Word of the Day: CELERIPEDEAN

ETYMOLOGY
from Latin celeripedem (swift-footed),
(from celer (swift) + pedem (foot)) + -ean

EXAMPLE
“…with a decutient shrug of his stooped shoulders, as tho to desarcinate himself of funebrous thoughts, departed at a pace very different from the celeripedean gait of pristine years …”

From: American Speech, Volume 2
Edited by Arthur Garfield Kennedy, Kemp Malone, Louise Pound, William Cabell Greet, 1927

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