parturient: Dictionary.com Word of the Day

	Word of the Day for Tuesday, October 23, 2012 parturient \pahr-TOOR-ee-uhnt\, adjective: 1. Bearing or about to bear young; travailing. 2. Pertaining to parturition. 3. Bringing forth or about to produce something, as an idea. With a scornful snicker, he settled himself behind his desk, replaced the empty cigarette holder in his mouth and lapsed into parturient silence for a few moments. -- Joseph Heller, Catch 22 To her nothing already then thenceforward was anyway able to be molestful for this chiefly felt all citizens except with proliferate mothers prosperity at all not to can be and as they had received eternity gods mortals generation to befit them her beholding, when the case was so hoving itself, parturient in vehicle thereward carrying desire immense among all one another was impelling on of her to be received into that domicile. -- James Joyce, Ulysses Prometheus or Hephaistos smote the head of the parturient god with an axe, and Athena leaped out fully armed. -- William F. Hansen, Handbook of Classical Mythology Parturient is derived from the Latin word parturient- which literally meant "being in labor" or "desiring to bring forth." Read the full entry | See synonyms | Comment on today's word | Suggest tomorrow's word Yesterday's word | Previous words | Help Words of the Day? How about words of timeless wisdom? Introducing our Quotes channel! "Life itself is a quotation." - Jorge Luis Borges Check out the Quote of the Day ›› Who put the extra $ in Ke$ha? Where did the $ come from? From the California dance band !!! to MIA spelling out her name in dashes, musical artists seem to love putting symbols in their names. Perhaps none more notable than pop star, Ke$ha who differentiates herself with a single letter substitution. Born Kesha Rose Sebert, the singer/songwriter/rapper simply exchanged the 's' in her first name with... Read more ›› Dictionary.com Word of the Day You are subscribed to the Word of the Day as: thokozani031@gmail.com Subscriber since: February 15, 2012 Unsubscribe from the Word of the Day To subscribe to the Word of the Day by email, please send a blank message to: join-wordoftheday@lists.lexico.com ©2012 by Dictionary.com, LLC. 555 12th Street Suite 500 Oakland CA 94607 Subscriptions to the Word of the Day can also be managed online   Tell a friend about the Word of the Day!