ETYMOLOGY
of uncertain origin;
Scots has doss (neat, spruce) and dossie (a sprucely dressed person)
EXAMPLE (for adj.)
“… I’ll tell you where they’ll get the pull of us,” (this very confidentially and in my ear.)
“There ain’t no weather down there,” (pointing to asphalt with this whip), “and what with the ladies’ bonnets and blokes’ dossy hats, that’s a big matter. …”
From: The Daily Colonist
Victoria, BC, Sunday September 2 1900
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin notandum, (neuter singular of notandus, gerundive of notare (to note)
EXAMPLE
“… These former notandums having beene premised, we need not dwell long upon answering of objection, for by them the way is opened already, and that which before hath beene delivered will not need any more then application. …”
From: The Prerogative of Man, or, His soules immortality, and high perfection defended, 1645
PRONUNCIATION
noh-TAN-duhm
ETYMOLOGY
from oeno- (relating to or resembling wine) + -philist (loving the person or thing denoted)
EXAMPLE
“… Are the Temperance men to be allowed to shout in the public places? are the Vegetarians to bellow ” Cabbage for ever?” and may we modest Œnophilists not sing the praises of our favourite plant? After the drinking of good Bordeaux wine, there is a point (I do not say a pint) at which men arrive, when all the generous faculties of the soul are awakened and in full vigour; when the wit brightens and breaks out in sudden flashes; when the intellects are keenest; when the pent up words and confined thoughts get a night-rule, and rush abroad and disport themselves; when the kindest affections come out and shake hands with mankind, and the timid Truth jumps up naked out of his well and proclaims himself to all the world. …”
From: Title: The Virginians
By William Makepeace Thackeray, 1859
PRONUNCIATION
ee-NOFF-uh-list
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin cess- participial stem of cedere (to yield) + -ive
EXAMPLE
“… Yet there is a Diversity in Softness by Argentrive, and in Softness by Sulphur: because Softness by Sulphur is Cessive, but Softness by Argentrive is Extensive. And this must necessarily be proved by Sight; seeing We see Bodies of much Argentrive, to be of much Extension; but Bodies of little, of little. …”
From: The Works of Geber
By Jabir ibn Haiyan
Translated by Richard Russell, 1678
ETYMOLOGY
from be- + daff (a fool, a simpleton)
EXAMPLE (for vb. 1.)
“… Folweth ecco, that holdeth no silence,
But ever answereth at the countretaille :
Beth not bedaffed for your innocence,
But sharply taketh on you the governaille :
Emprenteth wel this lesson in your minde,
For comun profit, sith it may availle. …”
From: Canterbury Tales; The Clerkes Tale
By Geoffrey Chaucer, c1386
ETYMOLOGY
from fair (adj.) + -some
EXAMPLE
“… Weel, man, tho’ I’m no just every man’s dog that whistles, on me, I see we maun pit our shouthers to the wheel thegither, if it is ainly to mettle up the King no to be sae muckle hoodwinked by yon’ upstart Lord : that the royal Jamie should be sae come ower by a fairsome face an’ a saucy tongue aye gars me think there maun be glamour in the world yet — an’ if ever I saw ane that has the look o’ a witch wife, it wad be my opinion leddy Buckingham has an ower uncanny glint in her eye. …”
From: The Prophecy
By Rachel Evelyn Butler, 1862
ETYMOLOGY
probably an alteration of blandish (to charm or flatter in order to entice, etc.), perhaps after philander;
apparently intended as a form characteristic of Irish English; (Irish blanndar (dissimulation, flattery))
EXAMPLE
“… He looked at me wearily; his eyes were sunk in his head, and his face was drawn and white. ‘Eyah!’ said he; ‘I’ve blandandhered thim through the night somehow, but can thim that helps others help thimsilves? Answer me that, sorr!’…”
From: Soldiers Three
By Joseph Rudyard Kipling, 1888
With the Main Guard
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin gamicus or from Greek γαµικός (of or for marriage) + -al
EXAMPLE
“… Humane Laws are threefold, viz. Secular, Temporal, or Civil, such are the Laws of every Country; or Gamacal , viz. the Laws of the Husband; or Paternal, viz. the Laws of Parents to their Children. …”
From: Justice vindicated from the false fucus put upon it, by Thomas White gent. Mr. Thomas Hobbs, and Hugo Grotius: As also elements of power & subjection;
By Roger Coke, 1660
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin nocivus (harmful, injurious), (from nocere (to hurt)) + -ous
EXAMPLE
“…Phisitions which prescribe a remedy
To each disease & bodies maladie;
That know what is nocivous & what good,”
When it is fit to bath, to purge, let bloode;
Although they know the nature & the power
Of every simple, every hearbe, & flower,
With Solomon, which from the cedar tall
Vnto the hisope spreading on the wall,
Knew every growing plant, flower, hearbe, or tree,
With their true vse & proper qualitie; …”
From: The Times’ Whistle: Or, A New Daunce of Seven Satires, and Other Poems
Compiled by R.C., c1616
Published for the Early English Text Society, 1871
ETYMOLOGY
irregularly from Latin siccus or siccare
EXAMPLE
“… Thirdly, when you put forth your horses to run at grasse all, or the most part of Summer, during which time the scorching heats wil so siccicate and dry the planks, which will cause them to warp, and the pinnes which holdeth them down to the joyces will rot, and so the planks give way, especially when horses (who not being handled in some moneths before) becomming wild, rammage, and unruly, are newly brought into the Stable, who feeling the planks to move, yeeld, and give way under them, will fall from starting thereat, to slinging, leaping, bounding and plunging, till they have dislocated the planks, and thereby have endangered both themselves, the residue of their fellowes, and those who might come to their help and succour, which is a thing very frequent in a flore of this nature: …”
From: The Compleat Horseman and Expert Ferrier In two bookes. The first, shewing the best manner of breeding good horses, with their choyce, nature, riding and dyeting … The second, directing the most exact and approved manner how to know and cure all maladies and diseases in horses;
By Thomas de Grey, 1639
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