Author: Lexico

Word of the Day: TUMULTUATE

ETYMOLOGY
from participial stem of Latin tumultuari (to make a bustle or disturbance) + -ate

EXAMPLE
“… Secondly, beeing sued, and Iudgement passed against you, Acquiesce in the Iudgement, and doe not tumultuate against it; and take example from mee, whom you haue heard here protest, that when euer any Decree shall be giuen against me in my priuate right, betweene me and a Subiect, I will as humbly acquiesce as the meanest man in the Land. Imitate me in this, for in euery Plea there are two parties, and Iudgement can be but for one, and against the other; so one must alwayes be displeased. …”

From: James I of England
Speach Starre-chamber, 1616

Word of the Day: AWEBOUND

ETYMOLOGY
from awe (a feeling of terror or dread mixed with reverence) + bound (compelled, obliged)

EXAMPLE
“… As she uttered the interrogatory, she raised the rattle-snake in her hands, holding it so that it might be distinctly seen by those whom she addressed. The reptile hissed, accompanying the sibilation with a sharp “skirr” of its tail. Who could doubt that it was an answer in the affirmative?
Not the Yamassees, who stood awe-bound and trembling in the presence of the mighty sorceress. …”

From: Osceola the Seminole,
Or, The Red Fawn of the Flower Land
By Capt. Mayne Reid, 1858

Word of the Day: EFFUTITIOUS

ETYMOLOGY
from Latin effutitius, from Latin effutio (to chatter, prate)

EXAMPLE
“… No xenodochium allays
Radicate thirst with “Bass” or “Booth.”
Unaccendible paradigm!
Call not this effutitious prate;
‘Tis ecphonesis, though it seem
But babbling to balbucinate. …”

From: The Savage-Club Papers
Edited by Andrew Halliday, 1867
A Social Science Valentine, By Thomas Archer

Word of the Day: FRUISH

ETYMOLOGY
from Old French fruiss- lengthened stem of fruir (to enjoy),
from Latin *fruire (classical Latin frui deponent vb.)

EXAMPLE
“… I may not fruisshe tho iocunde clippinges that are redy to holy spirites. …”

From: The earliest English translation of the first three books of the De Imitatione Christi
By Thomas à Kempis, c1425

Word of the Day: LUCTISONOUS

ETYMOLOGY
from Latin luctisonus (from luctus (grief )+ son- root of sonus (sound)) + -ous

EXAMPLE
“… Let me coacervate a few
Ambagious words amarulent,
Ludificatory, but true,
Ere I become so macilent,
That without voice to ululate
My lov’d one’s luctisonous name,
My honour I impignorate,
And raise a temulentive flame. …”

From: The Savage-Club Papers
Edited by Andrew Halliday, 1867
A Social Science Valentine, By Thomas Archer.

Word of the Day: SMUCKLE

ETYMOLOGY
earlier form of smuggle (vb.)

EXAMPLE
“… Which computation is sufficiently justified by the Customs of the Three Kingdoms, whose intrinsick value are thought to be near a Million per annum, viz. Six hundred thousand pounds, payable to the King; 100 thousand Pounds, for the charges of Collecting, &c. Two hundred thousand pounds smuckled by the Merchants, and one Hundred thousand pounds gained by the Farmers; according to common Opinion, and Mens Sayings: And this agrees also with that proportion, or part of the whole Trade of the World, which I have estimated the Subjects of the King of England to be possessed of; viz, of about Ten of Forty Five Millions. …”

From: Political Arithmetick
By Sir William Petty, 1691

Word of the Day: FUDDLECAP

ETYMOLOGY
from fuddle one’s cap or nose (to get drunk);
from fuddle (to tipple, to booze)

EXAMPLE
“… The Fuddlecap, whose God’s the Vyne,
Lacks not the Sun if he have Wine;
By th’ Sun he only finds a way
To some cool Spring, to spend the day.
Shrill Flutes and Trumpets Souldiers love,
And scorn those fears that Women move. …”

From: The Poems of Horace consisting of Odes, Satyres, and Epistles
Rendred in English verse by several persons
‘A Paraphrase upon the first Ode by S. W. Esq To MECOENAS‘

Word of the Day: CHURLY

ETYMOLOGY
from churl +  -y

EXAMPLE
“… But all this while, the shop where Jonah sleeps,
Is tost, and torne, and batter’d on the deeps,
And well-nigh split upon the threatning Rock,
With many a boystrous brush, and churley knock.
God help all desp’rate voyagers, and keepe
All such, as feele thy wonders on the deepe. …”

From: Divine poems: containing the History of -Jonah. Ester. Job. Samson.; Sions – sonets. Elegies.
By Francis Quarles, 1638