On Monday 16 April 2007 16:09, Richard Lockwood wrote: > I don't need to define any terms. "Architecht" is not a verb. An > architecht designs things.
Dictionary.com : –verb (used with object) 4. to plan, organize, or structure as an architect: The house is well architected. -- http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/architect The OED : http://dictionary.oed.com/cgi/entry/50011562?query_type=word&queryword=architect&first=1&max_to_show=10&sort_type=alpha&result_place=2&search_id=UIrM-K0ETDq-310&hilite=50011562 architect, v. To design (a building). Also transf. and fig. Hence {sm}architected ppl. a., designed by an architect; {sm}architecting vbl. n. and ppl. a. Usage throughout the centuries: (courtesy of OED again) 1818 KEATS Let. 23 July (1931) I. 219 This was architected thus By the great Oceanus. [But see ARCHITECTURE v.] 1890 Harper's Mag. Apr. 809/2 We would not give being the author of one of Mr. Aldrich's beautiful sonnets to be the author of many ‘Wyndham Towers’, however skilfully architected. 1912 ROSE MACAULAY Views & Vag. viii. 153, I have no sort of interest in the architecting or building trades. 1913 RALEIGH Some Authors (1923) 3 He has come out of the prison-house of theological system, nobly and grimly architected. 1923 Public Opinion 29 June 622/3 A..vague notion that a building ought to be architected. Language does evolve. Anyone who has a bugbear with words being used properly should perhaps check words mean 'zactly[1] what they think they do :-) Michael. [1] OED: http://dictionary.oed.com/cgi/entry/50290881?single=1&query_type=word&queryword=zactly&first=1&max_to_show=10 'zackly, 'zactly Repr. a dial. or colloq. pronunc. of EXACTLY adv. - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
