ETYMOLOGY
from Latin plebicola one who courts the common people,
from plebs (the ordinary people) + –cola (cole) + -ist
EXAMPLE
“…Alva Adams, the plausible plebicolist who for so many years had prostituted Colorado to the lust of lucre and enslaved her to the corporations to serve his personal ends, was in his political death-struggle and fighting with the desperation of a dog-doomed rat…”
From: The Scarlet Shadow
A Story of the Great Colorado Conspiracy
By Walter Hurt, 1907
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin derisorius, from derisor (derider, mocker) + -ous
EXAMPLE
“…And that therefore the Spirit of Prophecy foreseeing these times, whenas for such a space he called Rome Pergamus, this succeeding Scene coming on, he might very well change the title of Pergamus into that of Thyatira, with a derisorious Allusion to the occasion of the name of that City, from the news of a Daughter being born to Nicanor.…”
From: An Antidote Against Idolatry
By Henry More, 1664
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin bucculentus, from bucca (cheek)
EXAMPLE
“… The Royal Game of Goose or the Yorkshire Tragedy, which form the common ornaments of our cottages, are superseded in theirs by some marvellous legend redolent of beatitude; and instead of the Amazonian Trull, or the weather-beaten Admiral which frowns from the bowsprit of a British man-of-war, they carve on their prows the fair image of some bucculent Cherub, or some semi-anatomized Saint …”
From: The British Critic
Volume XIX. January-June, 1823
‘Blunt’s Vestiges of Ancient Manners in Italy’
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin acervāt- past participial stem of acervare (to make into heaps, to pile up),
from acervus (a heap)
EXAMPLE
“…The mass of burning embers, by which the oven had been heated, was not, as he pretended, fairly swept out. Those that were well ignited were acervated (heaped up) into one corner; and the steak, so far from being left to the action of the heated air of the oven, was put between two tin dishes, and was embedded in the mass of the burning embers in the corners. …”
From: Arcana of Science and Art
Or, An Annual Register of Popular Inventions and Improvements
Printed by John Limbird, 1830
‘Chemical Science. The Fire King’
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin tacentem, present participle of tacere (to be silent)
EXAMPLE
“…And although he was much angred thereat, yet he seemed to be glad: and because he would obliege him further, he went vvith all his Court. Great was the resort thither of Ladies & Knights, and at the Kings entrance there was a fair Tragedy, whose subject I will be tacent of.…”
From: The Loves and Adventures of Clerio & Lozia.: A Romance
By Antoine Du Périer
Translation by F. Kirkman, 1652
ETYMOLOGY
from Old French estrivable, from estriver (to quarrel, contend) + -able
EXAMPLE
“…that eke the lay peple of the newe lawe is bounde, undir perel of greet synne, forto receyve her feith and al the leernyng of Goddis lawe, now beyng, in ech doutable and strivable poynt therof, fro and of the preestis of the newe lawe, and forto obeie to hem therynne, in lasse thanne the case of the seid excepcioun kan be executid …”
From: Book of Faith; a fifteenth century theological tractate
From the manuscript in the library of Trinity college, Cambridge
By Reginald Pecock, c1456
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin pentaglottos, pentaglottus (that is in five languages), from penta- + Greek γλῶττα (tongue) + ‑ical
EXAMPLE
Lexicophilia does not have a pentaglottical dictionary, but it does have a monoglot one.
ETYMOLOGY
from needle (n.) + spitter (a person who spits)
EXAMPLE
“… At the instant I entered, all the parties were engaged in combat, and my landlady – a perfect needle-spitter – stood with a face like Gorgon, with the iron frying pan in her uplifted hands eagerly waiting to cut down the too powerful knight of the hammer…”
From: The Sporting Magazine,
Or Monthly Calendar of The Transactions of The Turf, The Chace,
And Every Other Diversion Interesting to the Man of Pleasure, Enterprise, and Spirit
Vol. 25. For March, 1805
‘A Ramble; From Tiverton to Exeter’
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin Icarius = Greek Ἰκάριος, from Icarus, Ἴκαρος the son of Daedalus, in Greek Mythology + -an
EXAMPLE
“…And yet ’tis a bitter pang under any circumstances to find another preferred to yourself. It is about the same blow as one would probably feel if falling from a balloon. Your Icarian flight melts into a very grovelling existence, scarcely superior to that of a sponge or a coral, or redeemed only from utter insensibility by your very frank detestation of your rival…”
From: Coningsby: Or, The New Generation
By Benjamin Disraeli, 1844
ETYMOLOGY
from Greek ὁµόδοξος (of the same opinion),
from ὁµο- (homo-) + δόξα (opinion)
EXAMPLE
“…so likewise does the like Catholick Condemnation (from and by all the rest of the Christian Orders) reach the Church of Rome, as well as the Homodox Idolatry of the Cacodox Arians and Socinians.…”
From: Athenæ Britannicæ:
Or, A Critical History of the Oxford and Cambrige Writers and Writings.
By Myles Davies, Part II, 1716
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