percribrate

[prettygoodword]

percribrate - n., (obs., rare) to sift, pass through a seive.


I'm not certain of the spelling, as my only source, the Worthless Word of the Day, spelled it percribrate when it WOTDed it but as percrebrate in the glossary. Given the etymology and listed misspelling, I believe it really is i: from Latin percribrare, to sift thoroughly, from cribrum, sieve.

---L.

Comments

[packbat.livejournal.com]

This seems ripe for metaphoric usage.

[prettygoodword.livejournal.com]

Indeed. Pretty much any metaphoric use of sifting and using a seive (including sorting algorythms).

---L.