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| 1962 edition of Webster's New School & Office Dictionary |
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This page is nothing more than a VOCABULARY NOTEBOOK like the kind I used to keep when I was a junior bookworm back in school. I don't remember what teacher first assigned us a vocabulary notebook, but it was a habit I kept all through grade school and high school. I wish I still had those notebooks, which also listed books as I read them.
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SENESCENT FORCE: that which acts in a way that is peculiar to the aged. (From the Latin root sen, meaning old, come these related words: Senor, Senora, senate, and senile.)
PANJANDRUM: a person who has or claims to have a great deal of authority or influence.
For two agenda-crammed days and nights, high-powered panjandrums on all sides of the table raised the tropical humidity to oppressive levels with their grandiloquence and bombast.
~from CELEBRATING TIME ALONE: Stories of Splendid Solitude by Lionel Fisher
ONTOLOGICAL: the branch of metaphysics [see following] dealing with the nature of being. If we examine Kincaid's criticism earlier in the essay closely, we see that the ontological strategy she implicitly suggests is that we take seriously the realities of boundaries between the tourist and the toured other. ~from JIMMY BUFFETT AND PHILOSOPHY, "Meeting a Salty Piece of Land," by Celia T. Bardwell-Jones
METAPHYSICS: the branch of philosophy that deals with the first principles of things, including abstract concepts such as being, knowing, substance, cause, identity, time, and space. Metaphysics has two main strands: that which holds that what exists lies beyond experience (as argued by Plato), and that which holds that objects of experience constitute the only reality (as argued by Kant, the logical positivists, and Hume). Metaphysics has also concerned itself with a discussion of whether what exists is made of one substance or many, and whether what exists is inevitable or driven by chance.
