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More about neophyte
Neophyte “a beginner or novice” ultimately comes from Greek 苍别贸辫丑测迟辞蝉 鈥渘ewly planted鈥� (grains, vines), a compound of neo-, a combining form of the adjective 苍茅辞蝉 鈥渘ew,鈥� and –辫丑测迟贸蝉 鈥減lanted,鈥� a derivative of 辫丑媒别颈苍 鈥渢o make grow, bring forth, beget.鈥� 狈别贸辫丑测迟辞蝉 first appears in the works of the Athenian comic dramatist Aristophanes (died ca. 385 b.c.), and it keeps its literal, agricultural sense down to the Septuagint, the Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible that was completed by the 1st century b.c. 狈别贸辫丑测迟辞蝉 in the sense 鈥渘ew convert鈥� (to Christianity) first appears in I Timothy, one of the Pastoral Epistles traditionally ascribed to St. Paul. 狈别贸辫丑测迟辞蝉 in its new sense was adopted by Christian Latin authors as neophytus; neophytus was sufficiently established for St. Jerome to use it in his Latin translation from the Greek I Timothy. The general, modern sense 鈥渂eginner鈥� first appears in Ben Jonson鈥檚 play Every Man out of His Humor (1600). Neophyte entered English in the 15th century.
how is neophyte used?
Maybe it takes a ruthless, calculating egoist to transform pain into product. Or maybe all the attention that the neophyte clamors for feels suffocating to the full-grown artist.
Macron, who exit polls聽project聽as the winner of Sunday鈥檚 first round presidential election in France, is a political neophyte.
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non sequitur
noun
something said or written that is unrelated to what immediately precedes.
More about non sequitur
The Latin sentence non sequitur, 鈥渋t doesn鈥檛 follow鈥� in English is used as a noun whose original meaning was 鈥渁n inference or a conclusion that does not follow from the premises,鈥� i.e., a logical fallacy, a usage established by Cicero in the 1st century b.c. A typical example of such a fallacy is: 鈥淚f X is true, then Y is true. But Y is true. Therefore, X is true.鈥� Nowadays non sequitur mostly means 鈥渁 statement containing an illogical conclusion,鈥� especially a conclusion that is amusing, whether intentional or not, or “something said or written that is unrelated to what immediately precedes.”
how is non sequitur used?
And who would want to forget, say, 鈥淢r. F鈥檚 Aunt,鈥� whose outbursts of demented rage at poor Arthur Clennam in 鈥淟ittle Dorrit鈥� make no sense at all. 鈥淭here鈥檚 milestones on the Dover Road!鈥� 鈥淲hen we lived at Henley, Barnes鈥檚 gander was stole by tinkers.鈥� … Mr. F鈥檚 Aunt鈥檚 malign non sequiturs would be immortal in whatever book Dickens had chosen to insert them.
But every day many people find themselves sitting across the table from a negotiation partner they can鈥檛 abandon or replace: their kids. How might parents manage these often fraught, exasperating conversations in which their counterpart, lacking self-awareness, sometimes seems to think it strategic to聽respond with complete non sequiturs?
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More about inimical
Inimical 鈥渦nfriendly, hostile鈥� comes from the Late Latin adjective 颈苍颈尘墨肠腻濒颈蝉, first used by the 5th-century Christian author Sidonius Apollinaris, a major political, diplomatic, literary, and religious figure of Gaul (now France, more or less)鈥攊ndeed, of the Western Roman Empire. Sidonius Apollinaris had the delicate task of balancing the waning power of the Roman emperor against the rising power of the new Gothic kingdom comprising most of France and Spain, while at the same time also avoiding religious controversy. 滨苍颈尘墨肠腻濒颈蝉 is a derivative of the noun 颈苍颈尘墨肠耻蝉, a compound of the negative prefix in– 鈥渘ot, un-鈥� and a form of 补尘墨肠耻蝉 鈥渇riend鈥�; unsurprisingly an 颈苍颈尘墨肠耻蝉 is an 鈥渦nfriend.鈥� Inimical entered English in the second half of the 17th century.
how is inimical used?
I rolled over and tried to get back to sleep, but I kept seeing faces鈥攖he highway robber’s inimical glare, the kid’s grin, the mother’s distorted mouth and wild eyes.
In 1960, the CIA said 6,500 objects had been reported to the U.S. Air Force over the prior 13 years. The Air Force concluded there was no evidence those sightings were 鈥�inimical or hostile鈥� or related to 鈥渋nterplanetary space ships,鈥� the CIA said.
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