Antinous's definitions

Io

One of the four Galilean moons of Jupiter, so called because of being discovered by Galileo. The most volcanically active object in the Solar system.

Hey, look in my telescope: you can see Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto.

by antinous February 2, 2004

deism

Its creed is pure, and sublimely simple. It believes in God, and there it rests.

It honors reason as the choicest gift of God to man, and the faculty by which he is enabled to contemplate the power, wisdom and goodness of the Creator displayed in the creation; and reposing itself on His protection, both here and hereafter, it avoids all presumptuous beliefs, and rejects, as the fabulous inventions of men, all books pretending to revelation.

--Thomas Paine

by antinous February 27, 2004

narthex

A vestibule leading to the nave of a church.

by Antinous September 22, 2003

pray

"To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy "(Ambrose Bierce. The Devil's Dictionary. 1911).

by Antinous September 11, 2003

quietus

1. satisfaction of a duty or debt.
2. rest or a release, esp. death.

"Who would bear the whips and scorns of time . . . when he himself might his quietus make with a bare bodkin?" --Hamlet

by Antinous September 12, 2003

deist

One who believes in a god, and there rests, not mixing the one article of his faith with articles of human invention.

If you really want to understand Deism, go read The Age of Reason, by Thomas Paine.

by antinous February 27, 2004

pornerastic

"Licentious, lascivious, lewd, and horny" (Josefa Heifetz. Mrs. Byrne's Dictionary. Secaucus: University Books, 1974).

Bill Clinton was the second most pornerastic president ever.

by Antinous September 11, 2003