On Fri, 14 Mar 2008 16:54:30 +0000 (UTC), cary@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Cary Kittrell) wrote:
>In article <qg4pa5-941.ln1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> "Mark K.
Bilbo" <gmail@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
>> On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 16:03:53 +0000 in
>> nkvft3h0ba5q3tv36dhahed98laltvu8gk@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Therion Ware
>> <autodelete@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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>> > On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 08:57:12 -0500, Mark K. Bilbo wrote in message
>> > <o24la5-ec3.ln1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> >
>> >
>> >>On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 18:04:02 +0500 in
>> >>fr8kc4$a2e$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Reality"
<reality786@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>> >>wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> How we unleash the devils upon the disbelievers to incite them with
>> >>> fury?
>> >>
>> >>Somebody get the thorazine, stat!
>> >
>> >
>> > As a matter of interest, does anyone know what "stat" literally means
>> > and what the derivation is?
>>
>> Ya know, I haven't a clue. I just picked all kindsa weird things up
being
>> raised in a family of nurses...
>
><ahem ahem>
>
>etymology:
> [Abbrev. of L. statim.]
>
>definition;
> On a prescription: immediately.
>
>historical quotes:
>
> 1875 W. H. GRIFFITHS Lessons on Prescriptions iv. 18 Stat.,
immediately.
> 1971 Lancet 25 Sept. 700/2 Stat., to be given at once.
>
>
>Amen.
>
>This concludes todays reading from the Holy Oxford English Dictionary.
>
>
>
>(the Latin appears to mean "immediately")
Indeed, as I was informed some moments ago!
But, and here's one ... I think the Roman Latin had no unequivocal
word for "yes". Words for "yes indeed," "yes but," an and on, but not
one that just means "yes".
And when I discover I'm wrong about this, well, I'll just have to
reorder my life...!
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