Word Of The Day. 10/29/12-11/02/12

1. Eidolon

1.

A phantom; apparition.

2.

An ideal.

Origin:

Eidolon  comes from the more common word idol , which originally referred to pagan religious idols. It was first used in the 1820s.

I saw an eidolon walking from my room to my parent's room.

2. Loup-Garou

1.

A werewolf; lycanthrope.

Origin:

Loup-garou stems from the French word of the same spelling which also means werewolf. The word loup also means "wolf" in French. It entered English in the late 1500s.

In ABC's Once Upon A Time, Red Hood, turns into a loup-garou, unlike the the oringnal fairytale.

3. Lily-livered

1.

Weak or lacking in courage; cowardly; pusillanimous.

Origin:

Lily-livered  was first used in English by Shakespeare in Macbeth . The liver was supposedly the seat of passion and was typically dark red or brown. Since a lily is pale and light-colored, a lily-livered person was weak and passionless.

Sam was lily-livered when we went to Netherworld; didn't even make throught the first floor. 

4. Beatitude

1.

Supreme blessedness; exalted happiness.

2.

Any of the declarations of blessedness pronounced by Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount.

Origin:

Beatitude  derives from the Latin beatus , "happy, blessed," which in turn relates to the Latin prefix bene-  "good."

Luke gives the same beatitude as Matthew but phrases it differently: blessed be ye poor, for yours is the kingdom of god.

 5. Canonize

1.

To glorify and honor.

2.

Ecclesiastical. to place in the canon of saints.

3.

To consider or treat as sacrosanct or holy.

Origin:

The original meaning of canonize  is "to place someone in the canon or calendar of saints." Canon  relates to the Greek kannon , "a measuring rod."

That's the rap that we canonize our own generation's celebrities to the exclusion of all others, particularly those of our parents' era.