DefinitionsDefinitionally; Deindividualise; Demarkation; DenialDénouement; Depository; Descry; Designation; DesignatumDeterminism; Differentiate; A Dig in the Ribs; DiscriminateDisputant; Diss; Dissertator; Distinguishment; Divers; Do The TrickDogma; Dominion; Mr. Don Quichote; Do-or-Die; DoublethinkDouble-Talk; Both Alternatives; Dour; Down-to-Earth; DSM-IVDu Jour; Dynamic; Dysthymia
• definitionally (adv.): see definitional; viz.: relating to the exact meaning of a word or concept; [e.g.]: “Gilbert makes a definitional distinction between ‘miners’ towns’ and ‘mining towns”; “the amendment is purely definitional”. [origin: late Middle English from Latin definitio(n-), from the verb definire, ‘set bounds to’; from de-, expressing completion + finire, ‘finish’, from finis, ‘end’]. ~ (Oxford English Dictionary). • definitionally (adv.): in a definitional manner {=of or relating to a definition; used to define something}; as a definition; [e.g.]: “As they definitionally twitch and turn, we can just begin to glimpse–like an old-fashioned photo developing in a tray of chemicals–the outlines of a new form of American imperial war emerging before our eyes”⁽*⁾. (America’s Permanent Robot War, by Tom Engelhardt; Wed 5 Oct 2011). [etymology: definitional + -ly]. [curly bracketed insert added] ~ (Wiktionary English Dictionary) ⁽*⁾
[www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/oct/04/unmanned-drones-us-robot-war]. deindividualise (trans. vb.): to remove or destroy the individuality of; deprive of individuality; (n.): deindividualisation.
~ (Merriam-Webster Dictionary). demarcation (n.): 1. the act of establishing limits or boundaries; 2. a limit or boundary; 3. (a.) a strict separation of
the kinds of work performed by members of different trade unions; (b.) (as modifier): “a demarcation dispute”; (as in, demarcation disputes in assigning credit for
significant scientific discoveries, in particular the Nobel Prize, where disputants often fail to recognise the importance placed on a body of work, over many years,
rather than a single experiment or observation); 4. separation or distinction (often in the phrase “line of demarcation”). [C18: Latinised version of Spanish
demarcación, from demarcar, ‘to appoint the boundaries of’, from marcar, ‘to mark’, from Italian marcare, of Germanic origin; see mark¹]. ~ (Collins English Dictionary). denial (n.; psychology): a primitive ego defence mechanism by which a person unconsciously negates the existence of a
disease or other stress-producing reality in his environment, by disavowing thoughts, feelings, wishes, needs, or external reality factors which are consciously
intolerable; see: in denial (viz.: ‘to be in a state of denying the existence or effects of an ego defence mechanism’). ~
(McGraw-Hill Concise Dictionary of Modern Medicine). [Dictionary Definitions]: • denouement also dénouement (n.): 1. (a.) the final resolution or clarification of a dramatic or narrative plot; (b.) the events following the climax of a drama or novel in which such a resolution or clarification takes place; 2. the outcome of a sequence of events; the end result. [French dénouement, from Old French desnouement, ‘an untying’, from desnouer, ‘to undo’, from des-, ‘de-’ + nouer, ‘to tie’, from Latin nōdāre, from nōdus, ‘knot’]. ~ (American Heritage Dictionary). • denouement or dénouement (n.): 1. (a.) the final clarification or resolution of a plot in a play or other work; (b.) the point at which this occurs; 2. final outcome; solution. [C18: from French, literally: ‘an untying’, from dénouer, ‘to untie’, from Old French desnoer, from des-, ‘de-’ + noer, ‘to tie’, ‘knot’, from Latin nōdāre, from nōdus, ‘a knot’; see node]. ~ (Collins English Dictionary). • denouement dénouement (n.): 1.the final resolution of a plot, as of a drama or novel; 2. the outcome or resolution of a doubtful series of occurrences. [1745-55; from French: literally, ‘an untying’]. ~ (Webster’s College Dictionary). • denouement (n.): the final resolution of the plot, following the climax. ~ (Ologies & Isms Dictionary). • denouement (n.): 1. the outcome of a complex sequence of events; (synonyms): final result, outcome, resultant, termination, result (something that results); [e.g.]: “he listened for the results on the radio”; 2. the final resolution of the main complication of a literary or dramatic work; (synonyms): answer, result, solution, solvent, resolution (a statement that solves a problem or explains how to solve the problem); [e.g.]: “they were trying to find a peaceful solution”; “the answers were in the back of the book”; “he computed the result to four decimal places”. ~ (Princeton’s WordNet 3.0). • denouement: the unravelling of the complications of a plot, or of a confused situation or mystery; the final resolution of a play, novel, or other narrative. ~ (Oxford EnglishDictionary). • denouement dénouement (n.): 1. climax, conclusion, finale,
termination, culmination; [e.g.]: “the book’s sentimental denouement”; 2. outcome, end, result, consequence,
resolution, conclusion, end result, upshot; [e.g.]: “an unexpected denouement to the affair”. ~ (Collins English Thesaurus). depository (n.): a facility where things can be deposited for storage or safekeeping; repository. ~ (Princeton’s WordNet 3.0).
descry (v.): 1. to perceive and fix the identity of, especially with difficulty; (synonyms): discern,
distinguish, make out, pick out, spot; 2. to perceive, especially barely or fleetingly; (synonyms): catch, detect, discern, espy, glimpse, spot,
spy; 3. to perceive with a special effort of the senses or the mind; (synonyms): detect, discern, distinguish, mark, mind, note, notice, observe,
remark, see. ~ (American Heritage Roget’s Thesaurus). designation (n.): 1. something that designates, such as a name or distinctive mark; 2. the act of designating or the fact of
being designated. ~ (Collins English Dictionary). designatum (n.): something (whether existing or not) that is referred to by a linguistic expression.
~ (Princeton’s WordNet 3.0). • determinism (n.): the philosophical doctrine that every state of affairs, including every human event, act, and decision is the inevitable consequence of antecedent states of affairs; (n.): determinist; (adj.): deterministic; (adv.): deterministically. ~ (American Heritage Dictionary). • determinism (n.): (also called necessitarianism) the philosophical doctrine that all events including human actions and choices are fully determined by preceding events and states of affairs, and so that freedom of choice is illusory. ~ (Collins English Dictionary).
differentiate (v.): 1. distinguish, separate, discriminate, contrast, discern, mark off, make a distinction, tell
apart, set off or apart; [e.g.]: “They cannot differentiate between their imagination and the real world”.
~ (Collins English Thesaurus). Viz.:
And, due to poking around in various dictionaries, here are ten other entries:
discriminate (v.): 1. to recognise as being different; (synonyms): differentiate, discern, distinguish,
know, separate, tell; 2. to make noticeable or different; (synonyms): characterise, differentiate, distinguish, individualise, mark, set apart, signalise,
singularise; (adj.): able to recognise small differences or draw fine distinctions; (synonyms): discriminating, discriminative, discriminatory, select,
selective. ~ (American Heritage Roget’s Thesaurus). disputant (n.): one who argues in opposition to another. [1610s, from noun use of Latin
disputantem, present participle of disputare; from dis-, ‘separately’, ‘apart’ +
putare, ‘to count’, ‘consider’; the Latin word was used in Vulgate in sense of “to argue, contend with words”].
~ (Online Etymology Dictionary). Diss: diss (slang): to belittle someone; to show disrespect for; [e.g.]: “ They were such a complainer they dissed on people all the time”;
“Please don’t diss them as they didn’t do any of those things”. [a slang transitive verb either from
disrespect or from dismiss, as in, insignificant]. ~ (McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal
Verbs). diss (v.): treat, mention, or speak to rudely; [e.g.]: “The student who had betrayed their classmate was dissed by everyone”;
(synonyms): affront, insult. ~ (Princeton’s WordNet 3.0). dissertator (n.): one who writes a dissertation; one who discourses formally. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia). • distinguishment (n.): distinction; observation of difference. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia). • distinguishment (n.; obsolete): the quality or condition of being distinguished. ~ (Collins English Dictionary).
• distinguishment (n.; pl. distinguishments): a distinction; observation of difference; [e.g.]: “We notice what we
notice and make it a thing distinguishing it from what else is within our view, partly because, doubtless, it is of such
or such a size and shape: but we require more impulse to the notice and distinguishment than this furnishes”.
(page 50, “Exploratio Philosophica: Rough Notes on Modern Intellectual Science”, Part 1, by John Grote; 1865,
University of Cambridge); “And first, in your doctrines of God, whom you say is to be known and believed on, as in the
distinguishment of three persons, and herein ye teach contrary to the scriptures of truth”. (page 157
• distinguishment (n.): distinction; observation of difference. ~ (Webster’s 1828
Dictionary). • divers (adj.): many and different; [e.g.]: “tourist offices of divers nationalities”. ~ (Princeton’s WordNet 3.0). • divers (adj.): 1. consisting of a number more than two or three but less than many; (synonyms): several, some, sundry, various; 2. consisting of a number of different kinds; (synonyms): assorted, diverse, diversified, heterogeneous, miscellaneous, mixed, motley, multifarious, multiform, sundry, varied, variegated, various; (biology): polymorphic, polymorphous. ~ (American Heritage Roget’s Thesaurus).• divers (adj.): several, various, sundry; [e.g.]: “The artist used divers articles in her collage”; not to be confused with diverse (adj.): unlike in kind; distinct; separate; divergent; [e.g.]: “There were diverse beliefs among the parishioners”.~ (Abused, Confused, & Misused Words by Mary Embree). • divers (adj.): various; several; sundry. [Middle English; see diverse; viz.: Middle English divers, from Old French divers, from Latin dīversus, past participle of dīvertere, ‘to divert’; see divert; viz.: Middle English diverten, from Old French divertir, from Latin dīvertere, from dī-, dis-, ‘aside’; see dis- (viz.: dis- (pref.): Middle English, from Old French des-, from Latin dis-, ‘apart’, ‘asunder’) + vertere, ‘to turn’]. ~ (American Heritage Dictionary). • divers (determiner; archaic or literary): (a.) various; sundry; some; (b.) (as pronoun functioning as plural):
“divers of them”.[C13: from Old French, from Latin dīversus, ‘turned in different directions’; see divert; viz.: from French
divertir, from Latin dīvertere, ‘to turn aside’, from di-² + vertere, ‘to turn’].
~ (Collins English Dictionary).
Dogma:: [Dictionary Definitions]:
• dogma (n.; pl. -mas, -mata): 1. a system of principles or tenets, as of a church; 2. a specific tenet or doctrine authoritatively put forth, as by a church; 3. prescribed doctrine: political dogma.; 4. an established belief or principle. [1590-1600; from Latin from Greek, =dok(eîn), ‘to seem’, ‘think’, ‘seem good’ + -ma, n. suffix]. ~ (Webster’s College Dictionary).
• dominion (n.): 1. the power to govern; sovereign authority; 2. the act or fact of ruling; domination; 3. [...]; 4. [...]. [1400-50; late Middle English from Middle French from Medieval Latin dominiō, s. -iōn-, alter. of Latin dominium, ‘rule’, ‘ownership’]. ~ (Webster’s College Dictionary). Mr. Don Quixote: • An illustrative allusion to the time-wasting futility of tilting at windmills (as per the eponymous hero of a romance novel, by
Mr. Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra). do the trick: accomplish one’s purpose; achieve the required result. (Oxford
Dictionary). • do-or-die (adj.): requiring supreme effort to avoid the dire consequences of failure; [e.g.]: “it was a do-or-die situation”. ~ (American Heritage Dictionary). • do-or-die (adj.; prenominal): of or involving a determined and sometimes reckless effort to succeed. ~ (Collins English Dictionary). • do-or-die (adj.): 1. involving a desperate effort to succeed or face dire consequences; 2. involving an extreme emergency. ~ (Webster’s College Dictionary). • do-or-die (adj.): desperately determined; [e.g.]: “they were do-or-die revolutionaries”; “it was a do-or-die conflict”; (synonym): desperate; (related term): resolute (firm in purpose or belief; characterised by firmness and determination); [e.g.]: “stood resolute against the enemy”; “faced with a resolute opposition”; “a resolute and unshakeable faith”. ~ (Princeton’s WordNet 3.0). • do-or-die (adj.): desperate, risky, hazardous, going for broke, win-or-bust, death-or-glory, kill-or-cure; [e.g.]: “it was a do-or-die attempt to hold on to power”. ~ (Collins English Thesaurus). • do or die (idiom): 1. (adj.): of or pertaining to the last chance to succeed in a given situation, such that the utmost energy and effort must be put forth to do so (hyphenated if used as a modifier before a noun); [e.g.]: “Trailing by two points with only forty-five seconds remaining, the game is now do or die for the home team”; “I have to get an ‘A’ on this essay if I’m going to pass the class, so it’s a do-or-die situation now”; 2. (v.): to put forth the utmost energy and effort or else fail altogether; [e.g.]: “This is a cutthroat business, and you must do or die if you wish to survive”. ~ (Farlex Dictionary of Idioms). • do or die (idiom): exert supreme effort because failure is close at hand, as in; [e.g.]: “Carol was going to set up the computer, do or die, before lunch”. [circa 1600; this hyperbolic expression in effect says one will not be deterred by any obstacle]. ~ (The American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms). • do or die (idiom): persist in the face of great danger, even if death is the result; [e.g.]: “It’s do or die for Britain’s fearless Rugby League lads Down Under as they prepare to face the Aussies in the Third and deciding Test”. (1992; Daily Star). ~ (Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary). • do or die (mod.): having to try as hard as one can; [e.g.]: “He has the obsessive do or die attitude”. ~ (McGraw-Hill’s Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions). • to do or die (cliché): to make a last-ditch effort. This
extreme measure was first recorded in print in the seventeenth century. An early use occurs in John Fletcher’s play
“The Island Princess” (1621), where a character says, “Do or die” (2.4). Before long it came to be used
figuratively, although it reverted to literal use (and changed form) in Tennyson’s “The Charge of the Light
Brigade” (1854): “Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die. Into the valley of Death Rode the six
hundred”. ~ (The Dictionary of Clichés by Christine Ammer). doublethink: the mental capacity to accept as equally valid two entirely contradictory opinions or beliefs; the practice of doing this. (Oxford Dictionary). For an example of ‘doublethink’:
••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Double-Talk:double-talk = double-speak: language or talk that is (usu. deliberately) ambiguous or obscure. (Oxford Dictionary). ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Enjoy Both Alternatives:have one’s cake and eat it, eat one’s cake and have it: enjoy both alternatives. (Oxford
Dictionary). Dour: • dour (adj.; dourer, dourest): 1. marked by sternness or harshness; forbidding; [e.g.]: “Her postpuberal temperament presaged a dour, self-sacrificing life”; 2. silently ill-humoured; gloomy; [e.g.]: “He was the proverbially dour New England Puritan”; 3. sternly obstinate; unyielding; [e.g.]: “He set forth daily with a dour determination; (adv.): dourly; (n.): dourness; (usage note): the word dour, which is etymologically related to duress and endure, traditionally rhymes with ‘tour’; the pronunciation which rhymes with ‘sour’ is a standard variant which has been in use for more than a century (i.e., circa 1896); in the dictionary’s 1996 survey, sixty-five percent of the Usage Panel preferred the traditional pronunciation, and thirty-three percent preferred the variant; in the dictionary’s 2011 survey, opinion was almost evenly split, with fifty-two percent preferring the traditional pronunciation and forty-eight percent preferring the variant; these results suggest the variant could overtake the traditional pronunciation in preference. [Middle English, possibly from Middle Irish dúr, probably from Latin dūrus, ‘hard’]. ~ (American Heritage Dictionary). • dour (adj.): 1. sullen; 2. hard or obstinate; (adv.): dourly; (n.): dourness. [C14: probably from Latin dūrus, ‘hard’]. ~ (Collins English Dictionary). • dour (adj.): 1. sullen; gloomy; 2. severe; stern; 3. Scot. (of land) barren; rocky; (adv.): dourly; (n.): dourness. [1325-75; Middle English from Latin dūrus, ‘hard’, ‘severe’]. ~ (Webster’s College Dictionary). • dour (adj.): 1. stubbornly unyielding; [e.g.]: “his dour determination”; (synonyms): dogged, pertinacious, unyielding, tenacious, persistent; [e.g.]: “his dogged persistence”; “the most vocal and pertinacious of all the critics”; “a mind not gifted to discover truth but tenacious to hold it”. (T. S. Eliot); “men tenacious of opinion”; (related words): obstinate, stubborn, unregenerate (tenaciously unwilling or marked by tenacious unwillingness to yield); 2. harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance; [e.g.]: “a dour, self-sacrificing life”; (synonyms): forbidding, grim; [e.g.]: “a forbidding scowl”; “a grim man loving duty more than humanity”; “undoubtedly the grimmest part of him was his iron claw”. (J. M. Barrie); (related word): unpleasant (disagreeable to the senses, to the mind, or feelings); [e.g.]: “an unpleasant personality”; “those unpleasant repercussions”; “some unpleasant odours”; 3. showing a brooding ill humour; [e.g.]: “the proverbially dour New England Puritan”; (synonyms): moody, morose, glowering, sullen, glum, saturnine, sour, dark; [e.g.]: “he sat in moody silence”; “a morose and unsociable mood”; “a glowering manner; “a sullen crowd”; “a glum, hopeless shrug”; “a saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius”. (Bruce Bliven); “a sour temper”; “a dark scowl”; (related word): ill-natured (having an irritable and unpleasant disposition); [e.g.]: “his ill-natured disposition”. ~ (Princeton’s WordNet 3.0). • dour (adj.): gloomy, forbidding, grim, sour, dismal, dreary, sullen, unfriendly, morose; [e.g.]: “He was a dour, taciturn man”; (antonyms): happy, pleasant, sunny, cheerful, cheery, good-humoured, carefree, genial, jovial; (informal): chirpy. ~ (Collins English Thesaurus). • dour (adj.): 1. cold and forbidding; (synonyms): austere, bleak, grim, hard, harsh, severe, stark; 2. broodingly and sullenly unhappy; (synonyms): gloomy, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sulky, sullen, surly. ~ (The American Heritage Roget’s Thesaurus). • dour (adj.; Scotch): hard;
inflexible; obstinate; bold; hardy; [e.g.]: “He had a wife was dour an’ din”. (Robert Burns, 1759-1796,
“Sic a Wife as Willie had”, 1792); “The Lord made us all, and you may trust Him to look after us all—|better
than these dour faced pulpit-thumpers imagine”. (William Black, “In Far Lochaber”, 1893, chap. v., p. 79 I am using the ‘down-to-earth’ expression in the Oxford Dictionary
‘plain-spoken, unpretentious; practical, realistic’ meaning (as contrasted to the ‘Old and Spiritual’ being cryptic, pretentious; impractical, idealistic).
du jour (adj.;postpositive; informal): currently very fashionable or popular; [e.g.]: “the young writer du jour”; \ ”the trend du jour”. [C20: from French, literally: ‘of the day’; as used on restaurant menus of items which change daily]. ~ (Collins English Dictionary). du jour (lit. ‘of the day’): said of something fashionable or hip for a day and quickly forgotten; today’s choice on the menu,
as soup du jour.~ (2022 Wikipedia Encyclopaedia).
du jour (lit. ‘of the day’): said of something fashionable or hip for a day and quickly forgotten; ‘today’s choice on the menu, as
soup du jour’; [e.g.]: “Vanity Fair, that glossy barometer of ‘the importance of being fabulous’, is planning an extended spread on
London as the ‘happening’ city du jour”. (Douglas Kennedy, “We’re Finally Speaking their Language”, The Sunday Times,
‘The Culture’, October 27, 1996). ~ (2023 Wikipedia Encyclopaedia). dynamic (opp. static): active, potent, energetic, forceful; characterised by action or change. (Oxford Dictionary).
The Third Alternative (Peace On Earth In This Life Time As This Flesh And Blood Body) Here is an actual freedom from the Human Condition, surpassing Spiritual Enlightenment and any other Altered State Of Consciousness, and challenging all philosophy, psychiatry, metaphysics (including quantum physics with its mystic cosmogony), anthropology, sociology ... and any religion along with its paranormal theology. Discarding all of the beliefs that have held humankind in thralldom for aeons, the way has now been discovered that cuts through the ‘Tried and True’ and enables anyone to be, for the first time, a fully free and autonomous individual living in utter peace and tranquillity, beholden to no-one.
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