I subscribe to "A Word A Day" (http://wordsmith.org/words/today.html), and today's word is "obtest". When I saw the daily email's subject line, I was expecting it to be from this group.
Cheers, Craig -------------------------- WORD OF THE DAY: obtest PRONUNCIATION: (ob-TEST) MEANING: verb tr.1. To invoke as a witness. 2. To implore or beseech. verb intr. 3. To protest. 4. To plead. ETYMOLOGY: From Latin obtestari (to implore, affirm, protest), from ob- (on, over), from testari (to bear witness or to make a will), from testis (witness). Ultimately from the Indo-European root trei- (three), which is also the source of three, sitar, trivia (from trivium, place where three roads meet), trivial, troika, trivet, testimony, testament, attest, testify (to be the third person: to bear witness), triskaidekaphobia (fear of the number 13), tercel (the male of a hawk), and trammel (restraint, shackle, net). Earliest documented use: 1548. USAGE: "But I obtest, dear readers, I know nothing of any previous correspondence." Peter Hawes; Turakina Beach, Village of Thieves?; Manawatu Standard (New Zealand); Jul 8, 2008. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ EditLive Enterprise is the world's most technically advanced content authoring tool. Experience the power of Track Changes, Inline Image Editing and ensure content is compliant with Accessibility Checking. http://p.sf.net/sfu/ephox-dev2dev _______________________________________________ OpenBabel-Devel mailing list OpenBabel-Devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openbabel-devel
