I have the bits and pieces of paper now and what a pleasure it will be to sort them out and deal with them. Here goes:
Hypergraphia is a behavioural condition characterized by the intense desire to write or draw. Forms of hypergraphia can vary in writing style and content. It is a symptom associated with temporal lobe changes in epilepsy, which is the cause of the Geschwind syndrome, a mental disorder.
I’ve done reredos before but here i a connected word: “the predella of the reredos”:
reredos noun (pl.same) Christian Church— an ornamental screen covering the wall at the back of an altar. ORIGIN late Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French, from Old French areredos, from arere ‘behind’ + dos ‘back’.
predella noun a step or platform on which an altar is placed. • a raised shelf above an altar. • a painting or sculpture on this, typically forming an appendage to an altarpiece. [ as modifier ] : four predella panels by Botticelli. ORIGIN mid 19th cent.: from Italian, literally ‘stool’.
biretta noun: a square cap with three flat projections on top, worn by Roman Catholic clergymen. ORIGIN late 16th cent.: from Italian berretta or Spanish birreta, based on late Latin birrus ‘hooded cape’. Compare with beret. [I knew that}
titubation noun Medicine: nodding movement of the head or body, especially as caused by a nervous disorder. ORIGIN mid 17th cent.: from Latin titubatio(n-), from titubare ‘to totter’.
aspergillum noun (pl.aspergilla or aspergillums) an implement for sprinkling holy water. ORIGIN mid 17th cent.: from Latin.
paralanguage noun [ mass noun ] the non-lexical component of communication by speech, for example intonation, pitch and speed of speaking, hesitation noises, gesture, and facial expression. {We all do that, unconsciously and instinctively.]
Scouse noun 1 [ mass noun ] the dialect or accent of people from Liverpool. the man turned on him in Scouse. 2 short for Scouser. adjective relating to Liverpool: a Scouse accent. ORIGIN mid 19th cent.: abbreviation of lobscouse.
lobscouse[ mass noun ] a stew formerly eaten by sailors, consisting of meat, vegetables, and ship's biscuit. ORIGIN early 18th cent.: of unknown origin; compare with Dutch lapskous,Danish and Norwegian lapskaus, and German Lapskaus .
preterition noun [ mass noun ] the action of passing over or disregarding a matter, especially the rhetorical technique of making summary mention of something by professing to omit it. the favourite rhetorical trope of the historical novelists is preterition, saying that you are not going to say something and thereby saying it. [ count noun ] : he made successive preteritions. ORIGIN late 16th cent.: from late Latin praeteritio(n-), from praeterire ‘pass, go by’. [I’m not going to tell you again not to do that.]
zoophytic adjective from the noun zoophyte, Zoology, dated a plant-like animal, especially a coral, sea anemone, sponge, or sea lily. ORIGIN early 17th cent.: from Greek zōiophuton (see zoo-,-phyte) .
Hormesis is a term used by toxicologists to refer to a biphasic dose response to an environmental agent characterized by a low dose stimulation or beneficial effect and a high dose inhibitory or toxic effect.Dec 5, 2007 [WHAT HAVE I BEEN READING?]
Whatever, that’s enough of that.
I’ll be back….