{"id":25188,"date":"2016-08-31T08:05:42","date_gmt":"2016-08-31T15:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/franklycurious.com\/wp\/?p=25188"},"modified":"2016-09-15T18:29:19","modified_gmt":"2016-09-16T01:29:19","slug":"ablegate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/franklycurious.com\/wp\/2016\/08\/31\/ablegate\/","title":{"rendered":"Odd Words: Ablegate"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"CardinalAfter the first page of The New York Times Everyday Reader’s Dictionary of Misunderstood, Misused, and Mispronounced Words: Revised Edition<\/em><\/a>, I thought these Odd Words posts would be easy! (Well, not easy<\/em>; creating the definitions with all the odd characters is actually rather hard.) But then I flipped the page and there were only two words I didn’t know.<\/p>\n

The one I didn’t go for was “abulia” which is a mental disorder characterized by a loss of willpower. But that one hits a little too close to home. Also, I don’t really see it as a disorder. Schopenhauer would doubtless have called it a rational response to the absurdity of existence. I work obsessively, and that strikes me as far more of a disorder. So let us say no more about it.<\/p>\n

Today’s word, as you may have guessed, has something to do with the Catholic Church. Unfortunately, I could find no pictures of an actual ablegate. So we are stuck with Cardinal George Pell. What’s important about the image is what it doesn’t<\/em> contain.<\/p>\n

Ab·le·gate<\/strong>  noun<\/em>  \\ab’-lə-gət\\<\/p>\n

1. a papal envoy to newly appointed cardinals or civil dignitaries.<\/p>\n

Date: early 19th century.<\/p>\n

Origin: it could be from the French word abl\u00e9gat<\/em> or the Latin ableg\u0101re<\/em>. As far as I know, both these words mean “ablegate.”<\/p>\n

Example: It turns out that Francis was upset not because he gets yanked on day in and day out by people looking for a quick blessing, but because this particular puller almost knocked the supreme pontiff onto a wheelchair-bound man during an open-air mass in Morella, Mexico. I guess you could call the whole thing a dis-ablegate! (Papal pun!)<\/em> —Lindsey Ellefson<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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