and strictest tie of
their order there was but this one clause to be
observed, Do What Thou Wilt.”
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From the German meaning world-pain or
world-weariness/ A term coined by the German
author Jean Paul and denotes the kind of feeling
experienced by someone who understands that the
physical reality can never satisfy the demands of
the mind. This kind of pessimistic world view was
widespread among several romantic authors such
as Lord Byron, Giacomo Leopardi, François-René
de Chateaubriand, Alfred de Musset, Nikolaus
Lenau and Heinrich Heine.
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