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Word of the Day for Monday, April 6, 2009aegis \EE-jis\, noun: 1. Protection; support. It is this ideal of the human under the aegis of something higher which seems to me to provide the strongest counterpressure against the fragmentation and barbarization of our world. A third round of talks is scheduled to begin on May 23rd in New York under the aegis of the United Nations. In real life, Lang's father was commercially astute and fantastically hardworking, and under his aegis the construction business flourished. Aegis derives from the Greek aigis, the shield of Zeus, from aix, aig-, "a goat," many primitive shields being goatskin-covered. | |||||||||
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