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“TEC and the ACoC are focussed on their own survival, their outlook is solipsistic and their leaders are to blame; the resulting gadarene slide into oblivion is transparently apparent to Orombi, Akinola and everyone else in North America who has extricated himself from their pernicious clutches.”
A message from the alternate universe of Bishop Michael Ingham « Anglican Samizdat
“These have their place, just as audio books do but publishers are rushing like gadarene swine over the cliff to predict and even encourage the demise of the printed book.”
“Sestinas have been coming up all over the place in the past few days, in discussions in other people's journals (waves to gadarene and rosefox), in personal emails, books I've been reading, something I'm writing, etc.”
“Jan. 18th, 2006 at 2:59 PM gadarene has thrown down the gauntlet, meme-wise well, not really, she doesn't seem to be the type of person for whom gauntlet-throwing is a typical activity, but anyway, she started this fun meme:”
“This time around I found a fascinating young adult series of retold faery novels by various authors at an independent bookstore in Vermont, when I was visiting gadarene (many hugs for bringing me there).”
“Yet this piddling amount is predicted to send this lugubrious ball on a gadarene rush towards a runaway global warming that will bring industrial man to his condign ruination.”
“As reported on page 54 of his book The Pleasures of Chess, the entries included plank-walk, movicide, goose-gang, gadarene-pull and dreadmill.”
“Although I know I'm departing from blogosphere conventions, I'm getting fed up with the gadarene rush to proclaim the end of the world, every time politicians do something stupid.”
“The sort of environmentalism that has been sidelined by the gadarene groupies of global warming.”
“written by nihilistic_kid and gadarene at John Scalzi's Whatever blog.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘gadarene’.
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from phrontistery.info
gabardine, gabbart, gabble, gabbro, gabelle, gabion, gablock, gad, gadarene, gadoid, gadroon, gadzookery and 439 more...
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The Aubrey/Maturin List I'm Gonna Mak...
I'm wading through Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin novels one by one, and someday, I'll wade through them again and list all the words I learned while reading them.
Edit: I started ma...studdingsail, carronade, mumchance, grumlin-futtocks, crosscat-harpings, holystone, sennit, orlop, orchitis, negus, kevel, altumal and 1112 more...
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ozchurchill's list
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sionnach's Words
contumely, fomite, holmgang, poltroon, eleemosynary, obsidian, nugatory, grindcore, felch, recrudescent, pyx, parenteral and 3271 more...
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Wordie/Wordnik Curio Cabinet
Oddments culled from my "main" lists that belong in a display cabinet of their own, plus sundry other curiosities. :-)
zeugma, ziggurat, xiphoid, xeric, whizgigging, whangdoodle, viviparous, vivific, vinolent, verjuice, vellicate, velleity and 1193 more...
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Papageno's Words, Pt. I
hobbledehoy, absquatulate, chthonic, prolix, ululate, internecine, verisimilitude, animadversion, concupiscence, vertiginous, cucullate, lucubrate and 1554 more...
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new acquisitions
found in the wild (i.e., not on Wordie!)
samara, indehiscent, paschal, rogation, wen, rete, diriment, epicene, duramen, euhemerism, objurgate, canaille and 429 more...
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ichikawa's list
words I'm interested in inserting into my vocabulary? maybe? I don't really get wordie yet.
gadarene, girandole, ana, turgid, physiognomy, encomiastic, vatic, sciolism, edentulous, recrudesence, vitiate, argosy and 2 more...
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arielarielariel's Words
squirrel, marshmallow, beetle, robot, revenant, inculcate, efficacious, tortuous, instauration, capacious, solicitous, delectation and 17 more...
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mollusque And here I thought it was only lemmings. Apr 11, 2009
chained_bear "'All this mad rushing up and down, bellowing like Gadarene swine...'"
--Patrick O'Brian, The Hundred Days, 31
A Sea of Words explains: "Gadarene swine: a reference to the story in Matthew 8:28 of the swine that rushed down a steep cliff into the sea and drowned." (207) Mar 20, 2008