Word of the Day for Saturday, September 14, 2013 dissilient dih-SIL-ee-uhnt, adjective: bursting apart; bursting open. I imagined the dissilient pod of rumours a creative bureau chief up for promotion might hatch. Stories, once sprung, would snowball out of control, growing more damaging with each repetition. -- Susan Daitch, L.C., 2002 The court was dissilient, generationally fractured, manned (as it were) by an increasingly impatient and acquisitive nobility. -- Eric Scott Mallin, Inscribing the Time, 1995 Dissilent comes from the Latin word dissilīre meaning "to leap apart."
Posted on: Sun, 15 Sep 2013 10:25:49 +0000
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