Akismet is a comment spam filtering service. The name Akismet comes from Automattic and Kismet. Auttomatic is the company behind Akismet, and it was founded by the WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg. Akismet catches blog comment and pingback spam using their algorithms. This algorithm learns from its mistakes and from the actions taken by participating websites.
DEFINITION of 'Appurtenance'. 1. A legal term denoting the attachment of a right or property to a more worthy principal. Appurtenance occurs when the attachment becomes part of the property such as a furnace or air conditioning unit. 2. An object or privilege associated with status, title or affluence.
A revenant is a visible ghost or animated corpse that was believed to return from the grave to terrorize the living.The word revenant is derived from the Latin word, reveniens, returning (see also the related French verb revenir, meaning to come back).Vivid stories of revenants arose in Western Europe (especially Great Britain, and were later carried by Anglo-Norman invaders to Ireland) during the High Middle Ages.everal stories state that revenants drink blood. For example, in Historia rerum Anglicarum the corpse of one revenant is reported to have been found in the grave, swollen and suffused with blood. When it was pierced, a stream of blood flew out of the wound.