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Oct 30, 2008
This week's themeContranyms, or words with an opposite set of meanings. This week's words cleave continuance asperse copemate quiddity 
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with Anu Gargcopemate, also copesmatePRONUNCIATION:
(KOP-mayt)
MEANING:
noun:1. An associate or friend. 2. An opponent or adversary. ETYMOLOGY:
From French couper (to cut), from Latin colpus (blow), from Greek kolaphos
(blow with the fist) + mate (fellow).
USAGE:
"I let go of [the gown's] gaping back long enough to turn around, grin
and give a big OK sign to Ms. Harper's Bazaar, our copemate, our friend."Dorothy Fredericks; Breezy is Fashionable; The Seattle Times; Aug 25, 1991. "Weigh gentlemen, and consider, whether my affirmations, back'd with reason, may hold balance against the bare denials of ... my copesmate." John Milton; Colasterion; 1645. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
Of all plagues with which mankind is cursed, ecclesiastic tyranny's the worst. -Daniel Defoe, novelist and journalist (1659?-1731)
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