Archives: Word of the day

consisting of one leaf, as a calyx.

coinciding; occupying the same place or position.

the doctrine or belief that the second coming of Christ will follow the millennium.

the upper part of the nave, transepts, and choir of a building, especially a church, perforated with a series of windows above the aisle roofs, and forming the chief source of light for the building.

a verse or line having one or more syllables at the end in addition to those proper to the metre.

not remissible; unpardonable, as a sin.

one of the main or larger divisions of a long poem, as in Dante’s Inferno.

an instrument in which the position of a beam of light, or a cathode ray, is controlled by two forces at right angles to each other, such that a closed figure is produced on a screen.

a haemorrhage imprisoned in membranous tissue.