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Latin terms
Bibere venenum in auro
To drink poison from a cup of gold
Verbatim
Cubitum eamus
Shall we go to bed together?
Fanfic terminology
Dead dove don't eat
Arts and literature
Fatal flaw
A fault, mistake, or weakness in something or someone that means they will certainly fail
Opheliac
Deus ex machina
An unexpected power or event saving a seemingly hopeless situation, especially as a contrived plot device in a play or novel.
Soliloquy
An act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers, especially by a character in a play.
Golden age
Star-crossed lovers
Death of the author
A literary theory that argues that the meaning of a text is not determined by the author's intention, but rather by the reader's interpretation.
Avant-garde
New and experimental ideas and methods in art, music, or literature.
Tragic hero
The central character of a play, film, etc., depicted as a noble figure who experiences a tragic downfall.
Prophetic perfect tense
Literary technique used in religious texts that describes future events that are so certain to happen that they are referred to in the past tense as if they had already happened.
TV tropes
Strangled by the red string
Mythology
Pandora's box
Ouroboros
Catholic imagery
Stigmata
A mark of disgrace associated with a particular circumstance, quality, or person.
Sin eater
Person who consumes a ritual meal in order to spirituality take on the [sins] of a deceased person. Sin-eaters, as a consequence, carried the sins of all people whose sins they had eaten; they were usually feared and shunned.
Requiem
Mass of the catholic church offered for the repose of the souls of the deceased, using a particular form of the Roman Missal.
Crown of thorns
One of the instruments of the Passion, employed by Jesus' captors both to cause him pain and to mock his claim of authority.
Sacrificial lamb
Metaphorical reference to a person or animal sacrificed for the common good.
Cain complex
A complex characterized by rivalry-competition and extreme envy or jealousy of a brother leading to hatred
Hypostasis
Divine liturgy
Eucharist
Christian rite. Christians believe that it was instituted by Jesus Christ at the Last Supper, the night before his crucifixion, giving his disciples bread and wine.
Theophagy
Divine madness
Unconventional, outrageous, unexpected, or unpredictable behavior linked to religious or spiritual pursuits.
Psychology | philosophy
Solipsism
Knowledge of anything outside one's own mind is unsure; the external world and other minds cannot be known and might not exist outside the mind.
Glass delusion
Hedgehog's dilemma
Metaphor about the challenges of human intimacy. It describes a situation in which a group of hedgehogs seek to move close to one another to share heat during cold weather, but they must remain apart, as they cannot avoid hurting one another with their sharp spines.
Pantheism
Sublimation
Mature type of defense mechanism, in which socially unacceptable impulses or idealizations are transformed into socially acceptable actions or behavior
Ship of theseus
Law terms
Amnesty
Music
Adagio
Arpeggio
The notes of a chord played in rapid succession, either ascending or descending
Reprise
Repetition or reiteration of the opening material later in a composition
