Word of the Day for Wednesday, November 2, 2011
metempirical \met-em-PIR-i-kuhl\, adjective:
1. Beyond or outside the field of experience.
2. Of or pertaining to metempirics.
There were, and still are, those that said electing a metempirical President fresh out of the trenches of the community activists, agitators, insurgents, insurrectionists, malcontents, mutineers, nihilists, rebels, revolters, revolutionaries, terrorists, and anarchists didn't really matter; after all, they mused, who really has experience as the President of the United States prior to their taking office; well, the B.O. has shown conclusively why it is so important to have had executive experience, held an actual job, run a company or a state or even a city, and to actually believe in and uphold the Constitution of the United States as it was written!
--Spy Maker, JSA's Blog
...but the quality of her innate wit had deepened, strange “metempirical” (as Van called them) undercurrents seemed to double internally, and thus enrich, the simplest expression of her simplest thoughts.-- Vladimir Nabokov, Ada, or Ardor, a Family Chronicle
Still however, instead of aspiring to becoming rigorous and metempirical, poetry lives by the heart, the sense and singing.-- Kahlil Gibran with Andrew Dib Sherfan, The Third Treasury of Kahlil Gibran
Metempircal derives from the Greek words met- meaning “beyond or before” and empirical meaning “experience.”
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