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paradisiacal
adjective
of, like, or befitting paradise.
More about paradisiacal
Paradisiacal comes from the Late Latin adjective 辫补谤补诲墨蝉颈补肠耻蝉 鈥減ertaining to heaven, pertaining to the Garden of Eden,鈥� a word appearing only in Christian authors. 笔补谤补诲墨蝉颈补肠耻蝉 is a derivative of the noun 辫补谤补诲墨蝉耻蝉 鈥渁 park,鈥� and in Christian authors, 鈥減aradise.鈥� 笔补谤补诲墨蝉耻蝉 is a borrowing of the Greek noun 辫补谤谩诲别颈蝉辞蝉, which first appears in the works of the Athenian historian and essayist Xenophon (c430-350 b.c.), meaning 鈥渆nclosed park or pleasure ground with animals (for hunting),鈥� and always referring to the grounds of Persian kings and nobles. In later authors 辫补谤谩诲别颈蝉辞蝉 simply meant 鈥済arden, orchard.鈥� By the time of the Septuagint (the oldest Greek version of the Hebrew Bible, translated in the 3rd and 2nd centuries b.c.), 辫补谤谩诲别颈蝉辞蝉 referred to the Garden of Eden (as in Genesis 2:8). In the Gospels 辫补谤谩诲别颈蝉辞蝉 means 鈥渢he abode of the blessed, heaven.鈥� 笔补谤谩诲别颈蝉辞蝉 is a Greek borrowing from Avestan 辫补颈谤颈诲补脓锄补 鈥渆nclosure,鈥� literally 鈥渨alled around.鈥� (Avestan is the ancient East Iranian language of the Zoroastrian scriptures.)聽Paradisiacal entered English in the 17th century.
how is paradisiacal used?
… the proximity to the Tols, a range of inland mountains, created otherworldly climates which were sometimes paradisiacal, sometimes demoniacal, always one extreme or the other.
Unlike our paradisiacal, blue-and-white Earth, the moon has no atmosphere and no real sky鈥攋ust gray dust and black space, such that color photographs from moonwalks appear mostly black and white, as though someone colorized the American flags after the fact.
tmesis
noun
the interpolation of one or more words between the parts of a compound word, as be thou ware for beware.
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Tmesis is not a misspelling of thesis; 迟尘锚蝉颈蝉 鈥渃utting鈥� is a Greek noun, a derivative of the verb 迟茅尘苍别颈苍 鈥渢o cut, prune, castrate.鈥� Tmesis is a feature of the archaic epic syntax of the Iliad and Odyssey, in which there is a separation of an adverb (which becomes a prefix in Classical Greek) from its verb by an intervening word or phrase, as in the Iliad en 诲鈥檃耻迟貌蝉 别诲媒蝉别迟辞 n峁搑opa chalk貌n 鈥溾�� and he himself put on his gleaming bronze,鈥� where the adverb en is separated from its verb 别诲媒蝉别迟辞 by the phrase 诲鈥檃耻迟貌蝉 鈥渁nd he himself.鈥� Tmesis is rare and archaic in modern English, as in 鈥淥f whom be thou ware also; for he hath greatly withstood our words鈥� (that is, 鈥淏eware of him, yourself鈥︹��), 2 Timothy 4:15, Authorized Version. More than a few of us may admit familiarity with tmesis as it occurs in such adjectives as fantastic 辞谤听unbelievable or in adverbs like absolutely, in which the fan-, un-, and abso– are separated from the rest of the word by an overworked vulgarism.
how is tmesis used?
You may remember Matt Foley, the in-your-face motivational speaker played by the late comedian Chris Farley on聽Saturday Night Live, whose 鈥淲ell, la-dee-frickin鈥�-da鈥� was all the funnier for its tmesis.
Tmesis … means the insertion of one word into the middle of another word, as in abso-bloody-lutely or to-very-day. Most often we insert four-letter expletives, which cannot be printed in a newspaper but can only be suggested by substituting something like the British “bloody.”
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The English adjective orgulous has about as many spelling variants in Middle English (orgeilus, orgeyllous, orguillous, etc.) as its Old French source (orguillus, orguilleus, orgueilleux, etc.). The base of the French word is a Germanic (Frankish) noun, cognate with Old English orgol, orgel 鈥減ride,鈥� and akin to the Old High German adjective urguol 鈥渙utstanding.鈥� Shakespeare uses orgillous once, in Troilus and Cressida, but the adjective was obsolete by the mid-17th century, only to be resuscitated by Sir Walter Scott and Robert Southey in the first half of the 19th century.
how is orgulous used?
The princes orgulous, their high blood chafed / Have to the port of Athens sent their ships …
Ah, he is an orgulous man!