ETYMOLOGY
from Greek πολυπράγµων )busy about many things, meddlesome, officious),
from πολυ- (poly– comb. form) + πρᾶγμα (thing done)
EXAMPLE
“… till this Polypragmon troubled us with his Blankes and matters of Estate
we lyved in Scot: peacably, administred the sacramentes, and
preached daly the trewe will and worde of oure savioure Jesus …”
From: In Spanish influences in Scottish history, Appendix (1596)
By John Rawson Elder, 1920
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin stratioticus (characteristic of a soldier), and its etymon ancient Greek στρατιωτικoς (military, warlike), from στρατιώτης stratiote (a Greek soldier) + ‑ικός (‑ic)
EXAMPLE
“…The Theoric board dominated the financial administration, as later on Demosthenes’ own Stratiotic board did.…”
From: The Olynthiac Speeches of Demosthenes
By Terrot Reaveley Glover, 1897
ETYMOLOGY
humorously from Latin maritus (husband) + –orious
EXAMPLE
“…Tis grosse and fulsome: if your husbands pleasure
Be all your object, and you ayme at honour
In living close to him, get you from Court,
You may have him at home; these common put-ofs
For common women serve: “my honour! husband!”
Dames maritorious ne’re were meritorious:
Speak plaine, and say “I doe not like you, sir,
Y’are an ill-favour’d fellow in my eye,”
And I am answer’d. …”
From: Bussy D’Ambois: a tragedie
By George Chapman, 1607
ETYMOLOGY
from sack + pants
EXAMPLE
“…I left the brig at 10 ½ A.M. with but five dogs and a load so light as to be hardly felt.
It required some suggestive incident to show us how we have gradually become assimilated in our habits to the necessities of our peculiar life. Such an incident I find in my equipment. Compare it with similar sledge outfits of last winter and you will see that we are more than half Esquimaux. It consists of —
1. One small sledge, five feet six by two.
2. An extra jumper and sack pants for sleeping.
3. A ball of raw walrus meat. This is all …”
From: Arctic Explorations:
The Second Grinnell Expedition
In Search of Sir John Franklin, 1853, ’54, ’55
Journey in Search of Hans. Tuesday Apr. 10.
By Elisha Kent Kane, 1856
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin nemorivagus (that wanders in the woods) + -ous
EXAMPLE
She had enough problems living so close to the forest and keeping track of her nemorivagous child.
ETYMOLOGY
from pam ( a card-game in which the knave of trumps was the highest trump card) + child
EXAMPLE
“…Yet rake I am, and abominably so, for a person that begins to wrinkle reverently. I have sat up twice this week till between two and three with the Duchess of Grafton, at loo, who, by the way, has got a pam-child this morning; and on Saturday night I supped with Prince Edward at my Lady Rochford’s, and we stayed till half an hour past three…”
From: The Letters of Horace Walpole
Volume 3, Letter 9 To George Montagu, Esq. Arlington Street, Jan. 14, 1760
ETYMOLOGY
from past participial stem of Latin mussitare (to mutter),
from mussare (to mutter) + –itare (-itate)
EXAMPLE
“…those I meane which are not Neutralizers (if any such heare mee this day) Neutralizers, I say, or Interim-ists; such as dare secretly mutter and mussitate; Rome and the Reformed Churches agree in the substance of Religion, that there is no fundamentall difference betwixt them and vs; and againe that they teach no Heresies; …”
From: A Sermon Preached at Paules Crosse Laying open the Beast, and his Marks
By Richard Sheldon, 1625
ETYMOLOGY
a reduplicated extension of hardy (capable of enduring fatigue, hardship, etc.)
EXAMPLE
“…So lytyll dyscressyon, and so myche reasonyng ;
So myche hardy dardy, and so lytell manlynes ;
So prodigall expence, and so shamfull reconyng ;
So gorgyous garmentes, and so myche wrechydnese ;
So myche portlye pride, with pursys penyles
So myche spente before, and so myche vnpayd behynde ;—
Syns Dewcalyons flodde there can no clerkes fynde …”
From: Speke, Parrot
In Poetical Works (1843)
By John Skelton, a1529
ETYMOLOGY
from Old French vituperieus (implied in the adv. vituperieusement),
or from late or medieval Latin vituperiōsus from vituperium (vitupery)
EXAMPLE
“…Muse I inuoke the vtmost of thy might,
That with an armed and auspitious wing,
Thou be obsequious in his doubtlesse right
Gainst the vile Athiests vituperious sting:
Where thou that gate industriously mai’st flie,
Which Nature striues but fainedlie to goe,
Borne by a power so eminent and hie,
As in his course leaues reason farre belowe,
To shew how Poesie (simplie hath her praise)
That from full Joue takes her celestiall birth,
And quicke as fire, her glorious selfe can raise
Aboue this base and euitable earth…”
From: Moyses in a Map of his Miracles
By Michael Drayton, 1604
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin temporaneus (timely, opportune), from tempus, tempor- (time) + -ous
EXAMPLE
“…For the further clearing of which there are these two things required
1. To shew how the necessary Functions of life may be conserved and kept up while the Soul is
separate from the Body
2. To consider what those things are which may cause a Temporaneous disunion and disjunction of
the Soul from the Body First then it will not seem at all strange that the principal Functions of life
should be performed for some time without the presence of the Soul to them who will admit of the
principles of the Cartesian Philosophy …”
From: Melampronoea,
or, A discourse of the polity and kingdom of darkness together with a solution of the chiefest objections brought against the being of witches
By Henry Hallywell, 1681
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