ETYMOLOGY
from ornitho- (comb. form bird) + Greek ϕίλ-ος (lover)
EXAMPLE
“…Every one asked them to dinner, and they left on the 25th. As long as he was in France he never omitted this ornithophilite excursion, which was only interrupted when he was sent on a mission to Rome, where he died as penitentiary in 1688…”
From: The Handbook of Dining
Or How to Dine Theoretically Philosophically and Historically Considered,
By Leonard Francis Simpson, 1859
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin plenitudinarius (full, complete, plenary),
from Latin plenitudin-, plenitudo (abundance, fullness, fullness of shape, thickness, full amount, the whole) + -arius (-ary)
EXAMPLE
“…and a strange kind of Government must that needs be, wherein the Servants Throne is above his Masters, and a Subject shall have a plenitudinary power beyond that which his Lord and King had, or, as the times then were, was capable of …”
From: An Historical and Political Discourse of the Laws & Government of England from the First times to the End of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth
By Nathaniel Bacon, 1647
ETYMOLOGY
from blow (to burst into flower, to blossom, to bloom) + -th
EXAMPLE
“…I of no willing wrong complaine,
Which force or stealth hath wrought,
No fruit I promise from the tree,
Which forth this blooth hath brought…”
From: The Survey of Cornwall
By Richard Carew, 1602
ETYMOLOGY
either from a) high (adj.) + -ful;
or perhaps from b) the same word as eyeful (arousing or inspiring awe, fear, or dread; terrible, dreadful)
EXAMPLE
“…So þat he was riche him sulf · & þat lond pouere al out
Sturne he was þoru out al · & heiuol & prout
Suiþe þikke mon he was · & of grete strengþe…”
From: The Metrical Chronicle of Robert of Gloucester, c1325-c1425
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin appropinquāre (to approach),
from ad (to), and propinquus, from prope (near)
EXAMPLE
“…The knotted bloud within my hose,
That from my wounded body flows,
With mortal Crisis doth portend
My dayes to appropinque an end.
I am for action now unfit,
Either of fortitude or wit…”
From: Hudibras, Written in the Time of the Late Wars
By Samuel Butler, 1663
Canto III. The Argument
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin rumor (a rumour), and foras (abroad)
EXAMPLE
Don’t gossip or rumiforate. When rumours are spread, a person’s reputation or character can be greatly damaged, even when the rumours aren’t true.
ETYMOLOGY
from Middle English thornhog, equivalent to thorn + hog
(hog was also used for hedgehog, aardvark, capybara)
EXAMPLE
“… zuyche men byeþ anlykned to þe þorn-hog. þet ys al ywryȝe myd prikyinde eles. and hit is to moche fel..”
From: Dan Michel’s Ayenbite of Inwyt : or, Remorse of Conscience, 1340
ETYMOLOGY
reduplicated derivative of gibber (unintelligible talking, rapid and inarticulate utterance)
EXAMPLE
“…and I wott not what maruelous egges in mooneshine: but a flye for all your flying Speculations, when one good fellow with his oddiestes, or one madd knaue with his awke hibber-gibber, is able to putt downe twentye of your smuggest artificiall men, that simper it so nicely, and coylie in their curious pointes…”
From: Pierces Supererogation
Or A New Prayse of The Old Asse,
Gabriell Harvey, 1593
ETYMOLOGY
from medieval Latin vagitare, from Latin vagari (to wander)
EXAMPLE
“…But we must consider, that they euermore kept the coast, and crept by the shores, which made the way exceeding long. For before the vse of the Compasse was knowne, it was impossible to vagitate athwart the Ocean; and therefore Salomons ships could not finde Peru in America…”
From: The History of the World
By Sir Walter Raleigh, 1614
ETYMOLOGY
from: a) Middle French pusille, puzil, pusil (very small, weak),
b) Latin pusillus (very small, insignificant, petty) from pusus (boy) + -illus
EXAMPLE
“…And to amase her weake, and pusill minde,
In creepe through crannies of imagination.
Deformd Idean formes, and phansies blinde.
Sent foorth by hir sicke sences, instigation.
Like staringe greisly fendes, threatninge invasion.
Presenting to her heart, the homely iarres.
And houshold cares, accurringe nuptiall warres…”
From: Eustathia, or the Constancie of Susanna
By Robert Roche, 1599
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