Defenestration: to throw something or someone out of a high window, hence the term, "out the window" The most famous defenestration was the Defenestration of Prague, when Protestants threw the Catholic emissaries out of the castle window, starting the Thirty Years War. Defenestration was also a favorite form of execution of Bohemia. It is conjectured that statesman Anton Masaryk was executed by the Communist Party by being thrown out the third story of the Czernin Palace.
These days,
throwing something out the window is to eradicate or nullify it. We
throw things "out the window" every day: a diet, an idea, a promise. An
oath.
Like the Hippocratic Oath.
These days, doctors are no longer required to take the Hippocratic Oath. That's primarily because the Oath has evolved to suit a society's needs and a culture's norms. For example, the original Oath started thusly:
I swear by Apollo, the healer, Asclepius, Hygieia, and Panacea, and I take to witness all the gods, all the goddesses, to keep according to my ability and my judgment, the following Oath and agreement:
The classic:
I swear by Apollo the Physician and Asclepius and Hygieia and Panaceia and all the gods, and goddesses, making them my witnesses, that I will fulfill according to my ability and judgment this oath and this covenant:
The modern version:
I swear to fulfill, to the best of my ability and judgment, this covenant:
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