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15:23 10/16/06 642 bytes odium I. Simple uses. 1. a. The fact or state of being hated or exposed to hatred (as a condition affecting the object); (also) an instance of this (now rare). b. Hatred, dislike; aversion, contempt. (As a feeling or quality of the subject.) THAT"S ME 2. The reproach or shame attached to or incurred by a particular act or fact; opprobrium; disgrace. Also: an instance of this; a taint, slur. 3. An object of hatred or dislike. Obs. II. Compounds. 4. a. odium theologicum [< classical Latin odium ODIUM n. + theologicum, neuter of theologicus THEOLOGIC a.], hatred of the kind which proverbially characterizes theological disputes. eg....1999 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 4 Mar. 25/1 It is understandable that they should arouse the kind of ideological hostility, almost an odium theologicum, that confronted the Freud exhibition. b. Hence, applied to other subjects or areas of dispute, as odium academicum (academic), aestheticum (aesthetic), archaeologicum (archaeological),biologicum (biological), ethicum (ethical), medicum (medical), musicum (musical), philologicum (philological), philosophicum (philosophical), scholasticum (scholarly), etc. eg....1997 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 20 Nov. 39/1 She offers no real evidence to support these speculations, and one might rather suspect that the cause was odium academicum. WHICH... c. accomodates the compound "Odium-slob" eg.... 2006 Personal Communication with Steve Dalachinsky at [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: WrYters Listserve Theory and Writing <WRYTING-L@LISTSERV.WVU.EDU> 15:23 10/16/06 612 bytes. And so it is we all share the shaping up of a rag Odium-slob noosphere juxtaposition noosphere The part of the biosphere occupied by thinking humanity; spec. (with reference to the writing of P. Teilhard de Chardin) a stage or sphere of evolutionary development characterized by (the emergence or dominance of) consciousness, the mind, and interpersonal relationships, postulated as following the stage of the establishment of human life. Also fig. 1930 Jrnl. Philos. 27 499 This amounts to imagining, above the animal biosphere and continuing it, a human sphere, the sphere of reflection, of conscious and free invention, of thought strictly speaking, in short, the sphere of mind or noosphere. 1945 Amer. Scientist 33 9 There arises the problem of the reconstruction of the biosphere in the interests of freely thinking humanity as a single totality. This new state of the biosphere..is the nosphere. 1953 J. S. HUXLEY Evol. in Action iv. 110 It provides a new kind of environment for life to inhabit. It needs a name of its own: following Pre Teilhard de Chardin, the French paleontologist and philosopher, I shall call it the nosphere, the world of mind. 1970 Sci. Amer. Sept. 53/3 Just before his [sc. Vernadsky's] death..he wrote..ÔI think that we undergo not only a historical, but a planetary change as well. We live in a transition to the noosphere.Õ By noosphere Vernadsky meant the envelope of mind that was to supersede the biosphere. 1996 Wired May 158/1 We swim in imagination and bring the noosphere alive with collective consciousness. 2006 Personal Communication with Steve Dalachinsky at [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: WrYters Listserve Theory and Writing <WRYTING-L@LISTSERV.WVU.EDU> 15:23 10/16/06 612 bytes. And so it is we all share the shaping up of a rag Odium-slob noosphere juxtaposition fete a fait OPIUM d^Vizio __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com