The religion which believes our meaning, our reason comes from the "logos" or "our words".
It began with the theophany of this otherworldly Bowie-like figure who inbrought a love for words to the logophiles around the world. A tongue-in-cheek philosophy devoted to the obsessive worship, study, and propagation of words.
11/25/2025
Nuxodeltiologist (n.)
Someone who collects postcards that depict nighttime scenes.
Moonlit streets, quiet harbors, starlit skylines… all the calm beauty of the world after dark.
Meet Moonwell the beaver, our resident nuxodeltiologist. He keeps an entire binder of nighttime postcards and takes pride in every one of them.
10/11/2022
If you missed our Kickstarter for the 2023 wall calendar, the pre-order shop is open! You can also acquire other spiffing bounties with which to festoon yourself or your reading nooks, such as bookplates, bookmarks, journals, and t-shirts!
-Click the "Shop on Website" button or look for the link in the comments.
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Beef-witted [BEEF-wit-id]
(adj.)
-Having an inactive or poorly functioning brain, thought to be from eating too much beef.
-Of or pertaining to one who is “a meathead.”
From “beef” (an ox, bull, or cow) from Modern French “boeuf” from Old French “buef” (ox; beef; ox hide) from Latin “bovem” (ox, cow)
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“wit” (mental capacity) from Old English “wit" or “witt” or “gewit (understanding, intellect, knowledge.” Related to Old English “witan” (to know).
Used in a sentence:
“I can’t believe what a beef-witted throttlebottom they hired to lead that department!”
10/06/2022
Gorgonize [GOHR-guh-nahyz]
(v.)
-To have a paralyzing or mesmerizing effect on.
-To stupefy or petrify.
From Middle English “Gorgon” from Latin “Gorgōn” from Greek “Gorgṓ” derivative of “gorgós” (dreadful) - First Use: 1609
Used in a sentence:
"The professor seems to Gorgonize his students with amusing riddles and captivating anecdotes.”
10/04/2022
Desiderating [デジーディーレーティング] present participle of desiderate
Akrasia [アクラシア] lack of self-control; excess; intemperance
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/desiderating
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/desiderate
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/acrasia
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/akrasia
[See: Desiderating & Akrasia]
10/04/2022
Forslugging [ファーズラギング] present participle of forslug
Operose [オパロース] 1. industrious, as a person. 2. done with or involving much labor.
[See: Operose effort to improve myself or forslugging my life]
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/forslugging
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/forslug
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/operose
10/04/2022
Mithridatizing [ミスリダティジング] present participle of mithridatize
Meden agan (Greek phrase) nothing in excess
[The waifu who dabbles only a little; the temperate waifu]
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/meden%20agan
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mithridatizing
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mithridatize
10/02/2022
Chary [CHAER-ee]
(adj.)
-Cautiously or suspiciously reluctant to do something.
-Cautious or careful; wary.
From Old English “cearig” (sorrowful, anxious) of West Germanic origin.
Used in a sentence:
“Edna couldn’t help being chary of Hubert’s mellifluous praise and obsequious compliments; she was accustomed to the blandishments of gentlemen callers seeking to purloin her huge tracts of land and vast fortune.”
09/30/2022
Welkin [WEL-kin]
(n.)
-The sky, heavens, or upper air.
-The vault of heaven, the bowl of the sky, the firmament.
From Old English “wolcen, welcen” related to Old Frisian “wolken” Old Saxon, Old High German “wolcan”.
Used in a sentence:
“This day in mirth and revel to dispend, Till on the welkin shone the starres bright”.
-The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
The phrase “to make the welkin ring” means to make a very loud noise.
09/29/2022
Panchymagogue [pan-KIH-mah-gahg]
(n.)
- A medicinal potion used to expel all unhealthy humours from the body.
From Latin “panacea” (a herb that would heal all illnesses) from Greek “panakeia” (cure-all) from “panakēs” (all-healing) from “pan-” (all) + “akos” (cure) from “iasthai” (to heal)
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Old English “agon" (depart, pass away, come to an end)
Used in a sentence:
“One must be wary of malicious mountebanks peddling noxious nostrums and parlous panchymagogues.”
09/05/2022
Apparatchik [アパラチック]
1. (historical) A member of the Soviet apparat; a Communist bureaucrat or agent. [from 20th c.]
2. A blindly loyal bureaucrat. [from 20th c.]
[See: Apparatchik]
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/apparatchik