[Fictionary] ASTEISM ballot!

[Ziv Stern]

As usual, please give two points to one definition, and one point to
another. Also add whatever thoughts, comments, anecdotes, slanders,
musings, etc. to which you are moved by any definition!
Please send in your votes by Saturday.


asteism, n. the belief that we are made of star stuff.

asteism, n. belief in the wholesome properties of mildew.

asteism, n. reluctance to examine or confront a complex issue.

asteism, n. polite irony; a genteel and ingenious manner of deriding
another.

asteism, n. belief that humans came from the stars about a million years
ago.

asteism, n. inability to sequence episodic memory correctly, usually
following cerebral trauma.

asteism, n. a sect of Transylvanian Unitarianism in which meditation is the
primary form of worship.

asteism, n. a lenticular flat-topped elevation in karst topography caused
by an intrusive igneous dike.

asteism, n. a belief popular in the vicinity of Bow Church (London) that
the world was created in five days.

asteism, n. also called a "sky burial", the practice of allowing a deceased
person's body to be consumed by vultures.

asteism, n. in ancient Greece, the government of surrounding towns or
colonies
as subordinates of a city-state.

asteism, n. a condition of the fingernails, often caused by an iron
deficiency, which presents as a pattern of longitudinal ridges on the nail.
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