Wordly

Driven by "wordly" - curiosity (etymology), in reference to the word "speculator," - I found the word "speculum" - (the device used to widen a patient's anus so a proctologist can have a look around in a usually private area), and the word "speculator" - have the same Latin root word specere, to look at or to view. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Among the lay people the world ceaseth not to bring to pass, that as they be called wordly, so they are wordly indeed; driven headlong by worldly desires: insomuch that they may right well seem to have taken as well the manners as the name of their father. ❋ Hugh Latimer (1858)

In Updike's case this also entails chronicling the journey from small-town America and its assumptions to those of the more "wordly" suburbs and cities. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Fiesta is much more "wordly", but both have consistently excellent produce. ❋ Homesick Texan (2007)

'Seems to be a more "wordly" theme to Mr. Clinton's speech about Obama than those used in Bush's for McCain. ❋ Unknown (2008)

That got me started thinking about monsters and escorting people in an old other-wordly-tube system. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Maybe Elizabeth wants to be practicle and other-wordly about it. ❋ Unknown (2009)

What wordly, Einstein grade, original and thought provoking information do you offer here? ❋ Unknown (2010)

Yes Me I agree ESMD is causing problems for NASA. very nice wordly me. even the ig thinks this to be the case. eagle_eye ❋ Unknown (2009)

For those of you commenting in a negative way, you obviously are not wordly, do not travel and only read the headlines of Fox News. ❋ Unknown (2009)

But it was not an unkind portrait: Brooks understood the "bourgeois bohemians" as giving expression to contradictory but quintessentially American yearnings for freedom and community, wordly success and spiritual transcendence, sensual pleasure and self-denial. ❋ Unknown (2011)

PS “Specialized Crime Fighter” is supposed to be wordly and overly technical. ❋ Unknown (2009)

My husband, being less wordly and more naive than I am, is excited to convert the Princeling's crib to a toddler bed. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It seems to exist for some other wordly gods as well where it is called "life empowerment" (srog dbang). ❋ Unknown (2010)

Men in the liberal media insisted Obama was a wordly genius and master orator, while women in the liberal media called Palin a stupid, unsophisticated, rifle-wielding hick. ❋ S. E. CUPP (2010)

To the wordly Marquis de Chastellux, visiting Philadelphia and introduced to many of its leading citizens, Morris appeared “a very rich merchant, and consequently a man of every country . . . or if you will, a citizen of the universe.” ❋ Charles Rappleye (2010)

I guess my 30 years of experience bringing haters together just sounds other-wordly to those who have not experienced the power of engagement. ❋ Unknown (2010)