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Aug 28, 2012
This week's themeUsage examples that are food for thought This week's words salutary lucriferous pugilist strop concomitant A.Word.A.Day on your site Add the daily word to your web page. It is free. 
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with Anu Garglucriferous
PRONUNCIATION:
(loo-KRIF-uhr-uhs)
MEANING:
adjective: Lucrative, profitable.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin lucrum (profit) + -ferous (producing). Earliest documented
use: 1648.
USAGE:
"Freed from any ambition to leave my heirs rich, I had no need to pursue
lucriferous experiments, to which I so much preferred luciferous [providing light or insight] ones." Chemist and physicist Robert Boyle (1627-1691), who gave us Boyle's Law of gases, in a letter to John Locke, 17th c. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
Among men, it seems, historically at any rate, that processes of co-ordination and disintegration follow each other with great regularity, and the index of the co-ordination is the measure of the disintegration which follows. There is no mob like a group of well-drilled soldiers when they have thrown off their discipline. And there is no lostness like that which comes to a man when a perfect and certain pattern has dissolved about him. There is no hater like one who has greatly loved. -John Steinbeck, novelist, Nobel laureate (1902-1968)
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