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[Robin Cook <rcook AT wyrms.net>]

Guess I will post mine here also....

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CuZnDragon
Robin Cook

> Andrew wrote:
> >>spells. I?d think that a good name for your new script will be 
> >>conterspell but the word is
> >>too long. If anybody has a similar idea or a way to make it short.
> >>
> > 
> > Along with cleanse, I've been wandering through the dictionary and came
> > up with 'exorcize', 'expel', and 'banish'.
> > 
> Since this seems to be going to the lists as much as dufflebunk, I 
> thought I'd send my ideas to the list too.  Andrew, you aren't the only 
> one who thought of "cleanse".
> 
> My comments to dufflebunk:
> 
> A couple ideas:
> clæne (Old English clean), for our purposes claene would work
> clænsian (Old English cleanse), for our purposes cleansian work work
> 
> It appears that in Old English, clean was the adj, while cleanse was the 
> verb.[0]
> 
> Middle English purifien, from Old French purifier, from Latin purificare 
> : purus (Archaic forms of purify)
> 
> I also thought of 'refine' but apparently that does not have an archaic 
> form.[1]
> 
> Geoff
> 
> [0]http://www.etymonline.com/c5etym.htm
> 'clean - O.E. clæne "clean, pure," from W.Gmc. *klainoz "clear, pure," 
> from PIE base *gel- "to gleam." As an adj., replaced in higher senses by 
> clear, pure, but as a verb (c.1450) it has largely usurped what once 
> belonged to cleanse (from O.E. clænsian), which, despite its modern 
> spelling (16c.) retains its M.E. pronunciation. Clean in the sense of 
> "innocent" is from c.1300; that of "not lewd" is from 1867; that of 
> "free of drug addiction" is 1950s. Clean up "make a large profit" is 
> from 1929. To take (someone) to the cleaners "get all of (someone's) 
> money" is from 1932.'
> [1]http://www.etymonline.com/r3etym.htm
> "refine - 1582, of metals and of character, from re-, intensive prefix + 
> fine (v.) "make fine." Refinery is first recorded 1727."
> 
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