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More about exoteric
Exoteric, the opposite of esoteric, comes from Latin 别虫艒迟别谤颈肠耻蝉 鈥減opular (e.g., of books); not overly technical or abstruse,鈥� a borrowing of Greek 别虫艒迟别谤颈办贸蝉 鈥渆xternal, outside, popular.鈥� The first element of the Greek word is the adverb 茅虫艒 鈥渙ut, out of, outside鈥�; the last element, -颈办贸蝉, is a typical adjective suffix. The middle element, -ter-, is usually called a comparative suffix, which is only one of its functions. The suffix -ter is also used in Latin and Greek to form natural or complementary pairs, e.g., Latin 苍艒蝉迟别谤 鈥渙ur鈥� and vester 鈥測our,鈥� and dexter 鈥渞ight (hand)鈥� and sinister 鈥渓eft (hand).鈥� The Latin adjectives correspond with Greek 丑脓尘茅迟别谤辞蝉 鈥渙ur鈥� and 丑测尘茅迟别谤辞蝉 鈥測our,鈥� and 诲别虫颈迟别谤贸蝉 鈥渞ight (hand)鈥� and 补谤颈蝉迟别谤贸蝉 鈥渓eft (hand).鈥� 础谤颈蝉迟别谤贸蝉 is a euphemism meaning 鈥渂etter (hand)鈥� (谩谤颈蝉迟辞蝉 means 鈥渂est鈥� in Greek, as in aristocracy 鈥渞ule of the best鈥�). Exoteric entered English in the 17th century.
how is exoteric used?
I was on a holiday, and was engaged in that rich and intricate mass of pleasures, duties, and discoveries which for the keeping off of the profane, we disguise by the exoteric name of Nothing.
Practical or exoteric alchemy was concerned chiefly with attempts to prepare the philosopher’s stone, a hypothetical transmuting and healing agent capable of curing the imagined diseases of metals and the real ones of man.
reticulation
noun
a netlike formation, arrangement, or appearance; network.
More about reticulation
Reticulation Is a derivative of the adjective reticulate (and the noun suffix -ion), of Latin origin. Reticulate comes from Latin 谤脓迟颈肠耻濒腻迟耻蝉 鈥渃overed with a net, having a netlike pattern,鈥� a derivative of the noun 谤脓迟颈肠耻濒耻尘 鈥渟mall net, a network bag,鈥� itself a derivative of 谤脓迟别 鈥渘et (for hunting, fishing, fowling).鈥� Reticulation entered English in the 17th century.
how is reticulation used?
… Ralph Marvell, stretched on his back in the grass, lay gazing up at a black reticulation of branches between which bits of sky gleamed with the hardness and brilliancy of blue enamel.
Her appearance has changed as well, and I don’t mean just the intense reticulation of lines and wrinkles, the true stigmata of life.
More about atweel
Atweel is an alteration and contraction of Scots (I) wat weel, (I) wot well in standard if archaic English, meaning (I) know well in modern standard English. Unsurprisingly, atweel is found only in Scottish authors, the two most famous being Robert Burns (1759鈥�1796) and Sir Walter Scott (1771鈥�1832). Atweel entered English in the 18th century.
how is atweel used?
Atweel, I can do that, and help her to buy her parapharnauls.
Atweel, I dinna ken yet.