ETYMOLOGY
from Latin scortator, agent-noun from scortari (to associate with harlots) + -ory
EXAMPLE
“… Delights of Wisdom Concerning Conjugial Love
After which Follow Pleasures of Insanity Concerning Scortatory Love …”
From: A Translation of “De Amore Conjugiali“
By Emanuel Swedenborg
Translated by Alfred Acton, 1794
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin effutitius, from Latin effutio (to chatter, prate)
EXAMPLE
“… No xenodochium allays
Radicate thirst with “Bass” or “Booth.”
Unaccendible paradigm!
Call not this effutitious prate;
‘Tis ecphonesis, though it seem
But babbling to balbucinate. …”
From: The Savage-Club Papers
Edited by Andrew Halliday, 1867
A Social Science Valentine, By Thomas Archer
ETYMOLOGY
from Old French fruiss- lengthened stem of fruir (to enjoy),
from Latin *fruire (classical Latin frui deponent vb.)
EXAMPLE
“… I may not fruisshe tho iocunde clippinges that are redy to holy spirites. …”
From: The earliest English translation of the first three books of the De Imitatione Christi
By Thomas à Kempis, c1425
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin luctisonus (from luctus (grief )+ son- root of sonus (sound)) + -ous
EXAMPLE
“… Let me coacervate a few
Ambagious words amarulent,
Ludificatory, but true,
Ere I become so macilent,
That without voice to ululate
My lov’d one’s luctisonous name,
My honour I impignorate,
And raise a temulentive flame. …”
From: The Savage-Club Papers
Edited by Andrew Halliday, 1867
A Social Science Valentine, By Thomas Archer.
ETYMOLOGY
earlier form of smuggle (vb.)
EXAMPLE
“… Which computation is sufficiently justified by the Customs of the Three Kingdoms, whose intrinsick value are thought to be near a Million per annum, viz. Six hundred thousand pounds, payable to the King; 100 thousand Pounds, for the charges of Collecting, &c. Two hundred thousand pounds smuckled by the Merchants, and one Hundred thousand pounds gained by the Farmers; according to common Opinion, and Mens Sayings: And this agrees also with that proportion, or part of the whole Trade of the World, which I have estimated the Subjects of the King of England to be possessed of; viz, of about Ten of Forty Five Millions. …”
From: Political Arithmetick
By Sir William Petty, 1691
ETYMOLOGY
from fuddle one’s cap or nose (to get drunk);
from fuddle (to tipple, to booze)
EXAMPLE
“… The Fuddlecap, whose God’s the Vyne,
Lacks not the Sun if he have Wine;
By th’ Sun he only finds a way
To some cool Spring, to spend the day.
Shrill Flutes and Trumpets Souldiers love,
And scorn those fears that Women move. …”
From: The Poems of Horace consisting of Odes, Satyres, and Epistles
Rendred in English verse by several persons
‘A Paraphrase upon the first Ode by S. W. Esq To MECOENAS‘
ETYMOLOGY
from churl + -y
EXAMPLE
“… But all this while, the shop where Jonah sleeps,
Is tost, and torne, and batter’d on the deeps,
And well-nigh split upon the threatning Rock,
With many a boystrous brush, and churley knock.
God help all desp’rate voyagers, and keepe
All such, as feele thy wonders on the deepe. …”
From: Divine poems: containing the History of -Jonah. Ester. Job. Samson.; Sions – sonets. Elegies.
By Francis Quarles, 1638
ETYMOLOGY
First introduced in the fig. n.1; from French evagation, Latin evagationem, noun of action from evagari, from e (out) + vagari (to wander)
EXAMPLE (for noun 1)
“… Clarefie me with fy clernesse of euerlastinge lijt, and bringe oute of fe liabitacle of myn herte aH maner of derkenes. Restreyne all euel evagacions & all miȝty temptacions. …”
From: The earliest English translation of the first three books of the De imitatione Christi
By Thomas à Kempis, c1425
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin rident-, ridens, present participle of ridere (to laugh), of uncertain origin
EXAMPLE
“…Bo. Hold up; so, sir, now away. Oh Mistris, your scantling, most sweete mistriss, most derydent starre.
Acut. Then most rydent starre, faire fall ye.
Grac. Nay tis the Moone her self, for there’s her man and her Dogge before. …”
From: Everie Woman in her Humor
‘Printed by E.A. for Thomas Archer, and are to be solde at his shop in the Popes-head-Pallace, neere the Royall Exchange’ ,1609
ETYMOLOGY
from Grimgribber, an imaginary estate subject of a legal discussion in the play Conscious Lovers (1722) by Sir Richard Steele, British essayist and dramatist
EXAMPLE
“… Mankind in general are not sufficiently aware that words without meaning, or of equivocal meaning, are the everlasting engines of fraud and injustice; and that the grimgribber of Westminster Hall is a more fertile, and a much more formidable, source of imposture than the abracadabra of magicians. …”
From: Epea pteroenta, or, The diversions of Purley
By John Horne Tooke, 1786
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