PSHedgpeth wrote (in part)
>
> Anybody know what a NIHILARIAN is? If you don't check out a new
> book I recently came across titled WEIRD AND WONDERFUL words.
> Surely someone among this astute group has seen it....I make first
> claim to the title NIHILARIAN...others can vy for second place.
As long as I'm playing smarta** today, yeah . . .
the suffix -"arin" is essentially identical to "-ist", and "nihil" is Greek
for "nothing (cognate to Latin "nil" -
A "nihilist" is one who believes in "no order" - nowadays, it is usually
confused with "anarchist" (also derived from Greek: "an"
= "without"; "archos"= "leader" . . . so anarchism is like the old Icelandic
government [930AD to 1262AD], which had a legislature, a judiciary, but no
executive. If you defied a judgement, the court declared that the law no
longer protected you (outside the law, where we get the word "outlaw".
Nihilarian/nihilism/nihilist is no rules whatsoever - Law of the Jungle, as
it were (these days, we call it "Libertarian")
The insufferably pedantic Marshall Thayer
EncyclopediaOverload, Iowa
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