ETYMOLOGY
from Latin anser (goose) + -ous
EXAMPLE
“…Can any one be so anserous as to suppose, that the faculties of young men cannot be exercised, and their industry and activity called into proper action, because Mr. Hamilton teaches, in three or four years, what has (in a more vicious system) demanded seven or eight?…”
From: The Edinburgh Review, June, 1826
Hamilton’s Method of Teaching Languages
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