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prettygoodword) wrote2013-01-30 07:18 am
prettygoodword) wrote2013-01-30 07:18 am
apricate
apricate (AP-ri-kayt) - v., to bask in the sun.
Listed, to my sorrow, as rare and archaic -- for while it's been used in the wiled a few times since John Aubrey's 1690s borrowing from Latin apricari (same meaning, related to apricus, of a sunny place), it has often been in a learnedly humorous way, placed in the pen of a pedant persona. Shame, really, as it perfectly describes what I'd like to do today. Preferably after a couple miles' hike to someplace with running water and flat rocks to stretch out on like a lizard. See also apricity, the warmth of the sun, esp. in winter.
---L.
Listed, to my sorrow, as rare and archaic -- for while it's been used in the wiled a few times since John Aubrey's 1690s borrowing from Latin apricari (same meaning, related to apricus, of a sunny place), it has often been in a learnedly humorous way, placed in the pen of a pedant persona. Shame, really, as it perfectly describes what I'd like to do today. Preferably after a couple miles' hike to someplace with running water and flat rocks to stretch out on like a lizard. See also apricity, the warmth of the sun, esp. in winter.
---L.