http://www.wordz.in/blog A word a day keeps ignorance at bay!® Fri, 08 Jan 2010 12:40:36 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 http://www.wordz.in/blog/2009/07/desultory/ http://www.wordz.in/blog/2009/07/desultory/#comments Mon, 20 Jul 2009 18:02:54 +0000 admin http://www.wordz.in/blog/?p=47 Desultory – marked by lack of definite plan, regularity, or purpose. Roman circus-riders who used to leap from one horse to another were called desultores; hence used figuratively in Latin to mean an inconstant person, or one who went from one thing to another; and desultory thus means ‘after the manner of a desultor’ (Lat: desilio, leap down,alight)

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