ETYMOLOGY
from slip + skin
EXAMPLE
“…A pretty slip-skin conveyance to sift Masse into no Masse, and Popish into not Popish; yet saving this passing fine sophistical boulting hatch, so long as she symbolises in form, and pranks herself in the weeds of Popish Mass…”
From: Animadversions upon the Remonstrants Defence against Smectymnuus
by John Milton, 1641
ETYMOLOGY
from. Latin obserat-, past participial stem of obserare (to bolt),
from ob- + sera (bolt)
EXAMPLE
“…he commenced to supparasite the juratory bevy relative to their noetical habilitation to sarse Fritz’s maleficence, and adjudicate to ablegate him to a lobspound, and have him there immured and securely obserated…”
From: Frontier Experience
Or Epistolary Sesquipedalian Lexiphanicism from the Occident
by J.E.L. Seneker, 1906
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin crēbrum (frequent) + -ous
EXAMPLE
“…Now at the lengthe not onlie harde necessitie, but also most principallie the crebrous phame of your clemencie, and the right worshipfull and Godlie reporte of your bountefull humanitie and gentlenes vnto all men…”
From: Original Letters of Eminent Literary Men of the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries
– J. Leach. c1600
Edited by Henry Ellis
ETYMOLOGY
? alteration of twilight after twitter (vb. to move tremulously, shake, quiver) + light
EXAMPLE
“…You can steale secretly hether, you misticall queane you, at twylight, twitterlights,
You haue a priuiledge from your hat forsooth,
To walke without a man, and suspition,”
But we poore gentlewomen that goe in Tires
Haue no such liberty, we cannot do thus…”
From: Your fiue gallants
As it hath beene often in action at the Black-friers
By Thomas Middleton, 1608
ETYMOLOGY
from stiria (an icicle) + -ous
EXAMPLE
“…The ground of this opinion might be, first the conclusions of some men from experience, for as much as Crystall is found sometimes in rockes, and in some places not much unlike the stirious or stillicidious dependencies of Ice; which notwithstanding may happen either in places which havee been forsaken or left bare by the earth, or may be petrifications, or Minerall indurations, like other gemmes proceeding from percolations of the earth disposed unto such concretions…”
From: Pseudodoxia Epidemica,
or, Enquiries into very many received tenents and commonly presumed truths
By Thomas Browne
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin prōspicient-, prōspiciēns (provident, cautious),
present participle of prōspicĕre (to look forward)
EXAMPLE
“…But fortune prospicient to the Original of Rome, did provide a Woolf to give suck to the children, who having lost her whelps, and desiring to emptie her teats, did offer her self as a Nurse to the Infants, and returning often to the children, as to her own young ones…”
From: The History of Ivstine:
taken out of the four and forty books of Trogus Pompeius… together with the Epitomie of the lives and manners of the Roman Emperors
– Marcus Junianus Justinus
– translated by Robert Codrington, 1654
ETYMOLOGY
from Neptune + -ist
EXAMPLE
“…Let euery man in his degree enioy his due; and let the braue enginer, fine Dædalist, skilfull Neptunist, maruelous Vulcanist, and euery Mercuriall occupationer, that is, euery Master of his craft and euery Doctour of his mystery, be respected according to the vttermost extent of his publique seruice or priuate industry.…”
From: Pierces Supererogation:
Or A New Prayse of The Old Asse
By Gabriell Harvey, 1593
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin scrībĕre (to write) + -acious
EXAMPLE
“…We have some Letters of Popes, (though not many; for Popes were then not very scribacious, or not so pragmatical; whence to supply that defect, lest Popes should seem not able to write, or to have slept almost 400 years, they have forged divers for them, and those so wise ones, that we who love the memory of those good Popes, disdain to acknowledge them Authours of such idle stuff; we have yet some Letters)…”
From: A Treatise of the Pope’s Supremacy:
to which is added a Discourse Concerning the Unity of the Church
– Isaac Barrow, a1677
ETYMOLOGY
– from ob and sol (scholastic disputation, subtle debate – shortened from objection) + -er
EXAMPLE
“…Where Hinderson, and th’ other Masses,
Were sent to cap Texts, and put Cases:
To pass for Deep and Learned Scholars;
Although but Paltry, Ob-and-Sollers:
As if th’ unseasonable Fools
Had been a Cursing in the Schools…”
From: Hudibras. The third and last part,
By Samuel Butler, 1678
ETYMOLOGY
from house + dove
EXAMPLE
“…safe and sounde to Rome, and euery man riche and loden with spoyle: then the hometarriers and housedoues that kept Rome still, beganne to repent them that it was not their happe to goe with him…”
From: The Liues of the Noble Grecians and Romanes
– Plutarch
– Translated by Thomas North, 1579
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