Roxanne Avery Weasley (![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} bookish_roxie) wrote,@ 2010-02-08 14:41:00 |
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People are seriously concerned about a squid invasion? Sometimes I wonder about the younger students. I'm looking forward to the Apparition lesson this weekend, I've been reading up on it and hopefully will be able to successfully put theory into practice. Fred's been trying to scare me with horror stories, but in my mind if he can successfully get through the course, I can.
Word of the Day:
enthrall • \in-THRAWL\
1 : to hold in or reduce to slavery
2 : to hold spellbound : charm
In Middle English, "enthrallen" meant "to hold in thrall." "Thrall" then, as now, meant "bondage" or "slavery"; it comes from an Old Norse word, "thraell," which is probably related to an Old High German word for servant. But we rarely use even this sense of mental or moral enslavement anymore. Today the word is often used in its participle form, "enthralled," which sometimes means "temporarily spellbound" ("we listened, enthralled, to the old woman's oral history"), but more often suggests a state of being generally captivated, delighted, or taken by some particular thing.
People are seriously concerned about a squid invasion? Sometimes I wonder about the younger students. I'm looking forward to the Apparition lesson this weekend, I've been reading up on it and hopefully will be able to successfully put theory into practice. Fred's been trying to scare me with horror stories, but in my mind if he can successfully get through the course, I can.
Word of the Day:
enthrall • \in-THRAWL\
1 : to hold in or reduce to slavery
2 : to hold spellbound : charm
In Middle English, "enthrallen" meant "to hold in thrall." "Thrall" then, as now, meant "bondage" or "slavery"; it comes from an Old Norse word, "thraell," which is probably related to an Old High German word for servant. But we rarely use even this sense of mental or moral enslavement anymore. Today the word is often used in its participle form, "enthralled," which sometimes means "temporarily spellbound" ("we listened, enthralled, to the old woman's oral history"), but more often suggests a state of being generally captivated, delighted, or taken by some particular thing.