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Merriam-Webster traced the word’s first known use to a 159-word sentence in a sermon by a supporter of King Charles I during the English Civil War in 1644.

“We need not make any scruple of praying against such,” the speaker Paul Gosnold said of the king’s enemies, “against those Sanctimonious Incendiaries, who have fetched fire from heaven to set their Country in combustion, have pretended Religion to raise and maintain a most wicked rebellion, against those Neros, who have ripped up the womb of the mother that bare them, and wounded the breasts that gave them suck, against those cannibals who feed upon the flesh and are drunk with the blood of their own brethren, against those Catilines who seek their private ends in the public disturbance, and have set the kingdom on fire to roast their own eggs, against those tempests of the State, those restless spirits who can no longer live, then be stickling and meddling, who are stung with a perpetual itch of changing and innovating, transforming our old hierarchy into a new Presbytery, and this again into a newer Independency; and our well-tempered Monarchy into a mad kind of Kakistocracy.

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kalm wrote:The word of the day is “kakistocracy”.

I’ll probably end up mid-spelling this one too.

Im guessing Ivy already uses it in every day speech and I though he might appreciate the following...

kalm wrote:The word of the day is “kakistocracy”.
I’ll probably end up mid-spelling this one too.

kalm wrote:The word of the day is “kakistocracy”.

I’ll probably end up mid-spelling this one too.

Im guessing Ivy already uses it in every day speech and I though he might appreciate the following...

Merriam-Webster traced the word’s first known use to a 159-word sentence in a sermon by a supporter of King Charles I during the English Civil War in 1644.

“We need not make any scruple of praying against such,” the speaker Paul Gosnold said of the king’s enemies, “against those Sanctimonious Incendiaries, who have fetched fire from heaven to set their Country in combustion, have pretended Religion to raise and maintain a most wicked rebellion, against those Neros, who have ripped up the womb of the mother that bare them, and wounded the breasts that gave them suck, against those cannibals who feed upon the flesh and are drunk with the blood of their own brethren, against those Catilines who seek their private ends in the public disturbance, and have set the kingdom on fire to roast their own eggs, against those tempests of the State, those restless spirits who can no longer live, then be stickling and meddling, who are stung with a perpetual itch of changing and innovating, transforming our old hierarchy into a new Presbytery, and this again into a newer Independency; and our well-tempered Monarchy into a mad kind of Kakistocracy.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the ... 9b7331a766

Ivytalk wrote:

kalm wrote:The word of the day is “kakistocracy”.

I’ll probably end up mid-spelling this one too.

Im guessing Ivy already uses it in every day speech and I though he might appreciate the following...

Nope, never saw that word before. But it’s a good word! Thanks!

Question: when the Bhuttos were in power in Islamabad, did they run a Paki-stocracy?

kalm wrote:

Ivytalk wrote: Nope, never saw that word before. But it’s a good word! Thanks!

Question: when the Bhuttos were in power in Islamabad, did they run a Paki-stocracy?

You did catch the classical conservative argument in the quoted rant?

I though you’d especially appreciate that part.

Ivytalk wrote:

kalm wrote:
You did catch the classical conservative argument in the quoted rant?

I though you’d especially appreciate that part.

Are you a Sanctimonious Incendiary or a Catiline?

kalm wrote:The word of the day is “kakistocracy”.

CAA Flagship wrote:

kalm wrote:The word of the day is “kakistocracy”.

kalm wrote: Not bad, Flaggy!

CAA Flagship wrote:

kalm wrote: Not bad, Flaggy!

I'm a morning person. It's all downhill from here.

CAA Flagship wrote:

kalm wrote: Not bad, Flaggy!

I'm a morning person. It's all downhill from here.

CAA Flagship wrote:

kalm wrote:The word of the day is “kakistocracy”.