Today’s WOTD – 9 November 2012

adhibit

[ad-hib-it]

verb (used with object)
1. to take or let in; admit.
2. to use or apply.
3. to attach.

ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin adhibere (to bring to), from ad- (to) + habere (to have, hold). Ultimately from the Indo-European root ghabh- (to give or to receive), which is also the source of give, gift, able, habit, prohibit, due, duty, and habile. Earliest documented use: 1528.

USAGE:
‘Morgiana asked the druggist for more medicine and essences such as are adhibited to the sick when at death’s door.’
Translator: Richard Burton; Ali Baba and The Forty Thieves.

Today’s aphorism

‘It’s like deja vu, all over again’.

– Yogi Berra

On this day

9 November 1967 – First edition of Rolling Stone magazine is published, and features John Lennon.

9 November 1989 – fall of the Berlin Wall.