;Posted on 11/11/2015 1:25:48 AM PST by Louis Foxwell
;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".
(emunctory) [ih MUNCK tuh ree]
adjective
As an adjective, emunctory describes anything pertaining to the conveying of waste matter from the body, especially nose blowing. As a noun it denotes any body cleansing organ or canal, such as the execretory ducts, kidneys and pores. The word is derived from late Latin emunctorous (excretory) and emunctorium (a means of cleansing through ecretion; in classical Latin, a pair of nostrils). It all goes back to the Latin verb emungere (to cleanse a nose and with the reflexive pronoun - se emungere - to wipe one's nose) and its past participle emunctus.
The Latin phrase emunctae naris (literally, "with a clean nose") was used figuratively to mean "shrewd, discerning", and taking it a step further, as the poet Horace used it, "with a keen scent for other people's faults" (Why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the bean this is in thine own eye?" - Matt. 7:3 - or, as the New English Bible puts it, "Why do you look at the spec of sawdust in your brother's eye, with never a thought for the great plank in your own?"); but some say all Horace meant by homo emunctae naris was "a man of keen perception." You can take your choice of bibles and interpretations of Horace. In Tristan Shandy (1767) Laurence Sterne adivses: "Blow your noses, - cleanse your emunctories, - sneeze, my good people."
The Big Lebowski: “I just want to understand this, sir. Every time a rug is micturated upon in this fair city, I have to compensate the owner?”
A great, cathartic, and emunctory event for the American body politic event is coming with the election of 2016.
It really tied the room together.
I nose what’s going on today ....
Butt why knot, it’s veterans’ day, so we should celebrate our navel heirtage and leave them something to talk about..
The Debate: John Kasich, emunctory
Each orifice spewing his junk to me
Carson was calm
Ted Cruz was The Bomb
And Jeb Bush was merely perfunctory
Agree on all counts.
I’m tuning into Glenn Beck. whom I rarely listen to anymore, because he is ripping Kasich huge. Called him a suicide bomber.
It seemed like every time my DH walked through the living room last night I was telling Kasich to just shut up already....I would add that THIS IS WHY CONSERVATIVES don’t want YOU! DH actually stopped to ask why.
He annoyed me and the wife too.
She was also annoyed by Maria Bartiromo’s hair.
Her lips were weird, I couldn’t stop staring at them.
I thought you were turning into Glenn Beck there for a second. I need to get some bifocals. LOL
Rand Paul is an optician?
Opthamologist
who thought that would be a big seller?
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