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  • reesetee commented on the word ostentiferous

    (obsolete, rare) Bringing omens or unnatural or supernatural manifestations.

    October 29, 2007

  • chained_bear commented on the word ostentiferous

    Ahh. So in the former Queen Margaret's estimation, at least according to Shakespeare, this could be applied to Richard III. (See hellhound.)

    October 29, 2007

  • reesetee commented on the word ostentiferous

    Right. And it's probably why Queen Margaret didn't send a baby gift. What does an ostentiferous hellhound need booties for?

    October 29, 2007

  • chained_bear commented on the word ostentiferous

    Really. He'd probably just gnaw them to pieces, anyway, since he was supposedly born with teeth.*

    *not true.

    psst... it's ostentiferous, isn't it?

    October 29, 2007

  • reesetee commented on the word ostentiferous

    Oops. Fixed.

    Newborns with teeth...just the thought of it sounds painful.

    October 29, 2007

  • sionnach commented on the word ostentiferous

    Newborns with teeth...just the thought of it sounds painful.

    Indeed. Just ask John Hurt.

    toothy baby

    October 30, 2007

  • chained_bear commented on the word ostentiferous

    sionnach... is that... did someone... make... a plush chest-burster?!

    October 30, 2007

  • reesetee commented on the word ostentiferous

    I believe someone did. Yes indeed.

    Reminds me of these little darlings.

    October 30, 2007

  • trivet commented on the word ostentiferous

    I love those little germs!

    October 30, 2007

  • reesetee commented on the word ostentiferous

    The Calamaties group is my favorite. :-)

    October 30, 2007

  • trivet commented on the word ostentiferous

    I can't decide if I like the mad cow or the mange better, myself.

    October 31, 2007

  • reesetee commented on the word ostentiferous

    Hmm. Tough choice.

    October 31, 2007

  • Dan337 commented on the word ostentiferous

    Example:

    In Drink: A Cultural History of Alcohol (page 219), Iain Gately quotes the July 17, 1974 Virginia Chronicle:

    Here then is the source from whence ​sic all your sedition flows, and until those crotalophorus and ostentiferous institutions are disconcantinated — and the individuals who compose them experience a decollation — their querulous bombilations and debulitions will never cease to obnubilate the prospects of their superiors.”

    — http://books.google.com/books?id=Ahp8yOGSnd8C&pg=PA219&dq=ostentiferous

    Pure gold (but difficult to spell-check).

    August 26, 2010