ETYMOLOGY
from Latin luculentus, from luc-, lux (light)
EXAMPLE
“…Trie out the grape vnhurt, neither to ripe
Neither to sowre, as gemmys luculent,
Of soft and hard as goodly is to gripe…”
From: The Middle-English translation of Palladius De Re Rustica
ETYMOLOGY
from trouble (n.) + -y or -ly
EXAMPLE (for adj. 1.)
“…Mvsyng vpon the restles bisynesse
Which that this troubly world hath ay on honde,
That othir thyng than fruyt of byttirnesse
Ne yeldeth nought, as I can vndirstonde,
At Chestre ynnë, right fast be the stronde,
As I lay in my bed vp-on a nyght,
Thought me bereft of sleep with force and myght…”
From: De Regimine Principum (The Governance of Kings and Princes)
By Thomas Hoccleve. c1412
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin celeripedem (swift-footed),
(from celer (swift) + pedem (foot)) + -ean
EXAMPLE
“…with a decutient shrug of his stooped shoulders, as tho to desarcinate himself of funebrous thoughts, departed at a pace very different from the celeripedean gait of pristine years …”
From: American Speech, Volume 2
Edited by Arthur Garfield Kennedy, Kemp Malone, Louise Pound, William Cabell Greet, 1927
ETYMOLOGY
of obscure origin;
perhaps allied to eekfow (blithe, having an affable demeanour)
EXAMPLE
“…I ne’er weas ca’ad a crankous kimmer,
A crabbed, craiken, crack-brained limmer.
Auld grannie ay was eckle feckle –
Nor hogry mogry, nor kenspeckle –
Ay ready for a couthie clacky,
A pint o’ yill, a bit o’ baccy…”
From: Willie Wabster’s Wooing and Wedding on the Braes of Angus
By Dorothea M. Ogilvy, Julia O. Robertson, 1873
ETYMOLOGY
n. 1. : from quill (a small pipe or tube) + -er
n. 2. : from quill (to form into small cylindrical plaits or folds resembling a quill) + -er
EXAMPLE
“…Epi. O sir your chinne is but a quyller yet, you will be most maiesticall when it is full fledge. But I maruell that you loue Dipsas that olde Crone…”
From: Endimion, The Man in the Moone
By John Lyly, 1591
ETYMOLOGY
from be- + gab (to impose upon)
EXAMPLE
“…And wend [þat] he begabbit had bene Be wesch-crafte…”
From: Legends of the Saints in the Scottish dialect of the fourteenth century
St. Clemens c1375
ETYMOLOGY
from Old French faillance, from faillir (to almost do something, to fail)
EXAMPLE
“…but when you come to Exercise the whole company ioyned, you may at some times for your owne satissaction in the more ready & gracefull performance of them, command the Postures to bee done by the whole number at once, with such pawse betweene euery Posture, as may afford you meanes to discerne any faylance therein: but whensoeuer you skirmish you shall vse no more of direction then,
1. Make Ready.2. Present.3. Giue Fyre…”
From: The Compleat Gentleman, fashioning him absolute in the most necessary & commendable qualities concerning minde or bodie that may be required in a noble gentleman
By Henry Peacham, 1627
ETYMOLOGY
from Old French orafle (giraffe),
from Arabic zarāfa , zurāfa (giraffe)
EXAMPLE
“…Þere also be many bestes þat ben clept Orafles, In Arabye þei ben clept Gerfauntz, þat is a best pomelee or spotted…”
From: Mandeville’s Travels, a1425
Edited by Paul Hamelius, 1919
ETYMOLOGY
from neighbour (n.) + -ize
EXAMPLE
“…We thought we’d just neighbourise, and happen in to hear what it says…”
From: The Bread of Tears
By George Brown Burgin, 1899
ETYMOLOGY
Middle English, from Old English handhwīl,
from hand, hond (hand) + hwīl (while);
originally alluding to the short span of a handbreadth
EXAMPLE
“…Thou semste (quoth the spider) a costerde monger.
Conscience euery handwhile thou doste cry.
I muste (quoth the flie) se sum token stronger.
Ere I can suppose you of that mistery.
I call not for conscience more comonly.
Then you speake of it seelde, flie I tolde the erste.
Cause why: that conscience at laste ende shulde be perste…”
From: The Spider and the Flie
A Parable of the Spider and the Flie
By John Heywood, 1556
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