[Fictionary] CAGASTRIC - Results (or should that be "catastrophic" :-)

[Pierre Abbat]

On Tuesday, March 22, 2016 14:13:55 Hutch wrote:
> cagastric - adj. - of diseases, originating under an ill star. We no longer
> believe in cagastric causes for illness and deformity.
> Real definition - 4
>     David Randall : 2 [But scrofula comes from Aldebaran in the summer sky]
>     Melissa Shaner : 2
> 
> cagastric - n. - a medication that inhibits the production of earwax. This
> study investigated the antifungal properties of ripesterone, which is
> normally prescribed as a diaphoretic and a cagastric.
> Jean-Joseph Cote : 5
>     David Randall : 1 ["The Joshua Randall Award for Earwaxical Vocabulary"
> -- my son Joshua has been fascinated with earwax over the years.]
>     Pierre Abbat : 1 [This is obviously the real one, from Greek κακο
> αστρο.] [Ed. Note: I hope Pierre's Greek comes through: "kako astro" or
> have I misread it?]
>     Linda F Owens : 2
>     Melissa Shaner : 1 [The cerumen makes me suspicious but 1]

The note "This is obviously the real one" belongs with the "ill star" def, 
which was before the "earwax" def in the ballot, with "real one" between the 
two defs. My vote was for the earwax def. "Κακο αστρο" is Greek for "ill 
star".

Pierre
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