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Earn your AA, BA, BS, MBA or Professional Certificate ONLINE from Villanova, Regis, Tulane or Saint Leo University. The University Alliance Online has them all! No classroom attendance, no special login times, no proctored exams. http://UniversityAlliance.com/ddnl040326/ \-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-/ Word of the Day for Friday March 26, 2004 mephitic \muh-FIT-ik\, adjective: 1. Offensive to the smell; as, mephitic odors. 2. Poisonous; noxious. The mephitic stench from the bilge became overpowering. --Richard Holmes, [1]Coleridge: Darker Reflections, 1804-1834 Over everything presides "a sort of mephitic fog," a pervasive sulfuric stink. --Dale Peck, "Way Outback," [2]New York Times, March 22, 1998 ... unpoisoned by the mephitic vapours which poisoned the atmosphere of his police-office. --Henry Fielding, [3]Tom Jones _________________________________________________________ Mephitic is the adjective form of mephitis, "a foul-smelling or noxious exhalation from the earth; a stench from any source," from the Latin. References 1. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0375708383/ref%3Dnosim/lexico 2. http://www.nytimes.com/ 3. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0192834975/ref%3Dnosim/lexico Dictionary.com Entry and Pronunciation http://dictionary.reference.com/search?r=9&q=mephitic Note: Audio pronunciation available only to Premium members. To learn more about the benefits of Premium membership, visit our site: http://dictionary.reference.com/premium/?r=9 _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ You are currently subscribed to Dictionary.com Word of the Day as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the list by email, send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via email, send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscriptions can be turned on and off from the Web at http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/list/ Dictionary.com Word of the Day http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/ (C) 2004 by Lexico Publishing Group, LLC.
