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> ustorious This is such an obscure word that your comment is already in the Google results for it. Kudos: https://i.imgur.com/tGgrIaZ.png https://i.imgur.com/

• mdp2021 4y ago
  I would have gladly found a precise reference, but time presses: it may be resonant for some classic passage describing the engineering of Archimedes of war machines, especially during the Second Punic War (~212 BC) when Syracuse allied with Chartago against Rome, and had to defend from the siege led by Marcellus. Optical devices to set distant things on fire were part of the defence. So, a nuance intended was: that building would normally had been planned as a war machine...
• gopkarthik 4y ago
  Found it in page-4 https://imgur.com/a/9MiiZUJ https://imgur.com/a/9MiiZUJ. I'm curious if you saw it in page-1?
  • OJFord 4y ago
    Not GP, but it's the sole entry on page 4 DDG for me; the first (and hence only) result of actual use, not definition or pronunciation guide.
    • lelandfe 4y ago
      https://books.google.com/books?id=7cIXAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA85&lpg=PA85&dq=%22ustorious%22#v=onepage&q=%22ustorious%22&f=false https://books.google.com/books?id=7cIXAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA85&lpg=P... Another use! But yes, if you kill off the many, many dictionary results that HN comment is first page. E.g.: > "ustorious" -definition -dictionary -pronounce -spelling -rhyme
• OJFord 4y ago
  And wonderfully apt, not just any old obscure (Wiktionary says obsolete actually, but surely that only takes this single counter-example...) word thrown in on a whim.