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desuetude, apposite, NO, drugs
2002-04-20 � 2:16 p.m.

hey kids,

here are some words.

desuetude DES-wih-tood, -tyood, noun:

The cessation of use; discontinuance of practice or custom; disuse.

Nuns and priests abandoned the identifying attire of the religious vocation and frequently also the vocation itself, experimental liturgies celebrated more the possibility of cultural advancement than that of eternal life, and popular Marian devotions fell into desuetude. --Michael W. Cuneo, [1]The Smoke of Satan: Conservative and

Traditionalist Dissent in Contemporary American Catholicism

Probably only one in a hundred girls who give birth clandestinely even knows that an edict of King Henry II, now fallen into desuetude, once made their action punishable by death. --Nina Rattner Gelbart, [2]The King's Midwife

Where specific restrictions on personal freedom and on communal activity had not explicitly been lifted they were allowed to fall into desuetude by default. --David Vital, [3]A People Apart: The Jews in Europe, 1789-1939

The exercise of rights which had practically passed into desuetude.--John Richard Green, Short History of the English People

Desuetude comes from Latin desuetudo, "disuse," from desuescere, "to become unaccustomed," from de- + suescere, "to become used or accustomed."

apposite AP-uh-zit, adjective:

Being of striking appropriateness and relevance; very applicable; apt.

As we survey Jewish history as a whole from the vantage point of the late twentieth century, Judah Halevi's phrase "prisoner of hope" seems entirely apposite. The prisoner of hope is sustained and encouraged by his hope, even as he is confined by it. --Jane S. Gerber (Editor), [1]The Illustrated History of the Jewish People

Suppose, for example, that in a theoretical physics seminar we were to explain a very technical concept in quantum field theory by comparing it to the concept of aporia in Derridean literary theory. Our audience of physicists would wonder, quite reasonably, what is the goal of such a metaphor--whether or not it is apposite --apart from displaying our own erudition. --Alan D. Sokal and Jean Bricmont, [2]Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science

Apposite comes from Latin appositus, past participle of apponere, "to set or put near," from ad-, "to, toward" + ponere, "to put, to place." Synonyms: relevant, pertinent, germane, material.

next week i will be in New Orleans. i am very excited. i gotta go do some home work, but remember kids, real heros don't do drugs.

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