ETYMOLOGY
from Middle French aidance, from aider (aid) + -ance
EXAMPLE
“… All swolne with chafing, downe Adonis sits,
Banning his boystrous, and vnruly beast;
And now the happie season once more fits
That louesicke loue, by pleading may be blest:
For louers say, the heart hath treble wrong,
When it is bard the aydance of the tongue. …”
From: Venus and Adonis
By William Shakespeare, 1593
ETYMOLOGY
from nott for notted (shorn, cut close, or smooth), from nott (to shear or poll), which is from the Saxon hnot, meaning the same
EXAMPLE
“… Your Sages in generall, by seeing too much ouersee that happinesse; Only your block-headly Tradesman; your honest meaning Cittizen; your not-headed Countrie Gentleman; your vnapprehending Stinckerd is blest with the sole prerogatiue of his Wiues chamber. …”
From: The WIddowes Teares, A Comedie
By George Chapman, 1612
ETYMOLOGY
A made-up word, from hum, gruff, griffin.
EXAMPLE
“… The Demoniac crowd
In an instant seem’d cowed;
Not one of the crew volunteer’d a reply,
All shrunk from the glance of that keen-flashing eye,
Save one horrid Humgruffin, who seem’d by his talk,
And the airs he assumed, to be Cock of the walk,
He quailed not before it, but saucily met it,
And as saucily said, “Don’t you wish you may get it?”…”
From: The Ingoldsby Legends
The Lay of St. Cuthbert, or, The Devil’s Dinner-Party
By Richard Harris Barham (Thomas Ingoldsby), 1842
ETYMOLOGY
apparently a shortened form of dedeignous (disdainous), French dédaigneux, Old French desdeignous
EXAMPLE
“… Boste & deignouse pride & ille avisement
Mishapnes oftentide, & dos many be schent.
þe proude kyng Pharaon, þat chaced Israel, [Exempla viciorum, quibus gra|tia extin|guitur.]
Dronkeld euerilkon, & Gode’s folk went wel.
Sodom & Gomor fulle vile synne þat stank,
Boþe for euer more doun tille helle þei sank. …”
From: Robert Mannyng of Brunne, The Chronicle, c1330
ETYMOLOGY
from participial stem of Latin latibulari, from latibulum (hiding place)
EXAMPLE
“…Shhhh! Do you hear the whispers?
ones that taunt, laugh and persuade
they are here, there, and everywhere
as I latibulate with my face to the wall
Sometimes they chant a single word
in chorus or in perpetual canon
until the sound overwhelms my thoughts
Shhhh! Do you hear the whispers? …”
From: The Monday Morbs – Volume 1 Of Fearful and Monstrous Things
By S.B. Pearce, 2023
‘Hiding in the Corner’
ETYMOLOGY
from number (n.) + -ous
EXAMPLE
“… She sawe, she sawe the prophane route,
rushe in, without all measure:
Unto thy sacred holy house,
that route, whiche thou (O Lorde)
Forboddste, that they, ne shoulde come in,
the mansion of thy worde.
Her numbrous folke (a syghyng flocke)
and seekyng after foode,
Dyd geue for meate, what so they had,
thynges precious or good.
To cheryshe theyr so needie sowles. …”
From: A Medicinable Morall, that is, the two bookes of Horace his satyres,
Translated by T. Drant, 1566
ETYMOLOGY
from heed (careful attention, care, observation) + -y
EXAMPLE
“… Not wythstandynge (ryght worshipfull) I haue attempted an enterpryce in prouynge eche parcel of the pryuye masse to dysplease god, whiche I can neyther word, matier, ne reason accordynglye, and so am rather dyslyked then lyked of manye for thys my doyng, rather heady then heedy as they suppose: Howebeyt in case the sayd persons woll wythe me earnestly respect my bounden deutie in the sayd doyng, they (I doubte not (woll be rathere contented then discontented with me for the same. …”
From: A Treatise againste the preuee masse
By Edmund Gest, 1548
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin type inodiare, from in- + odium (hate)
EXAMPLE
“… And if I should appeal from Philip asleep, to Philip awake, I presume the Apologists themselves will acquit me of any odium toward Ministry; I wish some of them were not more culpable for inodiating Ministers, and censorious vilifying their persons and pains, that themselves may attract more esteem and dependencies, who (like the men of China) though they may think the Presbyterians to have one eye (as the Chinois say of the Europeans,) yet they conclude all the World beside to be blind. …”
From: Coena quasi koinē
The New-Inclosures broken down, and the Lords Supper Laid forth in common for all Church-members, having a Dogmatical Faith, and not being Scandalous
By William Morice, 1657
ETYMOLOGY
from make (to produce by action, bring about) + sport (activity involving physical exertion and skill)
EXAMPLE (for adj.)
“… Graunt that this present Tyrian with Troian asemblye
May breede good fortune to our freends and kynred heer after.
Let make sport Bacchus, with good ladye Iuno, be present.
And ye, my freend Tyrians, thee Troian coompanye frollick
Thus sayd, with sipping in vessel nycelye she dipped. …”
From: Thee first foure bookes of Virgil his Aeneis
Translated by Richard Stanyhurst, 1582
ETYMOLOGY
from French hippomobile , from hippo- from Greek ἵππος (horse), from hippos (horse) + ‑mobile after automobile
EXAMPLE
“… Speaking generally, it is the bad driver who uses the horn most, and so brings motor-cars into disrepute by creating unnecessary alarm to other travellers. In overtaking a horse-drawn vehicle it is best to sound the horn when some distance behind, and so soon as it is seen that the signal has been noticed to avoid its use again until past the ” hippomobile.” Of course it is sometimes necessary to use the horn when quite close to a horse-drawn vehicle for instance, when it unexpectedly turns out across one’s path; but even on such occasions two moderate and short blasts are generally sufficient to warn the driver. …”
From: The Motor-Car Journal
London, Friday, March 17th, 1899
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