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To: Kevin Podsiadlik who wrote (7556)	3/9/2005 7:19:12 PM
From: yardslave	Respond to of 12465

6 entries found for tortuous. tor·tu·ous ( P ) Pronunciation Key (tôrch-s) adj. Having or marked by repeated turns or bends; winding or twisting: a tortuous road through the mountains. Not straightforward; circuitous; devious: a tortuous plot; tortuous reasoning. Highly involved; complex: tortuous legal procedures. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Middle English, from Anglo-Norman, from Latin tortusus, from tortus, a twisting, from past participle of torqure, to twist. See terkw- in Indo-European Roots.] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- tortu·ous·ly adv. tortu·ous·ness n. Usage Note: Although tortuous and torturous both come from the Latin word torqure, “to twist,” their primary meanings are distinct. Tortuous means “twisting” (a tortuous road) or by extension “complex” or “devious.” Torturous refers primarily to torture and the pain associated with it. However, torturous also can be used in the sense of “twisted” or “strained,” and tortured is an even stronger synonym: tortured reasoning. [Download or Buy Now] Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. tor·tu·ous (tôrch-s) adj. Having many turns; winding or twisting. Source: The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. Main Entry: tor·tu·ous Pronunciation: 'torch-(&-)w&s Function: adjective : marked by repeated twists, bends, or turns <a tortuous blood vessel> —tor·tu·os·i·ty /'tor-ch&-'wäs-&t-E/ noun plural -ties —tor·tu·rous·ly adverb Source: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc. tortuous tortuous was Word of the Day on September 12, 1999. Source: Dictionary.com Word of the Day tortuous adj 1: highly involved or intricate; "the Byzantine tax structure"; "convoluted legal language"; "convoluted reasoning"; "intricate needlework"; "an intricate labyrinth of refined phraseology"; "the plot was too involved"; "a knotty problem"; "got his way by labyrinthine maneuvering"; "Oh, what a tangled web we weave"- Sir Walter Scott; "tortuous legal procedures"; "tortuous negotiations lasting for months" [syn: Byzantine, convoluted, intricate, involved, knotty, labyrinthine, tangled] 2: marked by repeated turns and bends; "a tortuous road up the mountain"; "winding roads are full of surprises"; "had to steer the car down a twisty track" [syn: twisting, twisty, winding] 3: not straightforward; "his tortuous reasoning"

To: Kevin Podsiadlik who wrote (7556)	3/9/2005 8:38:39 PM
From: Jeffrey S. Mitchell	Respond to of 12465

Speaking of tortuous material... According to Zwebner: "This court has the ability to enforce this injunction against the Defendants and against any person or entity which has notice of this injunction which aid and/or assist either Defendant in violating this injunction. See... US v. Hall, 472 F.2d 261 (5th Cir. 1973) [sic] (Holding courts of equity have inherent jurisdiction to preserve their ability to render judgment between original parties, and those who disrupt it.) " Uh, yeah, sure US v. Hall applies to message board postings. In United States v. Hall, 472 F.2d 261 (5th Cir. 1972), then-district judge Gerald Bard Tjoflat held defendant Hall in contempt for violating a desegregation order that (among other things) restricted access to a high school campus after racial unrest at the school. The court of appeals affirmed and held that “the activities of persons contributing to racial disorder at [the school] imperiled the court’s fundamental power to make a binding adjudication between the parties properly before it,” thus justifying holding Hall in contempt of the district court’s injunction even though he was not acting in concert or participation with a party. Id. at 265. 209.157.64.200 ROFL! - Jeff