|~ The Word Claim Thread ~|

I'd like to claim "Sacred Fire" and "Tenebrous Fire", please.
 
OK, well scrap my words.

I'll claim "Obscurity" and "Luminosity" instead.
I'll also be claiming another word as soon as I can remember what it was! Probably remember it this evening.

I remember now! It's "Ornicopytheobibliopsychocrystarroscioaerogenethliometeoroaustrohieroanthropoichthyopyrosiderochpnomyoalectryoophiobotanopegohydrorhabdocrithoaleuroalphitohalomolybdoclerobeloaxinocoscinodactyliogeolithiopessopsephocatoptrotephraoneirochiroonychodactyloarithstichooxogeloscogastrogyrocerobletonooenoscapulinaniac"
(remove the spaces)
It's 310 letters long and is the longest word used in an English document (holds true for 2002, excluding chemical compounds) by medieval scribes to refer to:
"A deluded human who practises divination or forecasting by means of phenomena, interpretation of acts, or other manifestations related to the following animate or inanimate objects and appearences: birds, oracles, Bible, ghosts, crystal gazing, shadows, air appearences, birth stars, meteors, winds, sacrificial appearences, entrails of humans and fishes, fire, red-hot irons, altar smoke, mice, grain picking by rooster, snakes, herbs, fountains, water, wands, dough, meal, barley, salt, lead, dice, arrows, hatchet balance, sieve, ring suspension, random dots, precious stones, pebbles, pebble heaps, mirrors, ash writing, dreams, palmistry, nail rays, finger rings, numbers, book passages, name letterings, laughing manners, ventriloquism, circle walking, wax, susceptibility to hidden springs, wine, and shoulder blades."
Source: "The Top 10 of Everything 2002" by Russell Ash.
 
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