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Old November 23rd, 2021, 08:39 AM
'France International/Mike Shefler' via Dixonary
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Default Re: [Dixonary] Round 3211 SUBLITION Defs - Vote Now!"

#6 because as a child the monsters were in sublition, and #8 because we hardly ever see 3 qualifiers to a definition.



On 11/23/2021 6:16 AM, Tim Lodge wrote:


Here we have 11 defs of the word SUBLITION, only one of which comes from my dictionary.* Please vote for your two favourites by public reply to this message before the deadline, which is:

******* 21:00 UTC/GMT on Wednesday 24th November in London
******* 22:00 CET in France and the Netherlands (and South Africa)
******** 4:00 PM EDT in New York***
******** 1:00 PM PDT in California
******* 10:00 NZST on Thursady 25th in New Zealand

New players are welcome - just don't look up the word until after you've voted.

--* Tim L

**** SUBLITION ***

*1. *** Water torture.
*2. *** The transfer of liability by contract.
*3. *** Deliberate manipulation of thought and behaviour.
*4. *** The act of silently mouthing the words when reading.
*5. *** [_Crystallog._] cleavage parallel to the lateral planes.
*6. *** The state of being under the bed; _transf. *in sublition*_: clandestinely
*7. *** A sloping surface, especially of a bone, such as the occipital and sphenoid.
*8. *** [_Painting. Obsolete. rare._] The first coating of paint applied, the ground colour; the act or process of applying the ground colour.
*9. *** a legal writ, usually issued by a judge or magistrate, to compel a person or corporation to refrain from publicly disparaging other litigants in a trial.
10. *** The chemical process in deciduous trees, typically in autumn, in which chlorophyll breaks down and foliage displays its underlying red/orange/brown colours.
11. *** One of the provisions in the Japanese Civil Code (_Minpō_, enacted in 1898) which implies that obligations between individuals in Japan are more regulated by social relations than by formal legal agreements.*






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