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thalassic
adjective
of or relating to seas and oceans.
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Thalassic 鈥減ertaining to seas or oceans, growing or found in the sea鈥� is a relatively rare technical term used in oceanography, usually applied to bodies of salt water such as gulfs or bays that are smaller than oceans. The adjective comes ultimately from the Greek noun 迟丑谩濒补蝉蝉补, 迟丑谩濒补迟迟补 鈥渟ea, the sea, the Mediterranean Sea.鈥� 罢丑谩濒补蝉蝉补 has no reliable etymology but is from the same pre-Greek language that gave Greek an alternative form to 迟丑谩濒补蝉蝉补, 迟丑谩濒补迟迟补, namely, 诲补濒谩苍办丑补, recorded only once, in a dictionary of the 5th century a.d.
Early in 鈥淭elemachus,鈥� the first chapter of Ulysses, the irrepressible Malachi 鈥淏uck鈥� Mulligan tries to convert a sullen Stephen Dedalus from Catholicism to Hellenism: 鈥淎h, Dedalus, the Greeks鈥�. You must read them in the original. Thalatta! Thalatta!鈥� But Buck鈥檚 Hellenism is as shallow as everything else about him: he would have seen thalatta thalatta in his second or third semester of high school Greek in Book 4, Chapter 7 of the Anabasis of Xenophon, whose works were much read as school texts because of the simplicity of his style. The word thalassic entered English in the mid-18th century.
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I, recalling the crimson chamber in his castle, speculated upon his living arrangements in thalassic caverns I could scarcely conceive.
He was sure something would come from the deeps to attack the fleet. There were old thalassic Instrumentalities uglier than any revenants stirring ashore.
John Hancock
noun
a person's signature: Put your John Hancock on this check.
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John Hancock (1737鈥�93) was a prominent American patriot, statesman, and merchant, mostly unknown today except for his magnificent signature. Hancock served as president of the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia when the Declaration of Independence was approved (not signed) on July 4, 1776. Hancock鈥檚 signature on the Declaration became an American colloquialism for a personal signature in the mid-19th century.
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Let’s sign the contract right now.鈥� Put down your John Hancock, and begin to draw the ole salary from this minute, with a month’s vacation pay!
“Handwriting can, does, and often will change due to moods, major life changes, and stress,” McKnight says, adding that pregnancy can affect your John Hancock, too.
paradisiacal
adjective
of, like, or befitting paradise.
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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.
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… 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.