WORD OF THE DAY 5/7/2003
Word of the Day for Wednesday May 7, 2003
objurgate \OB-juhr-gayt\, transitive verb:
To express strong disapproval of; to criticize severely.
I objurgate the centipede,
A bug we do not really need.
--Ogden Nash, 'The Centipede'
The act about to be objurgated here calls on the Food and
Drug Administration to oversee a broad revision of food
labeling.
--Daniel Seligman, 'Federal Food Follies,' [1]Fortune, July
1, 1991
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Objurgate comes from the past participle of Latin from
objurgare, 'to scold, to blame,' from ob-, 'against' +
jurgare, 'to dispute, to quarrel, to sue at law,' from jus,
jur-, 'law' + -igare (from agere, 'to lead').
objurgate \OB-juhr-gayt\, transitive verb:
To express strong disapproval of; to criticize severely.
I objurgate the centipede,
A bug we do not really need.
--Ogden Nash, 'The Centipede'
The act about to be objurgated here calls on the Food and
Drug Administration to oversee a broad revision of food
labeling.
--Daniel Seligman, 'Federal Food Follies,' [1]Fortune, July
1, 1991
__________________________________________
Objurgate comes from the past participle of Latin from
objurgare, 'to scold, to blame,' from ob-, 'against' +
jurgare, 'to dispute, to quarrel, to sue at law,' from jus,
jur-, 'law' + -igare (from agere, 'to lead').
