Evil, Offense, Deception...

...All in one sentence? Let's have a look on this:

"The diabolic iniquity committed by the wanton malefactor was insidious, flagrant, and repugnant." (From, Vocabulary for College, 3rd Ed.)

Sat-Chit-Ānanda

"The Hindu expression Sat-Chit-Ānanda is one of the Names of God." But there can be as many translations (or forms) of this expression as are multiplicities of one unity in this world, visible. Different translations may not be called as non-linear as we can better assign this quality to the 'levels or hierarchy of reality' for giving one expression so many forms. Following are some of them I read in the footnotes of the book Knowledge and Sacred:

*Sat-Chit-Ānanda usually translated as “Being-Consciousness-Bliss.”

* Most “essential” and metaphysical translation - “Object-Subject-Union.”

* At the highest level this ternary (three-fold) may also be expressed as “Known-Knower-Knowledge” or “Beloved-Lover-Love.”

* Operative or spiritual meaning related to invocatory prayer, such as the Prayer of Jesus (Christianity), japa (Hinduism), and dhikr (Islam). Here it takes the form of “Invoked-Invoker-Invocation” (in Islamic terms madhkūr-dhākir-dhikr).

word of the day

portmanteau word -

'Word blend of two other words. I had to chortle (chuckle + snort) while brunch (breakfast + lunch) in the smog (smoke + fog)'.

If you know of a portmanteau word, we'd like to know it.

* Quoted from Reader's Digest, Oct 2008, Asia.

What is classic?

-"A classic, according to the usual definition, is an old author canonised by admiration, and an authority in his particular style.
-The word classic was first used in this sense by the Romans.

-With them not all the citizens of the different classes were properly called classici, but only those of the chief class, those who possessed an income of a certain fixed sum.
-Those who possessed a smaller income were described by the term infra classem, below the pre-eminent class.
-The word classicus was used in a figurative sense by Aulus Gellius ((ca. 125 AD—after 180 AD), Latin author and grammarian), and applied to writers: a writer of worth and distinction, classicus assiduusque scriptor, a writer who is of account, has real property, and is not lost in the proletariate crowd."

Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, in his essay What is Classic?

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Was a shock to me when I looked at this para, and, I said to my aspirations of becoming a sort of classical essayist, "Boy, it takes heck of a long time."! But, I think its more easy to be labeled today has a classic in terms of 'style' of writing, its easy to recognize that's why, I fancy. Do you agree?

What do We Mean by Deflation?

Deflation

A decline in general price levels, often caused by a reduction in the supply of money or credit. Deflation can also be brought about by direct contractions in spending, either in the form of reduction in government spending. Deflation has often has the side effect of increasing unemployment in an economy, since the process often leads to a lower level of demand in the economy. Opposite of inflation.

Word Power

cerulean - 'as blue as the sky'. Looking into her wide, cerulean eyes, he could confuse her nothing.

Quoted from "The Redear's Digest"

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Meadow
Scythe
Procure
Rye
Mow
Heaps
Fiendish
Wretched
Harness
Sheaf
Cluster/bundle
Pitchfork
Howl
Mare
Enrage
Feud
Bad blood
Entangle
Entrap
Perspire
Profusely
Plow
Till
Melee
Clamor
Debauch

Vacillating
Dithering
Indecisive
Nihilism
Physiognomy
Assiduous
Tireless
Intrepid
Fearless
Abyss
Chasm
Pedantic
Obscure
Sophistries
Engulf
Overcome
Weary
Reckon
Prosaic
Idyll
Fretful
Agitated
Prosy
Ethereal
Retribution
Inexorable