27 December 2014
hallow (1)
[hal-oh]
verb (used with object)
1. to make holy; sanctify; consecrate.
2. to honor as holy; consider sacred; venerate:
to hallow a battlefield.
Origin
Middle English, Old English
900, before 900; Middle English hal (o) wen, Old English hālgian (cognate with German heiligen, Old Norse helga), derivative of hālig holy
Related forms
hallower, noun
hallow (2)
[huh-loh]
interjection, noun, verb (used without object), verb (used with object)
1. hallo (to call or answer someone)
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Today’s aphorism
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.
– Bertrand Russell
On this day
27 December 1822 – birth of Louis Pasteur, French bacteriologist, one of the founders of microbiology. Invented the process for preventing milk and wine from causing sickness, known as pasteurisation. (Not entirely fool-proof, as over-imbibing wine still seems to cause sickness in some). Died 28 September 1895.
27 December 1979 – Soviet Union overthrows the Afghan government, replacing President Hufizullah Amin with Babrak Karmal.
27 December 2007 – Benazir Bhutto, former Pakistani Prime Minister, is assassinated by a suicide bomber immediately after shots were fired at her. Bhutto was the first female head of an Islamic nation. The bombing killed 24 other people.