Tt: Theosophist

Defined Word

any number of philosophies maintaining that a knowledge of God may be achieved through spiritual ecstasy, direct intuition, or special individual relations.

Cocktail Party Banter

George is a Theophosist in that he does not prescribe to any known organized religious orders, but he prays often to his house-hold god Visa, the God of unending debt through shinny things.

Word in Context

was a Theosophist prayer to the Spirit Guides, and I remembered that Cesrio Vieira was a Theosophist. Well, maybe there really were Spirit Guides. If there were, we'd all be finding out before long.

Piper, H. Beam (2009-07-27). The Terro-Human Future History Omnibus (Kindle Locations 3659-3660). Unknown. Kindle Edition.

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Tt: Troglodyte

Word Defined

A stock character based upon the widespread concepts of the way in which early prehistoric humans may have looked and behaved.

Cocktail Party Banter

I am a troglodyte lover, I will bring you back to the days not written of.

Literary Context

These vile old troglodytes are no longer there; but into their deserted cave another terrible giant has thrust himself, and makes it his business to seize upon honest travelers and fatten them for his table with plentiful meals of smoke, mist, moonshine, raw potatoes, and sawdust.

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Tt: Tribulation

n.

1. Great affliction, trial, or distress; suffering: Their tribulation has finally passed. See Synonyms at trial.

2. An experience that tests one's endurance, patience, or faith. See Synonyms at burden^1,.
eg. pick up your cross and follow me.

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[Middle English tribulacioun, from Old French tribulacion, from Latin trbulti, trbultin-, from trbultus, past participle of trbulre, to oppress, from Latin trbulum, threshing-sledge; see ter-¹ in Indo-European roots.]

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Tt: Tangent

tangent (tnjnt)

1. A line, curve, or surface touching but not intersecting another.

2. The ratio of the length of the side opposite an acute angle in a right triangle to the side adjacent to the angle. The tangent of an angle is equal to the sine of the angle divided by the cosine of the angle.

3. The ratio of the ordinate to the abscissa of the endpoint of an arc of a unit circle centered at the origin of a Cartesian coordinate system, the arc being of length x and measured counterclockwise from the point (1, 0) if x is positive or clockwise if x is negative.

4. A function of a number x, equal to the tangent of an angle whose measure in radians is equal to x.

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ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms

Noun	1.	tangent - a straight line or plane that touches a curve or curved surface at a point but does not intersect it at that point straight line - a line traced by a point traveling in a constant direction; a line of zero curvature; "the shortest distance between two points is a straight line"
	2.	tangent - ratio of the opposite to the adjacent side of a right-angled triangle tan circular function, trigonometric function - function of an angle expressed as a ratio of the length of the sides of right-angled triangle containing the angle

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Then I tossed him a Yorker which he missed and it went off at a tangent as soon as it had reached the tree.
The Little White Bird by Barrie, James Matthew