The Death of Fissiparous and Other Words: A Dictionary of Words & Phrases on the Verge of Extinction

Brigadoon

bri-ga-DOON

noun

an idyllic; timeless place

1982John CoyneHobgoblinThe Battleboard was an enchanted forest—a Brigadoon world where time stopped and could be played again.1999Nora RobertsJewels of the SunMaybe it was a kind of Brigadoon and she'd fumbled in during the wrong century.2000Jerome PreislerTom Clancy's Power Plays: Bio-StrikeHe didn't care whether the dope capital's name was Burma, Myanmar, or Brigadoon.

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gnosis

NO-suhs

noun

secret spiritual knowledge; knowledge of spiritual truths

1982John CoyneThe ShroudThe Gnostics believed that we can learn to know God by knowing ourselves. That's where they got their name: 'gnostic' comes from 'gnosis,' the Greek word for knowledge.1998Patrick TilleyMissionMan had to live and work in the 'Braxian world but, by liberating the Celestial power within himself through gnosis—the acquisition of self-knowledge—he could make it a better place to live in.

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