As in "The pain of a gall bladder attack can be excruciating".excruciating, adj
1. Causing great physical or mental pain.
Thesaurus: agonizing, intense, painful, unbearable, intolerable, extreme, severe, acute, sharp, insufferable, searing, torturous.
2. colloq Extremely bad or irritating.
Etymology: 16c: from Latin excruciare to torture, from cruciare, cruciatum to crucify.
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"Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest." -- Mark Twain
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Catullus:-gailrOdi et amo. Quare id faciam fortasse requiris.
Nescio, sed fieri sentio, et excrucior.
I haven't gotten any further in the translation yet . . ."(Garfield's roommate) Odie ate the ammunition."
Regards//Larry
"To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them."
-- Attributed to Richard Henry Lee
"To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them."
-- Attributed to Richard Henry Lee
Catullus Poem 85HATE and love. Why I do so, perhaps you ask.
I know not, but I feel it, and I am in torment.
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Catullus: Poem 85
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'Experiments are the only means of knowledge at our disposal. The rest is poetry, imagination.' -Max Planck
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I did find some good sites after I posted, but working with cognates that was the best I could come up with.
amo amas amat amamus amatis amant
. . . as I recall from Mr. Cullen's class . . .
Regards//Larry
"To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them."
-- Attributed to Richard Henry Lee
"To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them."
-- Attributed to Richard Henry Lee
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