Word For The Day, Thursday, May 3, 2012 - numen

dictionaries ad nauseam | 3 May 2012 | Thursday's sub

[secret garden]

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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".

numen \NOO-min\, noun
Divine power, especially one who inhabits a particular object.

Example sentences:
This “liquid” flowing up his arm and out of the other was numen, the divine substance, the sacred spirit that lives in a certain place in the body and sustains us all.
-- Jonathan Carroll, White Apples

He was now fairly confident that a shrine, unlike a temple, would contain no resident numen.
-- Dave Duncan, Present Tense (Round Two of the Great Game)

Etymology:
Numen is derived from the Latin word nūmen meaning "a nod, command, or divine will or power."

The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day. The Review threads are linked for your edification. ;-)
Practice makes perfect.....post on....

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Review Threads:

Review Thread One: Word For The Day, Thursday 11/14/02: Raffish (Be SURE to check out posts #92 and #111 on this thread!)
Review Thread Two: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/14/03: Roister
Review Thread Three: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/28/03: Obdurate

WFB's attempt to emulate us ; ) No pushing at the door please!

[OB1kNOb]

Paul Numen

[OB1kNOb]

Alfred E. Numen

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

Win or lose, you certainly got your money's worth. In another 5 minutes and change, you would have sat through two complete games. The goaltending was borderline miraculous. The Caps were so dominant early that if the Rangers had a mortal in the net instead of King Henry, four or five goals could have been scored before the second period was half over. And the kid, Holtby, was also fabulous. Great, great game!

I had two buddies over to watch it on my 70" Sharp Aquos, which makes you feel like you're rinkside. One guy crapped out after one overtime, the other left after the second. Mrs. Truth, who is only an occasional fan, was riveted by the action and stayed up until the end. She even started echoing my screams of "Get the puck out of here!" when it seemed like the Caps were on a perpetual power play in the Rangers' end. I haven't seen her that excited since our wedding night ever.

[secret garden]

Here's who we saw last night.

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

Nice job on the Numenclature.

[secret garden]

A+ for you!

[secret garden]

Extra credit!

[secret garden]

Now you went and uglied up the thread. F-. ;)

[NeoCaveman]

That’s way too cool.

[theDentist]

George: "Let me ask you something. What do you do for a living, Numan?"
Numen: "I'm a United States postal worker."
George: "Aren't those the guys that always go crazy and come back with a gun and shoot everybody?"
Numen: "Sometimes..."
George: "Why is that?"
Numen "Because the mail never stops. It just keeps coming and coming and coming, there's never a let-up. It's relentless. Every day it piles up more and more and more! And you gotta get it out but the more you get it out the more it keeps coming in. And then the bar code reader breaks and it's Publisher's Clearing House day!"

[secret garden]

I yell that too! I was yelling “Get a handle on Yandel!” last night, much to my husband’s chagrin. And when my favorite player was called for a penalty as they announced it, ‘Two Minutes to Martin Erat for’ - I yelled BEING AWESOME!! Everyone around us roared.

[dfwgator]

"Hello Numan"

[xsmommy]

are you kidding? it was the RANGERS on nonstop powerplay in OUR end! the guys behind me kept say, why does it feel like we are killing a penalty??? xshub asked me if i wanted to leave after the second OT ended, bc he knows what time i have to get up, and i said no, we can’t possibly leave now. Bret and his wife left at some point during the third period, i didn’t see them go, but just noticed at one point they were gone.

[xsmommy]

at one point xshub looked up at the out of town scores and said, well Nashville’s game is over, and it started an hour after our’s.

[dfwgator]

Gary Numan - Cars

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ldyx3KHOFXw

[martin_fierro]

Damn yer eyes.

beat me to it.

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

Each team had almost 50 shots. Depending upon what part of the game we are talking about, there were alternating streaks of domination. The very beginning was all Washington. The last overtime was all Rangers. And there were major fluctuations in the other four periods.

[xsmommy]

when dagos marry, it can jump pretty dang ugly...

[secret garden]

We kept checking ours and saying they’re STILL in OT??? What the heck??

[xsmommy]

our seats are down behind the goal, so we saw each goalie MULTIPLE times all night long! xsjunior and i will be in attendance on Saturday aft. Hoping for a diff outcome : )