Where did we get the magic word abracadabra?
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The word Abracadabra comes from the Hebrew expression ‘I create as I speak.’ A variation of these words exist throughout the Jewish scriptures.
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Brilliant Question !\n\nI don't know but the word comes from the first two letters of Greek - alpha and beta
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Comes from the Latin "Aequanimitas"= "equanimity" (or according to merriam webster "evenness of mind under stress," with a secondary connotation of "balanced.")  Comes from the earlier Latin phrase "aequo animo" which means "even mind."\n\n\nThe "-ta" ending plus "te" ending adds the command "you be" to the root noun.  \n\nIn short, it's pronounced "e-qua-ni-mi-TA-te" and the whole means something like "Be even-minded."
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"According to Brewer's Names, there are two theories concerning the etymology of California. either that it was given by the Spanish conqueror of Mexico, Hernan Cortes for a mythical Greek island reigned over by a queen named Caliphia, or that it evolved from Spanish caliente fornalla, meaning 'hot furnace', alluding to the great heat of the sun here. It's believed the latter explanation is the more credible and likely arose as an attempt to explain the former. "
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It looks like it could be taken from Latin \n(1) ardua + astra ("lofty" or "difficult to reach" + "stars" or "heaven" {reminiscent of the motto per ardua ad astra} \n\nor (2) from ardere + astra ( "to blaze" + "stars")\n\nSo it could mean "blazing stars" or "lofty stars" unless the word is derived from something unrelated to Latin.
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It's Valencian, and it means "a very big kiss". \nYW
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supercalifragalistic- expialadocious  \n\nThere you go. :)
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it's from Carmina Burana by Carl Orff.  \n\ni think it's been used in almost every movie trailer with a big epic swordfight scene, and even a beer commercial (Rickard's Red)
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I once borrowed a book on witchcraft when I was 12 or 13.  It had a spell for good health that I tried.  I'll try to remember it for you.\n\nI had to write the word abracadabra in a triangle on a piece of paper:\n      a\n     br\n    aca\n   dabra\n\nThen I had to say a prayer, wrap the piece of paper in red flannel, and hide it under the pillow of the person I wished to have good health.\n\nI don't know if it worked or not but when my Mom, who was going through her Evangelical Christian phase, found it under her pillow I was in big trouble...lol.
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Lux Aeterna, it was also featured in the first preview for the Lord of the Rings the Two Towers and is used many car commercials.\n\nps some really good remixes are out there of this if you can find them ...think Paul Okenfield did a great sample of it..this music is very spinechilling in a beautiful trance type of way
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The first means something like "woah."\n\nCheck out the following link, which provides a helpful little cheatsheet.
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the numbdefinitionsix comes from a gematria \nfor the deffintion of gematria look under http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gematria \n\nthe holly name for G-d that is spelled yud hay vav hay has the gematria of 26
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apparently it means earth
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Its an anagram. ODYSSEY is what I came up with. Look at the top of all the pages, they are scattered about... pg 55, 89, 131, etc... Ill let you find the rest on your own. :)
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According to Wikipedia, origins of this saying are unknown.......
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It comes from "libra" which describes the Roman unit of mass that is equal to the pound.  A lot of these abbreviations tend to come from Roman/Latin roots which explains why they seem so weird.
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Belgarath the Sorceror, by David Eddings, has very specific instructions about using the Will and the Word.  Be prepared to study grass for a century, though.