{"id":11968,"date":"2017-09-28T08:35:49","date_gmt":"2017-09-28T13:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=11968"},"modified":"2017-09-28T08:35:49","modified_gmt":"2017-09-28T13:35:49","slug":"word-of-the-day-238","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/09\/28\/word-of-the-day-238\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Antediluvian<\/i>:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"gmail_quote\"><p>The\u00a0<b>Antediluvian<\/b>\u00a0(alternatively\u00a0<b>Pre-Diluvian<\/b>\u00a0or\u00a0<b>Pre-Flood<\/b>, or even\u00a0<b><a title=\"Tertiary\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tertiary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tertiary&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1506642925969000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGAKiyhFOKffnCS9HwpeiL5bXaSIg\">Tertiary<\/a><\/b>) period (meaning &#8220;before the deluge&#8221;) is the time period referred to in the\u00a0<a title=\"Bible\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bible\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bible&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1506642925969000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGDkA8CVBeDCutxtK5OKMugqs9O2w\">Bible<\/a>\u00a0between the\u00a0<a title=\"Fall of man\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fall_of_man\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fall_of_man&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1506642925969000&amp;usg=AFQjCNE18N2xTgn5rOp5EUGMJmsNn8lZjg\">fall of humans<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0<a class=\"m_-5822381397437773344gmail-mw-redirect\" title=\"Deluge myth\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Deluge_myth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Deluge_myth&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1506642925969000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHRjZnG9Vg3B7A8T4De-2UliiKYIg\">Noachian Deluge<\/a>\u00a0(the Genesis Flood) in the\u00a0<a title=\"Biblical cosmology\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Biblical_cosmology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Biblical_cosmology&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1506642925969000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEQCAcjtTQh0AvawANlZC-sl_1mdQ\">biblical cosmology<\/a>. The narrative takes up chapters 1\u20136 (excluding the flood narrative) of the\u00a0<a title=\"Book of Genesis\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Book_of_Genesis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Book_of_Genesis&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1506642925969000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEeBBR7VhFxBmStGhi0Wqp9S9qmYQ\">Book of Genesis<\/a>. The term found its way into early\u00a0<a title=\"Geology\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Geology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Geology&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1506642925969000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHEegr6KB2GJR0YFz95jhqpF94bMA\">geology<\/a>\u00a0and lingered in science until the late\u00a0<a title=\"Victorian era\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Victorian_era\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Victorian_era&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1506642925969000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHzWtIPbzzM2DjnmeiDG52j4ncBFg\">Victorian era<\/a>. Colloquially, the term is used to refer to any ancient and murky period.<i>\u00a0[<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Antediluvian\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Antediluvian&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1506642925969000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHT12RapqT95XfGf72Tm816AbEvgw\"><b>Wikipedia<\/b><\/a>]<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Used in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gocomics.com\/9chickweedlane\/2017\/09\/27\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=http:\/\/www.gocomics.com\/9chickweedlane\/2017\/09\/27&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1506642925969000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEeJHA3-BdDzT7l2si6h2_wtDgslQ\">this\u00a0<\/a><i><b>9 Chickweed Lane comic<\/b><\/i>.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"hi\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"ajx\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"gA gt acV\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Antediluvian: The\u00a0Antediluvian\u00a0(alternatively\u00a0Pre-Diluvian\u00a0or\u00a0Pre-Flood, or even\u00a0Tertiary) period (meaning &#8220;before the deluge&#8221;) is the time period referred to in the\u00a0Bible\u00a0between the\u00a0fall of humans\u00a0and the\u00a0Noachian Deluge\u00a0(the Genesis Flood) in the\u00a0biblical cosmology. The narrative takes up chapters 1\u20136 (excluding the flood narrative) of the\u00a0Book of Genesis. The term found its way into early\u00a0geology\u00a0and lingered in \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/09\/28\/word-of-the-day-238\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11968"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11969,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11968\/revisions\/11969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}