ETYMOLOGY
from Old French prome, proesme, and Middle French proisme (near), also as (n.) a neighbour, from Latin proximus (nearest)
EXAMPLE
“… First sal ye luue god wid al yure herte and wid al yure saul and wid al yure uertu, And ti prome als ti-self; sua ah ye at do …”
From: Three Middle-English versions of the Rule of St. Benet, a1425
By Saint Benedict, Abbot of Monte Cassino.
Edited by Ernst Albin Kock
Early English Text Society edition, 1902
ETYMOLOGY
perhaps from coll (a fool, simpleton, dupe) + hardy,
though the dupe or simpleton is not exactly the type of the ‘hardy’ fool
EXAMPLE
“… Is this the profession of a Byshop? is this the Diuinitie of Osorius? Downe with that Pecockes tayle, away with this arrogancie: be no more so collhardy, and write hereafter more aduisedly, and take better regard to your penne, lest you bryng your name into odious contempt with all Christendome. …”
From: Against Ierome Osorius Byshopp of Siluane in Portingall and against his slaunderous inuectiues An aunswere apologeticall: for the necessary defence of the euangelicall doctrine and veritie,
By Walter Haddon and John Foxe
Translated by James Bell, 1581
ETYMOLOGY
of uncertain origin
n. 1. possibly from rig (a wanton girl or woman)
EXAMPLE (for adj. 1.)
“… As it is to be seene, namely at Rome, what reuenues and rents, that great and soueraign ruffian getteth by his whoores. And afterward of the drouning and killing of children, and secretly murthering, and casting in corners and ditches, as is vsually practised amongst these riggish and lecherous prelates. …”
From: Jan van der Noot’s Theatre, wherein be represented the miseries that follow the Voluptuous Worldings
By Jan van der Noot
Translated by Theodore Roest, 1569
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin blandiloquent-, blandiloquens (smooth-talking), from blandus (bland) + ‑loquens ‑loquent (speaking in an indicated manner)
EXAMPLE
“… Graunt to me no learning, Muses, thou Pagan Apollo,
Cynthia, with Charites, thou blandiloquent mery Pytho,
Mercury, with Sappho, Pallas nam’d also Minerva,
Graunt to me no favour: but thou, thou mightie Jejova,
Thou, Lord Emmanuel, Lord of celestial heaven,
Only God imperiall, to mee wretch terrestrial harken. …”
From: The First Booke of the Oreseruation of King Henry the vij. when he was but Earle of Richmond, grandfather to the Queenes maiesty, 1599
ETYMOLOGY
from the alleged characteristics of British Prime Minister, William Ewart Gladstone, 1809-1898
EXAMPLE
“… Before the capitalist proprietors woke up to our game and cleared us out, the competition of the Star, which was immensely popular under what I may call the Fabian regime, had encouraged a morning daily, the Chronicle, to take up the run¬ nings and the Star, when it tried to go back, found that it could not do so further than to Gladstonize its party politics. …”
From: Fabian Tract No. 41
The Fabian Society: It’s Early History
By G. Bernard Shaw, 1892
ETYMOLOGY
from brothel + ‑ous
EXAMPLE
“… I could show you the sharp Inuections, and grounded rea∣sons of many, as of Augstine, Hierome Chrisostome, Gregorie, Caluin, Peter Mar∣tyr, Gualter, and of an infinite number more: yea of all generally since the beginning of the world, against this whorish and brothellous painting and coulouring of faces, but to auoid prolixitie, I will omit them, deferring them to further oportunitie, for pauca sapienti, To a wiseman few woords are sufficient. …”
From: The Anatomie of Abuses
By Phillip Stubbes, 1583
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin inscius (not knowing, ignorant), (from in- + -scius (knowing)) + -ous
EXAMPLE
“… This they are willingly ignorant of. Hee begins with the Dunces, those stubborne and unruly Blockheads; inscious, nescious, conscious, wilfull Ignorants. It is one thing, velle scire quod oportuit latere; another, velle latere quod oportuit scire. The former, is a sawcie ambition of forbidden knowledge; the other, a headstrong preclusion of commanded knowledge. …”
From: A Commentary or, Exposition vpon the Diuine Second Epistle Generall, written by the Blessed Apostle St. Peter
By Thomas Adams, 1633
ETYMOLOGY
from dislike (adj.) + -en, after like, liken
EXAMPLE
“… Dis-mantle you, and (as you can) disliken
The truth of your owne seeming, that you may
(For I do feare eyes ouer) to Ship-boord
Get vndescry’d. …”
From: Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies
By Wiliam Shakespeare, 1632
The Winters Tale, a1616
ETYMOLOGY
vb. 1. 2. 4. from out- + braid (to make a sudden movement with the hand, etc.; to brandish a spear;. to deal a blow)
vb. 3. altered form of abraid (to reproach, to reprove)
EXAMPLE (for vb. 3.)
“… And for that this displeasour doth hym dere
His frende: he soone out-braydeth of the same
Hym-self (for malyce) drawynge by the here
So hath this fole by malyce and yll name
His rewarde lost for it rebuked and shame
And no meruayle: for no man that hath skyll
Shall thanke hym for goodnes done agaynst his wyll …”
From: The Shyp of Folys of the Worlde
By Alexander Barclay, 1509
ETYMOLOGY
from late Latin increpatorius (Sidonius), from participial stem of increpare (to increpate, to chide, to rebuke)
EXAMPLE
“… The power archbishop Loundres had as lord justice, and the pope’s legate, gave him the opportunity of encroaching on the rights of the crown and the liberties of the subject, by drawing temporal causes to the ecclesiastical courts, of which the citizens of Dublin complained to the king, who this year sent him an increpatory writ, prohibiting him front such practices for the future, with threats of severe treatment if he persisted. …”
From: The History and Antiquities of the City of Dublin,
From the Earliest Accounts
By Walter Harris, 1766
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