ETYMOLOGY
from Middle French (queint-) cointerelle feminine of cointerel (beau, fop), from cointe (quaint)
EXAMPLE
“…It folweth nouht that thouh j be thus kembt and a litel make the queyntrelle that for swich cause j am fair I am foul old and slauery foule stinkinge and dungy…”
From: Pilgrimage of the Lyf of the Manhode,
from the French of G. de Guilleville, c1430
ETYMOLOGY
adj.: from Latin collacrimatus, pa. pple. of collacrimare;
vb. : from Latin collacrimat- ppl. stem of collacrimare, from col- (together) + lacrimāre (to shed tears, weep), from lacrima (tear)
EXAMPLE
“…A tormentor would collachrymate my case, and rather choose to have been tortured himself than torment me with ingratitude as thou dost…”
From: Christs teares ouer Ierusalem,
By Thomas Nashe, 1593
ETYMOLOGY
from ninny (a simpleton, a fool) + broth (liquid in which anything has been boiled)
EXAMPLE
“…How to make coffee, alias ninny-broth: a new invention of buttering turneps: to make a loaf of bread to dance about the table, intermixed with profit and delight …”
From: Poor Robin,
By William Winstanley, 1694
ETYMOLOGY
from plume (mark of honour or distinction) + plucked
EXAMPLE
“…Yorke. Great Duke of Lancaster, I come to thee
From plume-pluckt Richard, who with willing Soule
Adopts thee Heire, and his high Scepter yeelds
To the possession of thy Royall Hand…”
From: The Tragedie of King Richard the Second
By William Shakespeare, 1597
ETYMOLOGY
from under- ;
? possibly for dunderhead
EXAMPLE (for n.2.)
“…And indeed wiser discretions, that have the thread of reason to conduct them, offend without a pardon; whereas under heads may stumble without dishonour…”
From: Religio Medici
By Thomas Browne, 1643
ETYMOLOGY
from Greek ϕιλο-, ϕιλ-, combining form from root of ϕιλεῖν (to love), ϕίλ-ος (dear, friend)
+ θήρ (wild beast)
EXAMPLE
“…It is the reply of an old fisher-woman, when reproved by some Philotherian for skinning eels alive.
“Sir,” said she, “I have skinned them thusly for nearly fifty years; and they have got so used to it, they don’t mind it one bit.”…”
From: The Harvard Advocate
Vol. XI. Cambridge, Mass., February 28, 1871. No. I
Editorial
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin Thrason-, Thraso Thraso, braggart soldier in the comedy Eunuchus by Terence
EXAMPLE
“…Warres austere God, with stout Achilles lance,
And wrinkled browes, doth Thrasonize it, rage:
Cornuted Phoebe, in her coach, doth prance:
Bacchus with grapes, doth stretch it on the stage:
Whiles this cup-saint, too lavish and profuse,
Embrews his temples in their liquid juice…”
From: ‘Ixions Wheele’ in Follie’s Anatomy,
By H. Hutton, 1619
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin Cyprius (of Cyprus) + -an;
in French cyprien
EXAMPLE
“…Shall Curio streake his lims on his dayes couch,
In Sommer bower? and with bare groping touch
Incense his lust, consuming all the yeere
In Cyprian dalliance, and in Belgick cheere?
Shall Faunus spend a hundred gallions,
Of Goates pure milke, to laue his stallions,
As much Rose iuyce? O bath! ô royall, rich
To scower Faunus, and his salt proude bitch!…”
From: The Scourge of Villanie
By John Marston, 1598
ETYMOLOGY
from pother (disturbance, turmoil, bustle; noise, tumult) + -y
EXAMPLE
“…Meer Heat and Cold are very different things from that Pothery and Sultry, that Frosty and Congealing Weather, which alternately in Summer and Winter, at the Line and the Poles we usually now feel….”
From: A New Theory of the Earth
By William Whiston, 1696
ETYMOLOGY
from Old French charitatif, -ive, caritatif, -ive, medieval Latin caritativus (charitable)
EXAMPLE
“…And for that this only controversy is the cause of this visitation, I do mean that it shall be merely charitative, and not to burden the clergy of any procurations as yet; and withal not to trouble your lordship much longer about this matter there, than you shall be occasioned otherwise to tarry for the speeding of the visitation of the church…”
From: The Remains of Edmund Grindal, 1843
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