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Aug 26, 2008

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dactylogram
apograph
argillaceous
maquillage
pleonexia

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A.Word.A.Day

with Anu Garg

apograph

PRONUNCIATION:

(AP-uh-graf)

MEANING:

noun: A copy or a transcript.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Greek apo- (away, off, apart) + -graph (writing).

USAGE:

"This fragment first appeared in the Ricci apograph, a manuscript compiled almost entirely by a grandson of Machiavelli, Giuliano de Ricci."
Julia L Hairston; Skirting the Issue: Machiavelli's Caterina Sforza; Renaissance Quarterly (New York); Autumn 2000.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:

A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill. -Robert A. Heinlein, science-fiction author (1907-1988)

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