8 February 2015

dolorous

[dol-er-uh s, doh-ler-]

adjective
1. full of, expressing, or causing pain or sorrow; grievous; mournful:
a dolorous melody; dolorous news.

Origin
Middle English, Old French
1375-1425; Middle English dolorous, dolerous < Anglo-French, Old French; see dolor, -ous

Related forms
dolorously, adverb
dolorousness, noun
undolorous, adjective
undolorously, adverb
undolorousness, noun

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Examples from the web for dolorous
– It is a heavy and labored drama in the old dolorous manner.
– What happened was not all dolorous lamentation, though there is some of that.
– The movie turns dolorous and grim-and also spectacular in a conventional way, with cars and buses flung across open spaces.

Anagram

soul door
solo dour

Today’s aphorism

Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.

– Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote

On this day

8 February 1238 – Mongols burn the Russian city of Vladimir.

8 February 1587 – Mary Queen of Scots is executed for her apparent role in the failed Babington Plot to murder her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I.

8 February 1952 – Princess Elizabeth declares herself Queen of the British Commonwealth, taking the title, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.

8 February 1960 – Queen Elizabeth II issues an Order-in-Council declaring that her family would be known as the House of Windsor and her descendants will take the name ‘Mountbatten-Windsor’.

8 February 1983 – At 3pm, Australia’s second largest city, Melbourne, is hit by a massive dust-storm, towering 320m high, reducing visibility to 100m and turning day into night. The dust-storm came during the most severe drought on record and was caused by loose top-soil in the Mallee and Wimmera districts of western Victoria being whipped up by fierce northerly winds. Other places in Victoria recorded dust as high as 1,000m. This photo was taken by a motorist heading west on the Princes Highway at Werribee.

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