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Aug 21, 2019

This week’s theme
People who have become verbs

This week’s words
pythagorize
malaprop
nestorize
dewitt
aladdinize

Achilles gives Nestor the Prize for Wisdom (detail)

Art: Amable-Paul Coutan (1792-1837)

A.Word.A.Day

with Anu Garg

nestorize

PRONUNCIATION:

(NES-tuh-ryz)

MEANING:

verb tr.: To fill someone with the idea of being very wise.

ETYMOLOGY:

After Nestor, king of Pylos, who was the oldest and wisest of the Greeks and served as a counselor in the Trojan War. Earliest documented use: 1612.

USAGE:

“I must stop this sort of Nestorizing to myself and save it for the lecture platform and the press.”
Gore Vidal; 1876; Random House; 1976.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:

I have no respect for people who deliberately try to be weird to attract attention, but if that's who you honestly are, you shouldn't try to "normalize" yourself. -Alicia Witt, actress, singer-songwriter, and pianist (b. 21 Aug 1975)

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