apoplectic
apoplectic \ap-uh-plek-tik\, adjective
1. Intense enough to threaten or cause a stroke.
2. Of or pertaining to apoplexy.
3. Having or inclined to apoplexy.
noun:
1. A person having or predisposed to apoplexy.
When Abie used to shout, Rebecca always used to make a joke that he was having one of his apoplectic fits.
-- Alan Grayson, Mile End
...four years, one recession and a host of battles ? over financial regulation and the nomination of Elizabeth Warren, over Dodd-Frank and the Buffett Rule ? have taken their toll. Some on Wall Street are apoplectic. One former supporter, Dan Loeb, compared Obama to Nero; the president?s enemies insinuated worse.
-- Nicholas Confessore, "Obama?s Not-So-Hot Date With Wall Street", The New York Times Magazine, May 2, 2012
Apoplectic stems from the Greek word apoplektik�s which meant "pertaining to stroke". It literally meant "struck down".
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aseptic
aseptic \uh-SEP-tik\, adjective
1. Free from the living germs of disease, fermentation, or putrefaction.
noun:
1. A product, as milk or fruit juice, that is marketed in an aseptic package or container.
2. Aseptics, (used with a singular verb) a system of packaging sterilized products in airtight containers so that
freshness is preserved for several months.
The development of aseptic packaging is so highly regarded in food industry circles that in 1983 members of the Institute of Food Technologists? voted it the number-one food innovation in the last fifty years.
-- Vince Staten, Can You Trust a Tomato in January?
He was taken to an aseptic, white barracks on the opposite bank of the Moldau.
-- Jorge Luis Borges, Labyrinths
Aseptic was invented in the 1850s by chemists. It is based on the root septic meaning "infected."
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apophasis
apophasis \uh-POF-uh-sis\, noun
Denial of one's intention to speak of a subject that is at the same time named or insinuated, as ?I shall not mention Caesar's avarice, nor his cunning, nor his morality.?
But I think that anything that is deep isn't love, it's deliberate calculation or schizophrenia. I myself wouldn't even attempt to say what love is - probably both love and God can only be defined by apophasis, through those things that they are not.
-- Viktor Pelevin, The Sacred Book of the Werewolf
"?Now, I have no desire to be a backseat driver?? Apophasis, Chris thought; saying you're not going to say something in order to say it. Nixon's favorite device, and Newt Gingrich's, and Karl Rove's?fine old
Republican tradition.
-- John Barnes, Directive 51
Apophasis stems from the Greek word ap�pha meaning "to say no, deny." The suffix -sis appears in Greek
loanwords, where it forms an abstract noun from a verb, as in thesis.
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