A Conversation for The Failure of Christianity to Stand Up to Reason
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In Defence of Christians
plaguesville Posted Sep 26, 2000
Colonel, Sir,
Or,
the Compact Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary offers:
"... escorgier ... and this directly represents late Latin excoriare in the sense to skin by flogging."
late Latin isn't dated but as the empire disintegrated around 5th Century ...
There's a whole heap of words that have been incorporated into English since 13th Cent. Possibly 50% of the total?
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