ETYMOLOGY
a humorous formation from Latin circum( round about) + bend + Latin –ibus (ablative plural ending)
EXAMPLE
“…Dominic: Let him alone; let him alone; I shall fetch
him back with a circum-bendibus I warrant him…”
From: The Spanish Fryar;
or, The Double Discovery
By John Dryden, 1681
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin uranicus (heavenly)
EXAMPLE
“…And therefore so much as spiritual and heavenly things exceed natural and Earthly, so much do the Uranicks exceed the Physicks…”
From: Synopsis Medicinæ
or, A Compendium of Astrological Galenical & Chymical Physick
By William Salmon, 1671
ETYMOLOGY
adj. & adv.: from French par cœur (by heart, by memory, perfectly, exactly)
vb.: from Latin perquirere (to make diligent search for), formed on per- + quærere (to seek)
EXAMPLE (for vb.)
“…Sweetly disposed soul (for so I hope)
Though most deluded by thy self, and Pope;
Perquire Zoographers, and none recite,
A Romane Pope turn’d willing Anchorite.
Now they so much abhor such doubtful ways,
They’ll not to Heaven go, without false ayes.…”
From: Divine Glimpses of a Maiden Muse
By Christopher Clobery, 1659
ETYMOLOGY
from snug + -ery
EXAMPLE
“…“Here you will be quite to yourselves,” said Lady Clonbrony; “let me establish you comfortably in this, which I call my sanctuary – my snuggery – Colambre, that little table! …”
From: The Absentee
In Tales of Fashionable Life
By Maria Edgeworth, 1812
ETYMOLOGY
from white + nose
EXAMPLE
“…We now hoisted sail and stood off the land. The wind, together with the sea, was fast rising, many a ‘white nose‘ chequering the blueness of the more open water…”
From: A Naturalist’s Ramble to The Orcades
By A. W. Crichton, 1866
ETYMOLOGY
alteration of gobble
EXAMPLE
“…A dinner nice the oad folks have,”
At race-time, ollis ‘ood, –
That day, they had a toad-in-hole,
A dish that’s deadly gud
But when oad Styles to goffle it,
Bargun, he soon ded cry out: –
“Missus! I thinks as how, taa-day,
“Yow’ve put the meller’s eye out!…”
From: John Noakes & Mary Styles:
Or, “An Essex Calf’s” Visit to Tiptree Races
By Charles Clark, 1839
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin inculpare to inculpate, perhaps after French inculper
EXAMPLE
“…For if Crisostomes impatience and headlong desire slew him; why should mine honest proceeding and care be inculped therewithall? If I preserve mine integrity in the society of these Trees; why would any desire me to lose it, seeing every one covets to have the like himself, to converse the better among men?…”
From: The History of The Valorous and Witty Knight-Errant, Don-Quixote, of the Mancha
By Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
Translated by Thomas Shelton, 1612
ETYMOLOGY
from long + tongued
EXAMPLE
“…And tyme hathe this one vngracious propertee,
to blab at length open all that he doothe see.
Than a daughter eke he hath called veritee,
As vnhappie a longtounged girle as can bee.
she bringeth all to light, some she bring[eth] to shame,
she careth not a grote what manne hathe thanke or blame.
yf men be praise worthie she dothe so declare them
And if otherwyse in faithe she dothe not spare them…”
From: Respublica: an interlude for Christmas
Attributed to Nicholas Udall, 1553
ETYMOLOGY
from oft (adv.) + -ly
EXAMPLE
“…And faste approcht: which newes when so I knew
I placed me where comming I behold
A seemely band, as eie di euer vewe,
And goodly dight as hart defier cold,
Oftlie returning vnto freends I told,
That I had seene of noblenes the flower
For discipline in ordring of a power…”
From: The True Vse of Armorie
By William Wyrley, 1592
ETYMOLOGY
from ebriety (a being intoxicated, drunkenness) + ‑ate
EXAMPLE
“…But what we suppose conduces most to this seeming Magnanimity, is some things their Priests give them before, of an ebrietating Quality, which intoxicates their Spirits, and renders them insensible of what they are going to endure…”
From: The British Apollo, or, Curious Amusements for the Ingenious
May, 1711
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