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JadziaDax · 10-20-2003, 01:23 AM

The Word of the Day for October 20 is:

profligate • \PRAH-flih-gut\ • (adjective) 1. completely given up to dissipation and licentiousness; 2. wildly extravagant; prodigal

A little more information about today’s word:
When a royal record keeper reported the "profligation of the knights" 477 years ago, he didn’t mean the knights were wildly indulging in excesses; he meant they were thoroughly defeated in battle. There’s nothing etymologically extreme there; the Latin verb "profligare," which is the root of both "profligate" and the much rarer "profligation" (meaning "ruin"), means "to strike down," "to destroy, ruin," or "to overwhelm." When the adjective "profligate" first appeared in print in English in the 1500s, it meant "overthrown" or "overwhelmed." By 1647 it had acquired its "abandoned or given over to vice" sense, and by 1779 it was being used with the meaning "wildly extravagant."

My sentence (using definition #2):
Each political party tried to paint the other side as profligate wasters of the taxpayers’ money.

Based on Merriam-Webster's Collegiate® Dictionary, 10th Edition.

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10-20-2003, 01:23 AM	#74 (permalink)
JadziaDax Loser Location: who the fuck cares?	Word of the day October 20 The Word of the Day for October 20 is: profligate • \PRAH-flih-gut\ • (adjective) 1. completely given up to dissipation and licentiousness; 2. wildly extravagant; prodigal A little more information about today’s word: When a royal record keeper reported the "profligation of the knights" 477 years ago, he didn’t mean the knights were wildly indulging in excesses; he meant they were thoroughly defeated in battle. There’s nothing etymologically extreme there; the Latin verb "profligare," which is the root of both "profligate" and the much rarer "profligation" (meaning "ruin"), means "to strike down," "to destroy, ruin," or "to overwhelm." When the adjective "profligate" first appeared in print in English in the 1500s, it meant "overthrown" or "overwhelmed." By 1647 it had acquired its "abandoned or given over to vice" sense, and by 1779 it was being used with the meaning "wildly extravagant." My sentence (using definition #2): Each political party tried to paint the other side as profligate wasters of the taxpayers’ money. Based on Merriam-Webster's Collegiate® Dictionary, 10th Edition. Next sentence?