51吃瓜 of the Day
More about scrutator
English scrutator comes straight from the Latin noun 蝉肠谤奴迟腻迟辞谤 鈥渟earcher (after something or someone hidden),鈥� a derivative of the verb 蝉肠谤奴迟腻谤墨鈥� to probe, examine closely,鈥� originally 鈥渢o sort through rags.鈥� 厂肠谤奴迟腻谤墨 itself is a derivative of the (neuter plural) noun 蝉肠谤奴迟补 鈥渄iscarded items, junk.鈥� Scrutator entered English in the late 16th century.
how is scrutator used?
Mistrust, assuming the ascendency, commenced its regency, and the observations of so indefatigable and eagle eyed a scrutator produced a conviction of the blackest perfidy.
I did not find him to be a thinker, and much less a scrutator …
More about sennight
The archaic English noun sennight means literally 鈥渟even nights,鈥� i.e. a week. The Old English form was seofan nihta; Middle English had very many forms, including soveniht, sevenight, seven nyght, sennyght.
how is sennight used?
It had taken them only a sennight to travel from Sentarshadeen … into the heart of the lost Lands to face the power of Shadow Mountain.
She that I spake of, our great captain’s captain, / Left in the conduct of the bold Iago, / Whose footing here anticipates our thoughts / A sennight‘s speed.
congeries
noun
a collection of items or parts in one mass; assemblage; aggregation; heap: From the airplane the town resembled a congeries of tiny boxes.
More about congeries
English congeries comes directly from the Latin noun 肠辞苍驳别谤颈脓蝉 鈥渃ollection, pile, heap,鈥� a derivative of the verb congerere 鈥渢o collect, amass.鈥� Congeries is a singular noun in Latin as it has always been in English. In the mid-19th century a new singular arose in English, congery, a back formation from congeries. Congeries entered English in the 17th century.
how is congeries used?
… each bud has a leaf, which is its lungs, appropriated to it, and the bark of the tree is a congeries of the roots of these individual buds …
He further emptied the valise, lifting out a queer-looking congeries of glass cells and coils to which the wire from the helmet was attached, and delivering a fire of running comment too technical for me to follow yet apparently quite plausible and straightforward.