Posted on 12/03/2008 5:32:55 AM PST by VRWCmember
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".
dragoon • \druh-GOON\ • verb
1. to subjugate or persecute by harsh use of troops
2. to force into submission or compliance especially by violent measures *
* Indicates the sense illustrated in the example sentence.
Example sentence:
Boys of all ages were taken from their families and dragooned into fighting for the rebel armies. (until Jack Bauer came along to save them)
Did you know?
A dragoon was a mounted European infantryman of the 17th and 18th centuries armed with a firearm called by the same name. No arm-twisting should be needed to get you to believe that the firearm's name, which came to English from French, is derived from its semblance to a fire-breathing dragon when fired. History has recorded the dragonish nature of the dragoons who persecuted the French Protestants in the 17th century, during the reign of Louis XIV. The persecution by means of the dragoons led to the use of the word "dragoon" as a verb.
Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the Word for the Day in a sentence.
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 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
Review Thread Four: Word For the Day, Friday 7/25/03: Potation
Review Thread Five: Word For the Day, Monday 8/19/03: Stolid
Review Thread Six: Word for the Day, Tuesday 11/09/2004: Peripatetic (Post #125 may be my best anagram post ever)
Here is my example with today's WFTD.
Third world thugs and dictators dragoon their countrymen with guns and tanks; democrats prefer to dragoon Americans with new taxes.
Democrats may tax health benefits
No pushing at the door please!
Happy Humpday Everybody!
Emmitt Smith, 3-time Super Bowl Champ, all time NFL rushing leader, and Dancing With The Stars Champion, wanted to remind everybody that there are only 
days left until Christmas!
Get to class you slackers!
Get to class you slackers!
22 Days........OMG...I still haven’t mailed the package for the west coast clan.....ackkkkkkkkk.
There are Dragoon Mountains a few miles from where I live. Does that count?
I’m number ONE, I’m number ONE........(happy dance)
Happpy Wednesday!
How long until 0bama’s dragoonian tactics include door-to-door searches for the formerly-legal (Hell, it’s the only product mentioned in the Constitution) guns that many of us use to enjoy the God-given right to? I hate Illinois (or Hawaiin/Malaysian/Kenyan) commies! UGH!
Rather than speaking to terrorist nations with out Preconditions, Obama should follow Reagan’s example of dragooning the enemy.
May the rest of your day go so well.
Hide them NOW. Keep soom out, hide some for later - to have after they search your house.
Hence the term “goon squad”?
LOL.......I hope so too! the son is actually out in the god-forsaken tundra of hillary’s hell whole.
Well, does that mean that they dragooned the good name of the 17th century infantry through the mud?
(Then again, did the 16th and 17th century infantrymen even have a good name to dragoon through the mud?)
It's still early. They may still go the third world dictator route.
Please, never use the words Hillary and hole in the same sentence. (/shudders)
Yeah, yeah, yeah -— whatever :)
LOL.....whole/hole..........OMG, you ruined a perfect day......
Thankfully 0bama was not able to dragoon his “troops” in support of Jim Martin, and therefore, Saxby Chambliss won the day!
Hope I got those candidates names spelled correctly...
Don’t want to get marked “down” for that :)
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