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interlard
verb (used with object)
to diversify by adding or interjecting something unique, striking, or contrasting.
More about interlard
The verb interlard, 鈥渢o diversify by adding something striking or contrasting,鈥� comes from the Middle English verb interlarden, enterlard(e) 鈥渢o mix fat into,鈥� from Old French entrelarder. The Old French verb is a compound of the preposition entre 鈥渂etween鈥� and the verb larder 鈥渢o cook with lard or bacon fat.鈥� Entre, which appears in English entre nous 鈥渂etween ourselves, confidentially,鈥� is a regular development from Latin inter 鈥渂etween,鈥� which (unlike entre) is thoroughly naturalized in English, as in international, interstate, intercity. The verb larder 鈥渢o cook with lard or bacon fat,鈥� comes from the Latin noun 濒腻谤颈诲耻尘, lardum 鈥渂acon, salted meat.鈥� The Greek adjective 濒补谤颈苍贸蝉 鈥渇attened, fat鈥� is related to 濒腻谤颈诲耻尘, lardum; Greek also borrowed lardum as 濒谩谤诲辞蝉 鈥渟alted meat.鈥� Interlard entered English in the mid-15th century.
how is interlard used?
More than by the tone was Andre-Louise startled by the obscenities with which the Colossus did not hesitate to interlard his first speech to a total stranger. He laughed outright. There was nothing else to do.
The modern Old Farmer鈥檚 Almanac, though it contains a lot of hooey interlarded with its tables of sun declination and length of day, is much less a remnant of our degraded information ecosystem than a harbinger of it.
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remembrancer
noun
a reminder; memento; souvenir.
More about remembrancer
Remembrancer, 鈥渁 reminder; memento; souvenir,鈥� comes from Middle English remembrauncer, the title of one of the royal officers responsible for recording and collecting debts owed to the crown, one of the current senses of the word, used in British royal finances. In Middle English remembrauncer also referred to death, the one who enforces our obligation to die on the due date. Remembrancer entered English in the 14th century.
how is remembrancer used?
And on the few surviving steamboats鈥攖hose lingering ghosts and remembrancers of great fleets that plied the big river in the beginning of my water-career … there are still findable two or three river-pilots who saw me do creditable things in those ancient days …
I must do this as a precaution, you understand, lest the keys should fall into improper hands; into the hands of designing and unscrupulous persons, who have no claim on my brother whatever, and no right to expect more than a book or a teacup as a remembrancer.
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More about acme
Acme, 鈥渢he highest point; summit; peak,鈥� comes straight from Greek 补办尘岣� 鈥減oint, highest point, extremity.鈥� 础办尘岣� is one of many Greek words derived from the widespread Proto-Indo-European root ak-, ok– 鈥渟harp, pointed, angular.鈥� Other Greek derivatives include 谩办谤辞蝉 鈥渢opmost, outermost,鈥� as in 补办谤贸辫辞濒颈蝉 鈥渦pper city, citadel鈥� (English acropolis), 补办谤辞产谩迟脓蝉 (English acrobat), literally 鈥渉eight walker,鈥� and 补办铆蝉 鈥減oint.鈥� Latin derives from the same root 腻肠别谤 (stem 腻肠谤-) 鈥渟harp, stinging,鈥� 补肠颈脓蝉 鈥减辞颈苍迟,鈥� acidus 鈥渟our, acid,” and 补肠奴迟耻蝉 鈥渟harp, sharpened鈥� (English acute). The Proto-Germanic root from ak-, ok– is ag-. The Proto-Germanic noun 补驳测艒 becomes ecg 鈥渟harpness, sharp side, blade, sword鈥� in Old English (and edge in modern English); the Proto-Germanic verb agyan becomes eggja 鈥渢o goad, incite鈥� in Old Norse, the source of English egg (on). Acme entered English in the second half of the 16th century.
how is acme used?
To see victory only when it is within the ken of the common herd is not the acme of excellence. Neither is it the acme of excellence if you fight and conquer and the whole Empire says, “Well done!”
In this new era of television as high art, especially cable television, figuring out the acme of that art has been a task many have been eager to take on. We’ve mostly stayed silent, until now. That show, the best there ever was, is聽Breaking Bad.
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