Word of the Day: HYPEROCHALITY


ETYMOLOGY
from Greek ὑπέροχος (eminent, distinguished) + -al + -ity


EXAMPLE
“…correspondent to the Iron-Age of Prelats, so plague the Metropoliticality of York and Canterbury, and the Hyperocality of all the other Prelats, as I will never leave them, till I have sent them to the place where the two Fulmina Belli, Alexander the Great cries Mustard and Green Sauce, and where Julius Caesar plays Plato’s Ratcatcher…”

From: The Letany of Doctor Bastwick
By John Bastwick, 1637

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