In article <7lelt31qd43e3sff9gj75ic4b1tsvv89i6@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Therion Ware
<autodelete@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
> 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:
> >>
> >> > 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]
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> >> >>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...!
I've got a friend with a classics PhD; I'll ask next time I see
him.
(he'll sneer. he always does)
-- cary
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