25 November 2016

affinal

[a-fahyn-l, uh-fahyn-l, af-ahyn-l]

adjective

1. related by or concerning marriage.

Origin of affinal

Latin

1600-1610; < Latin affin (is) a relative + -al1. See affinity

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Example

They also took affinal prohibitions very seriously
Cousin Marriage
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Anagram

Fa final
fan fail

Today’s quote

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.

– Michel de Montaigne

On this day

25 November 1963 – funeral of assassinated President John F. Kennedy in Washington DC. Over 800,000 people lined the streets. He was interred at Arlington Cemetery.

25 November 1947 – The ‘Hollywood Ten’ are blacklisted for their allegiance with, or sympathy for the American Communist Party. They were cited for Contempt of Congress when they refused to testify to the House Committee on Unamerican Activities. The Hollywood Ten were unable to work in the movie industry again. The ten were Alvah Bessie, Herbert Biberman, Lester Cole, Edward Dmytryk, Ring Lardner Jr., John Howard Lawson, Albert Maltz, Samuel Ornitz, Adrian Scott and Dalton Trumbo.