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  • I was so excited to read this word in Neal Stephenson's Anathem because of its obvious connection to the Spanish "comer;" meaning "to eat." I'd never found an English cognate for it, but now I have!

    June 25, 2009

  • “A devouring by fire” —Grandiloquent Dictionary

    April 12, 2010