Comments by curtiss

  • to make sweet or pleasant, to soothe, soften, or mollify

    January 5, 2012

  • A fuller definition from the American Heritage Dictionary:

    (v.t.)

    1. To persuade by flattery, gentle pleading, or insincere language.

    2. To elicit or obtain by flattery, gentle pleading, or insincere language: The athlete cajoled a signing bonus out of the team's owner.

    July 24, 2011

  • décousu-(adj)- incoherent, disjointed

    February 28, 2011

  • Eicastic-(adj.)-imitative (as in, eicastic art; or the eicastic abilities of a parrot; etc.)

    November 15, 2010

  • antiperisteze (v.t.) to strenghten by the force of contrast or opposition

    October 13, 2010

  • the gradual loss by the soul of its powers (used in the philosophy of Kant)

    October 1, 2010