5 May 2015

synathroesmus

Noun

(usually uncountable, plural synathroesmi)

(rhetoric) Piling up of terms, especially adjectives, often as invective.

Origin
From Latin, from Ancient Greek συναθροισμός (synathroismos, “collection, union, rhetorical grouping of diverse words”).

Noun
Rare spelling of synathroesmus.

(yourdictionary.com)

Examples

– “He’s a proud, haughty, consequential, turned-up-nose peacock.”
(Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby)

-“He was a gasping, wheezing, clutching, covetous old man.”
(Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol)

Anagram

Aneurysm Shots
Mushy Senators
assumes thorny
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Today’s aphorism

On this day

5 May – Cinco de Mayo (Spanish for 5th of May), celebrates Mexican heritage and pride. It originated as a celebration of freedom for Mexicans following the victory by Mexican forces over the French at the Battle of Puebla on 5 May 1862.

5 May 1818 – birth of Karl Marx, German philosopher, economist, sociologist, historian, journalist and revolutionary socialist. One of the most influential economists in history. Marx’s work included Das Kapital, as well as The Communist Manifesto which he co-authored with German social scientist, Friedrich Engels. He fathered modern communism and socialism with the aim of putting the means of production in the hands of the workers to end exploitation at the hands of the bourgeoisie. He believed in the redistribution of wealth for the benefit of all, rather than accumulation of wealth in the hands of the few. The wealth, he believed, was created by the workers and should therefore be shared amongst the workers. He stated that communism would not succeed in the individual nation unless other nations supported it, hence the adoption of L’internationale as the socialist anthem following the ‘First International’ conference held by Marx and Engels in 1864. His international theory perhaps makes him the world’s first globalisationist. He believed socialism would not succeed in poverty, but required the building of wealth to succeed and distribution of wealth to be sustainable. Died 14 March 1883.

5 May 1821 – death of Napoleon Bonaparte, French Emperor

5 May 1970 – University of New Mexico is the scene of protests against the Vietnam War, US attacks on Cambodia and the Kent State University massacre (see 4 May 1970), the National Guard and police are called in. The National Guard fixed bayonets and attacked the protestors, resulting in eleven protestors and journalists being bayonetted.