21 July 2015
incognito
[in-kog-nee-toh, in-kog-ni-toh]
adjective
1. having one’s identity concealed, as under an assumed name, especially to avoid notice or formal attentions.
adverb
2. with the real identity concealed:
to travel incognito.
noun, plural incognitos for 3, 5.
3. a person who is incognito.
4. the state of being incognito.
5. the disguise or character assumed by an incognito.
Origin of incognito
Italian, Latin
1630-1640; < Italian < Latin incognitus unknown, equivalent to in- in-3+ cognitus, past participle of cognōscere to get to know; see cognition, know1
Synonyms
1. disguised, undisclosed, unidentified.
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Examples from the Web for incognito
Contemporary Examples
Meanwhile, the free agent incognito recently sought help for “severe mental stress”.
(First Mega-Deal Is Done as the NFL’s Free Agent Scrap Begins, Ben Teitelbaum March 11, 2014)
Saa is now navigating a new life in America as an incognito boarding school student.
(Walking Dead’s Danai Gurira Vs. Boko Haram, Kristi York Wooten, November 29, 2014)
None of this makes what incognito and the Dolphins did any less reprehensible.
(Richie Incognito and the NFL’s Nasty Warrior Culture, Robert Silverman, February 14, 2014)
Anagram
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Today’s quote
If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.
– Khalil Gibran
On this day
21 July 1542 – Pope Paul III establishes the Inquisition (the Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Roman and Universal Inquisition) to ‘defend the faith’ against reformists, protestants and heretics.
21 July 1899 – birth of Ernest Hemingway, American author. He wrote books including ‘For Whom the Bell Tolls‘ and ‘Old Man and the Sea‘. Died 2 July 1961.
21 July 1970 – Aswan Dam opens in Egypt.
21 July 1973 – USSR launches Mars-4 space probe to photograph Mars.
21 July 1990 – Roger Waters performs a charity concert of the Pink Floyd concept album, ‘The Wall’, on the site where part of the Berlin Wall had stood. Approximately, 450,000 people attended. The stage was 170m long and 25m high. The concert included special guest performances by a large number of high profile artists, including Bruce Springsteen, Van Morrison, Sinead O’Connor, Cyndi Lauper, Joni Mitchell, Bryan Adams and a number of others.