lewis%spider.DEC@decwrl.ARPA (06/21/84)
From: lewis%spider.DEC@decwrl.ARPA (Suford Lewis)
I ahven't looked into the American Heritage Dictionary recently, but
SURELY it gives the wood chips/packing material as the second definition?
Excelsior is the comparative form of the Latin adjective excelsis, which
we should all recognize from "Gloria in Excelsis" (a phrase impossible to
avoid independent of your religion).
It thus means higher, moreexcellent
[D
(grumble) more excellent, better, nobler.
Good stuff like that.
Is the American Heritage the one Nero Wolfe was burning page by page because
it claimed that "infer" and "imply" were equivalent? O tempora, O mores.
(O the tempura, O the morels) O DI immortales!
- Suford