Lexico

Word of the Day: BLANDILOQUENT

ETYMOLOGY
from Latin blandiloquent-, blandiloquens (smooth-talking), from blandus (bland) + ‑loquens ‑loquent (speaking in an indicated manner)

EXAMPLE
“… Graunt to me no learning, Muses, thou Pagan Apollo,
Cynthia, with Charites, thou blandiloquent mery Pytho,
Mercury, with Sappho, Pallas nam’d also Minerva,
Graunt to me no favour: but thou, thou mightie Jejova,
Thou, Lord Emmanuel, Lord of celestial heaven,
Only God imperiall, to mee wretch terrestrial harken. …”

From: The First Booke of the Oreseruation of King Henry the vij. when he was but Earle of Richmond, grandfather to the Queenes maiesty, 1599

Word of the Day: GLADSTONIZE

ETYMOLOGY
from the alleged characteristics of British Prime Minister, William Ewart Gladstone, 1809-1898

EXAMPLE
“… Before the capitalist proprietors woke up to our game and cleared us out, the competition of the Star, which was immensely popular under what I may call the Fabian regime, had encouraged a morning daily, the Chronicle, to take up the run¬ nings and the Star, when it tried to go back, found that it could not do so further than to Gladstonize its party politics. …”

From: Fabian Tract No. 41
The Fabian Society: It’s Early History
By G. Bernard Shaw, 1892

Word of the Day: BROTHELLOUS

ETYMOLOGY
from brothel + ‑ous

EXAMPLE
“… I could show you the sharp Inuections, and grounded rea∣sons of many, as of Augstine, Hierome Chrisostome, Gregorie, Caluin, Peter Mar∣tyr, Gualter, and of an infinite number more: yea of all generally since the beginning of the world, against this whorish and brothellous painting and coulouring of faces, but to auoid prolixitie, I will omit them, deferring them to further oportunitie, for pauca sapienti, To a wiseman few woords are sufficient. …”

From: The Anatomie of Abuses
By Phillip Stubbes, 1583

Word of the Day: INSCIOUS

ETYMOLOGY
from Latin inscius (not knowing, ignorant), (from in- + -scius (knowing)) + -ous

EXAMPLE
“… This they are willingly ignorant of. Hee begins with the Dunces, those stubborne and unruly Blockheads; inscious, nescious, conscious, wilfull Ignorants. It is one thing, velle scire quod oportuit latere; another, velle latere quod oportuit scire. The former, is a sawcie ambition of forbidden knowledge; the other, a headstrong preclusion of commanded knowledge. …”

From: A Commentary or, Exposition vpon the Diuine Second Epistle Generall, written by the Blessed Apostle St. Peter
By Thomas Adams, 1633

Word of the Day: DISLIKEN

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

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