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terrene
adjective
earthly; worldly.
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Terrene ultimately comes, via Middle English terrene, terrain, from Anglo-French terreine, terren, from Old French 迟别谤谤茂别苍, from Latin 迟别谤谤脓苍耻蝉 鈥渂elonging to or living on dry land, earthly, earthy, pertaining to the material part of humans, belonging to this mortal world (as opposed to the celestial or divine).鈥� 罢别谤谤脓苍耻蝉 is a derivative of the noun terra (from unrecorded tersa) 鈥渓and, dry land, mainland, surface of the earth,鈥� from the Proto-Indo-European root ters– 鈥渢o dry,鈥� from which Greek derives 迟茅谤蝉别蝉迟丑补颈 鈥渢o become dry,鈥� Albanian ter 鈥渢o dry (in the open air),鈥� and Old English thurst 鈥渄ryness,鈥� English 鈥渢hirst.鈥� Terrene entered English in the 14th century.
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Over all this Raynaud looked from his high citadel as if he had no concern in these terrene matters.
we were created, and sent into the world, to struggle through many hardships; some to serve for examples to deter others from vice, some to prove that Virtue enables her votaries to rise above all terrene objects.
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The conjunction and adverb ergo comes straight from the Latin conjunction 别谤驳艒, ergo 鈥渢herefore, consequently, accordingly, and so,鈥� much used in rhetoric and logic. Ergo came into Middle English toward the end of the 14th century as a conjunction or adverb introducing the conclusion of a syllogism, e.g., 鈥淪ocrates is a man, / all men are mortal; / ergo Socrates is mortal.”
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Nonetheless, receiving rapid testing for the virus has become a mark of status and, ergo, a trending topic on social media.
Almost all professional orchestras have their own Web sites, where you can … read cute bios of the players. (The oboist bungee-jumps; ergo, musicians are human beings, not alien geeks.)
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discombobulate
verb (used with object)
to confuse or disconcert; upset; frustrate.
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Discombobulate 鈥渢o confuse, upset, or frustrate鈥� was originally a jocular American coinage from the North Midland U.S. (from Ohio west through Indiana, Illinois, and Iowa, to Nebraska). Discombobulate is a pseudo-Latinism like absquatulate and confusticate, and based on learned Latin words like disaffiliate or disaggregate, or humorous alterations of discompose or discomfort. The many variant spellings include discombobligate, discombobolate, discomboberate, discombooberate, and discumboblificate. Discombobulate entered English in 1825 in the spelling discomboberated.
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The filmmaking theory seems to be that if you discombobulate viewers with random shifts of the camera perhaps they won鈥檛 notice that your U.F.O. show contains no hard evidence of U.F.O.鈥檚.
On how humankind will cope, I tend to take the long view: new transformative technologies have discombobulated us before and we鈥檝e managed to adapt鈥攖o the invention of writing and printing, to living in cities, to the Industrial Revolution and instant communication and automobiles and nuclear technology.
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