[Fictionary] OCTROI ballot

[eLLioTT morEton]

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On Tue, 27 Feb 2024, eLLioTT morEton wrote:

> Checking after voting:
>
> The OED traces it to the French verb "octroyer", of which it says: "<
> Middle French, French octroyer (late 14th cent.; compare Anglo-Norman
> octrier), alteration of Old French otroier ottroye v. after classical
> Latin auctor auctor n. and auctorāre to authorize (see auctoration
> n.)."
>
> German "oktroyieren" does in fact mean "to impose something on
> someone", says dict.cc.  Well, I guess taxes are imposed, aren't they?
>
> Regards,
> Elliott
>
> On Sun, 18 Feb 2024, J-J Cote wrote:
>
>> Here are a bunch of fanciful definitions for OCTROI, and one real one
>> (hint: it's a noun). As usual, let me know your best guess and second-best
>> guess as to the one that rings true, as well.as any comments you might want
>> to add. Votes due by the end of Sunday, February 25. Replies can come to me
>> at this address.
>> 
>> Jean-Joseph
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>> 
>> octroi - n. - A monarch of one of the eight states that result from the
>> breakup of a kingdom.
>> 
>> octroi - n. - The prince governors of the eight "Silver Cities" of Anatolia
>> in the Seleucid Empire.
>> 
>> octroi - n. - The set of eight caretakers assigned to provide all-hours
>> vigilance at a small temple or shrine for a local deity.
>> 
>> octroi - n. - A ring of small filaments surrounding the mouth, used by many
>> bony fishes to find prey by detecting underwater vibrations and electrical
>> fields.
>> 
>> octroi - n. - A large, ornate eight-spoked wheel design featuring the
>> owner's coat of arms. Popular on the coronation coaches of late 18th
>> century European monarchs.
>> 
>> octroi - n. - In the Scottish Rite, the seven member sovereign council of a
>> Lodge of the Northern Jurisdiction. (Note: the council consisted of eight
>> members until the reforms of 1879.)
>> 
>> octroi - n. - (from oc troi, "against Troy") 1) A smuggler of arms to the
>> Greek rebels during the Greek Wars of Independence. 2) A young man given to
>> vain boasting. 3) A pretentious poet.
>> 
>> octroi - n. - An order of men at Athens, in the time of Pericles, who had
>> been proved by their mutual testimony to have ascended the Nile past the
>> Seventh Cataract to its source in the eternal ice of the Equatorial
>> mountains.
>> 
>> octroi - n. - 1) A concession or privilege granted by an absolute sovereign
>> and serving as a limitation on his authority. 2) a: A tax on commodities
>> brought into a town or city especially in certain European countries, a
>> municipal customs. b: The agency for collecting such a tax or the city
>> entrance at which it is collected.
>> 
>> Octroi - n. - The ruling council of the islands of the northern Aegean Sea,
>> during at least the Peloponnesian War (431–404 BCE); no remaining records
>> identify the full extent of its rule, but the name leads scholars to
>> conclude that it controlled at least the eight largest islands (Lesbos,
>> Chios (aka Scio), Lemnos, Samos, Thasos, Imbros (today Gökçeada), Icaria,
>> and Samothrace) of the region..
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>> 
>> joke definition: Octroi, proper noun. The eighth Deanna clone created by
>> Thomas Riker trying to recreate the transporter accident that created him.
>