The AFI Dictionary

[Shay]

If you like to do song interpretations (as you all know, I love to) or just want to better understand the music of AFI, this will really help you out. It will let you see into Davey's mind and understand just how brilliant he is and where he is coming from. Also, this will definitely aid you in better comprehending the boys. Most of this was posted on the old board (on 4-9-04 by Caspian) and I thought that those of you who didn't see it or missed it would like to see it again because I love you guys. If any of you can help with the missing words, please email me ( FallenFate066@aol.com) or post. Thanks and enjoy


'Roids - refers to anabolic steroids. Hormone commonly used to increase muscle mass
Abject - brought in low condition or status, being of the most contemptible kind
Accede - to arrive at or come into an office or dignity: accede to the throne
Affluence - a plentiful supply of material goods; wealth
Alighieri, Dante - poet born in the 1200s. A line from his famous epic 'Inferno', was used in Midnight Sun (beyond and to all time, I stand)
Alleviate - to make (pain for example) more bearable; a drug that alleviates cold symptoms
Amaranth - any of various annuals of the genus amaranthus having dense green or reddish clusters of tiny flowers and including several weeds, ornamentals, and food plants; an imaginary flower that never fades
Anathema - a formal ecclesiastical ban, curse, or excommunication
Anesthetize - make unconscious by means of anesthetic drugs
Anguish - agonizing physical or mental pain
Animosity - bitter hostility or open enmity; active hatred
Apathy - lack of interest or concern, especially regarding matters of general importance or appeal
Apex - the highest point; the point of culmination
Arid - lacking interest or feeling; lifeless and dull
Arsenic - a very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms; arsenic and arsenic compounds are used as herbicides and insecticides and various alloys
Ascension - the act of ascending; a rising; ascent
Asphyxiate - suffocate or smother
Aspiration - a strong desire for high achievement; an ambition
Assimilate - to bring to a likeness or to conformity; to cause a resemblance between
Avail - to be of use or advantage to
Banality - something that is trite, obvious, or predictable; a commonplace
Baudelaire, Charles - French poet born in the 1800s. A translated and edited version of his poem, De Profundis Clamavi, makes up the whispering in Midnight Sun
Bic - brand name of disposable lighter
Blasphemy - an irreverent or impious act, attitude, or utterance in regard to something considered with high honor
Bleak - gloomy or somber; unsheltered and barren
Callousness - emotionally hardened; unfeeling
Catharsis - a purifying or figurative cleansing of the emotions, especially pity and fear; a release of tension
Celluloid - a colorless flammable material used to make photographic film; of or portrayed on film or in motion pictures
Cessation - A bringing or coming to an end; a ceasing
Charles Atlas - legendary body builder 'The worlds most perfect man'
Chipper - in lively spirits; cheerful
Chrysanthemum - Eurasian plant with flower heads. A 'Chrysanthemum of white' is a symbol of truth
Cinder - a partly charred or burned substance that can burn further but without a flame
Cinematic - of or pertaining to or characteristics of cinema or films
Clandestine - conducted with secrecy; withdrawn from public notice
Clove - to split with (or as if) with a sharp instrument; to pierce or penetrate
Commodity - something useful that can be turned into commercial or other advantage
Coy - tending to avoid people and social situations
Deify - to make a god of; raise to the condition of a god; to idealize; exalt
Demonomania - a form of madness in which the patient convinces themselves possessed of demons
Disassociate - to disconnect from things associated
Discarnate - having no material body or form
Disdain - to treat contemptuously; to look on with scorn
Disown - to refuse to acknowledge or accept one's own
Dispel - to rid one's mind of; to drive away
Dissipate - to attenuate to or almost to the point of disappearing
Effigy - a crude figure of dummy representing a hated person or group; a likeness or image
Elation - an exhilarating psychological state of pride and optimism
Elegy - a poem expressing sorrow and lamentation for one who is dead
Eloquence - having the power to speak fluently and persuasively; vividly expressive
Emanate - to come or send forth, as from a source
Enamor - to inspire with love, captivate
Enmity - mutual hatred
Enthralled - to fascinate
Epic - an extended narrative or poem in elevated or dignified language, celebrating the feats of a legendary or traditional hero
Eradicate - to get rid of as if by tearing up the roots
Excoriation - an abraded area where the skin is torn or worn off
Exsanguination - to drain of blood
Faction - a group of people forming a cohesive, usually contentious minority within a larger group
Falter - to be unsteady in purpose or action; as from loss of courage or confidence
Fester - to undergo decay; rot; to be or become an increasing source of irritation or poisoning
Filigree - delicate, lace like ornamental work
Fray - to strain; wear away by rubbing
Futility - the quality of having no useful result; uselessness
Habitation - a place of residence
Imbrue - to drench something
Immaculate - impeccably clean; spotless
Impend - about to occur
Impermissible - not permitted; not allowable

[Shay]

Implore - to call upon (or for) in supplication
Inanimate - not having the qualities of life
Incarnate - embodied in human form; personified
Indelibly - cannot be removed; incapable of being lost or forgotten
Inept - displaying a lack of judgment, sense or reason; foolish
Infatuation - a foolish, unreasonable passion or attraction
Ingest - to take into the body by mouth for digestion or absorption
Ingrain - to fix deeply or indelibly, as in the mind
Innate - inborn; not acquired
Intimate - very close in friendship or affection
Lucid - type of dream where one is aware they are dreaming
Maelstrom - a violent or turbulent situation
Malevolence - malicious behavior
Malignant - showing great malevolence; disposed to do evil
Malleus Maleficarum - Latin, translates to 'hammer of witches/evil doers
Mirth - gladness, especially when expressed by laughter
Miseria Cantare - Latin, translates to 'Sing the Sorrow' Spanish, translates to '(of) sorrow I sing'
Monolithic - total uniformity
Nephilim - giants; mighty men (Gen. 6:4; Num. 13:33, R.V.)
Omnipotence - having unlimited or universal power or authority (one who has such power? a god.)
Pallor - lacking color; paleness
Pantomime - the telling of a story without words, by means of body movements, gestures and facial expressions
Paradigm - a set of assumptions, concepts, values and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality for the community that shares them, especially in an intellectual discipline
Perambulate - to walk before
Phoenix - a bird in Egyptian mythology that lived in the desert for 500 years and then consumed itself by fire, later to rise renewed from it's ashes; a person or thing of unsurpassed excellence or beauty

[Shay]

Porphyria Cutanea Tarda - a skin disease where affected individuals develop fragile skin, sores, blisters, and tiny cysts. Some people develop mottled brown patches around the eyes. Also, skin becomes hardened on the neck, face or chest. There may be small areas of permanent baldness or ulcers. Commonly called 'The Vampire's Disease.'
Preternatural - transcending the natural or material order; supernatural
Rapturous - carried away by emotion
Refrain - to hold oneself back
Reiver - medieval Anglo-Saxon clan
Reprimand - to censure severely; rebuke
Requiem - mass for a deceased person
Resplendence - splendid or dazzling in appearance; brilliant
Seethe - to be in a state of turmoil or ferment, to churn or boil as if boiling
Serum - The clear yellowish fluid obtained upon separating whole blood into it's solid and liquid components after it has been allowed to clot
Shard - a fragment of a brittle substance, as of glass or metal; a small piece
Solace - comfort in sorrow, misfortune, or distress; consolation
Solidarity - A union of interests, purposes, or sympathies among members of a group
Somnambulate - to walk or perform another act while asleep or in a sleep like condition
Sovereignty - supremacy of authority or rule
Stagnate - to be motionless
Stark - extreme; harsh; grim
Static - having no motion; to be at rest
Strewn - to spread, cast or throw loosely about
Subdue - to make less intense or prominent; tone down
Sublime - characterized by nobility; majestic; of high spiritual, moral, or intellectual worth.
Not to be excelled; supreme
Sustenance - the supporting of life or health
Synesthesia - a condition in which one type of simulation evokes the sensation of another, hearing a sound produces the visualization of a color
Taint - to spoil or pollute
Tangible - possible to touch, having actual physical being, able to be detected by touch
Tome - one of the books in a work of several volumes. A book, especially a large or scholarly one.
Torrential - flowing or surging abundantly
Transference - in psychoanalysis, the process by which emotions and desires originally associated with one person, such as parent or sibling are unconsciously shifted to another person, especially to the analyst
Va tu faire foutre - French, translates to 'go fuck yourself'
Vantage - a position, condition, or opportunity that is likely to provide superiority or an advantage
Veer - to turn aside from course, direction or purpose
Vivacity - liveliness
Wester - a strong wind coming from the west
Wraith - an apparition of a living person that appears as a portent, just before that persons death
Wry - dryly humorous, often with a touch of irony
Y regreso aqui otra vez y comienzo to - Spanish, translates to- 'return here again and begin to..'
Yo he estado aqui muchas veces antes y regreso to - Spanish, translates to 'I have been here too many times before and I return to...'
Yurf Rendenmein - worn pun, 'your friend and mine'

[Basthet]

...wow...

[captain stimpy]

cool.
















I read what the spanish thing was and..... thats it. I'll go back later.

-captain stimpy

[Shay]

cool.
















I read what the spanish thing was and..... thats it. I'll go back later.

-captain stimpy

Heh.. well, it's kinda spanglish.

[extinctfire336]

thats awesome. im too stupid to think of that stuff, but man, your one skilled cookie.

[exquisite-one]

thanks for posting this. i had started my own little "vocabulary" project in one of my many AFI books and a lot of thw words were not in my dictionaries. thanks again.

[LuckyStar]

wow, that is one helluva list...Jade Rox!

[ifelintofntasy06]

Thanks dude you have spared me the inconvenience of looking through the dictionary over and over again