Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Restored to one's senses; right-minded.
Examples
“His endless variety of kabobs and pilaus is worthy of all commendation; and his sherbets, which refresh without a sting or a resipiscent headache next morning, are no doubt the style of phlegm-cutters and gum-ticklers which one had better patronize pretty exclusively while between the tropics.”
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875
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Logolepsy
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C. S. Bird – Grandiloquent Dictionary
All the words from the Grandiloquent Dictionary.
946 of these 2700 words do not yield any results in six different dictionaries, hence many of them might be misspellings.
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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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2008 Wordlist
Hopefully, I'll be using this site for more than one year. It will be fun then to look back and see what new words I found worthy of notice in any given year.
All words spotted in 2008...longanimity, permalancer, breeder, biodegradable, handicapable, gender-neutral, translator, interpreter, translation, interpreting, kleptocracy, fanfiction and 1598 more...
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R is for restless
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Atypical
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kpaintin's Words
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Lepidoptera's Words
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kpaintin Having returned to a saner mind.
From Latin resipiscere (to recover one's senses), from re- (again)
+ sapere (to taste, to know). Ultimately from Indo-European root sep-
(to taste or perceive) that is also the source of sage, savant, savvy, savor, sapid, sapient, and insipid.
"I am a recidivist, frequently guilty of overwriting and overciting.
But I am at least a resipiscent recidivist. I have come around to the
view that, though it may take discipline to cut more quickly to the
chase and to doff the security blanket that writers weave from string
citations, we, as judges, must dedicate ourselves to the task."
Excerpt from Hon. Bruce M. Selya; In Search of Less; Texas Law Review;
Volume 74, 1996.
Pronunciation:
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Jul 20, 2007