Word Of The Day. 12/10/12-12/14/12.

1. Moor
1. To fix firmly; secure.
2. To secure (a ship, boat, dirigible, etc.) in a particular place, as by cables and anchors or by lines.
3. To moor a ship, small boat, etc.
4. To be made secure by cables or the like.
noun:
1. The act of mooring.
Origin:
Though moor gained popularity in the 1490s, the term originates from the Old English more from the maerelsrāp rope used for securing or 'mooring' ships.
Then the divers will moor it to the bottom.

2. Cruciverbalist
1. A designer or aficionado of crossword puzzles.
Origin:
This young word was coined in the late 1970s and entered the vernacular in 1990. Cruciverablist is derived from two Latin roots crux meaning 'cross' and verbum, meaning 'word.'
In high school I was a closet cruciverbalist because working on crosswords seemed so uncool.

3. Adiaphorous

1. Doing neither good nor harm, as a medicine.

Origin:

Adiaphorous is derived from the Greek, adiaphoros , meaning 'indifferent.
Which participates of neither extreme, as for example, all those things which, as being neither good nor evil in themselves, we call adiaphorous, or indifferent.

4. Plication

1. The act or procedure of folding.

2. The state or quality of being folded; a fold.

3. Surgery. A. The folding in and suturing of tucks, so as to tighten weakened or stretched tissue. B. The folding of an organ, as a section of the intestine, and the attaching of it to another organ or tissue.

Origin:

Plication is derived from the Medieval Latin stem plicātiō , relating to a 'fold' or 'pleat.'  

Suture plication reduced intra-articular volume an average of 19.0 % .

5. Apopemptic

1. Pertaining to leave-taking or departing; valedictory.

noun:

1. Obsolete. A farewell address; valedictory.

Origin:

Rising to prominence in the middle 1700s, apopemptic derives from the Greek apopemptikós , pertaining to 'sending away.'

William Morris is going to give apopemptic to the graudating class of 2013.