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wilder

[ wil-der ]

verb

to cause to lose one's way.

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The rare, archaic verb wilder 鈥渢o lead astray鈥 is pronounced with a short –i– as in children, not a long –i– as in child. The etymology of wilder is difficult: it looks like a frequentative verb formed from the adjective wild, or an irregular derivative from wilderness that was influenced by wander. Wilder entered English in the early 17th century.

how is wilder used?

Many an older head than his has been wildered by that fatal uniformity, that endless wilderness of green, those seeming tracks, which only lead deeper and deeper into the heart of the deadly scrub.

Harriet M. Davidson, "The Hamiltons," Chapter VII,听Chambers's Journalof Popular Literature, Science, and Art, No. 771, October 5, 1878

… in such a manner as to wilder the soul into vast and unthought-of horrors.

Thomas Goodwin (1600鈥1680), The Works of Thomas Goodwin, Vol. 3, 1861
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avenaceous

[ av-uh-ney-shuhs ]

adjective

Botany.

of or like oats.

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The very rare adjective avenaceous, meaning 鈥渙f, like, or pertaining to oats,鈥 is used only in botany. Avenaceous comes straight from the Latin adjective 补惫脓苍腻肠别耻蝉 鈥渕ade from oats,鈥 a derivative of 补惫脓苍补 鈥渙ats,鈥 which comes from the same Proto-Indo-European source as Lithuanian 补惫颈啪脿 and Slavic (Polish) owies, both meaning 鈥渙ats.鈥 Avenaceous entered English in the 18th century.

how is avenaceous used?

See birds that know our avenaceous store / Stoop to our hand, and thence repleted soar …

H. C. Bunner, "Home, Sweet Home, with Variations: V.," Scribner's Monthly, Vol. 22, 1881

A spikelet, almost entire, of what seems to be a species of Poa, and the flowering glume of another grass, probably avenaceous, have also been found.

H. Hesketh Prichard, Through the Heart of Patagonia, 1902
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organon

[ awr-guh-non ]

noun

an instrument of thought or knowledge.

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The Greek noun 贸谤驳补苍辞苍 means 鈥渢ool, instrument, sensory organ, body part, musical instrument (whence the English name of the musical instrument), surgical instrument, table of calculations, (a concrete) work, work product, and a set of principles for conducting scientific and philosophical work.鈥 This last meaning first occurs in the works of the Peripatetic philosopher Alexander of Aphrodisias, who lived in the late 2nd and early 3rd centuries a.d. and was the most famous ancient Greek commentator on Aristotle. 脱谤驳补苍辞苍 is a derivative of the Greek root erg-, org– (also dialectal werg-, worg-), from the Proto-Indo-European root werg-, worg-; the Germanic form of this root is werk-, whence English work. Organon in its sense 鈥渂odily organ鈥 entered English in the late 16th century; the philosophical sense entered English in the early 17th century.

how is organon used?

… for genuine proof in concrete matter we require an organon more delicate, versatile, and elastic than verbal argumentation.

John Henry Newman, An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent, 1870

It [logic] thus sunk into the position of an Organon or instrument.

William Wallace, Prolegomena to the Study of Hegel's Philosophy and Especially of His Logic, 2nd ed., 1894
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