A Brief History of New City. New City and Rockland County both came to be formed in 1798 when Rockland County was split from Orange County. With the formation of the new county of Rockland, there was a need for a county seat of government.
An AbEnd (also abnormal end or abend) is an abnormal termination of software, or a program crash. This usage derives from an error message from the IBM OS/360, IBM zOS operating systems. Usually capitalized, but may appear as abend. It is jocularly claimed to be derived from the German word Abend meaning evening.
To obtund is to dull or lessen the pain of something. If your senses have been obtunded, you are probably pretty out of it. The verb obtund is rare today, used mainly in medical terminology, and usually in the form of the adjective obtunded. It's been around since about 1400, meaning to make dull or to make less sensitive, and rooted in the Latin obtundere, to blunt or weaken, or literally to beat against..