Adopt a Word
Feb. 12th, 2009 12:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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connerybeagle's dogmom:
Each year, hundreds of words are dropped from the English language.
Your job, should you choose to accept it--save one. Just hit the adopt-a-word link, and go from there.
My word is "sigilism," a precise definition for which I cannot find. I would guess it's the practice of making or using sigils (one definition: symbols connected to a set of ideas by which spirits or deities may be summoned to awareness and controlled. They are used in divinatory practices. The term is derived from the Latin "sigilum" meaning "seal). It's also simply a seal or signet.
connerybeagle's dogmom:Each year, hundreds of words are dropped from the English language.
Your job, should you choose to accept it--save one. Just hit the adopt-a-word link, and go from there.
My word is "sigilism," a precise definition for which I cannot find. I would guess it's the practice of making or using sigils (one definition: symbols connected to a set of ideas by which spirits or deities may be summoned to awareness and controlled. They are used in divinatory practices. The term is derived from the Latin "sigilum" meaning "seal). It's also simply a seal or signet.
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Date: 2009-02-12 09:33 pm (UTC)As you know, my friend David is sagittipotent--he not only shoots well, but he makes crossbows. That might, however, be termed arbalestipotent instead, for all I know. Still, it shoots a stick with feathers on one end and a point on the other, so I'm calling it archery for the duration.