ETYMOLOGY
from Latin obmiss-, participial stem of obmittere, late spelling of omittere (to omit)
EXAMPLE
“… but to thende that eny gaynsaynge sholde be Imputed ayenst me to haue obmyssed for to dyscute som of the condycyons and euyll operacyons of the cursed proserpyne …”
From: Caxton’s Eneydos, 1490
English from the French Liure Des Eneydes, 1483
Edited by W.T. Culley, and F.J. Furnivall, 1890
ETYMOLOGY
from crab (the common name of the wild apple) + stick
EXAMPLE (for n. 2.)
“… Yes, I remember. I was remarking that sangaree and calipash, mangoes and guava jelly, dispose the heart to love, and so they do. I was not more than six weeks in Jamaica when I felt it myself. Now, it was a very dangerous symptom, if you had it strong in you, for this reason. Our colonel, the most cross-grained old crabstick that ever breathed, happened himself to be taken in when young, and resolving, like the fox who lost his tail and said it was not the fashion to wear one, to pretend he did the thing for fun, determined to make every fellow marry upon the slightest provocation. …”
From: Charles O’Malley
The Irish Dragoon
By Charles Lever, 1840
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin coævus (of the same age),
from co- + ævum (age) + -ous
EXAMPLE
“… Finally, the Tetrad connects all Beings, of Elements, Numbers, Seasons of the Year, Coaevous Society; neither can we name any thing, which depends not on the Tetractys, as its Root and Principle: …”
From: The History of Philosophy: containing the lives, opinions, actions and discourses of the philosophers of every sect
By Thomas Stanley, 1660
ETYMOLOGY
of obscure origin
EXAMPLE
“… be sure to give it a second plowing, just overthwart all the lands, and so cut the Turfe, that the Soard may have all the Winters frost to wroxe, and moulder it, which towards March thou mayst plow again, and so cast it, or raise it, as thy Land requireth …”
From: The English Improver, or a New Survey of Husbandry discovering to the kingdome that some land, both arrable and pasture, may be advanced double or treble
By Walter Blith, 1649
Reducement of Land to Pristine Fertility
ETYMOLOGY
from respect (n.) + -uous,
originally after French respectueux (showing respect, respectful)
EXAMPLE
“… Howbeit, they are themselves partly the cause that they doe incurre this obscuritie and ignorance: who being of divers and contrarie natures, yet fall into one and the selfesame inconvenience. For some upon a certaine respectuous reverence which they bare unto their Reader and Doctour, or because they would seeme to spare him, are afraid to aske questions, and to be confirmed and resolved in doubts arising from the doctrine which he delivereth: and so give signes by nodding their heads that they approove all, as if they understood everie thing verie well. …”
From: The Philosophie, commonlie called, The Morals
By Plutarch of Chæronea
Translated out of Greeke into English, and conferred with the Latine translations and the French, by Philemon Holland, 1603
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin prandiculum (a light meal),
from prandium (luncheon) + -culum (-cule)
EXAMPLE
Most children cannot make it through to the evening meal without a prandicle.
ETYMOLOGY
from belly + mountain + -ed
EXAMPLE
“… and such a one he confesseth himself, that some of his own kindred (whom therefore he styles Jewish Presbyterians) suspect him to be; yea he complains of, or exclaims rather against one, (whom he calls a man of pufpast, like that fat bellie-mountaind Bishop) who lighting on one of his Works, said no more of it, but wrote onely upon it, Spalatensis. …”
From: A Discours Apologetical; wherein Lilies lewd and lowd lies in his Merlin or Pasqil for the yeer 1654. are cleerly laid open
By Thomas Gataker, 1654
ETYMOLOGY
from participial stem of Latin tumultuari (to make a bustle or disturbance) + -ate
EXAMPLE
“… Secondly, beeing sued, and Iudgement passed against you, Acquiesce in the Iudgement, and doe not tumultuate against it; and take example from mee, whom you haue heard here protest, that when euer any Decree shall be giuen against me in my priuate right, betweene me and a Subiect, I will as humbly acquiesce as the meanest man in the Land. Imitate me in this, for in euery Plea there are two parties, and Iudgement can be but for one, and against the other; so one must alwayes be displeased. …”
From: James I of England
Speach Starre-chamber, 1616
ETYMOLOGY
from awe (a feeling of terror or dread mixed with reverence) + bound (compelled, obliged)
EXAMPLE
“… As she uttered the interrogatory, she raised the rattle-snake in her hands, holding it so that it might be distinctly seen by those whom she addressed. The reptile hissed, accompanying the sibilation with a sharp “skirr” of its tail. Who could doubt that it was an answer in the affirmative?
Not the Yamassees, who stood awe-bound and trembling in the presence of the mighty sorceress. …”
From: Osceola the Seminole,
Or, The Red Fawn of the Flower Land
By Capt. Mayne Reid, 1858
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin hilarat- participial stem of hilarare, from hilarus, hilaris, (cheerful, gay)
EXAMPLE
They drank enough wine to hilarate, not intoxicate.
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