Seldom-used words - M to A

[AllardChardon]

Hello posters, I had company for the 4th of July that stayed a bit longer. I have recovered from it all and am back to the world of wordsmiths.

Here is a knight I am not familiar with;

Lohengrin - noun (1850) a son of Parsifal and knight of the Holy Grail in Germanic legend

 

[oggbashan]

Hello posters, I had company for the 4th of July that stayed a bit longer. I have recovered from it all and am back to the world of wordsmiths.

Here is a knight I am not familiar with;

Lohengrin - noun (1850) a son of Parsifal and knight of the Holy Grail in Germanic legend

Lohengrin is a knight in the German version of the King Arthur legends.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lohengrin

He is more often remembered as a title character in one of Wagner's Operas.

 

[AllardChardon]

Og, that was very interesting. I especially liked the reference to "Here comes the Bride".

Carlus, speaking of Wagner, I recently watched Ken Burns' documentary of Mark Twain and it said he did describe Wagner's music as mentioned before, so I am even more inclined to believe it.

logrolling - noun (1812) 1. [from a former American custom of neighbors assisting one another in rolling logs into a pile for burning]: the exchanging of assistance or favors; specifically: the trading of votes by legislators to secure favorable action on projects of interest to each one 2. the rolling of logs in water by treading; also: a sport in which contestants treading logs try to dislodge one another

 

[AllardChardon]

Hello, everyone. I tried to come on here last night, but the site was down for some reason.

I am sure everyone is familiar with this next word, but I feel compelled to add it anyway;

Logos - noun (1587) 1. the divine wisdom manifest in the creation, government, and redemption of the world and often identified with the second person of the Trinity 2. reason that in ancient Greek philosophy is the controlling principle in the universe

 

[oggbashan]

An aside:

A recent crossword in The Times had as a clue - 'produce female germ cells'.

The answer was 'ovulate', because the other meaning of germ is for 'germination'.

No wonder it took us some time to find that answer.

 

[oggbashan]

Hello, everyone. I tried to come on here last night, but the site was down for some reason.

I am sure everyone is familiar with this next word, but I feel compelled to add it anyway;

Logos - noun (1587) 1. the divine wisdom manifest in the creation, government, and redemption of the world and often identified with the second person of the Trinity 2. reason that in ancient Greek philosophy is the controlling principle in the universe

The logos of Britain is a significant factor in C S Lewis symbolic Christian fiction trilogy 'Out of the Silent Planet'; 'Perelanda' and 'That Hideous Strength'.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out_of_the_Silent_Planet

 

[AllardChardon]

Og, thank you for the information on logos regarding C S Lewis. I sympathize with your crossword clues. I doubt I would have figured it out.

logorrhea - noun (ca. 1892) excessive and often incoherent talkativeness or wordiness

 

[Handley_Page]

Og, thank you for the information on logos regarding C S Lewis. I sympathize with your crossword clues. I doubt I would have figured it out.

logorrhea - noun (ca. 1892) excessive and often incoherent talkativeness or wordiness

As often suffered by politicians, particularly those engaged in talking out a Bill.

 

[Tio_Narratore]

By the way, "germ" for microbes came from "gemination" - they were seen as "seeds," or "germs" from which greater things grew. So it is with "wheat germ" as well - the "germ" is the essential seed, and metaphorically, one has the "germ of an idea." The negative connotations came later, with the advent of the "germ theory of disease." And I'll stop here, lest I be deemed a sufferer of logorrhea.

On a more positive note, though, Allard, you are clearly a logophile who inspires much in the way of erotophilia.

 

[AllardChardon]

Handley, I know what you mean about long-winded politicians.

Tio, that is the next word I will post, thanks for the compliment;

logophile - noun (1923) a lover of words

 

[AllardChardon]

Greetings, posters.

This word has seen a lot of action on this site over the years;

logomachy - noun (1569) 1. a dispute over or about words 2. a controversy marked by verbiage

 

[AllardChardon]

Og, this one reminded me of you and your crossword puzzles;

logogriph - noun (ca. 1598) a word puzzle (as an anagram)

 

[oggbashan]

Og, this one reminded me of you and your crossword puzzles;

logogriph - noun (ca. 1598) a word puzzle (as an anagram)

The Crossword Puzzle is far more recent. The origin is disputed, some claiming late 18th Century but most accept early 20th Century for something we would recognise.

Word games were very popular in Elizabeth England. Some people think that many of Shakespeare's plays have coded word puzzles.

 

[Handley_Page]

Og, this one reminded me of you and your crossword puzzles;

logogriph - noun (ca. 1598) a word puzzle (as an anagram)

Along the same lines as:
"A wild Thesaurus tried to gore us
all to death with pointed words" ?
(Marvin, Welsh & Farrar. See here: )

 

[oggbashan]

Slang Dictionary:

Log - the lowest boy in any form or house - Public School slang 1860-1910 (i.e. as thick as two short planks)
Log-juice - cheap Port wine. 1853
log-roller -a political or literary ally, generally not too scrupulous. US 1820
loge - a watch (from French horloge) late 17th to early 19th Century.

 

[oggbashan]

Og, this one reminded me of you and your crossword puzzles;

logogriph - noun (ca. 1598) a word puzzle (as an anagram)

That reminded me of the mythical creature Hippogriff or Hippogryph (who appears in the Harry Potter books/movies)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippogriff

 

[AllardChardon]

Og, what would be an example of a Shakespearean coded word puzzle? Thanks for the lesson on hippogriffs. Somehow, I never looked that one up, even though I read all of Rowling's Harry Potter series. The log slang words are much appreciated. I love it when you crack out your slang dictionary.

Handley, I don't know why, but the link didn't work.

logogram - noun (1840) a letter, symbol, or sign used to represent an entire word <the ampersand and the dollar sign are ~s>

 

[Handley_Page]

Og, what would be an example of a Shakespearean coded word puzzle? Thanks for the lesson on hippogriffs. Somehow, I never looked that one up, even though I read all of Rowling's Harry Potter series. The log slang words are much appreciated. I love it when you crack out your slang dictionary.

Handley, I don't know why, but the link didn't work.

logogram - noun (1840) a letter, symbol, or sign used to represent an entire word <the ampersand and the dollar sign are ~s>

Try This one:- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2Q42mdiAAI

I figured that the Hippogryph to be based upon that beast found on Mesopotamian statuary. Think of it as a rather aggressive Winged Horse-like animal.

 

[oggbashan]

Og, what would be an example of a Shakespearean coded word puzzle? ...

Those that think Sir Francis Bacon wrote Shakespeare's works are an example:

http://shakespeareauthorship.com/bacpenl.html

Or Shakespeare was a secret Catholic:

http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2005/aug/28/arts.books

Or a Mason:

http://thetruthaboutshakespeare.com/index.php/breaking-the-masonic-code-of-shake-speares-sonnets

I could go on and on and on...

 

[Handley_Page]

Those that think Sir Francis Bacon wrote Shakespeare's works are an example:

http://shakespeareauthorship.com/bacpenl.html

Or Shakespeare was a secret Catholic: http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2005/aug/28/arts.books

Or a Mason: http://thetruthaboutshakespeare.com/index.php/breaking-the-masonic-code-of-shake-speares-sonnets

I could go on and on and on...

This rather reminds me of that tosh which tries to prove that the Bible is written in a code and can reveal all manner of strange stuff.
(This is one of them, I think: http://www.csicop.org/si/show/hidden_messages_and_the_bible_code/ )

 

[CarlusMagnus]

This rather reminds me of that tosh which tries to prove that the Bible is written in a code and can reveal all manner of strange stuff.
(This is one of them, I think: http://www.csicop.org/si/show/hidden_messages_and_the_bible_code/ )

And both remind me of the golfer who looked at the lie of his ball after his first drive and said, "If the ball landed here, it must be because it's the spot I aimed for."

 

[oggbashan]

And both remind me of the golfer who looked at the lie of his ball after his first drive and said, "If the ball landed here, it must be because it's the spot I aimed for."

And reminds me of Pyramidology which attempts to prove that measurements of the Pyramids give prophecies of past and future events.

And, again, Sortes Vergilianae, for deciding which course of action to follow:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortes_Vergilianae

a form of divination by bibliomancy in which advice or predictions of the future are sought by interpreting passages from the works of (Add your own book) here. The Bible and Shakespeare are common works for bibliomancy.

I've just used the Oxford Book of Quotations for Biblomancy.

My finger landed on Horace:

Vixi puellis nuper idoneus
Et militavi non sine gloria;
Nunc Arma defunctumque bello
Barbiton hic paries habebit.

Translation:

My life with girls has ended, though till lately I was up to it and soldiered on not ingloriously; now on this wall will hang my weapons and my lyre, discharged from the war.

Reasonably appropriate at my age, but I'm not hanging my weapon on the wall!

 

[AllardChardon]

My, what a lot of reading there was to do before replying.

Handley, that link won't work either. Maybe, it's lost in translation. But the bible code one did.

Og, I see what you mean about Shakespeare, codes, and code-breakers in England. I had heard that Sir Francis Bacon was Shakespeare, also a Rosicrucian and a Mason and wrote the King James version of the Bible. Never have I heard Shakespeare was a secret Catholic. And thanks for informing me about bibliomancy, something new to me. No, no hanging of your weapon on the wall, that does not sound good at all.

logocentrism - noun 1. a philosophy holding that all forms of thought are based on an external point of reference which is held to exist and given a certain degree of authority 2. a philosophy that privileges speech over writing as a form of communication because the former is closer to an originating transcendental source

 

[AllardChardon]

A pleasant Monday wish for you all.

logion - noun (1864) SAYING; esp: a saying attributed to Jesus

 

[AllardChardon]

Good day, posters.

logical positivism - noun (1931) a 20th century philosophical movement holding that all meaningful statements are either analytic or conclusively verifiable or at least confirmable by observation and experiment and that metaphysical theories are therefore strictly meaningless - called also logical empiricism