Pronounced: oh-FEE-lee-uhn, adj
Notes: The origin is probably what you think, but do you know the meaning?
Yesterday’s word
The word procrustean is “marked by arbitrary often ruthless disregard of individual differences or special circumstances”
First usage
Our word came into English in the mid-1600s
Background / Comments
I was completely wrong about the origin of this word; I saw “crusty” in the word, and thought that was related to the word. Our word actually a character from Greek mythology: Procrustes was a villain defeated by Theseus. Procrustes was a robber who killed his victims by making them lie on a bed and cutting off parts that hung over the ends, or, if they were too short, by stretching them. Thus the word came to mean something that makes no allowance for individual differences.
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