51吃瓜 of the Day
More about excogitate
Excogitate comes from Latin 别虫肠艒驳颈迟腻迟耻蝉, the past participle of 别虫肠艒驳颈迟腻谤别 meaning 鈥渢o devise, invent, think out.鈥� It entered English in the 1520s.
how is excogitate used?
I wouldn’t put the question to you for the world, and expose you to the inconvenience of having to … excogitate an answer.
The average politician knows fully as little or as much about railway management as he does about photographing the moon or applying the solar spectrum; yet, once upon a board of railway commissioners, he is required to excogitate and frame rules for an industry which not only supplies the financial arteries of a continent, but holds the lives as well as the credits of its citizens dependent upon the click of a telegraph or the angle of a semaphore …
estimable
adjective
deserving respect or admiration; worthy of esteem.
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The English adjective estimable comes via French estimable from Latin 补别蝉迟颈尘腻产颈濒颈蝉, a derivative of 补别蝉迟颈尘腻谤别 鈥渢o value, price, estimate the money value of.鈥� The etymology of 补别蝉迟颈尘腻谤别 is unclear, but it may be related to Latin aes (stem aer-) 鈥渃opper, bronze, brass,鈥� from Proto-Indo-European ayes-, ayos- 鈥渕etal, copper,鈥� from which Sanskrit derives 谩测补蝉- 鈥渕etal, iron,鈥� Gothic aiz 鈥渂ronze,鈥� German Erz 鈥渙re鈥� (the Erzgebirge, 鈥淥re Mountain Range,鈥� lies between Saxony, Germany, and Bohemia, Czech Republic), Old English 腻谤 鈥渙re, copper, brass,鈥� and English ore. Estimable entered English in the 15th century.
how is estimable used?
He is the most estimable, the most trustworthy creature in the world, and I will venture to say, there is not a better seaman in all the merchant service.
Nothing is more typical of Armstrong, or more estimable, than his decision not to go into politics; heaven knows what the blandishments, or the invitations, must have been.
lateritious
adjective
of the color of brick; brick-red.
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The very rare adjective lateritious comes from Latin latericius (also lateritius) 鈥渕ade of brick,鈥� a derivative of the noun later 鈥渂rick, tile, block, ingot.鈥� In English lateritious is used in medicine, biology, and geology to describe the color of urine, sediment, or stone. Lateritious entered English in the 17th century.
how is lateritious used?
He scanned the sooted pillars and lateritious stone, and her spark began to fade for him.
The powders made from this bark are at first of a light brown, tinged with a dusky yellow; and the longer they are kept, the more they incline to a cinnamon or lateritious colour, which he believed was the case with the Peruvian bark and powders.