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requiescat
noun
a wish or prayer for the repose of the dead.
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Requiescat, as any high school Latin student can tell you, is the third person singular present subjunctive active of the Latin verb 谤别辩耻颈脓蝉肠别谤别 鈥渢o rest, be at rest, rest in death鈥� and means 鈥淢ay he/she/it rest.鈥� If the kid wants to show off, they may volunteer that requiescat is an optative subjunctive, that is, a subjunctive that expresses a wish, as opposed to a hortatory subjunctive, a subjunctive that exhorts, as in 谤别辩耻颈脓蝉肠腻尘耻蝉 鈥淟et鈥檚 take a rest,鈥� or a jussive subjunctive, which expresses a command, as in requiescant 鈥淟et them rest!鈥� (搁别辩耻颈脓蝉肠补苍迟 can also be an optative subjunctive, 鈥淢ay they rest.鈥�) Requiescat usually appears in the phrase Requiescat In Pace (abbreviated R.I.P.) “May he/she/it rest in peace,鈥� seen on tombstones. Requiescat entered English in the second half of the 1700s.
how is requiescat used?
In delivering its eulogy, perhaps I can beg a requiescat from its enemies as well.
That emotion. I bury it here by the sea … And a heart’s requiescat聽I write on that grave.
macabre
adjective
gruesome and horrifying; ghastly; horrible.
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The history of the adjective macabre is confusing. The word is Middle French and first occurs (in French) in 1376, Je fis de 惭补肠补产谤茅 la dance 鈥淚 made the Dance of Death.鈥� In late Middle English Macabrees daunce meant 鈥淒ance of Death.鈥� French 惭补肠补产谤茅 may be an alteration of 惭补肠补产茅 鈥淢accabaeus鈥�; if so, 惭补肠补产谤茅 la dance may be the same as the medieval ritual or procession chor膿a Machabae艒rum “dance of the Maccabees,” honoring the martyrdom of Judas Maccabaeus and his brothers (II Maccabees). Macabre entered English in the 15th century.
how is macabre used?
Their macabre task is swabbing dead animals they find by the side of the road to get hold of their microbiomes鈥攖he communities of microorganisms that inhabit these mammals.
Vincent聽(1982) combines Burton鈥檚 burgeoning visual aesthetic with his lifelong love of the macabre and interest in stop-motion animation.
horripilation
noun
a bristling of the hair on the skin from cold, fear, etc.; goose bumps.
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Horripilation 鈥渂ristling of the hair on the skin from cold or fear,鈥� is a three-dollar word for goose bumps. Horripilation comes from the Late Latin noun 丑辞谤谤颈辫颈濒腻迟颈艒 (inflectional stem horripilation-), a derivative of the verb 丑辞谤谤颈辫颈濒腻谤别 鈥渢o become bristly or hairy.鈥� 贬辞谤谤颈辫颈濒腻迟颈艒 first appears in the Vulgate, the Latin version of the Bible, prepared chiefly by Saint Jerome at the end of the 4th century a.d. Horripilation entered English in the mid-17th century.
how is horripilation used?
… I have often wandered round other reputedly haunted places, especially in the vicinity of mills and local stream meets and in many have experienced that same horripilation of the flesh ….
I can鈥檛 have been the only person who spent the evening in a pretty much constant state of horripilation.