Word of the Day for Wednesday, November 26th,
2014
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pabulum
\ PAB-yuh-luhm \ , noun;
1. Material for intellectual nourishment.
2. Something that nourishes an animal or vegetable organism; food; nutriment.
3. Pablum.
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Quotes:
He had two papers to provide for; papers diverse in character, papers published 150 miles apart, papers to which expectant thousands looked for their weekly supply of mental pabu.
-- James Parton, The Life of Horace Greeley , 1868
Their corrupting fantasies had deluded the entire educated caste, providing a dangerous pabulum that had
poisoned a spoon-fed intelligentsia.
-- J.G. Ballard, Millennium People , 2003
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Origin:
Pabulum is derived from the Latin verb pāscere meaning "to feed." The suffix "bulum" is used info of
instrumental nouns. Pabulum entered English in the mid-1600's.
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