The exorcising such a demon is practised by white men as a religious rite, even including the act of exsufflating it, or blowing it away, which our Mojave Indian illustrated by the gesture of blowing away an imaginary spirit, and which is well known as forming a part of the religious rites of both the Greek and Roman Church.
At Easter and Whitsontide ... they which were to be baptized were attired in white garments, exorcised, and exsuffled, with sundrie ceremonies, which I leave to the learned in Christian antiquities. — Britannia, William Camden, translated by Philemon Holland, 1610, p. 768.
Believe me, if I can understand quantum mechanics, I can certainly comprehend the thought process of a submental baton twirler. - Whatever Works, 2009. Film.
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nerdyperv commented on the word verdurous
What shall we who count our days and bow
Our heads with a commemorial woe
In the ribboned coats of grim felicity,
What shall we say of the bones, unclean,
Whose verdurous anonymity will grow?
- Allen Tate, Ode to the Confederate Dead, 1928
June 18, 2011
nerdyperv commented on the word exsufflate
The exorcising such a demon is practised by white men as a religious rite, even including the act of exsufflating it, or blowing it away, which our Mojave Indian illustrated by the gesture of blowing away an imaginary spirit, and which is well known as forming a part of the religious rites of both the Greek and Roman Church.
E.B. Tylor, Science, IV. 547.
May 21, 2011
nerdyperv commented on the word exsuffle
At Easter and Whitsontide ... they which were to be baptized were attired in white garments, exorcised, and exsuffled, with sundrie ceremonies, which I leave to the learned in Christian antiquities. — Britannia, William Camden, translated by Philemon Holland, 1610, p. 768.
May 21, 2011
nerdyperv commented on the word submental
Believe me, if I can understand quantum mechanics, I can certainly comprehend the thought process of a submental baton twirler. - Whatever Works, 2009. Film.
May 15, 2011
nerdyperv commented on the word alexin
"..., the alexin of our cure grows by a mountain rock, ..."
— Thomas Wolfe Look Homeward, Angel
April 1, 2011