Monday, November 30, 2009

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metta
noun [mass noun] (in Theravada Buddhism) meditation focused on the development of unconditional love for all beings.
origin from Pali metta ‘loving kindness’.

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Sunday, November 29, 2009

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bund
noun (in India and Pakistan) an embankment or causeway.
origin early 19th cent.: via Urdu from Persian.

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Saturday, November 28, 2009

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maya
noun [mass noun] Hinduism the supernatural power wielded by gods and demons.
Hinduism & Buddhism the power by which the universe becomes manifest; the illusion or appearance of the phenomenal world.
origin from Sanskrit maya, from ma ‘create’.

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Friday, November 27, 2009

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Jubilate
noun Psalm 100, beginning Jubilate deo ‘rejoice in God’, especially as used as a canticle in the Anglican service of matins.
a musical setting of the Jubilate.
origin Latin, ‘shout for joy!’, imperative of jubilare (see jubilate).

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Thursday, November 26, 2009

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balafon
noun a large xylophone with hollow gourds as resonators, used in West African music.
origin via French from Manding bala ‘xylophone’ + fo ‘to play’.

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Wednesday, November 25, 2009

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tablature
noun [mass noun] a form of musical notation indicating fingering rather than the pitch of notes, written on lines corresponding to, for example, the strings of a guitar or the holes on a flute.
origin late 16th cent.: from French, probably from Italian tavolatura, from tavolare ‘set to music’.

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Tuesday, November 24, 2009

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enfleurage
noun [mass noun] the extraction of essential oils and perfumes from flowers using odourless animal or vegetable fats.
origin mid 19th cent.: French, from enfleurer ‘saturate with the perfume from flowers’.

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Monday, November 23, 2009

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teocalli
noun (pl. teocallis) a temple of the Aztecs or other Mexican peoples, typically standing on a truncated pyramid.
origin American Spanish, from Nahuatl teo:kalli, from teo:tl ‘god’ + kalli ‘house’.

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Sunday, November 22, 2009

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counterscarp
noun the outer wall of a ditch in a fortification.
origin late 16th cent.: from French contrescarpe, from Italian controscarpa; compare with scarp.

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Saturday, November 21, 2009

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santero
noun (pl. santeros)
1. (in Mexico and Spanish-speaking areas of the south-western US) a person who makes religious images.
2. a priest of the santeria religious cult.
origin Spanish.

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Friday, November 20, 2009

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triglyph
noun Architecture a tablet in a Doric frieze with three vertical grooves alternating with metopes.
derivatives
triglyphic adjective.
origin mid 16th cent.: via Latin from Greek trigluphos, from tri- ‘three’ + gluphe ‘carving’.

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Thursday, November 19, 2009

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skeg
noun a tapering or projecting after section of a vessel's keel.
a fin underneath the rear of a surfboard.
origin early 17th cent.: from Old Norse skegg ‘beard’, perhaps from Dutch scheg.

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Wednesday, November 18, 2009

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Fra
noun a prefixed title given to an Italian monk or friar: Fra Angelico.
origin Italian, abbreviation of frate ‘brother’, from Latin frater.

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Tuesday, November 17, 2009

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Ursuline
noun a nun of an order founded by St Angela Merici (1470–1540) at Brescia in 1535 for nursing the sick and teaching girls.
adjective relating to the Ursulines.
origin from St Ursula, the founder's patron saint (see Ursula, St), + -ine.

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Monday, November 16, 2009

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heresiarch
noun the founder of a heresy or the leader of a heretical sect.
origin mid 16th cent.: via ecclesiastical Latin from ecclesiastical Greek hairesiarkhes ‘leader of a sect’, from hairesis ‘heretical sect, heresy’ + arkhes ‘ruler’.

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Sunday, November 15, 2009

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feretory
noun (pl. feretories) rare a portable shrine containing the relics of a saint.
a chapel containing such a shrine.
origin Middle English: from Old French fiertre, via Latin from Greek pheretron ‘bier’, from pherein ‘bear, carry’.

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Saturday, November 14, 2009

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ronde
noun a dance in which the dancers move in a circle.
origin 1930s: French, feminine of rond ‘round’.

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Friday, November 13, 2009

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bocage
noun [mass noun]
1. (in France) pastureland divided into small hedged fields interspersed with groves of trees.
2. the modelling of leaves, flowers, and plants in clay, especially for porcelain figurines.
origin late 16th cent.: from French, from Old French boscage (see boscage).

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Thursday, November 12, 2009

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attacca
verb [in imperative] a musical instruction used to indicate that the next section should follow without a pause.
origin Italian, literally ‘attack’.

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Wednesday, November 11, 2009

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croustade
noun a crisp piece of bread or pastry hollowed to receive a savoury filling.
origin French, from Old French crouste or Italian crostata ‘tart’ (from crosta ‘crust’).

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Tuesday, November 10, 2009

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thyristor
noun Electronics a four-layered semiconductor rectifier in which the flow of current between two electrodes is triggered by a signal at a third electrode.
origin 1950s: blend of thyratron, denoting a kind of thermionic valve (from Greek thura ‘gate’) and transistor.

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Monday, November 9, 2009

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jactitation
noun (in phrase jactitation of marriage) archaic false declaration that one is married to a specified person.
origin late 17th cent.: from medieval Latin jactitatio(n-) ‘false declaration’, from Latin jactitare ‘to boast’.

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Sunday, November 8, 2009

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i-Mode
noun [mass noun] a technology that allows data to be transferred to and from Internet sites via mobile phones.
origin early 21st cent.: from I (referring to the user's ability to interact directly with the Internet) + mode.

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Saturday, November 7, 2009

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jorum
noun historical a large bowl or jug used for serving drinks such as tea or punch.
origin early 18th cent.: perhaps from Joram (2 Sam. 8:10), who ‘brought with him vessels of silver, and vessels of gold’ to King David.

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Friday, November 6, 2009

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kirtle
noun archaic a woman's gown or outer petticoat.
a man's tunic or coat.
origin Old English cyrtel, of Germanic origin, probably based on Latin curtus ‘short’.

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