ETYMOLOGY
from Goemagot, the greatest of the British giants, according to Geoffrey of Monmouth;
altered after the biblical names Gog and Magog
EXAMPLE
“…Gogmagog was a geant · suiþe gret & strong
Vor aboute an twenti vet · me seiþ he was long …”
From: The Metrical Chronicle of Robert of Gloucester, c1325
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin oboedire (to obey) + -bilis (-ble)
EXAMPLE
“…though Spirits have nothing material in their nature which that fire should work upon, yet by the judgment of the Almighty Arbiter of the world, justly willing their torment, they may be made most sensible of pain, and, by the obedible submission of their created nature, wrought upon immediately by their appointed tortures; besides the very horrour which ariseth from the place whereto they are everlastingly confined?…”
From: Contemplations upon the Remarkable Passages in the Life of the Holy Jesus
By Joseph Hall, 1623
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin fallax: from fallere (to deceive) + -ity
EXAMPLE
“...saying that then it shall appear before his Counsell the great deceit fallaxity and crafty waies cast and invironed to destroy and holy to an nyntyssement of your honor for ever…”
From: The Berkeley Manuscripts
The Lives of the Berkeleys
Lords of the Honour, Castle and Manor of Berkeley
In the County of Gloucester, From 1066 to 1618
John Smyth, a1641
ETYMOLOGY
of uncertain origin; possibly imitative
EXAMPLE
“…for there is no more sullen beast, than a he drab. Ile make him pull his powting croscloath over his beetle browes for melancholie, and then my next booke, shall be Martin in his mubble fubbles…”
From: Pappe with a Hatchet:
Being a Reply to Martin Mar-prelate
By John Lyly, 1589
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin minac-, minax (threatening), from minae (threats) + -ax + -ous
EXAMPLE
“…or with a pleasant horrour and chilness look upon some silent Wood, or solemn shady Grove; whether the face of Heaven smile upon us with a chearfull bright azure, or look upon us with a more sad and minacious countenance, dark pitchy Clouds being charged with Thunder and Lightning to let fly against the Earth; whether the Aire be cool, fresh and healthful, or whether it be soultry, contagious and pestilential, so that while we gasp for life we are forc’d to draw in a sudden and inevitable Death…”
From: An Explanation of the Grand Mystery of Godliness
By Henry More, 1660
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin scrīpt-, past participial stem of scribere (to write) + -itious
EXAMPLE
“…DIDACTIC OPERATION, Delivery, oral or scriptitious, of these same portions of discourse…”
From: Chrestomathia
By Jeremy Bentham, 1815
‘Chrestomathic Tables. Table II’
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin contortuplicatus, from contortus (twisted together) + plicatus (folded)
EXAMPLE
“…Cruspini, who, in spite of his selfishness, is a shrewd dog, for a foreigner, says it is allowing to his violin; and he takes care that its influence shall not be wanting, for he eviscerates as much noise from its contortuplicated bowels, every day, as would disconcert a herd of swing remonstrating against a high wind…”
From: Thurlston Tales
“Grey Joan”
Robert Pierce Gillies, 1835
ETYMOLOGY
from in- + dexterous
EXAMPLE
“…An Issue must also be made with the hand of a skilfull Artist, for I have often observed from an indextrous way of making an Issue in the occiput a thousand mischiefs and death has followed: for if the Chirurgeon try to burn all the Skin with the Iron, I have often seen a Convulsion follow, and the child die of a most cruel death…”
From: Mercurius compitalitius;
Or, A Guide to the Practical Physician
By Theophill Bonet, 1684
ETYMOLOGY
a humorous use of Latin recumbentibus, ablative plural of recumbens, present participle of recumbere (recumb – to lean, recline, rest)
EXAMPLE
“…Ector sone to him gan take,
He thoght him venge of that wrake;
Ector bare his sword on hye,—
For he hadde no spere him bye,—
He ȝaff the kyng Episcropus
Suche a recumbentibus,
He smot In-two bothe helme & mayle,
Coleret and the ventayle…”
From: The Laud Troy Book;
an anonymous Middle English poem dealing with the background and events of the Trojan War, dating from around 1400
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin delicatudo, from Latin delicatus (delicate) + -tudo (-tude)
EXAMPLE
The delicatude of the first homemade meal he’d had for a long time will forever linger on in his memory.
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