ETYMOLOGY
from glidder (to glaze over; to cover with ice) + -y
EXAMPLE
“… Two men led my mother down a steep and gliddery stair-way, like the ladder of a hay-mow; and thence, from the break of the falling water, as far as the house of the captain. And there at the door, they left her trembling, strung as she was, to speak her mind. …”
From: Lorna Doone: a Romance of Exmoor
By Richard Doddridge Blackmore, 1869
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin ninguidus (snowy, covered in snow), from ninguis (snow) + -idus (-id)
EXAMPLE
The ninguid trees were beautiful, but the roads were a complete slushy mess.
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin acclamat-, past participial stem of acclamare (to praise publicly and enthusiastically, to applaud)
EXAMPLE
“… that but for shame hee had drawne the Roman legions out of Britain, and so timorous of weapons, that Tiridates riueted his sword to the sheath thereof, for his assurance (because hee would not vnknightly yeeld to goe vngirt, though it were vpon condition, to receiue the diadem of Armenia) was now notwithstanding, with as shrill, and ioyous showts acclamated Imperator, as if in person hee had conquered Armenia by the sword….”
From: Nero Caesar, or, Monarchie Depraved
By Edmund Bolton, 1624
ETYMOLOGY
from sweet + breasted (breast = a person’s singing voice, obs.)
EXAMPLE
“… I like his feather well: a proper man,
Of good discourse, fine conversation,
Valiant, and a great carrier of the businesse,
Sweet breasted, as the Nightingale, or Thrush:
Yet I must tell you; you forget your selfe,
My Lord Vitellies love, and maintenance
Deserves no other Jack ith’ box, but he:
What though he gather’d first the golden fruit,
And blew your pigges-coat up into a blister,
When you did wait at Court upon his mother;
Has he not wel provided for the barne?
Beside, what profit reap I by the other?
If you wil have me serve your pleasure, Lady,
Your pleasure must accommodate my service; …”
From: Comedies and Tragedies written by Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, 1647
“Love’s Cure, or The Martial Maid“, a1640
ETYMOLOGY
from blast + bob (a light blow as with anything rebounding)
EXAMPLE
“… Much lyke as in forrest a long set dottrel, or oaktree,
With northen blusters too parts contrayrye retossed:
Thee winds scold strugling, the threshing thick crush crash is owtborne,
Thee boughs frap whuarring, when stem with blastbob is hacked:
Yeet the tre stands sturdy: for as yt toe the skytyp is haunced,
So far is yt crampornd with roote deepe dibled at helgat’s:
So this courragious gallant with clustered erraunds
Is cloyed and stinging sharp car’s in brest doe lye thrilling.
His mynd vnuariant doth stand, tears vaynelye doe gutter. …”
From: Thee First Foure Bookes of Virgil his Æneis
Translated into English heroical verse by Richard Stanyhurst, 1582
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin munifer (from munus (gift) + -fer (bearing)) + -ous
EXAMPLE
“The orphanage welcomed the muniferous visitors, who arrived with clothes, gifts, and enough food for the entire winter.”
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin blasphematorius, from blasphemator (from blasphemat-, past participial stem of blasphemare (to blaspheme)) + -ius
EXAMPLE
“… But againe I renounce and abiure now and for euer, both her and all her doctrine; in so much as that it is against the expresse word of God, blasphematory, Apostatique, superstitious, and as farre from the meaning of Christe our true maister, as darkenesse from light, as falshood from trueth, & vice from vertue: most humbly beseeching almighty GOD (thorough the entralls of his mercy, and through the most precious bloude which his sonne Iesus Christ hath shed for me) that he will not lay to my charge the faults of my youth nor iudge me according to the sinnes of my ignorance; but rather pursuing his mercy begunne in me, he will pardon all my offences committed by me either in works, words or thoughts, and in others, through examples and wicked superstitious doctrines: …”
From: The Confession and Publike Recantation of Thirteene Learned Personages,
Translated out of the French and Dutch printed copies, by I.M., 1602
ETYMOLOGY
from participial stem of Latin lallare (to sing la-la or lullaby);
when it first entered English, it denoted a “childish utterance”
EXAMPLE
“She tended to lallate whenever she wanted something from him.“
ETYMOLOGY
from speech + -ful
EXAMPLE (for adj. 2.)
“… John Mauropus, of Euchaita, Euchania, Theodoropolis — one living man among many dead, as the Arabian tale goes of the city of enchantment — one speechful voice among the silent, sole survivor of the breath which maketh words effluence of the soul replacing the bittern’s cry — speak to us! …”
From: Some Account of the Greek Christian Poets
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1842 (1863)
ETYMOLOGY
from gain- (against, in opposition to) + strive (to endeavour vigorously)
EXAMPLE (for vb. 1.)
“… Giue vs that peace, which we doo lacke,
Through misbelief and ill lyfe:
Thy Word to offer thou dost not slacke,
Which we unkindly gainstriue.
With fire and swoord,
This healthfull woord:
Some persecute and oppres:
Some with the mouth,
Confess the truth,
Wythout sincere godlynes. …”
From: The Whole book of Psalms: collected into English metre, by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, and others, 1569
“Da Pacem, Domine“
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