Miasmal: 

• miasmal (adj.): filled with vapour; (synonyms): miasmic, vapourous; vapourific; [e.g.]: “venturing into miasmic jungles”; “carefully negotiating the vapourous bog”; “mile-after-mile of vapourific swampland”; cloudy (full of or covered with clouds); [e.g.]: “those cloudy skies bespoke a wet weekend”. ~ (Princeton’s WordNet 3.0; Edited Version).

• miasma (n.; pl. miasmas or miasmata): 1. a noxious atmosphere or influence; [e.g.]: “The family affection, the family expectations, seemed to permeate the atmosphere ... like a coiling miasma”. (Louis Auchincloss); 2. (a.) a foul-smelling vapour arising from rotting organic matter, formerly thought to cause disease; (b.) a thick vapourous atmosphere or emanation; [e.g.]: “wreathed in a miasma of exhaust fumes”; (adj.): miasmal, miasmatic, miasmic. [Greek míasma, ‘pollution’, ‘stain’, from miaínein, ‘to pollute’]. ~ (American Heritage Dictionary).

• miasma (n.; pl. miasmata or miasmas): 1. an unwholesome or oppressive atmosphere; 2. pollution in the atmosphere, esp. noxious vapours from decomposing organic matter; (adj.): miasmal, miasmic, miasmatic, miasmatical. [C17: New Latin, from Greek míasma, ‘defilement’, from miaínein, ‘to defile’]. ~ (Collins English Dictionary).

• miasma (n.; pl. miasmas, miasmata): 1. noxious exhalations from putrescent organic matter; poisonous effluvia or germs polluting the atmosphere; 2. a dangerous, foreboding, or deathlike influence or atmosphere; (adj.): miasmal, miasmic, miasmatic, miasmatical. [1655-65; from New Latin, from Greek míasma, ‘stain’, pollution’, derivative of miaínein, ‘to pollute’, ‘stain’]. ~ (Webster’s College Dictionary).

• miasma (n.): an unwholesome atmosphere; [e.g.]: “the novel spun a miasma of death and decay”; 2. unhealthy vapours rising from the ground or other sources [e.g.]: “the miasma of the marshes”; “there was a miasma of exhaust fumes”; miasm; air pollution (pollution of the atmosphere) [e.g.]: “air pollution reduced the visibility”. ~ (Princeton’s WordNet 3.0).

• miasma (n.): unwholesomeness, smell, pollution, odour, stench, reek, effluvium, mephitis, fetor; (Brit. slang): niff; [e.g.]: “a thick black poisonous miasma which hung over the area”. ~ (Collins English Thesaurus).

Microcosm, Macrocosm:

• microcosm (n.): a community, place, or situation regarded as encapsulating in miniature the characteristics of something much larger; (‘the city is \ a microcosm of modern Malaysia’); humankind regarded as the representation in miniature of the universe; (‘the belief in correspondences between the\ Universe and Man – between microcosm and macrocosm’). (Oxford Dictionary).

 • macrocosm (n.): 1. a complex structure, such as the universe or society, regarded as an entirety, as opposed to microcosms, which have a similar \ structure and are contained within it; 2. any complex entity regarded as a complete system in itself.
• microcosm (n.): 1. a miniature representation of something, esp a unit, group, or place regarded as a copy of a larger one; 2. (philosophy): man \ regarded as epitomizing the universe. (Collins Dictionary).

• microcosm (n.): a small, representative system having analogies to a larger system in constitution, configuration, or development; (‘He sees the auto \ industry as a microcosm of the U.S. itself’ ~William J. Hampton); (adj.): microcosmic, microcosmical; (adv.): microcosmically.
• macrocosm (n.): 1. the entire world; the universe; 2. a system reflecting on a large scale one of its component systems or parts; (adj.): macrocosmic, \ macrocosmical; (adv.): macrocosmically. (American Heritage Dictionary).

Mindful:

• mindful (adj.): attentive; heedful. ~ (American Heritage Dictionary).

• mindful (adj.): keeping aware; heedful. ~ (Collins English Dictionary).

• mindful (adj.): attentive; aware. ~ (Webster’s College Dictionary).

• mindful (adj.): bearing in mind; attentive to; aware. ~ (Princeton’s WordNet 3.0).

• mindful (adj.): 1. tending toward awareness and appreciation; (synonyms): aware, conscious, observant; 2. cautiously attentive; (synonyms): heedful, watchful, careful, observant. ~ (American Heritage Roget’s Thesaurus).

Minorly :

mi​nor​ly (adv.): in a minor way; marginally, slightly; [e.g.]: “He was minorly injured in the fall”; “She became minorly famous back home for confessional diary items penned for the daily newspaper about the life of a young, single woman in the city”. (Vet Wagner, “Toronto Star’, 03 Mar 2009); ”The American Embassy was not so much heavily guarded as minorly fortified“. (Tom Clancy, ”Patriot Games“, 1987). [first known use: 1840, in the meaning defined above; from minor + -ly]. ~ (Merriam-Webster Dictionary).

Mirific; Mirificence: 

• mirific (adj.): working wonders; wonderful. ~ (Webster’s 1913 Dictionary).

• mirific (adj.): achieving wonderful things or working wonders. ~ (Collins English Dictionary).

• mirific (adj.): working wonders; marvellous; [e.g.]: “[Sebastian Pasquale] talked all through dinner, giving me an account of his mirific adventures in foreign cities”. (page 72, William John Locke, 1863-1930, “The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne”, 1905, chap vi.). [etymology: mirific, from Middle French mirifique, ‘marvellous’, from Latin mirificus, from mirus, ‘wonderful’ + -ficus, ‘-fic’; akin to Latin mirari, ‘to wonder at’; mirifical, from mirific + -al]. ~ (Merriam-Webster Dictionary).

• mirific (adj.): (literary) working wonders; wonderful; (synonyms): mirifical; [e.g.]: “The Spirit of Grace, in whose mirific power our Saviour first, and his Apostles afterward, proclaimed the Gospel”. (page 192, Chapter One, Part Four, “The Constant Communicant”, Arthur Bury; 1681, Stephen Botton, Oxford); “See the very intelligible Theorist is at hand in our Necessity, to teach the impetuous Motions of mirifick Exultation”. (page 140, Section Thirty-Two, “An Essay towards the Theory of the Intelligible World”, Thomas d’Urfey; 1700, London); “There is the Doctor, whom Mrs. P. does not condescend to visit; that man educates a mirific family, and is loved by the poor for miles round”. (page 120, Chapter Thirty-One, “The Book of Snobs”, William Makepeace Thackeray; 1848, Punch Office‎, London); “A carpet overgrown with huge, gorgeous flowers, and the walls overgrown with huge, gorgeous flowers of another but equally mirific plant”. (page 133, Chapter One, Part Three, “Lilian”, Arnold Bennett; 1922, Cassell, London); “In as blasé a tone as I could manage, in such mirific circumstances, I murmured, ‘Ma’am, if you would care to glance out of the window—over there—you will see a flying saucer’”. (page 186, Chapter Five, “The Power of Positive Nonsense”, Leo Rosten; 1977, McGraw-Hill, New York). [etymology: from Latin mirificus and Middle French mirifique]. ~ (Wiktionary English Dictionary).

• mirific (adj.): wonder-working; marvellous. ~ (Steve Chrisomalis’ Phrontistery).

• mirific, mirifical (adj.): wonder-working; magical. ~ (Luciferous Logolepsy Lexicon).

• mirifick (n.): marvellous, wonderfully done; ſtrangely wrought. [from Latin mirificus]. ~ (page 43, The New Universal Etymological English Dictionary, Nathan Bailey; 1775).

• mirifical (adj.; rare): same as mirific. [from mirific + -al]. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia).

• mirifical (adj.): working wonders; wonderful. [origin: the earliest known use of the adjective mirifical is in the late 1500s; OED’s earliest evidence for mirifical is from around 1572, in the writing of William Forrest, poet: mirifical is a borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element; etymons: Latin mīrificus + ‑al, suffix¹]. ~ (Oxford English Dictionary).

• mirifical (adj.; obsolete, rare): magical, wonderful. [etymology: from mirific +‎ -al]. ~ (Wiktionary English Dictionary).

• mirifical (adj.): if something is wonderful, marvellous or excellent, it is said to be mirifical; pronunciation—mi as me; ri as in recall; fi as in fee; cal as in culture; [e.g.]: “The student writes mirifical essays in the magazine which attract readers”; (synonyms): amazing, wonderful. ~ (Daily Dose Of Vocabulary).

• mirificent (adj.; rare): causing wonder; [e.g.]: “Enchantment Agrippa defines to be nothing but the conveyance of a certain mirificent power into the thing enchanted”. (Dr. Henry More, “Mystery of Iniquity”, 1664, I. xviii. § 3). (Encyc. Dict.). [from Late Latin as if *mirificen(t-)s (in deriv. Late Latin mirificentia), from Latin mirus, ‘wonderful’ + facere, ‘make’; cf. mirific]. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia).

• mirificent (adj.): wonderful. ~ (Webster’s 1828 Dictionary).

• mirificent (adj.): working wonders; wonderful. ~ (Webster’s 1913 Dictionary).

• mirificent (adj.; obsolete, rare): wonderful; wondrous; awesome. [etymology: from mirific +‎ -ent]. ~ (Wiktionary English Dictionary).

• mirificence (n.): doing wonders. [from Latin mirificentia]. ~ (page 43, The New Universal Etymological English Dictionary, Nathan Bailey; 1775).

• mirificence (n.): doing wonders; admirable excellence; (synonyms): admirability, admirableness. [origin: the only known use of the noun mirificence is in the early 1700s; OED’s only evidence for mirificence is from 1727, in a dictionary by Nathan Bailey, lexicographer and schoolmaster; mirificence is of multiple origins; either (i) a borrowing from Latin, or, (ii) formed within English, by derivation; etymons: Latin mirificentia; ‘mirificent’, adjective + ‑ence, suffix]. ~ (Oxford English Dictionary).

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Random Literary Samples.

• “The Sharded *Mirificence*: | You are mine own pavonine blowth, my toft, | You are my senescent monopoly! | Throned in red porphyry and onyx soft | Rieved from the Garden Papadopoli! | The micronated music spireth “Alice!” | Impendent rebecks, miradors sky-blue, | In sharded skiffs bear frangipanni-chalice | To the *mirificent* and paraspastic You! | Randolph Badford {paraspasm = an obsolete term for bilateral muscle spasms of the legs}. [emphases and curly-bracketed insert added]. ~ (page 2, ‘The Red Page’, in ‘The Bulletin’, Vol. 29, No. 1485, “The Loves of the Poets”; 30 July 1908).

• “A lover of his native tongue will tremble to think what that tongue would have become, if all the vocables from the Latin and the Greek which were introduced or endorsed by illustrious names [during the Reformation, and extended to the Restoration of Charles the Second, and beyond it], had been admitted on the strength of their recommendation; if ‘torve’ and ‘tetric’ (Thomas Fuller), ‘cecity’ (Richard Hooker), ‘fastide’ and ‘trutinate’ (“State Papers”), ‘immanity’ (William Shakespeare), ‘insulse’ and ‘insulsity’ (John Milton, prose), ‘scelestick’ (Owen Feltham), ‘splendidious’ (Michael Drayton), ‘pervicacy’ (Richard Baxter), ‘stramineous’, ‘ardelion’ (Robert Burton), ‘lepid’ and ‘sufflaminate’ (Isaac Barrow), ‘facinorous’ (John Donne), ‘immorigerous’, ‘clancular’, ‘ferity’, ‘ustulation’, ‘stultiloquy’, ‘lipothymy’ (λειποθυμία), ‘hyperaspist’ (all in Jeremy Taylor), if ‘mulierosity’, ‘subsannation’, ‘coaxation’, ‘ludibundness’, ‘delinition’, ‘septemfluous’, ‘medioxumous’, *‘mirificent’*, ‘palmiferous’ (all in Henry More), ‘pauciloquy’ and ‘multiloquy’ (Joseph Beaumont, “Psyche”; 1648); if ‘dyscolous’ (John Foxe), ‘ataraxy’ (Richard Allestree), ‘moliminously’ (Ralph Cudworth), ‘luciferously’ (Sir Thomas Browne), ‘immarcescible’ (Bishop Hall), ‘exility’, ‘spinosity’, ‘incolumity’, ‘solertiousness’, ‘lucripetous’, ‘inopious’, ‘eluctate’, ‘eximious’ (all in John Hacket), ‘arride’ (ridiculed by Ben Johnson), with the hundreds of other words like these, and even more monstrous than are some of these, not to speak of such Italian as ‘leggiadrous’ (a favourite word in Beaumont’s “Psyche”), ‘amorevolous’ (John Hacket), had not been rejected and disallowed by the true instinct of the national mind. A great many too were allowed and adopted, but not exactly in the shape in which they first were introduced among us; they were made to drop their foreign termination, or otherwise their foreign appearance, to conform themselves to English ways, and only so were finally incorporated into the great family of English words”. [emphasis and square-bracketed insert added]. ~ (page 110, Lecture Two: ‘English as it Might Have Been’, in “English Past and Present”, by Richard Chenevix Trench (1807-1886); 10th Ed. Revised; 1877, Macmillan and Co., London).

• “As I mentioned in the ‘A Philosophical Compendiary’ chapter of my book ‘The Numinous Way of Pathei-Mathos’, my philosophy of pathei-mathos has connexions to the culture of ancient Greece, exemplified by the many Greek terms and phrases I use in an attempt to express certain philosophical concepts. Such use of such terms also serves to intimate that my philosophy has some connexion to the Graeco-Roman mystical, and paganus, traditions, one of which traditions is outlined in the Ιερός Λόγος tractate of the Corpus Hermeticum where it is written that: ‘...every psyche—embodied in flesh—can | By the *mirificence* of the circumferent deities coursing the heavens | Apprehend the heavens, and honour, and physis presenced, and the works of theos; | Can understand divine influence as wyrdful change | And thus, regarding what is good and what is bad, discover all the arts of honour’; my translation, from ‘Ιερός Λόγος: An Esoteric Mythos’, a translation of and a commentary on the Third Tractate of the Corpus Hermeticum; 2015. Furthermore, I also use certain Greek and Latin terms in a specific way, such that the meaning I assign to them is not necessarily identical to how they were understood in classical times or the same as the meaning ascribed to them in modern Greek and Latin lexicons”. [emphasis added]. ~ (page 8, An extract from a letter to an academic correspondent, with footnotes added post scriptum, by David Myatt; 2020, in “One Perceiveration”, collected essays published between 2012 and 2019).

• “English With Tears”. Stock Exchange lists fail to reveal what buyers are offering or sellers demanding for words, but a cable announcing that Mr. Charles K. Ogden has sold his “Basic English” system to the British Government for £23,000 {=£1.13 million, or $2.26 million, in 2024 monetary values} suggests that they are enjoying a “bullish” market.

Compared with John Milton, to whom the bookseller Tompkyns paid £18 {=£5,220 in 2024 monetary values} for “Paradise Lost”, in which a vocabulary of about 8,000 words is employed, the bespectacled Cambridge don who invented “Basic English”, limited to 850 words, seems not to have made a bad bargain.

What sort of a bargain the British Government has made is another matter. Nor is it clear what it intends doing with its purchase. Mr. Ogden made his bow as an exponent of a simplified English language away back in 1923. Like the inventors of “Volapuk” and “Esperanto”, he was inspired by the ideal of creating an international language, and English, he contended, possesses the qualities most needed for international use. It is the natural language of the governments of more than 500,000,000 persons, and the spread of the talking film, in Latin America especially, has made it a more or less garbled secondary language for millions more.

Why not, argued Mr. Ogden, make English so simple that lesser breeds, who know not the tongue that Shakespeare and Damon Runyon spake, will realise the advantages of learning it. But seeing that there are still more than 1,500 languages in use in the world, the job of establishing any one tongue as even the secondary language of, say, half of those who speak the 1,500 others must present formidable difficulties.

The fate of the best-known predecessor of “Basic English” was indicated in a satirical London Punch Magazine dialogue:

“What is Esperanto, father?”

“A universal language, my son”.

“Who speaks it, father?”

“Nobody, my boy, nobody”.

But undeterred by the sad history of other “universal” languages, Mr. Ogden went ahead. He decided that all but a few of the words in an average English dictionary of from 60,000 to 80,000 words (the New English Dictionary contains 400,000) are unnecessary. Shakespeare, he says, employed 16,000 words (Shakespearian scholars claim to have counted 20,000), while a teashop waitress uses about 7,000 or 8,000.

Although, judging by the case of the waitress, one can get through life with 7,000 or 8,000 words, most learners take at least four years to obtain a working knowledge of English. Mr. Ogden claims that two hours work daily for a month should enable anyone to master “Basic English”.

The chief feature of this system is the wholesale elimination of verbs, the number of which has been reduced to eighteen, namely: come, get, give, go, keep, let, make, put, seem, take, be, do, have, say, see, send, may, will.

Since “love”, for example, is no longer a verb, a lover pouring forth his passion in “Basic English” would inform his inamorata that he “has love for her”—which, somehow, suggests a rather limited amount of that commodity. “Love”, like many other verbs, still figures as a basic noun and one can indulge in what seems to me like cheating, by adding “-ing” or “-ed” to such nouns. Thus, one cannot say: “I love”, but one can announce: “I am loving” which, I suggest, might mean either that the speaker is actively making love or is himself of a loving nature.

Having thrown verbs galore overboard. Mr. Ogden drastically compressed the vocabulary by a careful selection of nouns from groups of synonyms. The result, whether one likes it or not, is a triumph of ingenuity. Years ago I read in the “London Times” a long article which provided a clear exposition of “Basic English” and it was not until I reached the last paragraph (which provided the information) that I found that the writer had not gone beyond the Ogden vocabulary of 850 words.

Various books have been translated into “Basic English”, including the Bible, in which we learn that Christ “put out” the money changers from the Temple. I have merely glanced at one or two of these works, but the pages I read conveyed their meaning clearly enough. This, however, by no means reconciles me to the idea of exchanging the English of Shakespeare, not to mention that of Sir Thomas Browne or Henry James, for Mr. Ogden’s.

Doubtless there are thousands of words in the dictionary that most of us go through life without using. Some of us have scraped along on the Continent with something roughly equivalent to basic French or Italian. But much more is necessary to an appreciation of the literature of our own or other countries. Many of the 399,000 words that Mr. Ogden has discarded from the “New English Dictionary” are scientific or technical terms that few require to use.

But there are thousands of others which great writers have chosen to employ to convey fine shades of meaning or emotion. Maybe it is not strictly necessary for Henry James to use words like “immarcescible” and *“mirificent”*. It might be argued that “unfading” or “wonderful” would convey his meaning.

But an artist in words must be allowed to choose his colours, and the Henry James canvases certainly would not be the fascinating things they often are if painted in “Basic English”. The international use of “Basic English” even for utilitarian purposes would, I imagine, present substantial obstacles at least for the English.

Some who have been so misguided as to be born Rooshans, Turks or Prooshans may set enthusiastically to work learning Mr. Ogden’s 850 words, but any of the oppressed English who wish to write or speak to them will be faced with the more difficult task of unlearning thousands of words.

When trying to acquire a foreign language, I have set myself the task of memorising a dozen or so words daily while shaving and dressing and have found that a week later I probably remembered half of them. But imagine carrying out this process in reverse—preparing daily lists of words it was one’s duty to forget! Like Macbeth, one would call in vain for some sweet oblivious antidote to cleanse one of the perilous stuff weighing upon the memory.

Though it is doubtless possible to learn French without tears, the unlearning of English would, I fear, involve most distressing emotional storms”. [emphasis and curly-bracketed inserts added]. ~ (page 4, “English With Tears”, in ‘Merely My Prejudice’, a weekly article by Harrison Owen; Sat 22 Mar 1947, ‘The Sun Week-End Magazine’, from “The Sun News-Pictorial” (Melbourne, Vic.: 1922- 1956).

Modus Operandi:

[Dictionary Definition]: ‘modus operandi (= mode of operating): the way in which a person sets about a task’. (Oxford Dictionary).

Modus Vivendi:

Modus Vivendi (n.; pl. modi vivendi): 1. a feasible arrangement or practical compromise; esp. one that bypasses difficulties;
2. *a manner of living: a way of life*. [origin and etymology: New Latin, ‘manner of living’; first known use: circa 1878]. [emphasis added]. ~ (Merriam-Webster Dictionary).

Morbid:

• morbid (adj.): 1. not sound and healthful; induced by, or characteristic of, a diseased or abnormal condition; diseased; sickly; hence, abnormally or unnaturally susceptible to emotional impressions, esp. of a gloomy or unwholesome nature; [e.g.]: “Her sick and morbid heart” (Hawthorne); 2. relating to disease; as, ‘morbid anatomy’; (synonyms): sickly, sick, unwholesome. [Latin morbidus, from morbus, ‘disease’; prob. akin to mori, ‘to die’; cf. French morbide; see mortal]. ~ (Merriam-Webster Dictionary; 1927).

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• morbid (adj.): 1. (a) of, relating to, or characteristic of disease; [e.g.]: “morbid anatomy”; (b) affected with or induced by disease; [e.g.]: “a morbid condition”; (c) productive of disease; [e.g.]: “morbid substances”; 2. abnormally susceptible to or characterised by gloomy or unwholesome feelings; 3. grisly, gruesome; [e.g.]: “morbid details”; “morbid curiosity”; (adv.): morbidly; (n.): morbidness. [origin and etymology: first known use: 1656; from Latin morbidus, ‘diseased’, from morbus, ‘disease’]. ~ (Merriam-Webster Dictionary; 2017).

• multiplicious (adj.): manifold (viz.: 1. various in kind or quality; many in number; numerous; multiplied; complicated; 2. exhibited at divers times or in various ways). ~ (Webster’s 1913 Dictionary).

• multiplicious (adj.): manifold (viz.: many; [e.g.]: “The manifold details abound”; myriad, divers, multifarious); multiplex. ~ (Merriam-Webster Dictionary).

• multiplicious (adj.): manifold. [origin: the earliest known use of the adjective multiplicitous is in the 1850s; OED’s earliest evidence for multiplicitous is from 1852, in New Orleans Weekly Delta; formed within English, by derivation; etymons: multiplicity, noun + ‑ous, suffix]. ~ (Oxford English Dictionary).

• multiplicious (adj.): manifold; exhibiting multiplicity; [e.g.]: “‘Some of them are polemical’, our reviewer, Joel Brouwer, said, but, ‘Reed’s best poems conjure up a vertiginous, multiplicious, irresolvable and thrilling world’”. (from “Paperback Row”, Elsa Dixler; October 21, 2007, in New York Times); (synonyms): manifold, multiplicitous; many-kinded. ~ (Wiktionary English Dictionary).

• multiplicious (adj.; rare): manifold; multiplex; [e.g.]: “The animal [amphisbæna] is not one, but multiplicious, or many, which hath a duplicity or gemination of principal parts”. (Sir Thomas Browne, “Vulgar Errors”, iii. 15); “This sense smelling... although sufficiently grand and admirable, (yet) is not so multiplicious as of the eye or ear”. (Rev. William Derham,1657-1735, “Physico-Theology”, iv. 4). [from Latin multiplex (multiplici-); multiplex + -ous]. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia).

• multipliciously (adv.): in a manifold or multiplex manner. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia).

• multiplicity (n.): 1. the state of being multiplex or manifold or various; the condition of being numerous; [e.g.]: “Moreover, as the manifold variation of the parts, so the multiplicity of the use of each part, is very wonderful”. (Nehemiah Grew, 1641-1712, “Cosmologia Sacra”, 1701, i. 5); 2. many of the same kind; a large number; [e.g.]: “Had they discoursed rightly but upon this one principle that God was a being infinitely perfect, they could never have asserted a multiplicity of gods”. (Robert South: “Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions”, vol. II.); “A multiplicity of laws give a judge as much power as a want of law, since he is ever sure to find among the number some to countenance his partiality”. (Oliver Goldsmith, “Reverie at Boar’s-Head Tavern in Eastcheap”, 1841, Essay IV.). [= French multiplicité = Spanish multiplicidad = Portuguese multiplicidade = Italian moltiplicità, from Late Latin multiplicita(t-)s, ‘manifoldness’, from Latin multiplex, ‘manifold’; see multiplex]. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia).

• multiplicitous (adj.): synonym of multiplicious; [e.g.]: “Finally, this fair is multiplicitous in ways that few others are anymore”. (from “Treasure Hunt for Grown-Ups With Money”, Holland Cotter; January 19, 2007 in New York Times‎). ~ (Wiktionary English Dictionary).