Posted on 01/12/2016 4:23:01 AM PST by SoothingDave
Word For The Day, Tuesday January 12, 2015
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".
stelliferous [ste-lif-er-uh s]
-adj
having or abounding with stars.
[1575-85; < Latin stellifer star-bearing ( stell (a) star + -i- -i- + -fer -fer ) + -ous; see -ferous]
“My God, it’s stelliferous.”
While it was freezing cold this morning, the sky was clear enough to enjoy a few moments walking to my car, enjoying the stelliferous backdrop to the east.
27 and snow this morning. Expecting an inch or two by this afternoon. School went on as planned, figuring that snow in the morning means it isn’t going to get better if we wait two hours.
The annual Academy Awards are stelliferous with celebrities.
In Indiana school is not called off on some very snowing days because the stelliferous basketball team is full of young people who are required by law to attend class before participation in a game !
Priorities
;-) some call it sport.
True story :
Our local school board hired armed guards when the mothers threatened to arm themselves and protect our children. Obama really didn’t know the heartland ( Indiana) very well or he would have said clinging to guns, basketballs and Bibles. Or maybe by omission of the ball he was not including our stelliferous state !!!
Have paid no real attention, but I am told that tonight’s lie-fest will be a stelliferous event, with Hollywood types trying to get into the Gallery for the last Obama SOTU like it’s a 70’s “happening”.
Mike Tyson was stelliferous in his fight with Buster Douglas.
Goodbye, David Bowie...Make you take your place in the stelliferous ether of Rock-n-Roll heaven!
Why are they doing such a thing. Who asked for that?
haha, my question exactly! raising them for PETS or what??
It stays crunchy, even in milk!
I have visions of DaVinci dragging one into the house thinking its a real stick!!
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