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inspissate
verb (used with or without object)
to thicken, as by evaporation; make or become dense.
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Inspissate 鈥渢o thicken, as by evaporation鈥� derives from Latin 颈苍蝉辫颈蝉蝉腻谤别 鈥渢o thicken,鈥� from the adjective spissus 鈥渢丑颈肠办.鈥� Spissus is of uncertain ultimate origin but may be cognate to Ancient Greek 蝉辫铆诲颈辞蝉 鈥渨ide鈥� and 蝉辫颈诲苍贸苍 鈥渢丑颈肠办,鈥� and its other descendants include English spissitude 鈥渢he condition of a fluid thickened almost to a solid,鈥� French 茅辫补颈蝉 鈥渢丑颈肠办,鈥� and Spanish espeso 鈥渄别苍蝉别.鈥� Inspissate was first recorded in English in the 1620s.
how is inspissate used?
On the coast the principal ports and towns supply themselves with sea salt evaporated in the rudest way. Pits sunk near the numerous lagoons and back-waters allow saline particles to infiltrate; the contents, then placed in a pierced earthenware pot, are allowed to strain into a second beneath. They are inspissated by boiling, and are finally dried in the sun, when the mass assumes the form of sand.
Anna and I got as gussied up as grad students could and were soon seduced not only by the food at Maxim’s but also by the belle 茅poque decor …. I remember having duck l’orange …. Dad had something with beef in it, Anna a lobster thermidor with a sauce so viscous that two George Foremans couldn’t have finished it. There was sauce on everything, all inspissated with butter, flour, cr猫me fra卯che. To me, it was all the hautest of haute, and delicious.
enkindle
verb (used with or without object)
to kindle into flame, ardor, activity, etc.
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Enkindle 鈥渢o kindle into flame, ardor, or activity鈥� is a compound of the prefix en-, which serves as a transitive marker, and the verb kindle 鈥渢o start (a fire); cause to begin burning.鈥� Kindle derives from Old Norse kynda and is related to Old Norse kindill 鈥渢orch, candle.鈥� Despite the phonetic similarity, however, kindle is not related to candle, the latter of which is of Latin origin and comes from the same source as incandescent and incendiary. It is likely that kindle has been influenced in meaning and/or spelling by the unrelated homonym kindle 鈥渢o bear (young),鈥� which comes from the Old English noun gecynd 鈥涣蹿蹿蝉辫谤颈苍驳.鈥� Enkindle was first recorded in English in the 1540s.
how is enkindle used?
In the cold courts of justice the dull head demands oaths, and holy writ proofs; but in the warm halls of the heart one single, untestified memory鈥檚 spark shall suffice to enkindle such a blaze of evidence, that all the corners of conviction are as suddenly lighted up as a midnight city by a burning building, which on every side whirls its reddened brands.
Scents of Power is illuminating to the benighted, just as it is enlightening to the elite. In it, we identify an ideologue who isn鈥檛 a bohemian and one whose trajectory enkindles hope for voices on the fringe and the journalism practice itself. This well written book invites you to take more than a cursory look.
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Paean 鈥渁ny song of praise, joy, or triumph鈥� derives via Latin 辫补别腻苍 鈥渞eligious or festive hymn鈥� from Ancient Greek 辫补颈谩苍, a song addressed to Apollo in gratitude. This term is a common use of the name 笔补颈腻虂苍, which was originally the name of the physician of the gods but later became a nickname for Apollo. While 笔补颈腻虂苍 is of uncertain origin, possibly pre-Greek, it has another floral descendant in English: peony, the state flower of Indiana. 笔补颈腻虂苍 is not related to Pan, the name of the Greek god of forests, pastures, and shepherds. Paean was first recorded in English circa 1540.
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A very different sort of uneasy calm hovers over Puts鈥檚 Silent Night, which received a Pulitzer Prize in 2012. After brief paeans to the 鈥済lory of the battle鈥� that marks the beginning of the war, the opera picks out the threads of its multiple storylines. A pregnant French woman rebukes her husband for enlisting. A Scottish soldier persuades his brother鈥攆atefully, as it turns out鈥攖o join him. Two lovers, both of them opera singers, are separated after singing in Germany.