12 March 2018

asomatous

[ey-soh-muh-tuh s, uh-soh-]

adjective

1.having no material body; incorporeal.

Origin of asomatous

Late Latin, Greek

1725-1735; < Late Latin asōmatus < Greek asṓmatos bodiless, equivalent to a- a-6+ sōmatos, adj. derivative of sôma body; see soma1, -ous

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Examples

As opposed to something asomatous, a word, my dear boy, I know will have immediately leapt into your brain, meaning, as you doubtlessly know, without bodily form.
Leon Rooke, Swinging Through Dixie, 2016

In fact, He dispatched His mercy to me through an Angel (capital “A”.) But this was not an asomatous creature … No. She is a person like us, a regular human being …
Apostolos Doxiadis, Three Little Pigs, 2015

Anagram

a atom sous
Samoa to us

Today’s quote

There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.

– W. Somerset Maugham

On this day

12 March 1922 – birth of Jack Kerouac, American beat-generation writer, ‘On the road‘. Died 21 October 1969.

12 March 1922 – Mahatma Gandhi arrested for promoting boycotts and civil unrest. He had campaigned for passive resistance to the British Empire and encouraged followers to not buy anything made in Britain or Europe.

12 March 1930 – Mahatma Gandhi, 61 years old, leads a peaceful protest against the ‘salt tax’ which the British Empire had introduced. He and his followers marched more than 320 km to the salt mines in Jalalpur.

12 March 1945 – death of Anne Frank, author of the ‘Diary of Anne Frank’, from typhus. She was born on 12 June 1929.