2024年1月15日 星期一

aceldama, hovel, distend, Boca do Inferno

 The January 1 earthquake caused a massive fire on Asaichi Street, a popular tourist area in Wajima City. The inferno burned down a museum dedicated to manga artist Nagai Go, who hails from Wajima and is known for works such as “Mazinger Z” and “Devilman.”


 In the memoir, Mr. Hughes was as poetically descriptive about his brush with death as he was about the art he loved: “At one point I saw Death. He was sitting at a desk, like a banker. He made no gesture, but he opened his mouth and I looked right down his throat, which distended to become a tunnel: the bocca d’inferno of old Christian art.”



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aceldama (uh-SEL-duh-muh)

noun: A place of bloodshed.

Etymology
The term is derived from the name Aceldama, a potter's field described in the New Testament. It was purchased by the priests with the money Judas Iscariot received for betraying Jesus. From Greek Akeldama, from Aramaic haqeldema (field of blood). Earliest documented use: 1382.

Usage
"Mickelsson describes Philosophy Department as a 'treacherous, ego-bloated, murder-stained hovel.' Ah, the groves of aceldama!" — Margaret Manning; Book Review; Boston Globe; May 30, 1982.


bloated
(blō'tĭd) pronunciation
adj.
  1. Much bigger than desired: a bloated bureaucracy; a bloated budget.
  2. Medicine. Swollen or distended beyond normal size by fluid or gaseous material.
hovel
(hŭv'əl, hŏv'-) pronunciation
n.
  1. A small, miserable dwelling.
  2. An open, low shed.
[Middle English, hut.]




distend

Syllabification: (dis·tend)
Pronunciation: /disˈtend/
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verb

  • swell or cause to swell by pressure from inside: [no object]:the abdomen distended rapidly [with object]:air is introduced into the stomach to distend it

Derivatives


distensibility


Pronunciation: /-ˌtensəˈbilitē/
noun


distensible


Pronunciation: /-ˈtensəbəl/
adjective


distension


Pronunciation: /-ˈtenSHən/
noun

Origin:

late Middle English: from Latin distendere, from dis- 'apart' + tendere 'to stretch'

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