
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin obtract-, past participial stem of obtractare,
variant of Latin obtrectare (to disparage) + ‑uous
EXAMPLE
“…and so made unlaufull assemble; and then and there the vayngloryouse Abbot of Eynesham callyd his seruants abowt hym and seid, How sey you, syrs? with obtractuouse words, and the vycar knoweth and can say yf he be a true man…”
From: Selections from the Record of the City of Oxford
Edited by William H. Turner, 1880
‘Proceedings in relation to certain Informations sent to the Privy Council by John Parkyns against the Abbots of Eynesham and Oseney’, Jan 18, 1537