Fwd: phantasmagoric: Dictionary.com Word of the Day

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Date: 2013/10/31
Subject: phantasmagoric: Dictionary.com Word of the Day
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	Word of the Day for Thursday, October 31, 2013 phantasmagoric \fan-tax-muh-GAWR-ik, -GOR-\, adjective: 1. having a fantastic or deceptive appearance, as something in a dream or created by the imagination. 2. having the appearance of an optical illusion, especially one produced by a magic lantern. 3. changing or shifting, as a scene made up of many elements. The phantasmagoric effect was vastly heightened by the artificial introduction of a strong continual current of wind behind the draperies—giving a hideous and uneasy animation to the whole. -- Edgar Allan Poe, "Ligeia," 1838 It was like nothing so much as the phantasmagoric play of the northern lights. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, 1850 Phantasmagoric comes from the Proto-Indo-European root meaning "to shine." It came to English from the Old French in the 1800s. Read the full entry | See synonyms | Comment on today's word | Suggest tomorrow's word Yesterday's word | Previous words | Help Words of the Day? How about words of timeless wisdom? Introducing our Quotes channel! "Life itself is a quotation." - Jorge Luis Borges Check out the Quote of the Day ›› What do the Ms in "M&M" stand for? And who is the "tootsie" in a Tootsie Roll? Dreading the Halloween stash? You've probably begun to wonder what the names on many of those wrappers mean. Here's the meaning behind the names of a few popular confections. • Forest Mars, Sr. saw soldiers eating hard-shelled chocolates during the Spanish Civil War, inspiring the mass production of M&Ms about a decade later in a Newark factory. The candy... Read more ›› Dictionary.com Word of the Day You are subscribed to the Word of the Day as: hectorpinillos@gmail.com Subscriber since: June 03, 2013 Unsubscribe from the Word of the Day To subscribe to the Word of the Day by email, please send a blank message to: join-wordoftheday@lists.lexico.com ©2013 by Dictionary.com, LLC. 555 12th Street Suite 500 Oakland CA 94607 Subscriptions to the Word of the Day can also be managed online   Tell a friend about the Word of the Day!

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