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PSEPHOLOGY:

the scientific study of elections

— pse·pho·log·i·cal \ˌsē-fə-ˈlä-ji-kəl\ adjective
— pse·phol·o·gist \sē-ˈfä-lə-jist\ noun

Origin of PSEPHOLOGY--Greek psēphos pebble, ballot, vote; from the use of pebbles by the ancient Greeks in voting

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sub–rosa (ˈsəb-ˈrō-zə-a) adj, secretive, private.

Was she planning to win the club's sub-rosa competitions by sabotaging the other members?

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anamnesis \an-am-NEE-sis\, noun:

1. The recollection or remembrance of the past.
2. Platonism. Recollection of the Ideas, which the soul had known in a previous existence, especially by means of reasoning.
3. The medical history of a patient.
4. Immunology. A prompt immune response to a previously encountered antigen, characterized by more rapid onset and greater effectiveness of antibody and T cell reaction than during the first encounter, as after a booster shot in a previously immunized person.
5. (Often initial capital letter) a prayer in a Eucharistic service, recalling the Passion, Resurrection, and Ascension of Christ.

When I was writing a novel about a fourteen-year-old girl, I must remember what I was like at fourteen, but this anamnesis is not a looking back, from my present chronological age, at Madeleine, aged fourteen.
-- Madeleine L'Engle, The Irrational Season

The narrator of Dostoevsky's Dream of a Ridiculous Man visits in his sleep, in a state of anamnesis perhaps, a humanity living in the Golden Age before the loss of innocence and happiness.
-- Czesław Miłosz, To Begin Where I Am: Selected Essays

Anamnesis is derived from the Greek roots ana (meaning “re”) and mimnḗskein (meaning “to call to mind”).

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provenance [ˈpräv-nən(t)s, ˈprä-və-ˌnän(t)s] noun, origin, source; the history of ownership of a valued object or work of art or literature.

She felt stupid. Such a hot tip--counterfeit pharmaceuticals, imported from Asia and sold under faked labels to drugstore chains that didn't check their provenance--it was dream story.

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Daglish, Dalglish, Dalgleish or Dalgliesh is a name originating from Gaelic dail (field) + glaise (brook).

field: clearing, ground, lot, parcel, plat, plot, tract grass, green, greensward, lawn; glade, grassland, heath, heathland, lea (or ley), meadow, moor, pasture, pastureland.

brook: a small flow of water along a wooded path.

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Thank-you! very interesting.QUOTE=blunthead;493856]Daglish, Dalglish, Dalgleish or Dalgliesh is a name originating from Gaelic dail (field) + glaise (brook).

field: clearing, ground, lot, parcel, plat, plot, tract grass, green, greensward, lawn; glade, grassland, heath, heathland, lea (or ley), meadow, moor, pasture, pastureland.

brook: a small flow of water along a wooded path.[/QUOTE]

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Cimmerian \si-MEER-ee-uhn\, adjective:

1. Very dark; gloomy; deep.
2. Classical Mythology. Of, pertaining to, or suggestive of a western people believed to dwell in perpetual darkness.

I was ripe for death, and along a road full of dangers, weakness led me to the boundaries of the world and the Cimmerian land of darkness and whirlwinds.
-- Arthur Rimbaud, A Season in Hell

Once beneath the over-arching trees all was again Cimmerian darkness, nor was the gloom relieved until the sun finally arose beyond the eastern cliffs, when she saw that they were following what appeared to be a broad and well-beaten game trail through a forest of great trees.
-- Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan the Untamed

Like gasconade, cimmerian was originally a toponym. It referred to the Cimmerii, an ancient nomadic people who live in Crimea, according to Herodotus.

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frisson (frē-ˈsōⁿ) noun, a brief moment of emotional excitement; shudder; thrill.

She pushed the Open Door button... She felt a frisson of excitement.

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heterotelic \het-er-uh-TEL-ik\, adjective:

Having the purpose of its existence or occurrence apart from itself.

You're of heteroteleic value, that means you were invoked for an extraneous purpose alone, the outcome of which won't even be known to me until I'm back with my physical body in the physical world…
-- William Cook, Love in the Time of Flowers

Therefore, what has been proposed above as a means of redirecting the development of postmodernity toward more livable, human dimensions is a heterotelic narrative transitivity—an active reimmersion of narrative in the social—which contrasts sharply with the autotelic concern for their own procedures and the hermetic intransitivity of modernist self-consciousness and late modernist self-reflexivity.
-- Joseph Francese, Narrating Postmodern Time and Space

Heterotelic is directly derived from the Greek roots héteros meaning "other", tele- meaning "distant", and the suffix -ic which denotes an adjective, as in metallic and athletic.

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