ETYMOLOGY
from Neptune + -ist
EXAMPLE
“…Let euery man in his degree enioy his due; and let the braue enginer, fine Dædalist, skilfull Neptunist, maruelous Vulcanist, and euery Mercuriall occupationer, that is, euery Master of his craft and euery Doctour of his mystery, be respected according to the vttermost extent of his publique seruice or priuate industry.…”
From: Pierces Supererogation:
Or A New Prayse of The Old Asse
By Gabriell Harvey, 1593
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin scrībĕre (to write) + -acious
EXAMPLE
“…We have some Letters of Popes, (though not many; for Popes were then not very scribacious, or not so pragmatical; whence to supply that defect, lest Popes should seem not able to write, or to have slept almost 400 years, they have forged divers for them, and those so wise ones, that we who love the memory of those good Popes, disdain to acknowledge them Authours of such idle stuff; we have yet some Letters)…”
From: A Treatise of the Pope’s Supremacy:
to which is added a Discourse Concerning the Unity of the Church
– Isaac Barrow, a1677
ETYMOLOGY
– from ob and sol (scholastic disputation, subtle debate – shortened from objection) + -er
EXAMPLE
“…Where Hinderson, and th’ other Masses,
Were sent to cap Texts, and put Cases:
To pass for Deep and Learned Scholars;
Although but Paltry, Ob-and-Sollers:
As if th’ unseasonable Fools
Had been a Cursing in the Schools…”
From: Hudibras. The third and last part,
By Samuel Butler, 1678
ETYMOLOGY
from house + dove
EXAMPLE
“…safe and sounde to Rome, and euery man riche and loden with spoyle: then the hometarriers and housedoues that kept Rome still, beganne to repent them that it was not their happe to goe with him…”
From: The Liues of the Noble Grecians and Romanes
– Plutarch
– Translated by Thomas North, 1579
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin labascere (to fall to pieces, break up, dissolve, to waver),
from labāre (to totter) + -ate
EXAMPLE
We watched with helplessness as she labascated down the stairs after a few too many drinks at the Christmas party.
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin rēiectānea (things which, while not absolutely bad, fall beneath the level of indifference),
from rejicĕre (to reject) + -āneus + -ous
EXAMPLE
“…Let them looke carefully about them, and let them be assured of this, that God will haue his glory upon them either in their conversion, if they belong to the number of his chosen servants, or in their confusion, if they be rejectaneous and castawaies.…”
From: Romphaiopheros = the Sword-Bearer.
Or, The Byshop of Chichester’s armes emblazoned in a sermon preached at a synod by T.V. B. of D. sometimes fellow of Queenes Colledge in Oxford,
and now pastor of the church at Cockfield in Southsex.
by Thomas Vicars, 1627
ETYMOLOGY
from way (a track, a road, a path) + leader
EXAMPLE
“…who shall perfeitely accomplyshe and fulfyll the lawe in the right kynde as it ought to be, but thy sonne beeyng as a waye leader vnto the heauenly preaching of thissame Messias, shall prepare the heartes of menne, that he may deliuer vp vnto Messias at his cumming…”
From: The First Tome or Volume of the Paraphrase of Erasmus vpon the Newe Testamente
– Erasmus, Desiderius
– Translated by Nicholas Udall et al, 1548
ETYMOLOGY
from straddle (with the legs astride)
EXAMPLE
“…If he even seen a straddle-bug start to go anywheres, he would bet you how long it would take him to get wherever he was going to, and if you took him up, he would foller that straddle-bug to Mexico but what he would find out where he was bound for and how long he was on the road. …”
From: The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,
By S. L. Clemens (Mark Twain), 1867
ETYMOLOGY
– from Latin prōstibulum (a prostitute, also a brothel),
from prōstāre (to stand forth publicly as for sale), + -bulum (suffix denoting instrument)
EXAMPLE
“…Jack Reacher: What I mean is, the cheapest woman tends to be the one you pay for.
– Sandy: I am not a prostibule!
– Jack Reacher: Well, a prostibule would get the joke…”
From: The movie “Jack Reacher”
(the original word ‘hooker‘ has been replaced with ‘prostibule‘)
ETYMOLOGY
– from Latin opitulārī (to bring aid, to assist),
from op-em (aid) + tul- (to bring)
EXAMPLE
“…A conserve to opitulate & helpe the digestione, of the stomacke…”
From: The Boock of Physicke
Wherin … Most of Them Selected, and Approved Remedyes, for All Corporall Diseases, and Sicknesses, which Out of Manye Highe, and Common Persons Written Physick-boockes, are Compacted, and United Together
By Oswald Gäbelkover, 1599
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