

Dec 17, 2013 This week's theme

Verbs



This week's words

descant

hebetate

blandish

importune

colligate

Verbs A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg



hebetate PRONUNCIATION: (HEB-i-tayt)

MEANING: verb tr.: To make dull or obtuse.

ETYMOLOGY: From Latin hebetare (to make blunt), from hebes (blunt). Earliest documented use: 1574.

USAGE: "Habit then while it hebetates our sentiments, improves our judgments of things."

Xavier Bichat; Physiological Researches on Life and Death; Longman; 1815.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think. -Aristotle, philosopher (384-322 BCE)





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