Posted on 12/06/2012 4:44:07 AM PST by secret garden
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".
assoil \uh-SOIL\, verb
1. To absolve; acquit; pardon.
2. To atone for.
Example sentences:
Come up, wives, offer of your yarn! See, I enter your name here in my roll; you shall enter into heaven's bliss; I assoil you by mine high power, you that will make offerings, as clear and clean as when you were born — (lo sirs, thus I preach).
-- Bennett Cerf, An Anthology of Famous British Stories
"Go, and assoil thy living patient: the dead are past thy cares." — " I go," said the Monk of Montcalm, " and Heaven grant that I may shed around his death-hour, that peace which, I fear me, bloody prelate, will be denied to thine!"
-- Charles Robert Maturin, The Albigenses
Etymology:
Assoil is derived from the same root as the similar word absolve. However, assoil came into English through the Middle French word asoiler rather than directly from Latin like the word absolve.
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....
Review Thread One: Word For The Day, Thursday 11/14/02: Raffish
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!
think you should legally change it. buffy st marie and the little kid buffy on that old show with Sebastian Cabot are the only two buffys i have ever heard of, and both seem too far back for the mom of a 7 yo to have even heard of.
Obama was very upset because he thought someone had taken his “special lotion”, but when Reggie Love said he had it, Obama took the opportunity to assoil him.
Vampire Slayer.
oh lord, i guess there is that.
Well, Obama quit governing a long way back.
Now, like a baby, he just wants to asoil the Constitution he sits inside of..
I could change it to “El Sootherino,” if you’re not into the whole “brevity” thing.
Great tv show. Though the last season was probably unnecessary as it was getting convoluted.
That and every other show that keeps getting renewed instead of ending the story it set out to tell.
Could you just get to the part where you met our mother, Dad?
i like that. it flows. or we could call you Hay Zeus.
I was reading an article how that show, and Big Bang Theory, were actually increasing in ratings so look for them to stretch it out further.
Did you see Monday’s? Ted dressed up baby Marvin in Cleveland Browns clothing. Hilarious.
Yes, what a horrible thing to do to a child. ;-)
On the other hand, Scherbastsky dressed up as Lara Croft for laser tag.
Big Bang Theory isn’t scraping the bottom of the barrel, as HIMYM seems to be doing.
The Office needed to be shot sometime last season.
Did you catch any of the “Killer Karaoke”? People try to sing while being tortured. It’s pretty funny.
We don't call the stadium the “factory of sadness” for nothing.
Hey, you beat the Raiders — which was more than Pittsburgh could do.
Going for three wins in a row against the Cleveland Castoffs: Romeo Crenell, Brady Quinn, and Peyton Hillis this week, also known as the KC Chefs.
Is that a thing?
Sounds awful.
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