Word of the Day for Thursday October 6, 2005 sempiternal \sem-pih-TUR-nuhl\, adjective: Of never ending duration; having beginning but no end; everlasting; endless. In all the works on view, Mariani conjures a sempiternal realm that exists parallel to mundane reality and which is accessible through art, reverie and the imagination. --Gerard Mccarthy, "Carlo Maria Mariani at Hackett-Freedman," [1]Art in America, September 1999 This is a sempiternal truth for institutions of high prestige. Someone will pay (almost) anything for Ivy-ish credentials. --Dennis O'Brien, "A 'Necessary' of Modern Life?" [2]Commonweal, March 28, 1997 Finally, Syon's orchards are the world as our imagination would like it to be -- not wilderness, since orchards are after all planted and cultivated by farmers, but a sempiternal and ideal region of the mind. --Thomas L. Jeffers, "That which sustains us," [3]Commentary, June 2002 _________________________________________________________ Sempiternal comes from Medieval Latin sempiternalis, from Latin sempiternus, a contraction of semperaeternus, from semper, "always" + aeternus, "eternal." Synonyms: enduring, eternal, everlasting, perpetual. [4]Find more at Thesaurus.com. References 1. http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/ 2. http://commonwealmagazine.org/ 3. http://www.commentarymagazine.com/ 4. http://thesaurus.reference.com/search?q=sempiternal Dictionary.com Entry and Pronunciation http://dictionary.reference.com/search?r=9&q=sempiternal