51吃瓜 of the Day
solace
noun
something that gives comfort, consolation, or relief.
More about solace
Solace, both noun and verb, comes from Old French noun solas, solaz and the Old French verb solacier, solasier from the Latin noun 蝉艒濒腻肠颈耻尘 (also spelled 蝉艒濒腻迟颈耻尘) 鈥渞elief in sorrow or misfortune, comfort,鈥� a derivative of the verb 蝉艒濒腻谤墨 鈥渢o give comfort, console.鈥� One of the meanings of 蝉艒濒腻肠颈耻尘 is 鈥渃ompensation, indemnification,鈥� found in the writings of the Imperial Roman jurist Ulpian. This legal sense of 蝉艒濒腻迟颈耻尘 (spelled solatium) has existed in English since the 19th century. The noun and verb solace entered English around the same time, in the late 13th century.
how is solace used?
Here it shows the attributes that have enabled medicine as a science steadily to push the frontier of knowledge farther into the area once marked unknown, and have kept medicine as an art of human relations a constant solace to men in pain, fear, and sorrow.
The only solace of the day was to make food鈥攖he basic things, soups, simple pastas and bread.
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peregrinate
verb (used without object)
to travel or journey, especially to walk on foot.
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The verb peregrinate, 鈥渢o go on a journey on foot,鈥� comes from Latin 辫别谤别驳谤墨苍腻迟耻蝉, the past participle of 辫别谤别驳谤墨苍腻谤墨 鈥渢o travel abroad,鈥� a derivative of the adjective and noun 辫别谤别驳谤墨苍耻蝉 鈥渁lien, foreign; an alien, a foreigner,鈥� formed from the adverb 辫别谤别驳谤墨 鈥渁way from home, abroad.鈥� In Roman republican and imperial law, a 辫别谤别驳谤墨苍耻蝉 was a free person or a free community that did not have Roman citizenship (the vast majority of the inhabitants of the Empire). Late Latin 辫别谤别驳谤墨苍耻蝉 became 辫别濒别驳谤墨苍耻蝉 by a common dissimilation (compare the spelling colonel with its pronunciation). 笔别濒别驳谤墨苍耻蝉 has its own history, becoming the source of pilgrim. Peregrinate entered English in the late 16th century.
how is peregrinate used?
Regardless of how they get there, they seem to peregrinate in a fog, for which they can hardly be blamed …
"Welcome to 袘褉邪泄褌芯薪 袘懈褔, Brooklyn," New York Times, December 14, 2018
I had peregrinated further to the little hamlet of B眉rglen, and peeped into the frescoed chapel which commemorates the hero鈥檚 natal scene.
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Jedi
noun
a person who has an unexplainable power over people or things, or who seems to enjoy unusual luck and positive outcomes, as if able to exert the power of the Force to mystically influence the universe: The defense lawyer was a jedi鈥攖wo minutes into his closing argument the jury forgot all of the incriminating evidence that had been presented.
More about Jedi
If you are from a galaxy far, far away, you will know what a Jedi is (a member of an order of warrior monks). The order and word were formed a long, long time ago in another galaxy, but in this one the word dates only to 1973.
how is Jedi used?
In the Senate, the outspoken Paul and McConnell, the methodical Jedi of the upper chamber, would sometimes disagree on tactics.
In December 2010, McGuire made a pilgrimage to聽Black Sheep Bikes聽in Fort Collins, Colo., to learn at the hands of an acknowledged Jedi of bike frame fabrication, James Bleakley.
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