# Actual Freedom – Definitions

# Definitions ## Neoteric Online Dictionary Actualiser; An Admirable State of Affairs; Bester; Brain-Flatus Delightment; Equity; Four Affective States of Matter Genitor; Genitrix; Gregarity; Hortation; Hortatively; Ipso Factoid Magicality; Neo-Ludditean; Paltericity; Parity; Perversive Phantasmicality; Plasma; Presentiation; Progenitor; Puissant Rememorance/ Rememorauce Senectitude/Senectitudinous; Sensual Sodomise/ Sodomitical; Tophetic; Weirdity Actualiser: • actualiser (n.): a person who or thing which actualises (actualise=‘to bring (a plan, ambition, etc) to fruition; make actual or concrete). ~ (Online Neoteric Dictionary). An Admirable State of Affairs: • an admirable state of affairs; (n.): 1. a particular situation (a specific set of conditions, events or occurrences) or combination of circumstances, at a given time, of such an exemplary nature as to be admired (viz.: regarded with pleasure, or pleased surprise; esteemed or respected and considered as worthy of high approval; to have a high opinion of; often mixed with wonder or delight); [e.g.]: “We marvelled at how such an admirable state of affairs had come about”; 2. a general situation (the overall state of things and events) of such excellent quality as to be admired; (synonyms): an estimable state of affairs; a commendable situation; a laudable set of circumstances; exemplary, creditable, meritorious, praiseworthy. [admirable, adjective, from admire (French admirer, from Old French amirer, from Latin admīrārī, ‘to wonder at’, from ad- + mīrārī, ‘to wonder’, from mīrus, ‘wonderful’) + -able, adjectival suffix, from Middle English, from Old French, from Latin -ābilis, ‘-ibilis’; from -ā- and -i-, thematic vowels + -bilis, adjectival suffix]. ~ (Online Neoteric Dictionary). Bester: I do not mean that word as in this dictionary definition: • bester: n. (noun) a person who gets the better of another; a cheat. (Oxford Dictionary). I mean it as in this dictionary definition of ‘better’ but with a neological twist: • better: absol. (in absolute use, absolutely) as n. (noun): the superiority or mastery. (Oxford Dictionary). And here is that neological twist described: • [Richard]: ‘The more you feel good the more feeling good happens; the more feeling good happens the better you feel; the better you feel the more feeling better gets ... and so on and so on ... gradually increasing ever-incrementally until one day you can get to the stage the identity in residence all those years ago got to where ‘he’ would say how ‘he’ had to invent a new word (‘bester’) because how on earth could best keep on getting better. (Be warned: the sky is not the limit).. Brain-Flatus: • brain-flatus (slang; usually vulgar): a brief mental lapse, especially an instance of forgetfulness or confusion; [e.g.]: “I had a brief brain-flatus and introduced him by the wrong name”. ~ (Random House Dictionary; Expurgated Version). • brain-flatus (informal): an idea that a person voices without much consideration, such as during a brainstorming session. ~ (Collins English Dictionary; Expurgated Version). • brain-flatus (slang): when you mean to do something really obvious but then you forget what you were doing and end up doing something completely different. i.e., when you have a wrapper in one hand and food in the other, and throw away the food and try to eat the wrapper; [e.g.]: “Person A: ‘Man, I had such a brain-flatus today’; Person B: ‘What did you do?’; Person A: ‘I was holding food and a wrapper and threw away the food and tried to eat the wrapper’”. (Uploaded by ‘nv2001’; February 9, 2015). ~ (Urban English Dictionary; Expurgated Version). • brain-flatus (colloquial): a momentary mental lapse in attention, memory, understanding, care, or competence; [e.g.]: “Sorry boss, I just had a little brain-flatus there. What were you saying again?”; “The sawyer, having a bit of a brain-flatus, unwittingly sawed the support beam completely in two”. ~ (Farlex Dictionary of Idioms; Expurgated Version). • brain-flatus (synonyms): senectitude ineptitude (a.k.a. a senior moment); a blonde moment; a momentary lapse of reason; having a blind spot; bubbles in the think-tank; synapse lapse; brain cramp; a brain burp; mental hiccup; mental block; mental aberration; mental misfire; cranial-rectal inversion; cephalus flatulus. ~ (Online Neoteric Dictionary). • flatus (n.): a reflex which expels intestinal gas through the anus; (synonym): breaking wind. ~ (Princeton’s WordNet 3.0). • flatus (n.): gas generated in or expelled from the digestive tract, especially the intestines or stomach. [Latin flātus, ‘break wind’, ‘a blowing’, from flāre, ‘to blow’]. ~ (American Heritage Dictionary). • flatus (n.): gas generated in the alimentary canal. [C17: from Latin, ‘a blowing’, ‘snorting’, from flāre, ‘to breathe’, ‘blow’]. ~ (Collins English Dictionary). • flatus (n.; pl. flatuses): intestinal gas. [1660-70; from New Latin; from Latin: ‘blowing’, ‘breath’, ‘breathing’, derivative of flāre, ‘to blow’]. ~ (Webster’s College Dictionary). • flatus (n.): as discharged by way of the anus; the gas is a mixture of odourless nitrogen, carbon dioxide, hydrogen and methane, and a varying quantity of hydrogen sulphide, which is said to smell like rotten eggs; hydrogen and methane are both inflammable, but the risk to non-smokers is small; the average person discharges gas about twenty times a day. ~ (Collins Dictionary of Medicine). Delight/ Delightment: • delightment (n.): 1. the state or condition of delighting; 2. (a.) an expression or state of delight; (b.) a cause or occasion of delight; [e.g.]: “And in his delightment and excitement, Alobar had let his tea grow cold, so the shaman warmed his cup”. ~ (page 51, “Jitterbug Perfume: A Novel”, by Tom Robbins; 1984); (v.): delight, delights, delighting, delighted. [from Middle English delit, from Old French, ‘a pleasure’, from delitier, ‘to please’, ‘charm’, from Latin dēlectāre, ‘to delight’, from dēlicere, ‘to allure’ (from dē-, intensive prefix + lactāre, frequentative of lacere, ‘to entice’) + -ment, from Latin -mentum, nounal suffix indicating a means, instrument, or agent of an action or process]. ~ (Online Neoteric Dictionary). • delightment (n.): 1. pure pleasure; 2. intense thrill of excitement; 3. a self-pleasing state of mind; [e.g.]: “To her delightment, he said yes to her question”. (uploaded by Wolfenstineus; March 17, 2004). ~ (Online Urban Dictionary). __________ Random Literary Samples. • “‘That I will do with the greatest of *delightment*’, said the elder”. [emphasis added]. ~ (page 157, The Man Who Used the Universe”, by Alan Dean Foster Foster; 1946-1983). • “‘With the greatest of *delightment*, Fourth Father’, echoed Naras Sharaf as he ended the clandestine transmission”. [emphasis added]. ~ (page 157, “The Man Who Used the Universe”, by Alan Dean Foster Foster; 1946-1983). • “This is by far the best thing I have heard on here yet. I will unquestionably track the author down and ransack his other works for further *delightment*. Kudos!” [emphasis added]. ~ (from A. Derksen, online comment; October 22, 2008, “PodCastle, PC030: Grand Guignol”, by Andy Duncan; read by Frank Key). • “The whole concept of the story is very intriguing and interesting and the crescendo of the album offers the listeners pure moments of true musical *delightment* Excellent work!”. [emphasis added]. ~ (from a review of “A Gentleman’s Hurricane” (from Mind’s Eye), by Ovidiu; Jan 04, 2010 ). __________ • delight (v.): I. (trans.v.): to affect with great pleasure or rapture; please highly; give or afford a high degree of satisfaction or enjoyment to; as, ‘a beautiful landscape delights the eye’; ‘harmony delights the ear’; ‘poetry delights the mind’; [e.g.]: “I will delight myself in thy statutes”. (Psalm cxix. 16); “To me, what is this quintessence of dust? Man delights not me, no, nor woman either”. (William Shakespeare, “Hamlet”, ii, 2); II. (intr.v.): to have or take great; pleasure; be greatly pleased or rejoiced: followed by an infinitive or by in; [e.g.]: “The squyer delited nothinge ther-ynne whan that he smote his maister, but he wiste not fro whens this corage to hym come”. (Merlin; E. E. T. S., iii. 434); “I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart”. (Psalm xl. 8); “The labour we delight in physics pain”. (William Shakespeare, “Macbeth”, ii. 3). [a wrong spelling, in imitation of words like light, might, etc.; the analogical modern spelling would be delite; from Middle English deliten, delyten, from Old French deleiter, deliter = Provinçal delectar = Spanish deleitar, delectar = Portuguese deleitar = Italian delettare, dilettare, from Latin delectare, ‘delight’, ‘please’, freqentive of delicere, ‘allure’; see delicate, delectable, delicious]. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia). • delight (n.): 1. a high degree of pleasure or satisfaction; joy; rapture; [e.g.]: “His delight is in the law of the Lord”. (Psalm i. 2); “Thus came I into England with great joy and hearts delight, both to my selfe and all my acquaintance”. (Edward Webbe, “Travels”; ed. Edward Arber, p. 31); “The ancients and our own Elizabethans, ere spiritual megrims had become fashionable, perhaps made more out of life by taking a frank delight in its action and passion”. (James Lowell, “Among my Books”, 2d sermon, p, 249); 2. that which gives great pleasure; that which affords a high degree of satisfaction or enjoyment; [e.g.]: “But, man, what doste thou with alle this? | Thowe doest the delytys of the devylle”. (Political Poems, etc.; ed. Furnivall, p. 172); “Come, sisters, cheer we up his sprites, | And show the best of our delights”. (William Shakespeare, Macbeth, iv. 1); “Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise,... | To scorn delights, and live laborious days”. (John Milton, “Lycidas”, 1. 72); 3. licentious pleasure; lust (Geoffery Chaucer); (synonyms): 1. joy, pleasure, etc. (see gladness), gratification, rapture, transport, ecstasy, delectation. [a wrong spelling (see the verb); earlier delite; from Middle English delite, delit, delyt, from Old French deleit, delit = Provinçal delieg, deliet = Spanish, Portuguese deleite = Italian diletto, ‘delight’; from the verb]. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia). • delighted (part. adj.; in the quotation from Shakspere the meaning of the word is doubtful): 1. greatly pleased; joyous; joyful; [e.g.]: “About the keel delighted dolphins play”. (Edmund Waller, “His Majesty’s Escape”); “Ay, but to die, and go we know not where, | To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot; | This sensible warm motion to become | A kneaded clod; and the delighted spirit | To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside | In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice”. (William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, iii. 1); “But thou, O Hope, with eyes so fair—| What was thy delighted measure?” (William Collins, “The Passions”); 2.† delightful; delighted-in; [e.g.]: “If virtue no delighted beauty lack, | Your son-in-law is far more white than black”. (William Shakespeare, “Othello”, i. 3); “Whom hest I love I cross; to make my gift, | The more delay’d, deliyhted”. (William Shakespeare, “Cymbeline”, v. 4). [pp. of delight, verb]. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia). • delightedly (adv.): in a delighted manner; with delight; [e.g.]: “Delightedly dwells he ’mong fays and talismans, | And spirits; and delightedly believes | Divinities, being himself divine”. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge, tr. of Schiller’s “Death of Walleustein”). ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia). • delighter (n.; rare): one who takes delight; [e.g.]: “Ill-humoured, or a delighter in telling bad stories”. (Isaac Barrow, “Sermons”, I. 250). ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia). • delightful (adj.): highly pleasling; affording great pleasure and satisfaction: as, ‘a delightful thought’; ‘a delightful prospect’; [e.g.]: “The house is delightful—the very perfection of the old Elizabethan style”. (Lord Macaulay’s “Life and Letters”, I. 191); “After all, to be delightful is to be classic, and the chaotic never pleases long”. (James Russell Lowell, “Among my Books”, 1st sermon, p. 204); (synonyms): delicious, delightful (see delicious); charming, exquisite, enchanting, rapturous, ravishing. [from delight + -ful¹]. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia). • delightfully (adv.): 1. in a delightful manner; in a manner to afford great pleasure; charmingly; [e.g.]: “How can you more profitably or more delightfully employ yore Sunday leisure than in the performance of such duties as these?” (Bishop Porteous, “Works”, I. ix); 2.† with delight; delightedly; [e.g.]: “O voice once heard | Delightfully, Increase and Multiply; | Now death to hear!” (John Milton, “Paradise Lost”, x. 730). ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia). • delightfulness (n.): 1. the quality of being delightful, or of affording great pleasure: as, ‘the delightfulness of a prospect or of scenery’; ‘the delightfulness of leisure’; [e.g.]: “Because it [deportment] is a nurse of peace and greatly contributes to the delightfulness of society, [it] hath been always much commended”. (Dr. Isaac Barrow, “Sermons”, I. xxix); 2† the state of being delighted; great pleasure; delight; [e.g.]: “But our desires’ tyrannical extortion | Doth force us there to set our chief delightfulness | Where but a baiting place is all our portion”. (Sir Philip Sidney, “The Complete Works”). ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia). • delightingly (adv.): 1. in a delighting manner; so as to give delight; 2.† with delight; cheerfully; cordially; [e.g.]: “He did not consent clearly and delightingly to Sequiri’s death”. (Jeremy Taylor, “Ductor Dubitantium”). ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia). • delightless (adj.): affording no pleasure or delight; cheerless; [e.g.]: “Winter oft at eve resumes the breeze, | Chills the pale moon, and bids his driving sleets | Deform the day delightless”. (James Thomson, “The Four Seasons: Spring”). [from delight + -less]. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia). • delightsome (adj.): delightful; imparting delight; [e.g.]: “Then deck thee with thy loose, delightsome robes, | And on thy wings bring delicate perfumes”. (George Peele, “The Love of King David and Fair Bethsabe”, 1594); “The Kingdom of Tonquin is in general healthy enough, especially in the dry season, when also it is very delightsome”. (William Dampier, “Dampier’s Voyages”, II. i. 31). [from delight + -some]. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia). • delightsomely (adv.): in a delightful manner; in a way to give or receive delight; [e.g.]: “I have not lived my life delightsomely”. (Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “Balin and Balan”). ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia). • delightsomeness (n.): the quality of giving delight; charmfulness; [e.g.]: “The delightsomeness of our dwellings shall not be envied”. (Rev. Charles Wheatly, “Schools of the Prophets”, 1721, “Sermon at Oxford”, p. 38). ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia). (left-clicking the yellow rectangles with the capital ‘U’ opens each in a new web page). Equity: equity (n.; pl. equities): the state, action or quality of even-handed dealing, even-handedness; fairness, justness; impartiality; unbiased; (adj.): equitable; (adv.): equitably; (n.): equitability, equitableness; equitarian. ~ (Online Neoteric Dictionary). The Four Affect-Free States of Matter: There are neither instinctual passions nor feeling-beings formed thereof in the four affect-free⁽⁰¹⁾ states of matter (mass/energy), inasmuch there is no fear in solids, for instance, or any aggression in liquids, and neither is there nurture in gases, for example, nor any desire in plasma⁽⁰²⁾ either. ⁽⁰¹⁾ affect (n.): 1. feeling or emotion; 2. (psychiatry): an expressed or observed emotional response; 3. (obsolete): inward disposition or feeling. [1350-1400; Middle English, from Latin affectus]. ~ (Webster’s College Dictionary). ⁽⁰¹⁾affect (n.): the conscious subjective aspect of feeling or emotion; the experiencing of affective and emotional states; [e.g.]: “she had a feeling of euphoria”; “he had terrible feelings of guilt”; “I disliked him and the feeling was mutual”. ~ (Princeton’s WordNet 3.0). ⁽⁰²⁾plasma, also plasm (n.): plasmas are produced by very high temperatures, as in the sun and other stars, and also by the ionisation resulting from exposure to an electric current, as in a fluorescent light bulb or a neon sign; plasma is distinct from solids, liquids, and gases (adj.): plasmatic, plasmic. [from Late Latin, ‘image, figure’, from Greek plásma, from plássein, ‘to form’, ‘to mould’, ‘something moulded or formed’]. [emphasis added] ~ (Online Neoteric Dictionary). Genitor: • genitor (n.): a male parent, a father; (anthropology): a person’s biological as opposed to legal father. [from Latin gignere, ‘create’ + -tor, masculine suffix; lit. physical or genetic father]. ~ (Online Neoteric Dictionary). • [Editorial Note]: The word “genitor” is particularly apt, on occasion, to be able to refer dispassionately to being a male biological parent or to denote such genetic paternity without the affectuous connotations (as in ‘paternal interest’ or ‘fatherly support’, ‘protective impulse’, ‘providore’, ‘solicitous’, and so on) which the more common phrase “my father” popularly expresses. Similarly, the term “my genitor” is also very useful, on occasion, to refer dispassionately to one’s male genetic parent or to denote such biological paternity without the affectional connotations (as in “blood is thicker than water” or “the bonds of kinship” or “the ties that bind”) which the more common phrase “my father” popularly expresses. As is the case with the word genetrix. Genitrix: • genetrix (n.): a female parent, a mother; genetrice; (anthropology): a person’s biological as opposed to legal mother.[from Latin generare, ‘beget’ + -trix, feminine suffix; lit. physical or genetic mother]. ~ (Online Neoteric Dictionary). • [Editorial Note]: The word “genetrix” is very useful, on occasion, to be able to refer dispassionately to being a female biological parent or to denote such genetic maternity without the affectuous connotations (as in ‘maternal feelings’ or ‘motherly instinct’, ‘nurturant’, ‘nourishing’, ‘comfortive’ and so forth) which the more common word mother popularly expresses. Similarly, the term “my genetrix” is also very useful, on occasion, to refer dispassionately to one’s female genetic parent or to denote such biological maternity without the affectional connotations (as in “blood is thicker than water” or “the bonds of kinship” or “the ties that bind”) which the more common phrase “my mother” popularly expresses. Gregarity: gregarity (n.): the quality of being gregarious; having a dislike of being alone; sociability, sociableness (=‘the relative tendency or disposition to be sociable or associate with one’s fellows’); (adv.): gregariously; (n.): gregariousness, gregarian. [Latin gregārius, ‘belonging to a flock’, from grex, greg-, ‘flock’]. ~ (Online Neoteric Dictionary). Hortation: • hortatory (adj.): encouraging; inciting; urging to some course of conduct or action: as, ‘a hortatory address’; ‘a hortatory style’; [e.g.]: “I also send you here another hortatory letter, written in Latin, to the brethren who are embracing Christ with the cross”. (Bishop Ridley, in “Bradford’s Letters”; Parker Soc., 1853, II. 207); “He animated his souldiers with many hortatorie orations”. (Philemon Holland, 1552-1637, tr. of Ammianus Marcellinus’ “Res Gestae”, p. 202). [= Spanish hortatorio (rare), from Late Latin hortatorius, ‘encouraging’, ‘cheering’, from hortator, ‘an encourager’, ‘exhorter’, from hortari; see hortation]. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia). • hortatory (adj.): marked by exhortation or strong urging; [e.g.]: “It was a hortatory speech”. [Late Latin hortātōrius, from Latin hortātus, ‘exhorted’, past participle of hortārī, ‘to exhort’]. ~ (American Heritage Dictionary). • hortatory (adj.): tending to exhort; encouraging; (n.): hortation; (adv.): hortatorily, hortatively. [C16: from Late Latin hortātōrius, ‘encouraging’, from Latin hortārī, ‘to exhort’]. ~ (Collins English Dictionary). • hortatory (adj.): urging to some course of conduct or action; exhorting; encouraging: a hortatory speech; (adv.): hortatorily. [1580-90; from Late Latin hortātōrius, ‘encouraging’, from hortā(rī), ‘to exhort’ + -tōrius, ‘-tory¹’]. ~ (Webster’s College Dictionary). • hortatory (adj.): giving strong encouragement; (synonyms): exhortative, exhortatory, hortative; (related word): encouraging (giving courage or confidence or hope; [e.g.]: “they were encouraging advances in medical research”). ~ (Princeton’s WordNet 3.0). • hortation (n.): the act of exhorting, or giving advice and encouragement; exhortation. [from Latin hortatio(n-), from hortari, ‘urge strongly’, ‘incite’, ‘encourage’, contraction of koritari, frequentiveof hori, ‘urge’, ‘incite’; cf. dehort, exhort]. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia). • hortative (adj. and n.): I. (adj.): giving exhortation; encouraging; inciting; II.† (n.): an address intended to incite or encourage; an exhortation; [e.g.]: “For soldiers, I find the generals, commonly, in their hortatives, put men in mind of their wives and children”. (Francis Bacon, “Of Marriage and Single Life”, 1884); “In hortatives and pleadings, as truth or disguise serveth best to the design in hand, so is the judgement or the fancy most required”. (Thomas Hobbes, 1588-1679, “De Homine (On Man)”, 1658, i. 8). [= Old French hortatif = Portuguese hortativo (rare), from Latin hortaticus, ‘that serves for encouragement’, from hortari, ‘encourage’, ‘incite’: see hortation]. ~ (Seventh Dictionary). Hortatively: • hortative (adj. and n.): I. (adj.): giving exhortation; encouraging; inciting; II.†. an address intended to incite or encourage; an exhortation; [e.g.]: “For soldiers, I find the generals, commonly, in their hortatives, put men in mind of their wives and children”. (Francis Bacon, “Of Marriage and Single Life”, 1884); “In hortatives and pleadings, as truth or disguise serveth best to the design in hand, so is the judgement or the fancy most required”. (Thomas Hobbes, 1588-1679, “De Homine (On Man)”, 1658, i. 8). [= Old French hortatif = Portuguese hortativo (rare), from Latin hortaticus, ‘that serves for encouragement’, from hortari, ‘encourage’, ‘incite’: see hortation]. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia). • hortatively (adv.): in a hortative manner (viz.: urging to some course of conduct or action; exhorting; encouraging; [e.g.]: “Speaking hortatively he urged action soonest”); (synonym): hortatorily. [from Late Latin hortātōrius, ‘encouraging’, from Latin hortātus, past participle of hortārī, ‘to urge’, ‘to exhort’]. ~ (Online Neoteric Dictionary). • hortatory (adj.): encouraging; inciting; urging to some course of conduct or action: as, a hortatory address; a hortatory style; [e.g.]: “I also send you here another hortatory letter, written in Latin, to the brethren who are embracing Christ with the cross”. (Bishop Ridley, in “Bradford’s Letters”; Parker Soc., 1853, II. 207); “He animated his souldiers with many hortatorie orations”. (Philemon Holland, 1552-1637, tr. of Ammianus Marcellinus’ “Res Gestae”, p. 202). [= Old French hortatif = Portuguese hortativo (rare), from Latin hortaticus, ‘that serves for encouragement’, from hortari, ‘encourage’, ‘incite’: see hortation]. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia). • hortation (n.): the act of exhorting, or giving advice and encouragement; exhortation. [from Latin hortatio(n-), from hortari, ‘urge strongly’, ‘incite’, ‘encourage’, contraction of koritari, frequentative of hori, ‘urge’, ‘incite’; cf. dehort, exhort]. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia). Ipso Factoid: [§]ipso factoid (adv.): by the factoid itself; by that very factoid⁽⁰¹⁾; [e.g.]: “Despite her evidential innocence she was, ipso factoid⁽⁰²⁾, charged with a felony”. [Ultra-Modern Latin ipsō factōid; from Latin ipsō, ablative of ipse, ‘itself’ + factō, ablative of factum, ‘fact’ + -oid, from Greek suffix -oeidēs, ‘resembling’, ‘form of’, derivative of eîdos, ‘form’]. ~ (Online Neoteric Dictionary). ⁽⁰¹⁾factoid (n.): an item of unreliable information which is reported and repeated so often it becomes accepted as fact; [e.g.]: “He addresses the facts and factoids which have buttressed the film’s legend”; “And on and on he goes like this for two pages of second hand factoids and observations which never rise above the pseudo-intellectual”; “How factoids and information overload are used to blur the line between crises and light news, so every event becomes a panic situation”; “Several days, here and at other companies, I hear this factoid repeated like a campaign talking point”; “I’m informed from a usually reliable source how a factoid is an empirical claim which is often repeated but is in fact false”; “I don’t know whether this item is a factoid or a fact”; “When does a piece of data go from being a factoid to being a fact?” [emphases added]. ~ (Oxford English Dictionary). ⁽⁰²⁾The neoteric adverb, ipso factoid, was coined as play on the Latin tag “ipso facto”⁽⁰³⁾ (lit. ‘by the fact itself’)—a term of art, used in philosophy, law, and science, which means a certain outcome is a direct consequence, a resultant effect, of the subject in question, instead of being brought about by some other effector—hence “ipso factoid” (i.e., ‘by the factoid itself’) which means a certain outcome is a direct consequence, a resultant effect, of the factoid in question (e.g., of a fiction having assumed the status of a ‘fact’ via nescience; of spin being naïvely taken as true; of a belief transmogrifying into a ‘truth’ a.k.a. ‘truthiness’ or, colloquially, of bull baffling brains) instead of being brought about by that which is actual, substantive, and thus factual. ⁽⁰³⁾ipso facto (adv.): by the fact itself; by that very fact; [e.g.]: “An alien, ipso facto, has no right to a US passport”. [New Latin ipsō factō; from Latin ipsō, ablative of ipse, ‘itself’ + Latin factō, ablative of factum, ‘fact’]. ~ (American Heritage Dictionary). Magicality: magicality (n.): the condition or quality of being magical; [e.g.]: “A final play, ‘Magicality’, about a fit-up touring company in the 1940s and 1950s, received a reading at a 2012 Dalkey festival but had not been produced or published by 2014”. (“Hugh Leonard”, by Patrick Maume; published Dec 2014, Dictionary of Irish Biography). [from magical +‎ -ity]. ~ (Online Neoteric Dictionary). [https://www.dib.ie/biography/leonard-hugh-a9703]. Neo-Ludditean: neo-ludditean (n.; lowercase): 1. (derogatory): opposition to labour-saving technological advances; 2. (historical): born out of eighteenth-century opposition to the Industrial Revolution by textile workers presciently fearing for their livelihoods; also called Neo-Luddism. [origin: neo-, ‘new’ + luddite, from ‘Luddite’ (from Ludd + -ite, after either Ned Ludd, a completely fictional persona, or an imaginary General Ludd aka King Ludd, who reputedly lived in Sherwood Forest like Robin Hood) +‎ -an, suffix (forming adjectives and nouns) typical of or resembling; [e.g.]: Ricardian, Wodehousean, Aristotelian]. ~ (Online Neoteric Dictionary). Paltericity: paltericity (n.): 1. shiftiness, trickiness, babblement; as in, the speech or behaviour of a palterer⁽⁰¹⁾; 2. palterly language or conduct; viz.: palterly (adv.): in the manner of a palterer (i.e., a shifty trickster, an insincere trifler, an equivocatory babbler). ~ (Online Neoteric Dictionary). ⁽⁰¹⁾palterer (n.): one who palters⁽⁰²⁾ or equivocates; an insincere dealer; a shifty person; a trifler; a trickster; [e.g.]: “There be of you, it may be, that will account me a palterer, for hanging out the sign of the red-herring in my title-page, and no such feast towards for aught you can see”. (Thomas Nashe, “Nashe’s Lenten Stuffe”⁽*⁾, 1599; London); “Vile palterer with the sacred truth of God, | Be thy soul choked with that blaspheming lie!” (Percy Bysshe Shelley, “The Cenci, A Tragedy, in Five Acts”, 1819). ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia). ⁽*⁾ [http://www.oxford-shakespeare.com/Nashe/Nashes_Lenten_Stuff.pdf]. ⁽⁰²⁾palter (v.): I. (intr.v.): 1. to talk in a trifling manner; babble; 2. to talk insincerely; equivocate; trifle; shift; use trickery; II. (tr.v.): 1. to fashion by trickery; patch up; 2. to trifle away; use or spend in a paltry manner; squander. [formerly also paulter]. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia). Paltericity: • paltericity (n.): 1. shiftiness, trickiness, babblement; as in, the speech or behaviour of a palterer⁽⁰¹⁾; 2. palterly language or conduct; viz.: palterly (adv.): in the manner of a palterer (i.e., a shifty trickster, an insincere trifler, an equivocatory babbler). ~ (Online Neoteric Dictionary). ⁽⁰¹⁾palterer (n.): one who palters⁽⁰²⁾ or equivocates; an insincere dealer; a shifty person; a trifler; a trickster; [e.g.]: “There be of you, it may be, that will account me a palterer, for hanging out the sign of the red-herring in my title-page, and no such feast towards for aught you can see”. (Thomas Nashe, “Nashe’s Lenten Stuffe”, 1599; London); “Vile palterer with the sacred truth of God, | Be thy soul choked with that blaspheming lie!” (Percy Bysshe Shelley, “The Cenci, A Tragedy, in Five Acts”, 1819). ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia). ⁽⁰²⁾palter (v.): I. (intr.v.): 1. to talk in a trifling manner; babble; 2. to talk insincerely; equivocate; trifle; shift; use trickery; II. (tr.v.): 1. to fashion by trickery; patch up; 2. to trifle away; use or spend in a paltry manner; squander. [formerly also paulter]. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia). • palter (intr.v.; paltered, paltering, palters; archaic): 1. to talk or act insincerely or misleadingly; equivocate (viz.: to use equivocal language in an attempt to mislead; (synonyms): lie², equivocate, fib, prevaricate; these verbs mean to evade or depart from the truth; [e.g.]: “a witness who lied under oath”; “she didn’t equivocate about her real purpose”; “the youngster fibbed to escape being scolded”; “he didn’t prevaricate but answered honestly”); 2. to be capricious; trifle; 3. to quibble, especially in bargaining; (n.): palterer. [origin unknown]. ~ (American Heritage Dictionary). • palter (intr.v.): 1. to act or talk insincerely; 2. to haggle; (n.): palterer. [C16: of unknown origin]. ~ (Collins English Dictionary). • palter (intr.v.): 1. to talk or act insincerely or deceitfully; 2. to haggle; 3. to act carelessly; trifle. [1595-1605; of uncertain orig]. ~ (Webster’s College Dictionary). • palter (v.): be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information; (synonyms): beat around the bush, equivocate, prevaricate, tergiversate; misinform, mislead (give false or misleading information to). ~ (Princeton’s WordNet 3.0). • palter (v.): 1. to stray from truthfulness or sincerity; (synonyms): equivocate, prevaricate, shuffle; 2. to argue about the terms, as of a sale; (synonyms): bargain, dicker, haggle, higgle, huckster, negotiate. ~ (American Heritage Roget’s Thesaurus). • palter (v.): deal crookedly or evasively; use trickery. ~ (Oxford English Dictionary). • palter (v.): to act insincerely or deceitfully. ~ (Merriam-Webster Dictionary). • palter (v.): to talk or act insincerely or deceitfully; lie or use trickery. ~ (Info-Please English Dictionary). • palter (v.): to act or talk insincerely or deceitfully. ~ (Encarta English Dictionary). • palter (v.; palters, paltering, paltered): 1. to talk insincerely; to prevaricate or equivocate in speech or actions; [e.g.]: “Romans, that have spoke the word, | And will not palter”. (Shakespeare); “Who never sold the truth to serve the hour, | Nor paltered with eternal God for power”. (Tennyson); “But, with a gesture, she put a period to this dalliance—one shouldn’t palter so on an empty stomach, she might almost have said”. (page 98, “Piracy; A Romantic Chronicle of These Days”, Michael Arlen (1895-1956); 1923, George H. Doran Company); “I would prevaricate and palter in my usual plausible way, but, this being Cambridge, such stratagems would cut no ice with my remorseless and (in my imagination) gleefully malicious interrogator, who would stare at me with gimlet eyes and say in a harsh voice that crackled with mocking laughter: ‘Excuse me, but do you even know who Lermontov is?’” (“The Fry Chronicles”, by Stephen Fry; 2010); 2. (now rare): to trifle; [e.g.]: “Now palter out your time in the penal statutes”. (Beaumont and Fletcher); “He waited and waited, in the faith that Schinkel was dealing with them in his slow, categorical Teutonic way, and only objurgated the cabinet-maker for having in the first place paltered with his sacred trust. Why hadn’t he come straight to him—whatever the mysterious document was—instead of talking it over with French featherheads?” (from “The Princess Casamassima”, by Henry James; 1886); “Don’t palter with the second rate”. (page 100, “Jacob’s Room”, by Virginia Woolf; 1922, Vintage Classics, paperback edition); 3. to haggle; 4. to babble; to chatter; (n.): palterer; (alternative form): paulter. [origin & history: probably from *palter, ‘rag’, ‘trifle’, ‘worthless thing’, from Middle Low German palter, ‘rag’, ‘cloth’; more at paltry; viz.: from Middle Low German paltrig, ‘ragged’, ‘rubbishy’, ‘worthless’, from palter, palte, ‘cloth’, ‘rag’, ‘shred’, from Old Saxon *paltro, *palto, ‘cloth’, ‘rag’, from Proto-Germanic *paltrô, *paltô, ‘scrap’, ‘rag’, ‘patch’; cognate with Low German palterig, ‘ragged’, ‘torn’, German dialectal palterig, ‘paltry’; cf. also Low German palte, ‘rag’, West Frisian palt, ‘rag’, Saterland Frisian Palte, ‘strip’, ‘band’, ‘tape’, German dialectal Palter, ‘rag’, Danish pjalt‎, ‘rag’, ‘tatter’, Swedish palta, ‘rag’; see also palterly; viz.: from *palter, ‘a rag’, ‘worthless thing’, from Middle Low German palter, ‘rag’, ‘cloth’]. ~ (Word-Sense Online Dictionary). __________ Random Literary Examples. • “She was embarrassed to discover that excitement at the proximity of Mr Clare’s breath and eyes, which she had contemned in her companions, was intensified in herself; and as if fearful of betraying her secret she paltered with him at the last moment...”. [italics added]. ~ (page 186, Chapter Twenty-Three: ‘The Rally’, in “Tess of the d’Urbervilles; A Pure Woman”, by Thomas Hardy (1840-1928); 1891, James R. Osgood, McIlvaine & Co., London). • “I have seen them myself”, snapped the Justice. “They are very conspicuous. And I would warn you, sir, that if you palter with the truth in such little matters you may darken your more important statements with suspicion...”. [italics added]. ~ (“The Night-Born”, by Jack London, First American edition published by The Century Company in 1913. • “I could not lift him up, of course; but I rolled him over, and poured water down his back. He presently came to, and said: ‘Thirty-five yards—without a rest? But why ask? Since murder was that man’s intention, why should he palter with small details? But mark you one thing: in my fall the world shall see how the chivalry of France meets death’...”. [italics added]. ~ (page 68, Chapter Eight: ‘The Great French Duel’, in “A Tramp Abroad, Volume One”, by Mark Twain (1835-1910): 1880, Harper & Brothers, New York, London). • “Mortification at the overthrow of his notable scheme; hatred of the girl who had dared to palter with strangers; and utter distrust of the sincerity of her refusal to yield him up; bitter disappointment at the loss of his revenge on Sikes; the fear of detection, and ruin, and death; and a fierce and deadly rage kindled by all; these were the passionate considerations which, following close upon each other with rapid and ceaseless whirl, shot through the brain of Fagin, as every evil thought and blackest purpose lay working at his heart...”. [italics added]. ~ (page 351, Chapter Forty-Seven: ‘Fatal Consequences’, in “Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy’s Progress”, by Charles Dickens (1812-1870); 1838). Parity: parity (n.; pl. parities): the state, action or quality of being on a par; an equivalence of status, level or value; correspondence, similarity; (n.): paritarian. ~ (Online Neoteric Dictionary). Perversive: perversive (adj.): tending to corrupt or pervert; [e.g.]: “Collective laissez-faire gives room for perversive behaviours in the electoral process”; (synonyms): corruptive, pestiferous, contaminative; [e.g.]: “A pestiferous malignancy corrupted the entire mail-in ballot-count”; “Unaccountable money suffused their corruptive policies with meanness”; “Free handouts, contaminative throughout the electoral system, perverted its integrity”; (related terms): malevolence, wickedness; evil (vile iniquity or flagitious depravity); [e.g.]: “The whole enterprise was infused with malevolence”; “It was an all-pervasive wickedness”; “Once set in motion the evil deeds multiplied exponentially”). [1690, from Latin pervertere, ‘to overturn’, ‘subvert’, from per- (indicative of deviation) + vertere, ‘to turn’]. ~ (Online Neoteric Dictionary). Phantasmicality: phantasmicality (n.): of, resembling or characteristic of a phantasma (=not existing in nature or subject to explanation according to natural laws; not physical or material); [e.g.]: “Thus, the phantasmicality of the spirit in an apparent-body has become quite solid and popular once again”. (page 57⁽⁰¹⁾, “The Unique and Its Property”, by Max Stirner; translated 2017, Underworld Amusements, Baltimore {first published in 1844; lit. ‘The Individual and His Property’, by Johann Kaspar Schmidt, 1806-1856⁽⁰²⁾}. [circa 1200; Middle English fantesme, from Old French from Latin phantasma , from Greekphántasma, ‘image’, ‘vision’]. [curly-bracketed insert added] ~ (Online Neoteric Dictionary). ⁽⁰¹⁾ [https://archive.org/details/StirnerTheUniqueAndItsProperty/page/n57/mode/1up]. ⁽⁰²⁾ [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ego_and_Its_Own]. Plasma: plasma, also plasm (n.): plasmas are produced by very high temperatures, as in the sun and other stars, and also by the ionisation resulting from exposure to an electric current, as in a fluorescent light bulb or a neon sign; plasma is distinct from solids, liquids, and gases (adj.): plasmatic, plasmic. [from Late Latin, ‘image, figure’, from Greek plásma, from plássein, ‘to form’, ‘to mould’, ‘something moulded or formed’]. [emphasis added] ~ (Online Neoteric Dictionary). Presentiation: presentiation (n.): the act of presentiating (making present) or state of being presentiated (made present). * The word presentiation = Vergegenwärtigung (as per Mr. Edmund Husserl). • [quote]: ‘(...) he uses the term Vergegenwärtigung, translated as ‘representation’ or as ‘presentification’ or ‘presentiation’ to distinguish it from ‘presentation’ (Vorstellung), which in everyday German suggests the process of ‘calling to mind’, ‘visualising’ or ‘conjuring up an image in one’s mind’, to characterise quite a number of processes – including not just imagining, but remembering and also empty intending – which are to be contrasted with the full presence of the intended object in a genuine ‘presenting’ or ‘presencing’ (Gegenwärtigung). Here, some familiarity with Husserl’s overall theory of intuiting is needed to understand fully what is at stake’. (www.academia.edu/10194179/The_Husserl_Dictionary). Here are some dictionary definitions. Viz.: • presentiate (v.t.): make or render present in place or time; to cause to be perceived or realised as present. [now rare. 1659. perh. fr. present + ate‹3›, after different, differentiate]. ~ (Oxford English Dictionary). • presentiate (vt.): to make present. ~ (Knowles 1851 Dictionary). • presentiated (pp.): made present. ~ (Knowles 1851 Dictionary). • presential (a.): supposing actual presence. ~ (Knowles 1851 Dictionary). • presentiality (n.): state of being present. ~ (Knowles 1851 Dictionary). • presentially (ad.): in a way which supposes actual presence. ~ (Knowles 1851 Dictionary). • presentiating (ppr.): making present. ~ (Knowles 1851 Dictionary). (viz.: https://archive.org/stream/criticalpronounc00knowrich#page/516/mode/1up). Plus that other word, ‘presentification’, introduced in the ‘Husserl Dictionary’ quote (presentific = presentiate). Viz.: • presentifick (a.): making present. ~ (Knowles 1851 Dictionary). • presentifickally (ad.): in such a manner as to make present. ~ (Knowles 1851 Dictionary). • presentific (a.): making present. ~ (Webster’s 1913 Dictionary). • presentificly (adv.): in such a manner as to make present. [Not in use]. ~ (Webster’s 1828 Dictionary). Presentiate; Presentiation; Presentific; Presentification: • presentiate (tr.v.): to make present. ~ (Webster’s 1913 Dictionary). • presentiate (v.t.): make or render present in place or time; to cause to be perceived or realised as present. [now rare; 1659; perhaps from present + ate³, after different, differentiate]. ~ (Oxford English Dictionary). • presentiate (tr.v.): to make present. ~ (Knowles 1851 Dictionary). • presentiate† (tr.v.): to make present or actual; [e.g.]: “The phancy may be so cleer and strong as to presentiate upon one theatre all that ever it took notice of in time past”. (Nehemiah Grew, 1641-1712, “Cosmologia Sacra”, 1701, iii. 4). [from Latin praesentia, ‘presence’ (see presence) + -ate²]. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia). • presentiated (pp.): made present.~ (Knowles 1851 Dictionary). • presential (a.): supposing actual presence. ~ (Knowles 1851 Dictionary). • presentiality (n.): state of being present. ~ (Knowles 1851 Dictionary). • presentially (ad.): in a way which supposes actual presence. ~ (Knowles 1851 Dictionary). • presentiating (ppr.): making present. ~ (Knowles 1851 Dictionary). • presentiation (n.): the act of presentiating (i.e., making present) or state of being presentiated (i.e., made present); (synonym): Vergegenwärtigung (after Edmund Husserl; q.v.). [from presentiat(e), ‘make present’ + -ion, Middle English, from Old French, from Latin -iō, ‘-iōn’, nounal suffix]. ~ (Online Neoteric Dictionary). • Vergegenwärtigung (n.): Husserl uses the term Vergegenwärtigung, translated as ‘representation’ or as ‘presentification’ or ‘presentiation’ to distinguish it from ‘presentation’ (Vorstellung), which in everyday German suggests the process of ‘calling to mind’, ‘visualising’ or ‘conjuring up an image in one’s mind’, to characterise quite a number of processes – including not just imagining, but remembering and also empty intending – which are to be contrasted with the full presence of the intended object in a genuine ‘presenting’ or ‘presencing’ (Gegenwärtigung). Here, some familiarity with Husserl’s overall theory of intuiting is needed to understand fully what is at stake. ~ (The Husserl Dictionary). • presentific† (adj.): making present; [e.g.]: “Adam had a sense of the divine presence; ... notwithstanding that he found no want of any covering to hide himself from that presentifick sense of him”. (Dr. Henry More, 1614-1687, “Defence of the Philosophic Cabbala”, ii). [from Latin praesenten(t-)s, ‘present’ + -ficus, ‘making’, see -fic]. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia). • presentifical† (adj.): same as presentific. [from presentific + -al]. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia). • presentificly† (adv.): in a presentific manner; in such a manner as to make present; [e.g.]: “The whole evolution of times and ages... is collectedly and presentifickly represented to God at once, as if all things and actions were at this very instant really present and existent before him”. (Dr. Henry More, 1614-1687). ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia). • presentification (n.): the act of making something present to one’s consciousness, but not outside of it (by way of memory, apperception, etc.). ~ (Wiktionary English Dictionary). Progenitor: • progenitor (n.): 1. a person from whom another person, a family, or a race is descended; 2. an ancestor; a parent; a procreator. [from Latin progignere, ‘beget’ + -or, suffix forming agent nouns); lit. ‘begetter’ or ‘ancestor’]. ~ (Online Neoteric Dictionary). • [Editorial Note]: The term “my progenitors” is quite apt, on occasion, to refer dispassionately to one’s biological parents or to denote such genetic parentage without the affectional connotations (as in ‘blood is thicker than water’ or ‘the bonds of kinship’ or ‘the ties that bind’) which the more common phrase “my parents” popularly expresses. Similarly, the word “progenitor” (also “progenitrix”) is also quite apt, on occasion, when referring dispassionately to being a biological parent or to denote such genetic parentage without the affectuous connotations (as in ‘parental love’ or ‘maternalistic’ or ‘paternalistic’, or ‘protective’ and/or ‘provisionary’, or ‘supportive’ and/or ‘indulgent’, and so on) which the more common word “parent” popularly expresses. As is the case with the word procreator (more on this further below). Puissant, Puissance • puissant (adj.): powerful; having great power or force or potency or effect; (adv.): puissantly; [e.g.]: “They sheltered awestruck by the puissant intensity of the cyclonic winds”. [from Old French puissant, poiseant, ‘powerful’, from Latin potis, ‘able’, ‘powerful’, originally ‘a lord’, ‘a master’ (cf. Greek *πότις, later πόσις, originally ‘master’, ‘lord’) ultimately from Latin potēns, ‘mighty’, from posse, ‘to have power’]. ~ (Online Neoteric Dictionary). • puissance (n.): power to influence or coerce; potency, powerfulness; [e.g.]: “A hegemonic nation projects its puissance all throughout its neighbouring regions”; “The puissance of a single member nation is not necessarily incompatible with a genuine commonwealth of nations”; “The extraordinary puissance of his personality shone through the address”; “Given the prior lacklustre situation his recent activities and direct action have added considerable puissance to the movement; (synonyms): power, potency, might, strength, energy, vigour, muscle, force, forcefulness; capacity, control, authority; cogency, impressiveness, persuasiveness, influence, sway; effectiveness, efficacy; potential. [from Old French puissant, poiseant, ‘powerful’; ultimately from Latin potēns, ‘mighty’, from posse, ‘to have power’]. ~ (Online Neoteric Dictionary). Rememorance/ Rememoraunce: • rememorance (n.): remembrance; [e.g.]: “Nowe menne it call, by all rememoraunce, Constantyne noble, wher to dwell he did enclyne”. (John Hardyng, 1378-1465, “Hardyng’s Chronicle”, f. 50; James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps: “A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words”, page 676). [Middle English rememoraunce, a variation, after Medieval Latin *rememorantia, of remembraunce; see remembrance⁽*⁾]. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia). __________ ⁽*⁾remembrance (n.): 1. the act of remembering; the keeping of a thing in mind or recalling it to mind; a revival in the mind or memory; [e.g.]: “All knowledge is but remembrance”. (Francis Bacon, “Advancement of Learning”, i. 2); “Remembrance is but the reviving of some past knowledge”. (John Locke, 1632-1704, “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding”, 1690, IV. i. 9); “Remembrance and reflection, how allied; | What thin partitions sense from thought divide!” (Alexander Pope, “An Essay on Man”, 1733-34, i. 225); 2. the power or faculty of remembering; memory; also, the limit of time over which the memory extends; [e.g.]: “Thee I have heard relating what was done | Ere my remembrance”. (John Milton, “Paradise Lost”, viii. 204); “When the word perception is used properly and without any figure, it is never applied to things past. And thus it is distinguished from remembrance”. (Thomas Reid, 1710-1796, “Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man”, 1786, i. 1); 3. the state of being remembered; the state of being held honourably in memory; [e.g.]: “The righteous shall be in everlasting remembrance”. (Ps. cxii. 6); “Grace and remembrance be to you both”. (William Shakespeare, “The Winter’s Tale”, iv. 4. 76); “O scenes in strong remembrance set! | Scenes never; never to return! | Scenes if in stupor I forget, | Again I feel, again I burn! | From every joy and pleasure torn, | Life’s weary vale I wander through; | And hopeless, comfortless, I will mourn | A faithless woman’s broken vow!” (Robert Burns, “The Lament”); 4. that which is remembered; a recollection; [e.g.]: “How sharp the point of this remembrance is!” (William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, v. 1. 138); “The sweet remembrance of the just | Shall flourish when he sleeps in dust”. (Tare and Brady, Ps. cxii. 6); 5. that which serves to bring to or keep in mind; [e.g.]: “I pray, Sir, be my continual remembrance to the Throne of grace”. (William Bradford, in Appendix to “New England’s Memorial”, p. 435); (a) an account preserved; a memorandum or note to preserve or assist the memory; a record; mention; [e.g.]: “Auferius, the welebelouyd kyng | That was of Ynd, and ther had his dwellyng | Till he was puttc [from] his enheritaunce, | Wherof be fore was made remembraunce”. (Generydes; E. E. T. S., 1. 2177); “Let the understanding reader take with him three or four short remembrances. ... The memorandums I would commend to him are these”. (William Chillingworth, “The Religion of Protestants, Answer to Fifth Chapter”, § 29); (b) a monument; a memorial; [e.g.]: “And it is of trouthe, as they saye there, and as it is assygned by token of a fayre stone layde for remembraunce, yt our blessyd Lady and seynt John Euangelyste stode not aboue vpon the hyghest pte of the Mounte of Caluery at the passyon of our Lord”. (Sir Richard Guylforde, “Pylgrymage to The Holy Land”, 1506, p. 27); “If I neuer deserue anye better remembraunce, let mee ... be epitaphed the Inuentor of the English Hexameter”. (Gabriel Harvey, 1552-1631, “Foure Letters and certaine Sonnets”, 1592); (e) a token by which one is kept in the memory; a keep-sake; [e.g.]: “I am glad I have found this napkin; | This was her first remembrance from the Moor”. (William Shakespeare, “Othello”, iii. 8. 291); “I pray you accept | This small remembrance of a father’s thanks | For so assur’d a benefit”. (Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, “Love’s Pilgrimage”, v. 2); 6. the state of being mindful; thought; regard; consideration; notice of something absent; [e.g.]: “In what place that euer I be in, the moste remembraunce that I shall hane shah be vpon yow, and on yowre nedes”. (Merlin; E. E. T. S., i. 49); “We with wisest sorrow think on him, | Together with remembrance of ourselves”. (William Shakespeare, “Hamlet”, i. 2. 7); “The Puritans, to keep the remembrance of their unity one with another, and of their peaceful compact with the Indians, named their forest settlement Concord”. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Historical Discourse at Concord”, 1835); 7†. admonition; reminder; [e.g.]: “I do commit into your hand | The unstained sword that you have used to bear; | With this remembrance, that you use the same | With the like bold, just, and impartial spirit | As you have done ’gainst me”. (William Shakespeare, “2 Henry IV.”, v. 2. 115); clerks of the remembrance: see remembrancer; 2. to make remembrance: to bring to remembrance; recount; relate; (synonyms): 1, 2, and 4., recollection, reminiscence, etc.; see memory; viz.: memory, recollection, remembrance, reminiscence; memory is the general word for the faculty or capacity itself; recollection and remembrance are different kinds of exercise of the faculty; reminiscence, also, is used for the exercise of the faculty, but less commonly, and then it stands for the least energetic use of it, the matter seeming rather to be suggested to the mind; the correctness of the use of memory for that which is remembered has been disputed; the others are freely used for that which is remembered; in either sense, recollection implies more effort, more detail, and more union of objects in wholes, than remembrance does; reminiscence is used chiefly of past events, rarely of thoughts, words, or scenes, while recollection is peculiarly appropriate for the act of recalling mental operations; see remember; viz.: remember implies that a thing exists in the memory, not that it is actually present in the thoughts at the moment, but that it recurs without effort; recollect means that a fact, forgotten or partially lost to memory, is after some effort recalled and present to the mind; remembrance is the store-house, recollection the act of culling out this article and that from the repository; [e.g.]: “He remembers everything he hears, and can recollect any statement when called on”; the words, however, are often confounded, and we say we cannot remember a thing when we mean we cannot recollect it. [early modern English also remembraunce; from Middle English remembrance, remembraunce, from Old French remembrance, remembraunce, French remembrance = Provinçal remembransa = Spanish remembranza = Portuguese remembrança, lembrança = Italian rimembranza,from Medieval Latin as if *remorantia, from rememorare, ‘remember’, ‘recall to mind’, from re-, ‘again’ + memorare, ‘bring to remembrance’, ‘mention’, ‘recount’, from memor, ‘remembering’, ‘mindful’]. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia). __________ • rememoraunce (n.): rememorance, rememoration; remembrance; [e.g.]: “And then cometh the sone hom with alle his frendes and maketh hem a gret feste. And the sone leteth make clene his fadir his heed (=father’s head). And the flessh of the heed, he sherith (=carves) hit and yif (=gives) hit to his moste special frendes, every man a litel, for a gret denté (=delicacy). And of the skulle of the hed the sone leteth make a coppe, and therof drynketh he al his lyfftyme (=lifetime) in rememoraunce of his fader. And fro thenne to go ten journeys thorgh the lond of the Gret Chane is a wel good ile and a gret kyngdom”. (from Chapter Twenty-Second: ‘Aray of The Court of Prester John’, in “The Book of John Mandeville”, 1357-1371; Edited by Tamarah Kohanski and C. David Benson)”. ~ (Online Neoteric Dictionary). • rememorate† (tr.v.): to remember; revive in the memory; [e.g.]: “We shall ever find the like difficulties, whether we rememorate or learne anew”. (Lodowick Bryskett, “A Discourse of Civil Life”; 1606, p. 128). [from Late Latin rememoratus, pp. of rememorari, ‘remember’; from re-, ‘again’ + memorare, ‘bring to remembrance’, ‘mention’, ‘recount’, from memor, ‘remembering’, ‘mindful’]. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia). • rememorate (intr.v.; obs.): remind, remember; (n.; arch.): rememoration, rememorations. [origin of rememorate: Late Latin rememoratus, past participle of rememorari, ‘to remember’]. ~ (Merriam-Webster Dictionary). • rememorative† (adj.): recalling to mind; reminding; [e.g.]: “Forwhi, withoute rememoratijf signes of a thing, or of thingis, the rememoracioun, or the remembraunce, of thilk thing or thingis muste needis be the febler, as experience sufficientli witnessith; and therfore, sithen the bodi or the bonis or othere relikis of eny persoon is a fill nyȝ rememoratijf signe of the same persoon, it is ful resonable and ful worthi that where the bodi or bonis or eny releef or relik of a Seint mai be had, that it be sett up in a comoun place to which peple may haue her deuout neiȝing and accesse, for to haue her deuout biholding ther upon forte make the seid therbi remembraunce”. (Bishop Reginald Pecock, 1395-1460, in “The Repressor of Over Much Blaming of The Clergy”, p. 182; 1860, Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, London). [from French remémoratif = Spanish, Portuguese rememorativo; as rememorate + -ive]. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia). • rememoration† (n.): remembrance; [e.g.]: “The story requires a particular rememoration”. (Jeremy Taylor, “Works”; ed. 1835, II. 256). [early modern English rememoracious; from Old French rememoration, French remémoration, from Medieval Latin rememoration(n-), from Late Latin rememorari, ‘remember’; see remember, rememorate]. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia). • memorate† (tr.v.): to mention for remembrance; commemorate. [from Latin memoratus, pp. of memorare (hence Italian memorare = Spanish, Portuguese memorar = Old French membrer, menbrer, French mémorer), ‘bring to remembrance’, ‘mention’, ‘recount’, from memor, ‘remembering’; see memory; cf. commemorate and remember]. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia). • memorative (adj.): 1. of or pertaining to memory: as, the memorative faculty or power; 2. (archaic and rare) preserving or recalling the memory of something; aiding the memory; [e.g.]: “The mind doth secretly frame to itselfe memorative heads, whereby it recalls easily the same conceits”. (Bishop Hall, “Holy Observations”, No. 87); “Vernal weather to me most memorative”. (Thomas Carlyle, in “Life of Carlyle”, by James Anthony Froude). [= French mémoratif = Spanish, Portuguese, Italian memorativo; as memorate + -ive]. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia). Senectitude/ Senectitudineous: • senectitude (n.): old age; elderliness. [Medieval Latin senectitūdō, from Latin senectūs, from senex, ‘old’, ‘an elder’]. ~ (American Heritage Dictionary). • senectitude (n.; literary): old age. ~ (Collins English Dictionary). • senectitude (n.): the last stage of life; old age. [1790-1800; from Latin senect(ūs), ‘old age’ (senec-, extracted as singular from senex; genitive senis), ‘old man’ + -tūs, abstract nounal suffix]. ~ (Webster’s College Dictionary). • senectitude (n.): old age; (synonyms): age, agedness, elderliness, senescence, year (used in plural). ~ (American Heritage Roget’s Thesaurus). • senectitude (n.; rare): old age; [e.g.]: “Of senectitude, weary of its toils”. (Hugh Miller, “The Cruise of the Betsey”, 1862, chap x., p. 185). [from Medieval Latin senectitudo, for Latin senectus (senectut-), ‘old age’, from senex (sen-), ‘old’, ‘an old man’; compar senior, older; from senium, ‘old age’) = Sanskrit sana = Greek ἕνος, ‘old’; from the same Latin adjective are ultimately English senile, senior, signor, seignior, etc., sir, sire, sirrah, etc., and the same element exists in seneschal]. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia). • senectitude (n.): old age. ~ (Webster’s 1913 Dictionary). • senectitude (n.): the final stage of the normal life span. [etymology: borrowed from Medieval Latin senectitūdin-, senectitūdō, re-formation, with Latin -tūdin-, -tūdō, ‘-tude’, of Latin senectūt-, senectūs, ‘old age’, from senec-, variant stem of sen-, senex, ‘old’, ‘aged’ + -tūt-, ‘-tūs’, suffix of abstract nouns—more at senior²; first known use: 1796, in the meaning defined above]. ~ (Merriam-Webster Dictionary). • senectitude (n.): old age; (synonyms): elderliness, oldness; agedness, senescence; oldhood; vetustity (rare); ancientness; hoariness; eld; (idiomatic): twilight years, sunset years; golden years; (US, slang): geezerdom; codgerhood; fogeydom. [etymology: from Latin senectus, ‘aged’, ‘old age’, from senex, ‘old’; cf. senescent; viz.: from Latin senescens, present participle of senescere, ‘to grow old’, from senere, ‘to be old’, from senex, ‘old’]. ~ (Wiktionary English Dictionary). • senectitudinous (adj.): characterised by senectitude or eld (i.e., old age; olden times; antiquity); [e.g.]: “Read if you’re feeling introspective, nostalgic for your youth, or gently decaying and wanting someone similarly senectitudinous (albeit fictional) to relate to”. (Book review of “The Sense Of An Ending”, Julian Barnes, 2011, by Joseph Venable); “Right now I feel positively senectitudinous; I feel like I have put on about ten years in the last twenty-three months”. (HonketyHank; Feb-19-2022). [from senectitude, ‘eld’, ‘antiquity’ + -inous, probably via multitudinous, plenitudinous]. ~ (Online Neoteric Dictionary). __________ Random Literary Samples. • “The play opens as Lear, the King of Britain, now aged and willing to enjoy a nice and peaceful *senectitude,* decides to step down and share his kingdom evenly among his three daughters depending on the love they profess for him. The two elder daughters manage to make up beautiful hypocritical speeches (...). In her turn, Cordelia does not accept to parade her pure feelings of affection for her dear father (...) the king hastily decides to divide his entire kingdom to his two elder daughters, while Cordelia, hitherto the King’s favourite daughter, is disinherited and banished from the royal mansion”. [emphasis added]. ~ (from “Loss of Identity in King Lear and the Theatre of The Absurd”, by Sara Moldoveanu; July 1, 2014, Journal of Research in Gender Studies). • “Three-and-twenty years form a large portion of the short life of man—one-third, as nearly as can be expressed in unbroken numbers, of the entire term fixed by the psalmist, and full one-half, if we strike off the twilight periods of childhood and immature youth, and of *senectitude* weary of its toils”. [emphasis added]. ~ (page 185, Chapter Ten, “The Cruise of the Betsey”, by Hugh Miller, LL.D; 1862, Gould and Lincoln, Boston). • “For his part, George Lyttleton (a retired Eton master of seventy-two years) assumes the role of rusticated codger, full of Victorian prejudice. ‘In ten years’ time’, he predicts, ‘I shall be left high and dry by modern literature, and in writing to me you will feel you have joined the spiritualists and are communicating with a ghost’. Counters Rupert Hart-Davis (his former student, a distinguished man of letters): ‘Your fear of *senectitude* and hardening of the literary arteries seems to me morbid’”. [emphasis added]. ~ (from “The Lyttleton Hart-Davis Letters”, ed. Roger Hudson; 2001, The Akadine Press). • “The jejune fail to appreciate how *senectitude* does not necessarily mean decrepitude”. [emphasis added]. ~ (from an anonymous internet comments section; 2006). Sensual: sensual (adj.): carnal; lascivious; lacking moral restraints; [e.g.]: “Her sinuous dance was a sensual tour de force”; not to be confused with sensory (adj.): of or relating to the senses, or the power of sensation, and to the processes and structures within an organism which, receiving stimuli from the environment, convey them to the brain; (synonyms): sensible; sentient; sensate. ~ (Online Neoteric Dictionary). Sodomise: The transitive verb ‘sodomise’ is derived from the English noun ‘sodomy’ (which stems from Middle English (1250-1300) sodomie, from Old French Sodome, ‘Sodom’, from Latin Sodoma, from Greek, from Hebrew sədōm). ~ (Online Neoteric Dictionary). Sodomitical: The adjective “sodomitical” = the adjective “homosexual” (and stems from Middle English from Middle French from Late Latin Sodomīta from the Greek Sodomitēs). ~ (Online Neoteric Dictionary). Tophetic: • tophetic (adv.): 1. of, relating to, or characterised by tophets or Tophet (viz.: (a). the place of punishment for the wicked after death; hell; (synonyms): netherworld, nether region, infernal region, underworld, perdition, Inferno, Scheol, Hades; the pit; (b). (capitalised): in the Bible, a place outside Jerusalem where the Canaanites offered children as sacrifices to Moloch); 2. any hot or fiery location or event, as ‘this tophetic weather’; ‘those tophetic times’; [e.g.]: “These are Tophetic times. I doubt if the sturdy faith of those heroes, Shadrach and Co., would carry them through this fervour unliquefied”. (Prof. Elizabeth Hanscom; 1844); “Indeed, the Tophetic weather has reduced us all to a semi-liquid state. Yesterday Helen took off her clothes and sat in her skin all the afternoon”. (Miss Anne Sullivan; 1887). [Middle English tophet, from Hebrew tōpet, from Aramaic taphyā, ‘hearth’, ‘fireplace’, ‘roaster’ + -ic, suffix denoting of, relating to, or characterised by; e.g., seismic, allergic; periodic]. ~ (Online Neoteric Dictionary). • Tophet (n.): 1. in the Bible, a place outside Jerusalem where the Canaanites offered children as sacrifices to Moloch; 2. the place where wicked souls are punished after death; Hell. [Middle English, from Hebrew tōpet]. ~ (American Heritage Dictionary). • Tophet or Topheth (n.): in the Old Testament a place in the valley immediately to the southwest of Jerusalem; the Shrine of Moloch, where human sacrifices were offered. [from Hebrew Tōpheth; II Kings 23:10; Jeremiah 7:31-32]. ~ (Collins English Dictionary). • Tophet or Topheth (n.): 1. (in the Bible) a place near Jerusalem where children were offered as sacrifices to Moloch; 2. the place of punishment for the wicked after death; hell. [1350-1400; Middle English from Hebrew tōpheth, a place name]. ~ (Webster’s College Dictionary). • Tophet (n.): a term originating in the Hebrew Bible as a location in Jerusalem in the Gehinnom, where worshipers engaged in a ritual involving “passing a child through the fire”, most likely child sacrifice. Traditionally, the sacrifices have been ascribed to a god named Moloch. The Bible condemns and forbids these sacrifices, and the tophet is eventually destroyed by King Josiah, although mentions by the prophets Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and Isaiah suggest the practices associated with the tophet may have persisted. (...). There is currently a dispute as to whether these sacrifices were dedicated to Yahweh rather than a foreign deity. (...). The tophet and its location, Gehenna, later became associated with divine punishment in Jewish Apocalypticism. There is no consensus on the etymology of tophet, a word which may be derived from the Aramaic word taphyā meaning ‘hearth’, ‘fireplace’, or ‘roaster’, a proposal first made by W. Robertson Smith in 1887. (...). The tophet is attested eight times in the Hebrew Bible, mostly to designate a place of ritual fire or burning, but sometimes as a place name. The connection to ritual fire is made explicit in 2 Kings 23:10, Isaiah 30:33; and Jeremiah 7:31-32. ~ (2012 Wikipedia Encyclopaedia). __________ Random Literary Samples. • [Miss Anne Mansfield Sullivan (1866-1936) to Mrs. Sophia C. Hopkins]: “The heat makes Helen languid and quiet. Indeed, the Tophetic weather has reduced us all to a semi-liquid state. Yesterday Helen took off her clothes and sat in her skin all the afternoon. When the sun got round to the window where she was sitting with her book, she got up impatiently and shut the window. But when the sun came in just the same, she came over to me with a grieved look and spelled emphatically: ‘Sun is bad boy. Sun must go to bed’”. ~ (page 325, June 5, 1887; “The Story of My Life”, by Helen Keller, ‘With Her Letters (1887-1901)’, edited by John Albert Macy; 1903, Doubleday, Page & Company, New York). • [Prof. Elizabeth Hanscom]: “These are Tophetic times. I doubt if the sturdy faith of those heroes, Shadrach and Co., would carry them through this fervour unliquefied. Their much vaunted furnace was but a cool retreat where thoughts of greatcoats were possible, compared with this. And if that nether region of whose fires so much is sung by poets and other men possessed, can offer hotter heats, let them be produced. Those Purgatorial ardencies for the gentle suggestion of torment to their shades can have little in common with these perspiration-compelling torridities. Why does not some ingenious Yankee improve such times for the purchase, at a ruinous discount, of all thick clothes? I tremble lest some one should offer me an ice-cream for my best woollens! Is it human to resist such an offer? Does it not savour something of Devildom, and a too great familiarity with that lower Torrid Zone, to entertain such a proposition coolly when such a word grows suddenly obsolete in such seasons? If I venture to move, such an atmosphere of heat is created immediately around my body that all cool breezes (if the imagination is competent to such a conception) are like arid airs when they reach my mouth. Perhaps we are tending to those final, fiery days of which Miller is a prophet. We are slowly sinking, perhaps, from heat to heat, until entire rarefication and evanishment in imperceptible vapour ensues: and so the great experiment of a world may end in smoke, as many minor ones have ended. If it were not so hot, I should love to think about these things”. ~ (pp. 21-22, ‘To John S. Dwight, Concord, June 20, 1844’, in “The Friendly Craft; A Collection of American Letters”; by Elizabeth Deering Hanscom (1865-1960); 1908, The Macmillan Company, New York) (left-clicking the yellow rectangle with the capital ‘U’ opens a new web page). Weirdity: • weirdity (n.): 1. a weird person or thing; 2. a weird quality or characteristic; 3. the condition of being weird. ~ (Neoteric Online Dictionary). • weirdity (n.): 1. a weird or remarkably peculiar person, thing, or event; 2. a weird characteristic or trait; peculiarity; 3. the quality of being weird; weirdness or bizarrerie. ~ (Neoteric Online Dictionary). • weirdity (n.): 1. bizarre eccentricity which is not easily explained; weirdness; fantastic; bizarre; 2. a weird attitude or habit; weirdness. ~ (Neoteric Online Dictionary). • weirdity (n.): 1. bizarre eccentricity which is not easily explained; weirdness; fantastic; bizarre; 2. a weird attitude or habit; weirdness. ~ (Neoteric Online Dictionary). • weirdity (n.): like an oddity, but weird. [weird+-ity]. ~ (Neoteric Online Dictionary). 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