cyrenaic
(adj.) pertaining to hedonism; belonging to an ancient school of philosophers that believed physical pleasure to be more worthy of pursuit or knowledge (after Aristippus of Cyrene, who founded the school in the 4th century B.C.)
from Rare Words II by Jan and Hallie Leighton; copyright 2008: Levenger Press
8 comments:
love this feature... you should include the pronunciation
Thanks. It was Albero's idea. (Along with the Quote of the Day) I had to go to DC (Tyson's actually) last Sunday and came across this book at Levenger's.
I'll try to remember to start doing that. I've already got a couple of weeks' worth of words up, but I'll try to go back today or tomorrow and add the pronunciations in.
Have a Great Weekend.
It would help improve the understanding of the word if you were to also use it in a sentence.
whyn't you have words that people use...or mis-use. doubtful if anyone will ever read, muchless use these words.
I like to think of myself as somewhat of a wordsmith, so I enjoy this column. For 9:08, what would be the point of having words that people use anyway. This column has words not normally used, so you have the opportunity of learning new words. Thanks!
Absolutely love this feature! Thanks to both of you.
There is a feature on the web/cloud that does this same thing along with on line dictionaries that no one seems to use.
They would also include pronunciation.
Should have specified words that are not so rare as to be obsolete, or words which we might be able to someday use. I didn't mean that it was not a good feature.
9:08
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