The giving of orders by someone who has complete authority
1: a command or act of will that creates something without (or as if without) further effort
2: an authoritative determination
3: an authoritative or arbitrary order
Latin, let it be done, 3rd singular present subjunctive of fieri to become, be done
A legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge)
A gambit (from ancient Italian gambetto, meaning "to trip") is a chess opening in which a player, more often White, sacrifices material, usually a pawn, with the hope of achieving a resulting advantageous position. Gambits are often said to be offered to an opponent, and that offer is then said to be either accepted or declined. If a player who is offered a gambit captures the piece (and thus gains material) the gambit is said to be accepted. If the player who was offered the gambit ignores it and instead continues to develop his pieces, then the gambit is said to be declined.
The word "gambit" was originally applied to chess openings in 1561 by Spanish priest Ruy López de Segura, from an Italian expression dare il gambetto (to put a leg forward in order to trip someone). López studied this maneuver, and so the Italian word gained the Spanish form gambito that led to French gambit, which has influenced the English spelling of the word. The broader sense of "opening move meant to gain advantage" was first recorded in English in 1855.
"Gambit" is also sometimes used to describe similar tactics used by politicians or business people in a struggle with rivals in their respective fields.
A remark made to open or redirect a conversation.
In 1656, a chess handbook was published that was said to have almost a hundred illustrated "gambetts." That early spelling of "gambit" is close to the Italian word, gambetto, from which it is derived. "Gambetto" was used for an act of tripping-especially one that gave an advantage, as in wrestling. The original chess gambit is an opening in which a bishop's pawn is sacrificed to gain some advantage, but the name is now applied to many other chess openings.
Borrowed from Spanish gambito, borrowed from Italian gambetto, literally, "act of tripping someone," from gamba "leg" (going back to Late Latin) + -etto, diminutive suffix
1. To disguise or conceal something.
2. To feign.
3. To deliberately ignore something; to pretend not to notice.
4. To falsely hide one's opinions or feelings.
Dissemble (from Latin dissimulare, meaning "to hide or conceal") stresses the intent to deceive, especially about one's own thoughts or feelings, and often implies that the deception is something that would warrant censure if discovered.
To dissemble is to hide under a false appearance, to deceive. Dissemble is a little more complicated than a straight lie or denial. When you dissemble, you disguise your true intentions or feelings behind a false appearance. To dissemble is to pretend that you don't know something, to pretend that you think one way when you act another way.
1. The property of seeming true, of resembling reality; resemblance to reality, realism.
2. A statement which merely appears to be true.
3. (fiction) Faithfulness to its own rules; internal cohesion.
Verisimilitude comes from the Latin verisimilitudo "likeness to truth" and is used to describe stories.
The theory of verisimilitude comes from a Platonic and Aristotelian dramatic theory called “mimesis.” According to this theory, a work of art should convince the audience by imitating and representing nature, and having a basis in reality. The playwright, conforming to the above-mentioned theory, had to draw themes from sources well-known to the common people of his time, and maintain the unities of action, place, and time. Besides, he had to bring a realistic union between the style and the subject.
The theory of verisimilitude leads to the idea of “suspension of disbelief,” or “willing suspension of disbelief,” a term coined in 1817 by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. He was of the opinion that, if a writer was able to fill his work with a “human interest and a semblance of truth,” the readers would willingly suspend or delay their judgment in relation to the doubtfulness of a narrative.
- now the next move's up to me*What happened to 2019? My mind is falling apart and I don't remember anything of significance this year. A fatalism has taken hold of me and I accept what I'm told, things for the way they are. Of all the famous deaths this year, none surprised me, not one shook me out of my complacency. They could all have died years ago for the difference it would have made in my life. Or maybe some of them should have died years ago, but somehow...
Bob Einstein aka Super Dave Osborne
Luke Perry
Dick Dale
Peter Mayhew
Dr John
Rip Torn
Rutger Hauer
