On Mar 14, 10:42 pm, "B. T. Raven" <ni...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Therion Ware wrote:
> > On Fri, 14 Mar 2008 16:54:30 +0000 (UTC), c...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > (Cary Kittrell) wrote:
>
> >> In article <qg4pa5-941....@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> "Mark K.
Bilbo" <gm...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
> >>> On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 16:03:53 +0000 in
> >>> nkvft3h0ba5q3tv36dhahed98laltvu...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Therion Ware
> >>> <autodel...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> >>>> On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 08:57:12 -0500, Mark K. Bilbo wrote in message
> >>>> <o24la5-ec3....@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>:
>
> >>>>> On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 18:04:02 +0500 in
> >>>>> fr8kc4$a2...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Reality"
<reality...@[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...!
>
> Ita, vero.
>
> But you are partly right. Probably more than half the time the word in
> question would simply be repeated, mutatis mutandis:
>
> Redordinanda (vita)
>
> Do you not see? I see.
> Nonne vides? Video.
Might one also say: "videsne?"
~Iain
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