29th June 2003, 11:42 PM
Ah, well I just broke the word down to it's component parts to define it. Doing that, it does just mean fear. But, languages change (stupid Babel curse...), so as such words change to stuff beyond their original meaning.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)