Nuts and Bolts: dox.

 To dox is to search for information about someone on the internet and then publish it, usually with malicious intent.

In the Good Old Days the word doxastic was to do with belief and the logic of belief, and a doxographer was someone who collected the opinions and theories of Greek philosophers.

These words are probably not completely safe to use, now.

Ah well. That's really not going to affect many of us, is it?

Word To Consider Today: dox. This is a shortened form of the word document, which comes from the Latin documentum, a lesson. The other dox words come from the Greek doxa, an opinion.