Thursday, February 17, 2005

lexicon: from Agyiomania
to Ultramontane

Agyiomania
: 1. An abnormal interest in streets. 2.An excessive desire to be on the streets; especially, busy ones.
Exoteric: ordinary or simple (the opposite of esoteric).
Plenilude
: the time of the full moon.
Ultramontane: relating to that which is situated beyond the mountains

These come from a list of definitions found amongst some papers. Judging from the material they were found amongst the list is at least ten years old. An old habit, listing new words (reading a dictionary is an even older one). Looking back it seems like there is an element of autobiography, in their selection at least. I do not suppose definitions drawn from a dictionary can really be called autobiographical, except, perhaps, of the people drawing them up.