"timelord"

[Jonathon Green]

Jonathan Lighter wrote:

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>"Timelord" : a master time traveler; one who can control time.
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>http://www.nature.com/news/2005/050711/full/050711-4.html :
>"Unfortunately for eager time lords, physicists have never seen anything like this."
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>Over 100,000 Googits, most written solid.  See esp. the works of D. Adams, though the word may well be older.
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>JL
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Adams may use it, but the locus classicus is the BBC-TV series Dr. Who
(mid-1960s et seq.) The 'Doctor' is himself a timelord, and the series
charts his adventures, usually alongside a pulchritudinous assistant,
and pitted primarily against the evil Daleks.

JG