Im a word nerd. Havent always been this way. But the more I search, the more I learn. They dont call Jesus the WORD for nothing you know. So I was looking at these words today as someone pm a prayer that contained them... OBTAIN. GAIN. PAIN. RAIN. I know what AIN means. It means OWN. What do you own that no one can take from you? Your thoughts. You own your thoughts. They are yours. So that means you OWN what you allow yourself to think. And what you own you claim as yours. Please be aware of this as you alone are allowing feelings to wash over you and settle within your soul. Make sure your thoughts claim the positive and filter out the negative. Be aware of what you own. And what you DISown. Sift out the negative and watch as the gold nuggets lie in the pan. The positive is worth its weight in gold. Interestingly enough ... Look at the word for the day on my phone today. Look at how it speaks of what we OWN. And also look at the city it mentions...Shreveport, that where I live! EXPROPRIATE to deprive of possession or proprietary rights 2 : to transfer (the property of another) to ones OWN possession Examples: The city council rejected a proposal to expropriate private property for the highway expansion. The city spent nearly $50,000 to expropriate eight tracts that could be used for a potential studio expansion. — Michele Marcotte, The Times (Shreveport, Louisiana), July 21, 2013 Did you know? If you guessed that expropriate has something in common with the verb appropriate, youre right. Both words ultimately derive from the Latin adjective proprius, meaning OWN. Expropriate came to us by way of the Medieval Latin verb expropriare, itself from Latin ex- (out of or from) and proprius. Appropriate descends from Late Latin appropriare, which joins proprius and Latin ad- (to or toward). Both the verb appropriate (to take possession of or to set aside for a particular use) and the adjective appropriate (fitting or suitable) have been with us since the 15th century, and expropriate has been a part of the language since at least 1611. Other proprius descendants in English include proper and property. NO COINCIDENCES!!!!
Posted on: Fri, 03 Oct 2014 04:02:39 +0000