;Posted on 08/31/2016 5:23:23 AM PDT 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".
MINACIOUS [min AY shus]
adjective
Note: Today's WFTD is an ADJECTIVE not to be confused with NOUN.
The adjunct word is MINATORY. Both words mean "threatening," and both are of Latin ancestry:minacious from minax (menacing, threatening), minatory from minatus, past participle of (to threaten). Of the two minatory is the more common.
The primary meaning in Latin of minax is "projecting, jutting out," and of minari is to "project, jut out."
A boulder atop a mountain holding back an avalanche can be said to be minacious.
Projection and threat certainly merged in the position of Mussolini's chin when he was making a speech from the balcony of the Palazzo Chigi in Rome, witness by the author (Schur) when he was a grad student at the University of Rome.
ON GUARD!
There is treachery afoot.
Diligence, tenacity, and most of all a minacious fervor, are required in these days.
Be BOLD in your entries laddies and lassies.
Huma separated from from husband after he sent yet another minacious image of himself with his phone.
Bill Clinton would be menacious at a sorority function.
As Hillary creaked up to the podium in her potholder pantsuit, the minacious stared in disbelief, and the women snickered quietly.
Bill and Hill’s bodies are debilitated by a lifetime of swimming in turgid cesspools. There was a time when some sorority sisters would swoon at his 6’6” boyish frame. Today they would avert their glance in embarrassment.
Concerning the future of our once-glorious representative republic, a Clinton presidency would be most minacious!
The minacious wench sat atop her gilded throne, garbed in pantsuits, issuing foolhardy decrees fueled entirely by excessive wine, Diazepam, and cocaine.
It is all about lowered expectations. The game can be played to a fault and Hillary is the fault. Expecting her to behave as a sickly harridan witch may not improve confidence in her.
I would say you are correct sending pix depicting his swollen groin next to his young son.
Moral degeneracy is the hallmark of the Clinton legacy. Do we really need more?
The Clinton Foundation is cancerous
Run by Hillary who is ambitious
Rotten to the core
Stealing from the poor
It’s a scheme that is minacious
A Clinton presidency is truly minacious, much to be feared.
Hillary lies; she’s mendacious
A victory would be minacious
Her emails need cleaning
Of her socialist leaning
Everything that she says is fallacious
I estimate about 100 professors of Latin who would know what this word means. They can use it among themselves. I will stick with words that are actually useful.
we love you and your stubborn refusal to improve your vocabulary! you keep using those three letter words, you hear?
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