soft as peaches

So as you might have noticed the Mr Eaten account has been acting…. a little bit weird these past few days. Instead of the daily scheduled bot mix-match of words, the updates happen at certain points during the day and with new words and sentences. At first I thought it was just a new feed of word/information to the bot, but none of the words have been repeated. 

#iconique

Since I couldn’t understand some of the words, and I’m at home with post-EGX flu here is some research work into the terms Mr Eaten has been posting/referencing (will be updating this post with more as they are posted): 

(just posting text with links to the tweet and not screenshots to help the post loading on mobile)

“Skyme.”

This one is hard to find. All I could find (aside from apps) is that it’s both a name and a word from Yorkshire dialect meanign to “glance sideways scornfully” [x]

“Ensabled.”

@kizzerific has suggested: “ “Sable” is a term in heraldry for the color black, so I think “Ensabled” might mean “to make something black."”

“Albescent.”

“white or tending toward white” [x]

“Scolecite.”

This mineral: 

Crystal websites describe its properties as “helping with sleep” and “unlocks the messages inherent within dreams“

“Volpone.”

“Volpone (Italian for "sly fox”) is a comedy play by English playwright Ben Jonson first produced in 1605–06, drawing on elements of city comedy and beast fable.“ [x]

“Aurichalc.“

(latin) Aurichalcus means “brass” or “gold-colored” [x] "aurichalcite” is also yet another mineral, associated with calming fear

“Euclio.”

The main character in the play Aulularia by Titus Maccius Plautus. Quite similar in tone to Volpone, about a greedy old man that tries to protect his pot of gold. The play’s ending has been lost. [x]

“Subrubescence.“

The specific epithet subrubescens, "tinted reddish”, is derived from the Latin words sub (“less than”) and rubescens (“growing red”) [x] 

“Numen; o, numen.”

“Numen, pl. numina, is a Latin term for “divinity”, or a “divine presence”, “divine will."” [x] Possible coincidence, but the tweet itself is a quote from here

“Crypsis.”

“In ecology, crypsis is the ability of an animal to avoid observation or detection by other animals. It may be a predation strategy or an antipredator adaptation. Methods include camouflage, nocturnality, subterranean lifestyle and mimicry.” [x]

“Enodia, beseeched, consumed, ascendant.”

“Ennodia (also Enodia and Einodia) (Greek: Ἐννοδία, the one in the streets) was an ancient Greek goddess, identified in certain areas or by certain ancient writers with Artemis, Hecate or Persephone.“ [x]

“Scum-curved. Chrysm. O etiolation.“

“Chrism” is “ a consecrated oil used in the administration of certain sacraments and ecclesiastical functions.” [x] (searching for chrysm with a y, rediects to basically the same thing)

“Etiolation /iːtiəˈleɪʃən/ is a process in flowering plants grown in partial or complete absence of light. It is characterized by long, weak stems; smaller leaves due to longer internodes; and a pale yellow color “ [x] as a verb it means: 1: to bleach and alter the natural development of (a green plant) by excluding sunlight 2a: to make pale 2b: to deprive of natural vigor 2c: make feeble [x]

“Azoth’s emblem.“

“Azoth was considered to be a universal medication or universal solvent sought in alchemy." “ The Azoth or Universal Medicine is, for the soul, is supreme reason and absolute justice; for the mind, it is mathematical and practical truth; for the body it is the quintessence, which is a combination of gold and light.” [x] The emblem is either the Caduceus orrr… a seven-pointed star: 

“Medraut-kin. Criminous noir.”

Medraut is another name for Mordred [x]

Criminous: “ Of a person: guilty of a crime; criminal; (also) accused of a crime. Also as noun: (with the) guilty or criminal people as a class.” [x]

Noir: Black in french

“When Sumer. Winter. West in the World. Unroot the goddess-tongue.”

Sumer (with one m) is “ the earliest known civilization in the historical region of southern Mesopotamia, modern-day southern Iraq, during the Chalcolithic and Early Bronze ages, and arguably one of the first civilizations in the world along with Ancient Egypt and the Indus Valley.” [x] 

“Leave thee to thy rootless inquisition, concluding ‘Stay; not yet.’“

From Shakespeare’s The Tempest: 

MIRANDA You have often Begun to tell me what I am, but stopped And left me to a bootless inquisition, Concluding, “Stay. Not yet.” [x]

“Backward abysm. O end.”

From Shakespeare’s The Tempest:

PROSPERO   What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time?

and INTERESTINGLY continues: 

If thou rememberest aught ere thou camest here, How thou camest here thou mayst.

(which sounds like another version of “do you recall how you came to that place?”)

“here I abjure”

AGAIN from Shakespeare’s The Tempest:

“But this rough magic here abjure, and when I have required Some heavenly music, which even now I do” [x]

“Assume not that I am that thing I was” 

From Shakespeare’s Henry IV:

“Presume not that I am the thing I was, For God doth know—so shall the world perceive— That I have turned away my former self.” [x]    

“but will they come when we do call to them”

From Shakespeare’s Henry IV:

GLENDOWER  I can call spirits from the vasty deep. HOTSPUR     Why, so can I, or so can any man, But will they come when you do call for them? [x]

“Theridamas, beneath our crusted nails”

Theridamas is a character in Tamburlaine The Great a play in two parts by Christopher Marlowe.  Theridamas was Mycetes’ chief captain, sent to kill Tamburlaine. He is convinced to switch sides and becomes devoted to Tamburlaine. [x]