ETYMOLOGY
from Latin scriptitation-, scriptitatio (act of writing down, act of writing or composing, that which is written, text) from scriptitat-, past participial stem of scriptitare (to be in the habit of writing, to write regular or repeated letters), (frequentative formation from scribere (to write))
EXAMPLE
“… There is something in this Amory’s manner of scriptitation which is..utterly void of all pretensions to the business of argument. …”
From: The Church of England Vindicated, 1779
ETYMOLOGY
of uncertain origin
EXAMPLE
“… I scruggell with one to gette from hym, or by cause I wyll nat obey his correction …”
From: Lesclarcissement de la Langue Francoyse
By John Palsgrave, 1530
also CLOTTIMAULS
ETYMOLOGY
from ‘clotty‘ related to clot (vb.);
with ‘mauls‘ ‘mauley‘ (the hand, fist, sl.)
EXAMPLE
“… sich a passionate chap, I wor afreead o´ his clottymoles comin´ i´ contact wi´ my bowster: soa thowt I, I´d wesh ´em, an´ just sponge my cloas dahn at t´ same toime. …”
From: The Salamanca Corpus
Wadsley Jack; or, The Humours & Adventures of a Travelling Cutler
By Reuben Hallam, 1866
also INDULCIATE
ETYMOLOGY
from ppl. stem of Latin indulcare (to sweeten), from in- + dulcare (to sweeten), dulcis (sweet)
EXAMPLE
“… as guilt imbitters our comforts, it is like drinking out of a wormwood cup; so assurance would indulciate and sweeten all. …”
From: A Body of Practical Divinity
By Thomas Watson, 1759
Of Assurance.
ETYMOLOGY
perhaps the same as Tib, a shortened hypocoristic form of the female name Isabel; now rather rude or slighting (except playfully);
also with dim. -y or -ie, Tibbie, a common female name in the north
EXAMPLE
“… .Trupeny. Mary then prickmedaintie come toste me a fig,
Who shall then know our Tib Talke apace trow ye?
An. Alyface. And why not Annot Alyface as fyne as she?
Trupeny. And what had Tom Trupeny, a father or none?
An. Alyface. Then our prety newe come man will looke to be one …”
From: Ralph Roister Doister
By Nicholas Udall, a1556
ETYMOLOGY
from dure (to last, continue in existence) + -ful
EXAMPLE
“… Be nought dismayd that her vnmoued mind,
doth still persist in her rebellious pride:
such loue not lyke to lusts of baser kynd,
the harder wonne, the firmer will abide.
The durefull Oake, whose sap is not yet dride,
is long ere it conceiue the kindling fyre:
but when it once doth burne, it doth diuide
great heat, and makes his flames to heauen aspire. …”
From: Amoretti vi, in Amoretti and Epithalamion
By Edmund Spenser, 1595
also FULGROUS
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin fulgur (lightning, a flash of lightning) + -ous
EXAMPLE
“… and, iust at thinstant, all the canons plaien
frome towne to Campe, from Camp to towne againe,
in suche ann horrid noise, and flaminge light,
as if noone daie weare wedded to midd night:
or as if th’ pitchie clowdes of fulgrous heavn
had taen their In vp, neath the spheres seaven. …”
From: John Lane’s Continuation of Chaucer’s ‘Squire’s Tale’
By John Lane, 1616
PRONUNCIATION
FUL-gyuh-ruhss
ETYMOLOGY
from French chilonique, from Chilon (Χίλων), one of the seven wise men of Greece, whose sentences were very short and to the point
EXAMPLE
All job descriptions should be in a Chilonic style of writing.
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin potat-, past participial stem of potare (to drink) + ‑ive
EXAMPLE
“… desireth to cure these or such like infectious diseases, must chiefly prepare and season the body with waters of cold and naturall hearbes, in the first and second degree, before the disease be possessed: then foorthwith flux the body, by some gentle and potatiue electuarie, in equall and artificial degree, fauourably casting out the infected humours. …”
From: The Flower of Phisicke
VVherein is perfectlie comprehended a true introduction and method for mans assured health
By William Clever, 1590
ETYMOLOGY
from un- + plausive (expressive of approval or praise),
from Latin plaus-, ppl. stem of plaudere (to applaud) + -ive
EXAMPLE
“… Achilles stands i’th entrance of his Tent;
Please it our Generall to passe strangely by him,
As if he were forgot: and Princes all,
Lay negligent and loose regard vpon him;
I will come last,’tis like heele question me,
Why such vnplausiue eyes are bent? why turn’d on him?
If so, I haue derision medicinable,
To vse betweene your strangenesse and his pride,
Which his owne will shall haue desire to drinke;
It may doe good, pride hath no other glasse
To show it selfe, but pride: for supple knees,
Feede arrogance, and are the proud mans fees. …”
From: The Tragedy of Troylus and Cressida
By William Shakespeare, 1609
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