ETYMOLOGY
from Latin quaeritāre (to search for, to seek, to ask,
from quaerere (to ask, inquire) + –itare (-itate)
EXAMPLE
“…for Carpenters seeke to the Trunk of its Tree; Dyers to its barke; Boyes to its fruit; Apothecaryes quaeritate its Medicinall use, which Mithridates knew…”
From: A Medicinal Dispensatory:
Containing the Whole Body of Physick
By Jean de Renou
Translated by Richard Tomlinson, 1657
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin vindicta (vengeance), after malevolence
EXAMPLE
“…Ill-will is perhaps always a form or mode of vindictivolence, i.e. is connected with a feeling of ourselves as somehow wronged…”
From: A Treatise on the Moral Ideals
By John Grote,
Edited by Joseph Bickersteth Mayor, 1876
Appendix on Malevolence
ETYMOLOGY
from excrement + –ize
EXAMPLE
“…being inflamed with strong liquors, they went into the balcony belonging to that house, and putting down their breeches they excrementized in the street…”
From: Life, from 1632 to 1672, written by himself; continued till 1695
By Anthony Wood, c1670
ETYMOLOGY
from muck (a dishevelled, dirty or sweaty state) + suckle
EXAMPLE
“…Thereupon, he turned to the other men there, saying, “She were a bit of a muck-suckle, but she could blow my bag-pipe good as any…”
From: Mr. Darcy Takes a Wife
By Linda Berdoll, 2004
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin ēlātrāt- ppl. stem of ēlātrāre, from ē (out) + lātrāre (to bark)
EXAMPLE
“…He was the only one to elatrate against the decision…”
ETYMOLOGY
of unknown origin
EXAMPLE
“…A shackazin’ owd tallock…”
From: The Folk-Speech of South Cheshire,
By Thomas Darlington, 1889
ETYMOLOGY
from Old English hamelian (to mutilate);
from an adjective appearing on Old High German as hamal (maimed, mutilated), whence mod.German hammel (a castrated sheep)
EXAMPLE
“…sume hi man bende, sume hi man blende,
sume man hamelode and sume heanlice hattode…”
(…Some did they bind, some did they blind,
Some did they hamstring, some did they scalp…)
From: The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
ETYMOLOGY
obsolete or dialect form of ‘coil‘
EXAMPLE
“…I haue seene them, which haue seene such hurly burlies about a couple (that were no Fathers of the Church neither) Aristotle and Ramus, or els sake the Vniuersities, such a quoil with pro and con, such vrging of Ergoes, til they haue gone from Art togither by the eares, and made their conclusions end with a Clunchfist, right like the old description of Logicke…”
From: Plaine Perceuall, the Peace-maker of England
By Richard Harvey, 1590
ETYMOLOGY
from annoy (n.) + -ful
EXAMPLE
“…And eek men seyn þat thilke Iuge is wys þat soone vnderstondeth a matere & Iuggeth by leyser for al be it so þat al taryyng be anoyful algates it is nat to repreue...”
From: The Hengwrt manuscript of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales
ETYMOLOGY
from French gaberie (mockery, jest, deceit)
EXAMPLE
“…Those high-priced, verbose air- beaters, who think their gabberies are the centers of gravity for the entire universe, ought to be sent away back to sit down until they can learn to stand by the pledges in the platform of their party …”
From: The Literary Digest
Volume XXVI, March 1903
Territorial Press on Statehood Failure
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