Word of the Day: DISLIKEN

ETYMOLOGY
from dislike (adj.) + -en, after likeliken

EXAMPLE
“… Dis-mantle you, and (as you can) disliken
The truth of your owne seeming, that you may
(For I do feare eyes ouer) to Ship-boord
Get vndescry’d.
…”

From: Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies
By Wiliam Shakespeare, 1632
The Winters Tale, a1616

Word of the Day: OUTBRAID

ETYMOLOGY
vb. 1. 2. 4. from out- + braid (to make a sudden movement with the hand, etc.; to brandish a spear;. to deal a blow)
vb. 3. altered form of abraid (to reproach, to reprove)

EXAMPLE (for vb. 3.)
“… And for that this displeasour doth hym dere
His frende: he soone
out-braydeth of the same
Hym-self (for malyce) drawynge by the here
So hath this fole by malyce and yll name
His rewarde lost for it rebuked and shame
And no meruayle: for no man that hath skyll
Shall thanke hym for goodnes done agaynst his wyll
…”

From: The Shyp of Folys of the Worlde
By Alexander Barclay, 1509

Word of the Day: INCREPATORY

ETYMOLOGY
from late Latin increpatorius (Sidonius), from participial stem of increpare (to increpate, to chide, to rebuke)

EXAMPLE
“… The power archbishop Loundres had as lord justice, and the pope’s legate, gave him the opportunity of encroaching on the rights of the crown and the liberties of the subject, by drawing temporal causes to the ecclesiastical courts, of which the citizens of Dublin complained to the king, who this year sent him an increpatory writ, prohibiting him front such practices for the future, with threats of severe treatment if he persisted. …”

From: The History and Antiquities of the City of Dublin, 
From the Earliest Accounts
By Walter Harris, 1766

Word of the Day: CARRY-TALE

ETYMOLOGY
from carry (vb.) + tale

EXAMPLE
“… After the solemnitie of this marriage, there appeared outwardlie to the world great loue and friendship betweene the duke and the earle, but by reason of carie tales and flatterers, the loue continued not long, …”

From: The Firste (laste) Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande
By Raphael Holinshed, 1577

Word of the Day: MAB

ETYMOLOGY
n. of uncertain origin uncertain;
perhaps from the female forename Mab, shortened in Middle English from Mabel, from Amabel
vb. related to mab (a promiscuous woman), perhaps as a variant of mob (to dress oneself untidily

EXAMPLE (for n. 1.)
“… Mido. Take my life for a penny, whither shall I ren?
Esau. Come out, thou little fiend, come out, thou skittish gill.
Abra. Out, alas, alas! Esau will us all kill.
Esau. And come out, thou mother Mab; out, old rotten witch!
As white as midnight’s arsehole or virgin pitch. Where be ye? come together in a cluster.
…”

From: A Newe Mery and Wittie Comedie or Enterlude, Newely Imprinted, Treating vpon the Hhistorie of Iacob and Esau, 1568

Word of the Day: ERGOPHOBIA

ETYMOLOGY
from Greek ἔργον (work) + -phobia

EXAMPLE
“… to which might be added ergophobia, or mobid shrinking from active effort of every sort, etc. But these expressions add very little to definiteness of description. …”

From: Essentials of the Principles and Practice of Medicine
A Handbook for Students and Practitioners
By Henry Hartshorne, 1881
Part I, Principles of Medicine. Section I. General Pathology
Neuro-Pathology

Word of the Day: SALARIATE

ETYMOLOGY
from Latin salarium (salary) + -ate

EXAMPLE
“… The Sanhedrim of Israel being the Supream, and a constant Court of Judicature could not choose but be exceeding gainful. The Senate of the Bean in Athens, because it was but annual, was moderately salariated, but that of the Areopagites being for life bountifully; what advantages the Senators of Lacedemon had, where there was little mony or use of it, was in honour for life. …”

From: The Common-Wealth of Oceana
By James Harrington, 1656

Word of the Day: WINDY-WALLETS

ETYMOLOGY
from windy (1. speaking at length; 2. of food or drink: causing flatulence) + wallet (possibly from Scottish sense of a fund of stories, poems, recollections, etc.)

EXAMPLE
“… Gowkscroft and Barnside,
Windy-wallets fu’ o’ pride;
Monynut, and Laikyshiel,
Plenty milk, plenty meal;
Straphunton Mill, and Bankend,
Green cheese as teugh as bend;
Shannabank and Blackerstane,
Pike the flesh to the bane;
Quixwood, and Butterdean,
Lu’ o’ parritch to the een!
…”

From: The Popular Rhymes, Sayings, and Proverbs of the County of Berwick
By George Henderson, 1856

Word of the Day: STENTORONIC

ETYMOLOGY
irregular from Stentor (a Greek warrior in the Trojan war, ‘whose voice was as powerful as fifty voices of other men’) + -ic

EXAMPLE
“… And to chain up the tongues of five hundred cackling gossips he held, and with great reason, an exploit worth recording. Indeed he appears to have taken the most effectual method with them, that is, to out-clamour them: For thus he measures out his own Stentoronic voice. …”

From: The Doctrine of Grace: or, the Office and Operations of the Holy Spirit vindicated from the Insults of Infidelity, and the Abuses of Fanaticism
By William Warburton, 1763

Word of the Day: PROPUDIOUS

ETYMOLOGY
from Latin propudiosus (shameful, infamous), from propudium (a shameful action),
(from pro- pudere (to make ashamed) + -ium) + -osus (-ous)

EXAMPLE
“… Yea in the Cirque or Race-yard, (where was the greatest Concourse of People) they de-cryed Iulian; calling vpon Niger, the chiefest Officer of the sacred Empire, to vindicate the Roman State, and hasten to free them from that propudious Gouernour . ….”

From: Herodian of Alexandria His History of Twenty Roman Cæsars
Interpreted out of the original Greek by James Maxwell, 1629