Word of the Day: CAPYOUS

ETYMOLOGY
from Latin capere (to take) + -ious

EXAMPLE
“… The wonderfullest and most meruaylous
That euer yet were seen tofore
Wherof no wyght by kynde is capyous
First how god to saue that was forlore
Lowly in erthe list to be bore
And how a mayde in hir virgynyte
Myght also chylde and a moder be …”

From: The Lyf of our Lady
By John Lydgate, 1484