exegesis
(en)
(from the Greek for "to lead out") a critical explanation or interpretation of a text, particularly a religious text
12
and enthusiastically yielding to the festive, Dionysian vision of ultimate carnival (or penultimate carnival) exegesis
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and enthusiastically yielding to the festive, Dionysian vision of ultimate carnival (or penultimate carnival) exegesis
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2 years ago
soporific
(en)
(adjective) causing or tending to cause sleep / (adjective) tending to dull awareness or alertness / (adjective) of, relating to, or marked by sleepiness or lethargy / (noun) a soporific agent / (noun) hypnotic
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a generally soporific or at best listless phone conversation
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a generally soporific or at best listless phone conversation
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factotum
(en)
(noun) a person having many diverse activities or responsibilities / (noun) a general servant
224
viewing him from the start as a straw man, a factotum in the service of some colonel in the intelligence services
strange
2 years ago
viewing him from the start as a straw man, a factotum in the service of some colonel in the intelligence services
strange
2 years ago
oneiric
(en)
(adjective) of or relating to dreams; dreamy
345
The oneiric wind whipped grains of sand that stuck to their faces
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The oneiric wind whipped grains of sand that stuck to their faces
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missal
(en)
(noun) a book containing all that is said or sung at mass during the entire year
601
read the diaries of unknown forebears, which were more like missals than diaries
i thought it meant like, letters
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2 years ago
read the diaries of unknown forebears, which were more like missals than diaries
i thought it meant like, letters
uncertain
2 years ago
threnodic
(en)
(relating to) a poem, speech, or song of lamentation, especially for the dead; dirge; funeral song.
836
The trip was a threnody or an epicede, depending on the countryside through which they were passing
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The trip was a threnody or an epicede, depending on the countryside through which they were passing
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2 years ago
epicede
(en)
(noun) a funeral song or ode : dirge, elegy.
836
The trip was a threnody or an epicede, depending on the countryside through which they were passing
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2 years ago
The trip was a threnody or an epicede, depending on the countryside through which they were passing
uncertain
2 years ago