24 August 2017

millenary

[mil-uh-ner-ee]

adjective

1. consisting of or pertaining to a thousand, especially a thousand years.
2. pertaining to the millennium.
noun, plural millenaries.
3. an aggregate of a thousand.
4. millennium.
5. millenarian.

Origin of millenary

Late Latin

1540-1550; < Late Latin millēnārius consisting of a thousand, equivalent to millēn(ī) a thousand each ( Latin mill(e) thousand + -ēnī distributive suffix) + -ārius -ary

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Examples from the Web for millenary

Historical Examples

Many legends illustrate the incapacity of the first millenary to realise the relationship between the sexes in any other sense.
The Evolution of Love
Emil Lucka

At Hertford, a pageant began in commemoration of the millenary of the town.
The Annual Register 1914
Anonymous

The millenary Petition asked only some changes in the ritual of the Church and certain moderate reforms.
An Outline of the Relations between England and Scotland (500-1707)
Robert S. Rait

Least of all is any mysterious virtue to be attached to the millenary date with which I begin.
The Ancient East
D. G. Hogarh

The fourth is the Jaik or Rhymnus, on each bank of which a millenary commands.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. I
Robert Kerr

In the millenary year he presented a magnificent silver-mounted horn to the Mayor and Corporation, as guardians of the city.
The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 25, January 1893
Various

Anagram

learn limy
early limn
rally mine
manly rile

Today’s quote

It is the true duty of every man to promote the happiness of his fellow creatures to the utmost of his power.

– William Wilberforce

On this day

24 August 79AD – eruption of Mt Vesuvius, Italy, completely destroying the cities of Pompeii, Herculaneum and Stabiae. The cities were buried under approximately 75m of tephra. The initial eruption produced a cloud of ash and pumice ranging from 15km to 30km high. It is estimated that 16,000 people perished.

24 August 479 – Fall of the Roman Empire as Visigoths conquer Rome.

24 August 1759 – birth of William Wilberforce. English politician, philanthropist and leader of the slave trade abolition movement. In 1785 he became an evangelical Christian, which transformed his life to focus on philanthropy and human rights. For 20 years he pursued the abolition of slavery, eventually culminating in the passage of the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act 1807. Died 29 July 1833.

24 August 1936 – establishment of the Australian Antarctic Territory.

24 August 1954 – Communist Party outlawed in the United States with the passing of the Communist Control Act.

24 August 1995 – Microsoft launches Windows 95. Bill Gates is embarrassed during a demonstration of the product, when his audience experiences the infamous ‘blue screen of death’.

22 August 2017

taciturn

[tas-i-turn]

adjective

1. inclined to silence; reserved in speech; reluctant to join in conversation.
2. dour, stern, and silent in expression and manner.

Origin of taciturn

Latin

1765-1775; Latin taciturnus, quiet, maintaining silence, equivalent to tacit(us) silent (see tacit ) + -urnus adj. suffix of time

Related forms

taciturnly, adverb
untaciturn, adjective
untaciturnly, adverb

Synonyms

1. silent, uncommunicative, reticent, quiet.

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Examples from the Web for taciturn

Contemporary Examples

Tall and taciturn, he exuded the easy authority of a young man used to money and the deference that came with it.
Doug Kenney: The Odd Comic Genius Behind ‘Animal House’ and National Lampoon
Robert Sam Anson
February 28, 2014

No one would confuse him the taciturn, forgetful and vengeful Senate Majority Leader.
Nevada Guv Faces Fans and Foes in Reelection
Lloyd Green
March 17, 2014

The exuberant, indefatigable Democrat from Oregon and the dour, taciturn Republican from New Hampshire made an odd couple.
The Senate’s New Taxman Won’t Be Controlled By His Own Party
Linda Killian
February 17, 2014

I became irrational and flunked the tough-guy test, the show-me-the-evidence test, the taciturn Gary Cooper test.
Warren Buffett’s Cancer Decoded
Kent Sepkowitz
April 18, 2012

But he was also taciturn, rarely betraying his inner thoughts, his friends have said.
Moon Men: The Private Lives of Neil Armstrong and Pals in “Togethersville”
Lily Koppel
August 31, 2012

Historical Examples

Sometimes Master Tommy is obstinate, as well as taciturn, and his “won’t” is as strong as his will.
Manners and Rules of Good Society
Anonymous

Don Saturnino was taciturn and of violent temper, but very industrious.
An Eagle Flight
Jos Rizal

This was the hope which had produced his taciturn resignation and brought that savage smile on his lips.
The Collection of Antiquities
Honore de Balzac

A loquacious advocate is more likely to gain his case than a taciturn one.
The Proverbs of Scotland
Alexander Hislop

Little by little, one word at a time, he gained from the taciturn negro an idea of what had taken place while he slept.
“Forward, March”
Kirk Munroe

Anagram

titan cur
attic run
tunic art

Today’s quote

We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.

– Ray Bradbury

On this day

22 August 565 – St Columba claims to see a monster in Loch Ness.

22 August 1572 – attempted assassination of Admiral de Coligny, a leading Heugonet Protestant, in Paris. The following day, the main suspects (the Guises, who were the Cardinal of Lorraine and his nephews) broke into Coligny’s room and dragged him from his sickbed, killed him and threw him from the window. The event triggered the St Bartholomew’s Day massacre on 23-24 August 1572.

22 August 1770 – Captain James Cook sets foot on the east cost of Australia.

22 August 1864 – signing of the First Geneva Convention (for ‘Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick in Armed Forces in the Field’)

22 August 1917 – birth of John Lee Hooker, American blues guitarist. Died 21 June 2001.

22 August 1920 – birth of Ray Bradbury, American fantasy, science-fiction, horror and mystery fiction writer. Author of Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, The Illustratred Man, Something Wicked This Way Comes. The movie Butterfly Effect uses a similar theory to that described in Bradbury’s short-story A Sound of Thunder. In one scene, a Sound of Thunder pennant is hanging on the dormitory door of the main character, Evan. Michael Moore’s movie Fahrenheit 9/11 was named after Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451. Bradbury was not happy with this and pressured Moore to change the title, which Moore refused to do. Died 5 June 2012.

22 August 1963 – birth of Tori Amos, American pianist/singer.

21 August 2017

skelp (1) or scelp

[skelp] Scot. and North England

noun

1. a slap, smack, or blow, especially one given with the open hand.
2. the sound of such a slap or smack.
verb (used with object)
3. to slap, smack, or strike (someone), especially on the buttocks; spank.
4. to drive (animals) by slapping or goading them.

Origin of skelp(1)

Middle English

1350-1400; Middle English; probably imitative

skelp(2)

[skelp]

noun

1. metal in strip form that is fed into various rolls and welded to form tubing.

Origin

First recorded in 1805-15; perhaps special use of skelp(1)

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Examples from the Web for skelp

Historical Examples

In making tubes of an inch of internal diameter, a skelp four inches and a half broad is employed.
A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines
Andrew Ure

Hed admire to take a skelp, that Tomcat would, but hes shy the sand.
The Sunset Trail
Alfred Henry Lewis

Kilt yer coats, ye cutty, and skelp at it withouten fear or dread!
Wilson’s Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. 9

Anagram

kelps

Today’s quote

You may not be interested in strategy, but strategy is interested in you.

– Leon Trotsky

On this day

21 August 1940 – death of Leon Trotsky (Lev Davidovich Bronshtein). Russian Marxist revolutionary, Soviet politician, founder and first leader of the Red Army. Major figure in the Bolshevik victory during the Russian Civil War. After the Russian Revolution Trotsky became the People’s Commissar for Foreign Affairs. He was opposed to Joseph Stalin. He was expelled from the Communist Party in November 1927 and deported from the Soviet Union in 1929. Trotsky relocated to Mexico where he continued his opposition to Stalin. Trotsky was assassinated by ice-pick wielding Rámon Mercader in Mexico on the orders of Stalin. Trotskyism is a form of Marxism which is based on Trotsky’s ideas and opposed to Stalinism. Born 7 November 1879.

21 August 1952 – birth of Joe Strummer, co-founder, guitarist, lyricist and vocalist with UK punk band, The Clash. Died 22 December 2002.

21 August 1970 – birth of Fred Durst, American rock vocalist with Limp Bizkit.

21 August – International Day of Lucid Dreaming. For further information check out this podcast on ABC radio

20 August 2017

delusive

[dih-loo-siv]

adjective

1. tending to delude; misleading; deceptive:
a delusive reply.
2. of the nature of a delusion; false; unreal:
a delusive belief.

Also, delusory [dih-loo-suh-ree]

Origin of delusive

1595-1605 First recorded in 1595-1605; delus(ion) + -ive

Related forms

delusively, adverb
delusiveness, noun
nondelusive, adjective
undelusive, adjective
undelusively, adverb

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Examples from the Web for delusive

Contemporary Examples

It would be delusory to take the MB’s democratic protestations at face value.
Beware Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood
Leslie H. Gelb
January 28, 2011

Historical Examples

Such are often given over to woeful hard-heartedness or despair; for God will not be mocked with delusory words.
A Christian Directory (Volume 1 of 4)
Richard Baxter

Anagram

us veiled
Sue lived

Today’s quote

Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.

– Blaise Pascal

On this day

20 August 1866 – American Civil War formally ends.

20 August 1940 – British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, states ‘never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few‘, in relation to the Royal Air Force who was repelling German attacks on the United Kingdom in the Battle of Britain.

20 August 1948 – birth of Robert Plant, British rock singer, musician and songwriter. During the 1960’s, Plant sang with a number of bands, including The Crawling King Snakes, Listen, Band of Joy and Hobbstweedle. In 1968, Jimmy Page of successful blues band, The Yardbirds (which had previously featured Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck), convinced Plant to front his new band, The New Yardbirds. Page and Plant began writing songs for the new band, as well as playing some of the Yardbirds classics, such as Dazed and Confused, and For Your Love. Towards the end of 1968, the band was renamed Led Zeppelin. Musicologist Robert Walser stated, ‘Led Zeppelin’s sound was marked by speed and power, unusual rhythmic patterns, contrasting terraced dynamics, singer Robert Plant’s wailing vocals, and guitarist Jimmy Page’s heavily distorted crunch‘. Led Zeppelin has been widely regarded as the forerunner of Heavy Metal.

20 August 1966 – birth of Dimebag Darrell, (born Darrell Lance Abbott), American musician, founding member of Pantera. Dimebag was shot dead on stage on 8 December 2004 while playing for Damageplan.

20 August 1968 – the USSR and a number of other Warsaw Pact nations, invade Czechoslovakia to halt the ‘Prague Spring’ liberalisation reforms being implemented by the Czech leader, Alexander Dubček. This invasion caused a significant rift in support by Communists across the globe and condemnation by many non-Communist nations, leading to a weakening of communism in general and the Soviet Union in particular.

18 August 2017

couchant

[kou-chuh nt]

adjective

1. lying down; crouching.
2. Heraldry. (of an animal) represented as lying on its stomach with its hind legs and forelegs pointed forward.

Origin of couchant

late Middle English

1400-1450; late Middle English; Middle French, present participle of coucher to lay or lie. See couch, -ant

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Examples from the Web for couchant

Historical Examples

She began to picture herself traveling with Ralph in a land where these monsters were couchant in the sand.
Night and Day
Virginia Woolf

Sordello, that noble and disdainful Lombard, eyes us from afar like a couchant lion.
Intentions
Oscar Wilde

The carving of one pair of arms might be couchant lions; on the next, leopards; on the next, hounds, and so on.
In the Days of the Guild
Louise Lamprey

Anagram

coach nut
tan couch
cut nacho

Today’s quote

Sometimes it’s the journey that teaches you a lot about your destination.

– Drake

On this day

18 August – Vietnam Veterans’ Day. The day was originally Long Tan Day, which commemorated the anniversary of the Australian Army’s victory in the Battle of Long Tan during the Vietnam War on this day in 1966. During the battle, 108 Australian and New Zealand soldiers fought against 2,000 North Vietnamese and Viet-Cong troops. Eighteen Australian and New Zealand soldiers were killed and 24 wounded, while there were hundreds of North Vietnamese and Viet-Cong deaths.

18 August 1931 – the flooded Yangtze River, China, peaks in what becomes the worst natural disaster of the 20th century, killing up to 3.7 million people.

18 August 1948 – Australia’s greatest cricketer, Sir Donald Bradman, plays his last game of test cricket. It was played at the Oval in Britain against the English cricket team. Bradman was bowled for a duck, which left him 4 runs short of a career average of 100 runs. Bradman’s first test was in 1928. Over his 20 year test career, he played 52 tests, scored 6,996 runs, with a top score of 334 and an average of 99.94. Throughout his first-grade career, he played 234 games, scored 28,067 runs, with a top score of 452 not out and an average of 95.14.

16 August 2017

costive

[kos-tiv, kaw-stiv]

adjective

1. suffering from constipation; constipated.
2. slow in action or in expressing ideas, opinions, etc.
3. Obsolete. stingy; tight-fisted.

Origin of costive

Middle English, Anglo-French, Middle French, Latin

1350-1400; Middle English < Anglo-French *costif, for Middle French costivé, past participle of costiver to constipate < Latin constīpāre (see constipate )

Related forms

costively, adverb
costiveness, noun

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Examples from the Web for costive

Historical Examples

Anything that tends to make her costive, such as fruits or green vegetables, should be partaken of with discrimination.
Practical Suggestions for Mother and Housewife
Marion Mills Miller

He took no other medicine, except a little rhubarb when costive.
An Account of the Foxglove and some of its Medical Uses
William Withering

Sometimes the patient is costive, and has been so for several days, the dysentery coming on without being preceded by looseness.
An Epitome of Homeopathic Healing Art
B. L. Hill

I finds un fine to hunt with, and ’tis not so costive as the others.
Left on the Labrador
Dillon Wallace

This gruel is proper for children, or persons of a costive habit.
The Cook and Housekeeper’s Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches,
Mary Eaton

I was of a costive, dyspeptic habit, which has been entirely removed.
Vegetable Diet: As Sanctioned by Medical Men, and by Experience in All Ages
William Andrus Alcott

The stool may be normal or costive, but is very often diarrhoetic.
Prof. Koch’s Method to Cure Tuberculosis Popularly Treated
Max Birnbaum

A costive reserve on these subjects might have procured me more esteem from some people, but less from myself.
Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson

An egg may be taken at this meal by those luxuriously inclined, and if not of a costive habit.
The Allinson Vegetarian Cookery Book
Thomas R. Allinson

To relieve the bowels when costive, take a dose of Nux Vomica at night, and Podophyllin in the morning.
An Epitome of Homeopathic Healing Art
B. L. Hill

Anagram

so evict
covet is

Today’s quote

Information is the resolution of uncertainty.

– Claude Shannon

On this day

16 August 1938 – death of Robert Johnson. American blues guitarist and singer-songwriter. Legend has it that Johnson met the devil at a crossroads and sold his soul in return for fame and fortune. One of the first musicians of the 20th century to join the 27 club. Born 8 May 1911.

16 August 1958 – birth of Madonna, American pop star, (born Madonna Louise Ciccone). The Guinness Book of World Records lists her as the biggest selling female recording artist of all time, with over 300 million records sold world-wide.

16 August 1962 – Ringo Starr becomes the new drummer for the Beatles, taking over from Peter Best who was sacked by the band. Ringo went on to fame and fortune, Best became a career public servant for 20 years, before forming the Peter Best Band.

16 August 1975 – Land is returned to Australia’s indigenous people for the first time by an Australian government. Prime Minister Gough Whitlam (Australian Labor Party) returned land to Vincent Lingiari and the Gurindji people, who are based southwest of Katherine, in the Northern Territory. The land was returned as freehold following years of campaigning that included a strike in 1966 at Wave Hill cattle station.

16 August 1977 – death of Elvis Presley, the King of Rock and Roll. Born 8 January 1935.

15 August 2017

gomerel or gomeral, gomeril

[gom-er-uh l]

noun, Scot. and North England.

1. a fool.

Origin of gomerel

Old English

1805-1815; obsolete gome man ( Old English guma; cognate with Gothic guma, Latin homō) + -rel

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Examples from the Web for gomerel

Historical Examples

Eden stared at her friend with the astonishment of a gomeril at a contortionist.
Eden
Edgar Saltus

Wasn’t she the jewel of the world altogether, an’ how could he ever have been such a gomeril as to doubt her?
North, South and Over the Sea
M.E. Francis (Mrs. Francis Blundell)

Anagram

mere log
more leg
gem lore

Today’s quote

All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.

– Mahatma Gandhi

On this day

15 August 1769 – birth of Napoleon Bonaparte, French Emperor. Died 5 May 1821.

15 August 1945 – Japan announces its surrender to the Allies following the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The official ‘Instrument of Surrender’ was signed on 2 September 1945.

15 August 1947 – India Independence Day. At the stroke of midnight (14/15 August), India was partitioned and granted independence from British rule.

15 – 18 August 1969 – the Woodstock Music & Art Fair (or just ‘Woodstock’), a festival of peace and music, was held over three days at Max Yasgur’s dairy farm, 69 kilometres south-west of the town of Woodstock in New York State. It featured artists such as Joan Baez, Ravi Shankar, Arlo Guthrie, Mountain, the Grateful Dead, Canned Heat, Janis Joplin, The Who, Jefferson Airplane, Joe Cocker, Jimi Hendrix, Cosby Stills Nash and Young, Blood Sweat and Tears, Ten Years After. A number of high profile musicians declined to play, including The Doors, Led Zeppelin, Bob Dylan, Chicago, The Byrds, Jethro Tull, Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention, Iron Butterfly and Joni Mitchell. Woodstock is still considered to be the ultimate rock and counter-cultural festival. The promoters hoped for 50,000 to attend and were caught unprepared when more than 500,000 people attended.

13 August 2017

nom de guerre

[nom duh gair; French nawn duh ger]

noun, plural noms de guerre [nomz duh gair; French nawn duh ger] (Show IPA)

1. n assumed name, as one under which a person fights, paints, writes, etc.; pseudonym.

Origin of nom de guerre

< French: literally, war name

Examples from the Web for nom de guerre

Contemporary Examples

A former military man, Molina had served under Rios Montt, reportedly under the nom de guerre Major Tito.
Guatemala’s Trial of the Century
Mac Margolis
May 5, 2013

It is headed by another shadowy figure using the nom de guerre Abu Muhammad al Golani.
Al Qaeda’s Most Dangerous Stronghold
Bruce Riedel
November 10, 2013

Anagram

mourn degree
rodgered menu
demure goner
ruder genome
Mr dengue roe

Today’s quote

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

– H. G. Wells

On this day

13 August 1784 – British Parliament enacts ‘Pitt’s India Act’, which brought the East India company under the control of the British government.

13 August 1899 – birth of Alfred Hitchcock, English movie director and producer. Died 29 April 1980.

13 August 1926 – birth of Fidel Castro, former Cuban President. Died 25 November 2016.

13 August 1946 – death of Herbert George ‘H.G.’ Wells, British science fiction writer, author of The War of the Worlds, Time Machine, Island of Dr Moreau, The War of the Worlds. Born 21 September 1866.

13 August 1961 – construction of the Berlin Wall commences. Torn down 9 November 1989.

11 August 2017

scut(1)

[skuht]

noun

1. a short tail, especially that of a hare, rabbit, or deer.

Origin of scut(1)

Old Norse

1400-1450; late Middle English: hare < Old Norse skutr stern

scut(2)

[skuht]

noun, Slang.

1. a worthless, contemptible person.

Origin

1870-75; origin uncertain; perhaps continuation of Scots and dial. scout, scoot, Middle English scoute in same sense; perhaps noun use of Scots scout to spurt, squirt out, scoot

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Examples from the Web for scut

Historical Examples

Im a free sailor of Queen Bess and fear no scut of a Spaniard as ever twisted a thumb-screw.
In Search of Mademoiselle
George Gibbs

Pinch its scut or bite its ears, and when it exclaims, “Miauw!”
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 102, May 21, 1892
Various

On his head is a little round cap, with a tuft made out of a hare’s or rabbit’s scut.
The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the first
Count Carlo Gozzi

The white napkin whisked like the scut of a rabbit, and he bounded to my side.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, February 25th, 1920
Various

Anagram

cuts

Today’s quote

Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.

– Alex Haley

On this day

11 August 3114BC – ok, so there is an argument that the month of August didn’t exist in 3114BC, but humour me … some mathemetician type has calculated the equivalent Mesoamerican date using the Gregorian calendar and determined that it was on this day that the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, (aka the Mayan Calendar) came into being. It was used by a number of pre-Columbian Mesoamerican cultures. Oddly enough, the creation of the calendar wasn’t a problem. The problem has arisen with the lack of fore-thought on the end-date. Inconveniently, some inconsiderate Mesoamerican culture (let’s blame the Mayans) decided the calendar would end on 21 December 2012, which has caused a little consternation amongst some of the inhabitants of Earth, who fear the calendar ends on that date because the world ends on that date … considering that the earth has managed to survive beyond 21/12/12, speculation is rife that perhaps the calendar ended on that date because its creator got bored, or was called in for dinner, or went hunting sabre-tooth tigers and never returned …

11 August 480BC – death of Leonidas, King of Sparta, famous for the Battle of Thermopylae in which he led an Army of 300 Spartans, 700 Thespians and 400 Thebans and managed to hold off Persian Army (estimated to be at least 100,000 strong) led by Xerxes. Leonidas was eventually over-run and killed. He would have been stoked to know a Hollywood movie would be made about him in 1962 and again in 2006. Born c. 540BC.

11 August 1897 – birth of Enid Blyton, British author of numerous series of children’s stories, including ‘Noddy‘, ‘Famous Five‘, and ‘Secret Seven‘. Died 28 November 1968.

11 August 1921 – birth of Alex Haley, U.S. author of ‘Roots‘, ‘Malcolm X‘. Died 10 February 1992.

11 August 1945 – Japan offers surrender, conditional on the retention of their Emperor, Hirohito. The U.S. rejects the offer, demanding that Emperor Hirohito subject himself to the Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces.

11 August 1946 – birth of Marilyn vos Savant, American columnist and listed by Guinness Book of World Records as having the world’s highest IQ. At the age of 10, she sat the Stanford-Binet Second Revision test, scoring 228 IQ. In the mid-1980s, she sat Hoeflin’s Mega Test, scoring 186 IQ. Doubt has been cast over the extrapolations used in the test, and because of the unreliability of IQ tests, Guinness Book of World Records no longer has the ‘highest recorded IQ’ category.

11 August 1994 – death of Peter Cushing OBE,English actor who mostly appeared in Hammer Horror films, including The Curse of Frankenstein and Dracula (in which he played vampire hunter, Van Helsing). Born 26 May 1913.

9 August 2017

fabulist

[fab-yuh-list]

noun

1. a person who invents or relates fables.
2. a liar.

Origin of fabulist

Middle French

1585-1595; Middle French fabuliste, equivalent to; fābul(a) fable + -iste -ist

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Examples from the Web for fabulist

Contemporary Examples

The fabulist seems to want only to rant in his new monologue.
Mike Daisey’s Monologue ‘Journalism’: This Is Not an Apology Tour
Winston Ross
May 21, 2013

From there stemmed the idea of a fabulist, a man who lives in this alternate reality.
Rebecca Miller on Broadway’s ‘Death of a Salesman’ Revival
Rebecca Miller
May 31, 2012

It is subtitled a “family fable” because there is a moral attached, and because Mac was a fabulist.
The Best of Brit Lit
Peter Stothard
March 17, 2010

To some I will always be a fabulist, a scoundrel, and a liar.
Mike Daisey Remembers Steve Jobs a Year After His Death
Mike Daisey
October 4, 2012

Historical Examples

The fabulist had not in him sufficient hypocrisy of which to manufacture the commonplace politeness of society.
The Fables of La Fontaine
Jean de la Fontaine

Gay the fabulist is only interesting in a certain sense and to a small extent.
Views and Reviews
William Ernest Henley

The born poet still talks that way, he is naturally a fabulist and cannot help himself.
Homer’s Odyssey
Denton J. Snider

The fabulist is to create a laugh, but yet, under a merry guise, to convey instruction.
Aesop’s Fables
Aesop

In 1664 La Fontaine published his first collection of fables, and it gave him immediately the very highest rank as a fabulist.
Paris: With Pen and Pencil
David W. Bartlett

That is the fabulist ‘s opinion—Harriet Shelley’s is not reported.
In Defense of Harriet Shelley
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)

Anagram

flab suit
flu baits

Today’s quote

Tradition is the illusion of permanence.

– Woody Allen

On this day

9 August – World Indigenous Day – to promote and protect the rights of the world’s indigenous populations. It also recognises the achievements and contributions that indigenous people make to improve world issues.

9 August 1936 – Jesse Owens, an African-American athlete, wins his 4th gold medal at the Berlin Olympics – much to Adolf Hitler’s chagrin. Hitler had hoped the games would show-case white Aryan ideals, and was disgusted that a black athlete had achieved more than the white athletes.

9 August 1945 – USA drops an atomic bomb, called ‘Fat Boy’ on Nagasaki, Japan. It is estimated that between 60,000 to 80,000 people died within four months of the bombing, with half that number dying on the day of the bombing.