Definitions
Wiktionary
- v. to venture beyond one's purview
Etymologies
- From the Latin phrase ultra crepidam ("beyond the sandal"). An allusion to the response of the Greek painter Apelles to a cobbler's criticism, as recorded by Pliny the Elder. (Wiktionary)
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phrontistery-u
from phrontistery.info
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eg's list
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Critischism
Divisive devices; emissary of Momus.
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simpering, tenebrous, lugubrious, locution, cavalcade, mansuetude, bremsstrahlung, foofaraw, legerdemain, concinnity, soporific, alacrity and 97 more...
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Smart Words
polysemy, dichotomy, metonymy, parapraxis, synecdoche, prosopopeia, mimesis, schadenfreude, pulchritudinous, neolithic, limn, phantasmagoric and 138 more...
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nether's list
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Forthright's Words
aegrotat, almacantar, amphigory, barathrum, boustrophedon, cancrizans, carfax, colophon, delenda, diaglyph, enchiridion, episemon and 38 more...
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Steaming Vat of Vitriol
autohagiographer, execrable, charity girl, gyesite, odalisque, adoxography, impugn, impute, cadge, drabogue, wowser, wroth and 16 more...
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electriccounterpoint's list
Words I've tried to remember in the past and failed, or words I might want in the future
preprandial, hobson's choice, defenestrate, sähkö, backpfeifengesicht, exegesis, midrash, hrvatska, ljubljana, dirigisme, dirigiste, fatiloquent and 35 more...
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whichbe To criticize beyond sphere of one's knowledge. (from Phrontistery) May 23, 2008