antinous's definitions

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

drawknife

a knife, usually bevelled on one side only, with a handle at either end of the blade, used with a pulling stroke for rapid removal of stock.

I took the corners off the block with a drawknife before turning it on the lathe.

by Antinous September 12, 2003

inabstinent

not abstinent

My hand and I were inabstinent this morning.

by Antinous March 21, 2004

scripture

See scriptures

by Antinous September 29, 2003

floccinausihihilipilification

Noun. "The categorizing of something as worthless trivia" (Josefa Heifetz. Mrs. Byrne's Dictionary. Secaucus: University Books, 1974).

by Antinous September 11, 2003

mead

An alcoholic beverage, probably one of the first ever created, fermented from honey.

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