OFF Re: Fwd: "accidie, n." - Word of the Day from the OED

Fri Jan 6 09:58:40 CST 2012

I say - "30 Days in The Hole!"

The "What's Up Pussycat?" version...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdXjm8pZMws

love,
cfa

On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 10:39 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> The incredibly erudite and so-smart Kai F. Lorentzen kindly corrected me
> offline
> re my accidie post.......
>
> But since getting it right matters, even if this matters to no one else
> hereon, who knows?, here is
> the correction.
>
> Thanks, Kai.
>
>
>
>  *From:* Kai Frederik Lorentzen <lorentzen at hotmail.de>
> *To:* Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
> *Sent:* Friday, January 6, 2012 6:02 AM
> *Subject:* OFF Re: Fwd: "accidie, n." - Word of the Day from the OED
>
>
> What you mean is "*anomie*" which Durkheim indeed used in his Suicide
> study from 1897 at about the way it is described in the wiki-article (see
> below), but had already - with a slightly different twist - used in his
> book on the Division of Labor in the early 1890s. There social
> differentiation as such unavoidably leads to anomie; in the later book it's
> a social disease which has to be fought against.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anomie
>
> Happy New Year!
>
> Kai
>
> On 05.01.2012 12:15, Mark Kohut wrote:
>
> And it seems Mr. Sacred & Profane Durkheim raised awareness
> of this word/concept high in his book Suicide.....
>
>
>
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> OED Online Word of the Day
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> Your word for today is: accidie, n.
>
> accidie, n.
> Pronunciation: Brit. /ˈaksᵻdi/,  U.S. /ˈæksədi/
> Forms: α.   ME accedie,   ME accidy,   ME accidye,   ME–15 accydye,
> ME– accidie.  β.   ME accide,   ME accyde.
> Etymology: <  Anglo-Norman accidie (13th cent.), Anglo-Norman and Old
> French, Middle French accide (13th cent.; French accide, now arch.) <
> post-classical Latin accidia (8th cent. in a British source; also in
> an undated glossary; occasionally also as acidia and accedia),
> alteration (see below) of acedia spiritual sloth, mental weariness
> (5th cent., as also as name of one of the deadly sins: see acedia n.).
> Compare accidia n., and later acedia n. and acedy n.
> The post-classical Latin form accidia probably results either from
> folk-etymological association with accidere (see accident n.) or from
> a Greek sound change, or may partly reflect both causes. The rare form
> acidia probably reflects the (folk-etymological) association with
> classical Latin acidus sour (see acid adj.) recorded by Caesarius of
> Heisterbach (13th cent.).
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> In Middle English and early modern English the position of the main
> stress apparently varied between the first and second syllables.
>  Now chiefly arch. and literary.
>   Physical or mental slothfulness, esp. as a condition leading to
> listlessness and lack of interest in life; apathy, lethargy, torpor;
> (also) †an instance of this (obs.).
> Regarded esp. in early use as characteristic of or equivalent to the
> ‘deadly sin’ of Sloth, and in Christian asceticism as a condition to
> which monks and hermits were particularly liable.
> ?c1225 (1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi <http://c.vi/>) (1972) 155 Þenne is hit
> scheomeles [read ȝemeles] under accidie, þet ich slauðe cleopede, þe
> ne warneð oðer of his lure oðer of his biȝete.
> c1330 (1300) Speculum Guy (Auch.) l. 121 Accedie is as sleuþes broþer,
> Wicke on and wicke oþer.
> a1393  Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) iv. l. 539 To serve Accidie in
> his office, Ther is of Slowthe an other vice, Which cleped is
> Foryetelnesse.
> c1400 (1378)  Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. v. 366 And
> after al þis excesse he had an accidie, Þat he slepe saterday and
> sonday.
> 1484  Caxton tr.  Order of Chivalry 81 A man that hath accydye or
> slouthe hath sorowe and angre the whyle that he knoweth that an other
> man doth wel.
> a1500  W. Hilton Mixed Life (Royal)in  G. G. Perry Eng. Prose Treat.
> (1921) 23 Breke doune also‥flesshely likynges, oþer in accidie or in
> bodili ease.
> a1586 Lindsay MS f. 76v, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Surmount, Quha
> that will overcum & surmont accidie him behuffit that in his hart he
> haue strenth.
> 1649  J. Gaule Serm. Saints judging World 13 That's an humility or
> modesty reprehensible (both for dejectednesse, and pusillanimity, as
> also for accidie and sloathfulnesse) that shall lesse it self to Gods
> gifts and graces.
> 1775  J. Ash New & Compl. Dict. Eng. Lang., Accidie, sloth.
> 1858  A. J. Penny Afternoon of Unmarried Life xiv. 254 Will any one
> with the experience of middle age deny that there is much in every-day
> life calculated to produce accidie?
> 1891  F. Paget  (title) The spirit of discipline‥with an‥essay
> concerning Accidie.
> 1936  H. G. Wells Anat. Frustration vi. 54 There is nothing before you
> but sloth and apathy, accidie, which is a lingering suicide.
> 1961  K. Amis Let. 9 Apr. (2000) 590 Vacation accidie is upon me. I'm
> supposed to be writing this perishing film-script—haven't touched it
> yet.
> 2006 Antigonish Rev. Summer 14 They knew their destiny but chose not
> to dwell on it, falling prey instead to a desperate, hopeless accidie.
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