Word For The Day, Thursday, August 8, 2013 – holograph

dictionaries ad nauseam | 8 August 2013 | 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".

holograph \HOL-uh-graf, -grahf, HOH-luh-\, adjective
1. wholly written by the person in whose name it appears: a holograph letter.
noun
1. a holograph writing, as a deed, will, or letter.

Example sentences:
The will was holograph, for Mr. Utterson, though he took charge of it now that it was made, had refused to lend the least assistance in the making of it...
-- Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, 1886

“An unexpectedly thoughtful young man," said Chase, straightening the frame of (Queen Victoria's holograph letter. Originally, he had planned to put the Emerson autograph between those of Longfellow and Tennyson but then he had had second thoughts about keeping a valuable letter addressed not so much to him as the Secretary of the Treasury and so, with a sad heart, he handed it over to the Treasure archives...
-- Gore Vidal, Lincoln: A Novel, 1984

Etymology:
Holograph entered English in the 18th century from the Greek holos + graph, meaning "whole written”.

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
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!

[secret garden]

Rise and shine!

[NicknamedBob]

Rather amazing that the Queen of England had the ability, what with all the distractions her affairs of State should provide, to focus with a laser-like intensity on creating a holograph for Mr. Lincoln.

[secret garden]

A for you.

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

Obama claims that his memoirs were holograph
“I wrote these books, like I sign my own autograph”
It seems that nobody cares
That they were penned by Bill Ayers
Barry will brag that he wrote his own epitaph

[secret garden]

100% true. A+ for you.

[SoothingDave]

I don’t want your...
I don’t need your...
All I’ve got is a holograph

[theDentist]

Every time I see your place it reminds me off the faces I used to know,<br?
but all I’ve got is your holograph and I realize I won’t recognize you no mo’.

[tioga]

Despite his two intellectual holographs, that he supposedly wrote himself, Obama is an idiot. Obama can’t remember Dr. Jill Biden’s name or where the Gulf of Mexico is...yep, geography...those 57 states are confusing.

[NeoCaveman]

I’m outta luck.

[ConorMacNessa]

I'd write a holographic will, but my handwriting is as opaque as the labyrinthine machinations of the Obama Regime and its benighted apparatchiks.

America demands Justice for the Fallen of Benghazi!

Genuflectimus non ad principem sed ad Principem Pacis!

Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)

Posted from my Motorola 4G - LTE

[mikrofon]

The Ayers’-authored tomes represent some of the “hollowgraphs” of The One...

[Robert A Cook PE]

I tried to write the address on a package, but my pen was empty and FedEx couldn’t read my hollowgraphic label write.

[Hegewisch Dupa]

"Go away, Obama-thing;
you're devoid of hope."

[afraidfortherepublic]

Obumbles don’t know nuthin’ about no holographs — from his “autobiographies” to his speeches. Everything is done by somebody else.

[secret garden]

A+ for a good earworm.

[secret garden]

A+ for another good earworm.

[secret garden]

Dr.? Oh please. An EdD is this close to a correspondence course. A+ for you.

[secret garden]

A for you!

[secret garden]

Now that's punny funny. A for you!