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Do you know what?s on your credit report? Find out with a FREE Equifax credit report & FREE CreditCheck Monitoring Service trial! Plus, get valuable tools and tips for improving your credit rating. Try it FREE today! http://by.advertising.com/1/c/62072/28678/157500/157500 <a href="http://by.advertising.com/1/c/62072/28678/157500/157500"< AOL users click here </a< \-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-/ Word of the Day for Thursday March 7, 2002: malediction \mal-uh-DIK-shun\, noun: A curse or execration. There Justice Minister Bola Ige, confronted with the general incivility of local police, placed a malediction on the cads. Said the Hon. Bola Ige, "I pray that God will make big holes in their pockets." --"Sic Semper Tyrannis! Oppressors Face People's Justice," American Spectator, May 1, 2001 A conspiracy of infamy so black that, when it is finally exposed, its principals shall be forever deserving of the maledictions of all honest men. --Joseph McCarthy, quoted in [1]Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America, by Harvey Klehr and John Earl Haynes _________________________________________________________ Malediction comes from Latin maledictio, from maledicere, "to speak ill, to abuse," from Latin male, "badly" + dicere, "to speak, to say." References 1. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0300084625/ref%3Dnosim/lexico _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ You are currently subscribed to Dictionary.com Word of the Day as: matt.motley@enron.com To subscribe to the list by email, send a blank message to: join-WordoftheDay@lists.lexico.com To unsubscribe via email, send a blank message to: leave-wordoftheday-357530C@lists.lexico.com Subscriptions can be turned on and off from the Web at http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/list/ Dictionary.com Word of the Day http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/ (C) 2002 by Lexico Publishing Group, LLC.
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