Word of the Day: OFFENCIOUS

ETYMOLOGY
from offence (an illegal act) + -ious

EXAMPLE
“…Retes
Tis Ramus, the Kings professor of Logick.

Guise,
Stab him.

Ramus.
O good my Lord, wherein hath Ramus been so offencious.

Guise.
Marry sir, in hauing a smack in all,
And yet didst neuer sound any thing to the depth.
Was it not thou that scoftes the Organon,
And said it was a heape of vanities?
He that will be a flat decotamest,
And seen in nothing but Epetomies:
Is in your iudgment thought a learned man….”

From: The Massacre at Paris:
With the Death of the Duke of Guise
By Christopher Marlowe, a1593