noun. One who has scientific knowledge of lice.

Mineralogists, astronomers, ornithologists, and lousologists.
A memoir by Lady Holland, Sydney Smith (1835)

Of all the disrespected professions, lousologists are at the top of the list. Or perhaps the bottom. No one else devotes themselves so selflessly to the study of a creature that the rest of the world is trying to kill.

But seriously folks, it’s a seriously serious problem. Make sure to check yourself and your children for lice as often as humanly possible.

I think you know how much I love name-calling… this is a great word to use for that noble purpose. Call someone a lousologist, not because they study lice (who the heck does that anyway?), but because you don’t care what they do!

It might also be a good one to use when you meet people at a bar and need something silly to talk about. “What do I do? Oh, I’m a lousologist.”

noun. One who loves law.

His Bishop [Bp. Wren], that great Thesmophilist.
A discourse of proper sacrifice, Sir Edward Dering (1644)

Who among you loves law? Or any laws in particular?  … No one? How unexpected. I don’t even think most lawyers are thesmophilists. They know law because it’s their job, but love it? Nah.

Feel free to prove me wrong, I’m basing my comments on guesses and nothing else.

Thesmophilist could be easily used as a pejorative term. You know how much I love name-calling. Teach this one to your kids. “Okay honey, when the hall monitor threatens to tell on you, you just call him a dirty poo-poo thesmophilist and run away.”

noun. A form of government in which the power is vested in the simply numerical majority.

A ‘democracy’ of mere numbers is no democracy, but a mere brute ‘arithmocracy.’
Alton Locke, Charles Kingsley (1850)

I was worried this would mean a government run by math teachers. If I were in such a country I would leave as soon as possible, but not before I was forced at gunpoint to demonstrate my knowledge of the Pythagorean theorum.

If the country was ruled by the math teachers I had in high school, I’d probably be an enemy of the state.

It in fact is a government ruled by the simple majority (over 50 percent). The phrase “majority rules” would surely come into play more often. Though if the country is near evenly-split in ideals, the course of action would change every day based on who showed up each day.

Thank goodness for our checks and balances. And now I’m off to balance my checks…