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[Dixonary] Round 2949 CORPOSANT Defs - Vote Now!
Apologies for the delay. I hadn't reckoned on having to take someone to
the station and to do some emergency shopping. Anyway, here we have 15 defs of the word CORPOSANT, only one of which came from my dictionary. Cast your votes for your two favourites by public reply to this message before the relaxed deadline of: 09:00 UTC on Saturday 29th December which is: 10:00 CET 4:00 AM EST 1:00 AM PST 20:00 AEDT in Melbourne 22:00 NZDT in New Zealand New players are welcome - just don't look up the word until after you've voted. -- Tim L *** CORPOSANT *** 1. strong-willed. 2. a skin cream or ointment. 3. having flesh; having a body. 4. [Med. rare] bloody, as of stool. 5. overweight to a life threatening degree. 6. having little or no willingness to fight. 7. the care and burial of a dead saint's body. 8. qualified to wear the insignia of a particular office. 9. the weighted base of a torchère lamp or microphone stand.. 10. the candles at the head and feet of the body of a religious lying in state. 11. the ball of light which is sometimes seen on a ship (esp. about the masts or yard-arms) during a storm; also called ‘St. Elmo's Fire’. 12. a movement of the body expressing deep respect or deferential courtesy, as before a superior; a bow, curtsy, or other similar gesture, deference, or homage. 13. a standardized measure of physical health developed by the WHO in 1997, using an age- and sex-dependent 0-100 scale. From L. _corpus_, body; _sanus_, health. 14. a piece of the Eucharist consecrated by the pope and sent to his main churches as a sign of unity (a ritual common in the 2nd and 3rd centuries AD, but rarely performed since the Middle Ages). 15. (Meteorol.) a dark band in the yellow portion of the solar spectrum near the sodium line, caused by the presence of watery vapor in the atmosphere, and hence sometimes used in weather predictions. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Dixonary" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to dixonary+unsubscribe (AT) googlegroups (DOT) com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. |
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