ETYMOLOGY
from Latin occīs-, past participial stem of occidere (to kill)
EXAMPLE
“…[ ] was vmquhile to vtheris done disprise
Witnes, Acteon quhome that je gart occise,
With his awin doggis quhair je him haistelie
Conuertit in ane Hart throw jour fantice…”
From: Ane treatise callit the court of Venus
– John Rolland, 1575
ETYMOLOGY
from hob (a generic name for a rustic, a clown) + lob (a country bumpkin, a clown)
EXAMPLE
“…By Phoebe to Delos, his natiue countrie seat, hastning.
Hee poincts a dawnsing, foorthwith the rustical hoblobs
Of Cretes, of Driopes, and paincted clowns Agathyrsi
Dooe fetch their gambalds hopping neere consecrat altars…”
From: Thee first foure bookes of Virgil his Æneis tr. intoo English heroical verse
– translated by Richard Stanyhurst, 1582
ETYMOLOGY
from somni- (combining form of Latin somnus sleep), + loquacious
EXAMPLE
My somniloquacious sister kept me awake so many nights that I finally wore earplugs.
ETYMOLOGY
from tickle + tongue
EXAMPLE
“…yet notwithstanding he was so crost in the nycke of thys determination, that his hystorie in mitching wyse wandred through sundry hands, and being therwithall in certaine places somewhat tyckle tongued (for M. Campion dyd learne it to speake) and in other places ouer spare, it twitled more tales out of schoole…”
From: Introduction to The firste (laste) volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande (Raphael Holinshed, 1577)
– Richard Stanyhurst
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin laniāt-, participial stem of laniare (to tear)
EXAMPLE
“…Wail for the little partridges on porringer and plate;
Cry for the ruin of the fries and stews well marinate:
Keen as I keen for loved, lost daughters of the Kata-grouse,
And omelette round the fair enbrowned fowls agglomerate:
O fire in heart of me for fish, those deux poissons I saw,
Bedded on new made scones and cakes in piles to laniate.
For thee, O vermicelli! aches my very maw! I hold
Without thee every taste and joy are clean annihilate
Those eggs have rolled their yellow eyes in torturing pains of fire
Ere served with hash and fritters hot, that delicatest cate….”
From: Arabian Nights’ Entertainments
– translated by Richard Francis Burton, 1885
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin ostrea (oyster) + -o- connective + -phagous (combining form, feeding on a specified kind of food)
EXAMPLE
“…A great advantage to the ostreophagous part of our population…”
From: Daily News (London), February 17, 1882
ETYMOLOGY
from salad + -ing
EXAMPLE
“…Sow also (if you please) for early Colly-flowers.
Sow Chervil, Lettuce, Radish, and other (more delicate) Salletings; if you will raise in the Hot-bed.
In over wet, or hard weather, cleanse, mend, sharpen and prepare Garden-tools…”
From: Kalendarium Hortense:
Or, The Gard’ners Almanac
– John Evelyn, 1666
ETYMOLOGY
? from Friday being a day of fasting
EXAMPLE
“…without a sermon pareneticall for exhortation, that hee might seeke bethe where they were and were not, as Skoggin did the hare, and presse an army royall of arrand honest women, to scale the fortresse of modestie with friday faced scoulds, ere he coulde triump for halfe such a victory in twise so much space…”
From: Philotimus
– Brian Melbancke, 1583
ETYMOLOGY
from Old French delaieus, from delai (delay) + -ous
EXAMPLE
“…Neuyrthelesse I remembere well that ye delt wythe ryght delayous peple, my lord Archbyshop and othere of my lordys, and I dempte by-cawse of youre long tarryng that by youre sad dyscrescyon all hadde ben sett thorow…”
From: Paston letters and papers of the fifteenth century
– John Paston, 1469
– Edited by Norman Davis, Richard Beadle, and Colin Richmond, 2004
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin pilula (pill) + -ous
EXAMPLE
“…Dorothea’s inferences may seem large; but really life could never have gone on at any period but for this liberal allowance of conclusion, which has facilitated marriage under the difficulties of civilization. Has anyone ever pinched into its pilulous smallness the cobweb of pre-matrimonial acquaintanceship?…”
From: Middlemarch
– George Eliot, 1871
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