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Beth Cherry ___________ Sr. Creative Consultant EnFORM Technology 713.350.1860 -----Original Message----- From: Doctor Dictionary [mailto:doctor@dictionary.com] Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2001 2:00 AM To: Dictionary.com Word of the Day Subject: hebetude: Dictionary.com Word of the Day =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= IMAGINE YOURSELF DEBT FREE! - Looking for solutions to get out of debt? The Credit Counseling Foundation will show you how. Eliminate late charges, reduce interest, consolidate bills, stop harassing calls, & avoid bankruptcy. Click Here to find out more with a FREE Debt Reduction Analysis! http://by.advertising.com/1/c/62072/35645/110027/110027 <a href="http://by.advertising.com/1/c/62072/35645/110027/110027"< AOL users click here </a< =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Word of the Day for Thursday November 8, 2001: hebetude \HEB-uh-tood-; -tyood\, noun: Mental dullness or sluggishness. While too many Americans slouch toward a terminal funk of hebetude and sloth, Bendians race ahead with toned muscles, wide eyes and brains perpetually wired on adrenaline. --"Wild rides in the heart of central Oregon: Bent out of shape in Bend," [1]Washington Times, August 11, 2001 Earlier on, when we merely democratized fame, we defended the right of any mouth-breather to rise from deserved obscurity on the strength of his God-given hebetude. --Florence King, "The misanthrope's corner," [2]National Review, May 18, 1998 From that solitude, full of despair and terror, he was torn out brutally, with kicks and blows, passive, sunk in hebetude. --Joseph Conrad, [3]Nostromo _________________________________________________________ Hebetude derives ultimately from Latin hebes, "blunt, dull, mentally dull, sluggish, stupid." The adjective form is hebetudinous \heb-uh-TOOD-n-us; -TYOOD-\. References 1. http://www.washingtontimes.com/ 2. http://www.nationalreview.com/ 3. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/014018371X/lexico _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ You are currently subscribed to Dictionary.com Word of the Day as: beth.cherry@enform.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-399032I@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) 2001, Lexico LLC. - C.DTF
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