;Posted on 06/05/2017 7:05:45 AM PDT by xsmommy
Word For The Day, Monday, 6/6/17
;In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".
labyrinthine; adj
1. of, relating to, or resembling a labyrinth. 2. complicated; tortuous: the labyrinthine byways of modern literature.Also, labyrinthian.In Greek mythology, the labyrinth (Greek: λαβύρινθος labyrinthos) was an elaborate structure designed and built by the legendary artificer Daedalus for King Minos of Crete at Knossos. Its function was to hold the Minotaur eventually killed by the hero Theseus. Daedalus had so cunningly made the Labyrinth that he could barely escape it after he built it.[1]
Although early Cretan coins occasionally exhibit branching (multicursal) patterns,[2] the single-path (unicursal) seven-course "Classical" design without branching or dead ends became associated with the Labyrinth on coins as early as 430 BC,[3] and similar non-branching patterns became widely used as visual representations of the Labyrinth – even though both logic and literary descriptions make it clear that the Minotaur was trapped in a complex branching maze.[4] Even as the designs became more elaborate, visual depictions of the mythological Labyrinth from Roman times until the Renaissance are almost invariably unicursal. Branching mazes were reintroduced only when garden mazes became popular during the Renaissance.
In English, the term labyrinth is generally synonymous with maze. As a result of the long history of unicursal representation of the mythological Labyrinth, however, many contemporary scholars and enthusiasts observe a distinction between the two. In this specialized usage maze refers to a complex branching multicursal puzzle with choices of path and direction, while a unicursal labyrinth has only a single path to the center. A labyrinth in this sense has an unambiguous route to the center and back and presents no navigational challenge.
Etymology: adj.
1630s; see labyrinth + -ine (1). Earlier adjective forms were labyrinthian (1580s); labyrinthial (1540s).
Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the Word for the Day in a sentence.
The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day.
Practice makes perfect.....post on....
Here is my example with WFTD.
will megyn Kelly crack the labyrinthine Russian hacking fantasy.
No pushing at the door please!
better late than never.
A labyrinth in a corn field?
Would that be called a maize?........................
Megyn looks like a slut in that pic....bare shoulders, slit up the kazoo and hooker shoes. Gees, she tried too hard to sex it up. Screams SLUT!
It’s the fifth. I know because I’m very aware my birthday is on Wed this year, and that’s the 7th!
Or do you do this ahead of time?
Washington can be a labyrinthine world
Where the truth is muddled and curled
Along comes Trump
Right from the stump
He speaks clearly with our flag unfurled.
Arcane and labyrinthine,
Inside the beltway has been,
Draining the Swamp
Will be more than a Romp,
As Trump wades through the mire Byzantine.
Labyrinthine — what a poofter does after labywashine, sweetie.
:^)
Isn’t there some long-winding complex TV series about this phenomenon?
It’s either Game of Labyrinthrones, or The Kardashithrones. I can’t remember witch. (Er, which.)
Any fifth is good. Some fifths are better than other fifths though. 8<) Happy birthday fifth!
Ouch.
perfect!! A++++
she was increasingly inappropriate in her dress on Fox, so I guess that’s going to continue to be her LOOK>
no, I am in a time warp and totally unsure of the date. My grandson’s 2 yo bday party was on Saturday and I thought that was the 4th, and so I have been a day ahead of myself ever since. Thanks for pointing it out.
A+++ you caught me ahead of myself too.
excellent! A++++
and happy early bday to you!
love it! A++++
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