[bksvol-discuss] Re: Wish list: Bower-Litten contest books
- From: "Kim Friedman" <kimfri11@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 05 Jul 2009 17:57:59 -0700
Yes, Ann, you're correct. I would call this an exhaustive, not to say
exhausting definition (smile). Thanks for shining the light of knowledge on
my ignorance (not being sarcastic, just a tiny bit facetious). Best regards
and many thanks, Kim.
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Hi all,
Well, I looked it up with my "dict" program and this is what I found.
tabid
1 definition found
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Tabid \Tab"id\, a. [L. tabidus: cf. F. tabide. See {Tabes}.]
(Med.)
Affected by tabes; tabetic.
[1913 Webster]
In tabid persons, milk is the bset restorative.
--Arbuthnot.
[1913 Webster] -- {Tab"id*ly}, adv. -- {Tab"id*ness}, n.
[1913 Webster] Tabific
I then went back to the "dict" program and looked up tabes. Here is what I
found.
tabes
3 definitions found
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Tabes \Ta"bes\ (t[=a]"b[=e]z), n. [L., a wasting disease.]
(Med.)
Progressive emaciation of the body, accompanied with hectic
fever, with no well-marked local symptoms.
[1913 Webster]
{Tabes dorsalis} (t[=a]"b[=e]z d[^o]r*s[=a]"l[i^]s) [NL.,
tabes of the back], locomotor ataxia; -- sometimes called
simply tabes.
{Tabes mesenterica}[NL., mesenteric tabes], a wasting disease
of childhood characterized by chronic inflammation of the
lymphatic glands of the mesentery, attended with caseous
degeneration.
[1913 Webster]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
tabes
n : wasting of the body during a chronic disease
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
113 Moby Thesaurus words for "tabes":
French disease, Spanish pox, VD, abscess, acquired syphilis, ague,
anemia, ankylosis, anoxia, apnea, asphyxiation, asthma, ataxia,
atrophy, attenuation, backache, balanitis gangrenosa, bleeding,
blennorhea, cachexia, cachexy, cerebral tabes, chancre, chancroid,
chill, chills, clap, claps, climatic bubo, colic,
congenital syphilis, constipation, constitutional syphilis,
convulsion, coughing, cyanosis, diarrhea, dizziness, dose,
dose of clap, dropsy, dysentery, dyspepsia, dyspnea, edema,
emaceration, emaciation, fainting, fatigue, fever, fibrillation,
fifth venereal disease, flux, general paresis, gonorrhea,
granuloma inguinale, granuloma venereum, great pox, growth,
hard chancre, hemorrhage, high blood pressure, hydrops,
hypertension, hypotension, icterus, indigestion, inflammation,
insomnia, itching, jaundice, labored breathing, latent syphilis,
locomotor ataxia, low blood pressure, lumbago, marasmus,
morbus Gallicus, nasal discharge, nausea, necrosis, pain,
paralysis, paralytic dementia, paresis, pox, pruritus,
pudendal ulcer, rash, rheum, sclerosis, seizure, shock,
simple chancre, skin eruption, sneezing, social disease,
soft chancre, sore, spasm, syph, syphilis,
syphilitic meningoencephalitis, tabes dorsales, tachycardia,
tertiary syphilis, tropical bubo, tumor, upset stomach,
venereal disease, vertigo, vomiting, wasting
There you go, Kim. Probably more than you wanted but, you did ask.
Ann P.
On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 02:08:00AM -0700, Kim Friedman wrote:
> Hi, Evan, Kim here. I got a Concise Oxford English Dictionary and
> Thesaurus on a compact flash card from Humanware. I mention this
> because I think it is too concise. In other words, it doesn't have
> definitions for all the words in the language. I wanted to look up a
definition for the word "tabid"
> a word I know Donaldson used, but the dictionary had no definition for
> it. I thought to myself, "What kind of a dictionary is his?" The point
> of having a dictionary is to find out about all the ways people have
> used a particular word. I don't know if I've made myself clear here. I
> want to know the definitions of words I don't know, not ones for words
> which are garden every day sort of words. Regards, Kim aka Ellinder.
>
> _____
>
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> [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of EVAN REESE
> Sent: Saturday, July 04, 2009 10:20 PM
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> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Wish list: Bower-Litten contest books
>
>
> Those were fabulous books IMHO, as were the Second Chronicles. I
> expect to soon be starting the Final Chronicles; and if they approach
> the quality of the first two, I know I will love them as well.
>
> You are definitely right about the large vocabulary. I encountered
> more new words from him than I had in years of reading before that.
> <grin>
>
> Evan
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Kim <mailto:kimfri11@xxxxxxxxxxx> Friedman
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Saturday, July 04, 2009 10:11 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Wish list: Bower-Litten contest books
>
> Hi, Roger, I don't know if you've ever read The Chronicles of Thomas
> Covenant, by Stephen Donaldson, but he used the dream device in his
> first trilogy. I wouldn't call him an awful writer, but I can say he
> had a large vocabulary and didn't mind using it. Regards, Kim aka
Ellinder.
>
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>
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>
> Speaking of language changes, there also have been changes in writing
> styles and literary devices. I don't recall any commentary on this but
> I have noticed a literary device that was frequently employed in the
> late nineteenth and early twentyeth centuries that no writer would get
> away with today. That is that when a novel contained elements of the
> fantastic the author explained everything by just having the
> protagonist wake up at the end of the novel and realize that the
> entire story had been a dream. That was used in Looking Backward by
> Edward Bellamy and The Man Who was Tuesday by G. K. Chesterton. There
> were some others too, the titles of which slip my mind right now. I
suppose, at one time, that was considered good writing.
> Nowadays it would cause groans and eye rolling.
>
> "If you
> tremble with indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of
mine." Che
> Guevara
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> Hi, Shelley, Kim here. Can you imagine what fun good writers have when
> they deliberately set out to write badly? I'm interested in seeing
> books about language quirks and changes. What do you think of
> dictionaries of slang? I remember having a lot of fun reading I Hear
> America Talking by Stewart Bird Flexner because he listed all manner
> of expressions indicating the lack of sobriety of a person? Some
> priceless expressions I can recall are: being foxed, pie-eyed, being
> three sheets to the wind, on the sauce, etc. I personally wouldn't
> care to be pickled, stewed or dipsomaniacal, but I like drinking
> songs. At least I don't suffer from hangovers, maybe just a case of
laryngitis should my voice become hoarse. Regards, Kim aka Ellinder.
>
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> [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Shelley L.
> Rhodes
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> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Wish list: Bower-Litten contest books
>
> Hi here is the list of the contest winners, from all the years.
> Bookshare doesn't have any of these, neither alas does my library
> system, but perhaps someone out there has them and can add them smile to
Bookshare.
>
> It Was a Dark and Stormy Night Son of "It Was a Dark and Stormy Night"
>
> Bride of Dark and Stormy It Was a Dark & Stormy Night: The Final
Conflict
>
> Dark and Stormy Rides Again
>
> Shelley L. Rhodes, M.A., VRT
> And Guinevere: Golden Lady Guide Dog
> guidinggolden@xxxxxxxxx
> Guide Dogs for the Blind
> Alumni Association
> www.guidedogs.com
>
> The people who burned witches at the stake never for one moment
> thought of their act as violence; rather they thought of it as an act
> of divinely mandated righteousness.
> The same can be said of most of the violence we humans have ever
committed.
> -Gil Bailie, author and lecturer (b. 1944)
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