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Pope's Word of the Day!; A continuous feature
Topic Started: Dec 28 2010, 03:18 PM (505 Views)
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Plethora
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What are we supposed to do with it? :P
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Wait for the next one? :lol:
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Horrifying. Awful. Bad, bad, bad. Lex should feel bad. ~ Kazaman[/hide]
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Rach
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You're not giving me a plethora of things to do with it -_-
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We could start a "word of the day association" spam game here :P .
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Dec 28 2010, 10:44 AM
You're not giving me a plethora of things to do with it -_-

You can do whatever you want with it. :P
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this is part of my war on capitalization

It is important to note (thank you Cracked) that plethora does not merely mean 'a lot of' but rather ''an excess or overabundance of.
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But this would imply a negative connotation, like 'too much', wouldn't it?

In Greek (where the word comes from), plethora means more than 'a lot of', similarly to 'abundance', but not excessive or overabundant. This is also what I assumed the correct usage of the word is in English.
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Asianatic
this is part of my war on capitalization

New Oxford American Dictionary:

Pleth-o-ra
n. (A plethora of) an excess of (something): a plethora of committees and subcommittees
<special usage> [medicine] an excess of a bodily fluid, particularly blood.
<Derivatives> plethoric (adj., archaic)

<origin> mid 16th cent. (in the medical sense): via late Latin from Greek Plethore (dashes over the e, or, and e), from plethein (dash over the first e) 'be full'.
The Rt. Hon. Aurora Asianatic Anacreoni-Anumia
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Former Senate Speaker (3 terms)
Former Sr. Senator (10.5 terms)
Former City Council Mayor (1 term)
Former Minister of the Interior (4 terms)
Former Minister of Foreign Affairs (4.5 terms)
Recipient of the Knight of the Silver Shield
Former Vice Admiral in the Europeian Republican Navy (2 years)
The Order of the Community, First Class- January 19, 2010
The Order of Civil Service to Europeia- May 30 and December 3, 2008
The Order of the Bronze Star- December 3, 2008
The Order of the Senatia- January 28, 2009
The Order of the Purple Star- Feburary 8, 2009
The Order of Republica- March 29, 2009
The Order for Outstanding Service- August 29. 2009
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Does anyone else realize we had a conversation about the word "plethora" and its true meaning sometime last week? Forget where though.
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Lethen
Dec 28 2010, 08:55 PM
Does anyone else realize we had a conversation about the word "plethora" and its true meaning sometime last week? Forget where though.

My campaign thread. I remember.
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Equine
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Recruiting is the kind of mindless activity that makes me less pissed. :D ~Asianatic
There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result. ~Sir Winston Churchill
The entire Kodiak Republic combined has almost the amount of judicial competency and common sense as Pope Lexus when he dines alone.~HEM
Horrifying. Awful. Bad, bad, bad. Lex should feel bad. ~ Kazaman[/hide]
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I hate equine mammals......
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What an odd sentence.
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Etymology: < Latin equīnus, < equus horse.
A. adj.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling a horse.

1778 Learning at Loss II. 7, I‥made some feeble Efforts towards entering into an equine Conversation.
1801 J. Barrow Acc. Trav. Interior S. Afr. 1797–98 I. iv. 260 It [the gnoo] partakes of the horse, the ox, the stag, and the antelope: the shoulders, body, thighs, and mane, are equine; the head completely bovine.
1850 L. Hunt Autobiogr. II. x. 41 His laugh was equine.
1862 J. R. Lowell Biglow Papers 2nd Ser. 55 The mule is apt to forget all but the equine side of his pedigree.
1879 G. MacDonald Sir Gibbie II. xiii. 230 It brought a lusty equine response from the farm.


B. n.


A horse. Also, an equid.

1883 Harper's Mag. Nov. 904/2 The contests were‥more tightly fought out than by the trotting equines.
1909 Westm. Gaz. 25 Mar. 4/2 One of the essential differences between the engineer's horse-power and the equine's effort is that a properly made engine‥will give off its maximum effort for prolonged periods; but‥this cannot be done by a horse.
1947 J. Stevenson-Hamilton Wild Life S. Afr. i. 9 The curious striped equines, known as zebras.


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