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lapidify
verb (used with or without object)
Archaic.
to turn into stone.
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The relatively rare verb lapidify, 鈥渢o turn into or become stone, petrify,鈥� comes via French lapidifier from Medieval Latin 濒补辫颈诲颈蹿颈肠腻谤别. 尝补辫颈诲颈蹿颈肠腻谤别 is a transparent compound of Latin lapid– (the inflectional stem of lapis 鈥渟tone鈥�) and the Latin verb-forming suffix –蹿颈肠腻谤别, ultimately a derivative of facere 鈥渢o make, do.鈥� The resemblance between lapis and Greek 濒茅辫补蝉 鈥渂are rock鈥� is 鈥渉ardly accidental,鈥� as the pros say: Both words probably come from a Mediterranean (non-Indo-European) language. Lapidify entered English in the mid-17th century.
how is lapidify used?
Perhaps in a few months a slow seepage, rich in minerals, would return to these passages and gradually glue their bodies to the rocks where they sat, to seal their crypt and lapidify their bones.
The rule of the Abang, in an age when the techniques existed to lapidify any rule to permanency, was, because of the very rise of a party, doomed.
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threequel
noun
the third in a series of literary works, movies, etc.; a second sequel: The first two films in this underworld anthology were cinematic gems, but the threequel was at best a disappointment.
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Threequel, 鈥渢he third in a series of literary works, movies, etc.; a second sequel,鈥� is a very recent neologism dating from around 1980. Threequel is an obvious compound of three and (se)quel. The term pops up聽in amusingly dismissive reviews of Jaws 3-D (a.k.a. Jaws III and Jaws 3), Rambo III, and RoboCop 3.
how is threequel used?
Threequels present a unique challenge: audiences expect the exact same cast to make them feel the exact same way the first two installments did, but with an entirely new and original storyline.
2011’s five top-grossing films tell a very different story: one sequel (The Hangover Part II), one threequel (Transformers: Dark of the Moon), two fourquels (The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1听补苍诲听Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides)鈥攁nd one聽eightquel听(Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2).
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ineffable
adjective
incapable of being expressed or described in words; inexpressible.
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Ineffable ultimately comes from Latin 颈苍别蹿蹿腻产颈濒颈蝉 鈥�(of a word) unpronounceable,鈥� and in Late Latin and Christian Latin 鈥�(of the divine name) that cannot or must not be spoken.鈥� 滨苍别蹿蹿腻产颈濒颈蝉 is a compound of in-, the Latin negative prefix that is equivalent to English un– (as in unspoken), and the verb 别蹿蹿腻谤墨 鈥渢o speak, speak out, speak solemnly, declare鈥� (itself a compound of the preposition and prefix ex, ex– 鈥渙ut, out of鈥� and 蹿腻谤墨 鈥渢o speak鈥�). Another English derivative, infant, comes from Latin 颈苍蹿腻苍蝉 (inflectional stem infant-) 鈥渟mall child, infant,鈥� literally 鈥渘onspeaking,鈥� formed from the same prefix in– and 蹿腻苍蝉, the present participle of 蹿腻谤墨. Ineffable entered English in the late 14th century.
how is ineffable used?
As a child, I loved reading the dictionary in search of the precise words for everything. Reading this poem, whose title is a Japanese word often translated as 鈥樷�榮unshine filtering through leaves,鈥欌�� I felt that wonder again鈥攈ow the language of poetry can move us closer to naming what is ineffable.
Again, I was listening very hard to jazz and hoping, one day, to translate it into language, and Shakespeare’s bawdiness became very important to me since bawdiness was one of the elements of jazz and revealed a tremendous, loving and realistic respect for the body, and that ineffable force which the body contains …
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