words with poetic, or historical meaning.

† archaic  → origin   ♡ love

• avenoir: the desire that memory could flow backward.
• pede claudo: on halting foot (punishment coming, pede claudo, years after memory has forgotten). latin → 'punishment comes limping'. ♡
• ad infinitum: again and again in the exact same way; forever. latin → 'without end or limit'.
• exsanguination: the action of draining a person, animal, or organ of blood.
• zugzwang: a situation where every possible move or decision is a bad one, or one that will result in damage or loss. also used as a term in chess: the point at which an individual falls into an inevitable checkmate. german → 'compulsion to move'. ♡
• jezebel: 1) phoenician queen of the kingdom of israel, 9th century, b.c. - notorious for practicing prostitution, promoting pagan worship, adultery, and ordering numerous deaths of innocent people. often noted as the most evil woman in the bible, she would mock victims before executions by 'celebrating their deaths' in dressing in her finest clothing and wearing an abundant amount of make-up; and 2) a scheming, and/or or morally unrestrained woman.
• tenebrific: producing darkness (tenebrific constellations)
• brume: mist/fog. ancient rome, latin → bruma: winter solstice, "season of the shortest day".
• paraplegic: impairment in motor/sensory function of the lower body. greek → 'half-striking'.
• fachia: connective tissue fibers, primarily collagen, that form sheets or bands beneath the skin to attach, stabilize, enclose, and separate muscles and other internal organs.
• formication: a tactile hallucination involving the belief that something is crawling on the body or over the skin.
• matinal: something related to the hours between midnight and dawn; morning prayers. french → matin 'morning'. †