ETYMOLOGY
from Latin emacitas, from emacem (fond of buying), from emere (to buy)
EXAMPLE
“…I found, however, that this gentleman was a little inflicted with the disease of emacity, or itch for buying bargains above-mentioned…”
From: Flowers of Literature
Edited by Francis William Blagdon, Francis Prévost, 1806
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin gracilis (slender) + -ous
EXAMPLE
“…Gracilious, slender, small, thin, soft and weak…”
From: The Academy of Armory; or, A Storehouse of Armory and Blazon
By Randle Holme, 1688
Some few terms of Art used by Historians in the description of Fish and Sea-Worms
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin dulcarnon Pythagoras’ theorem
from Arabic ḏu’l-qarnayn (two-horned, lit. ‘possessor of the two horns’)
from ḏu (lord, possessor) + al (the) + qarnayn, dual of qarn (horn)
EXAMPLES
“…Criseyde answerde, :As wisly God at reste
My soule bringe, as me is for hym wo!
If that ich hadde grace to do so.
And eem, y-wis, fayn wolde I doon the beste,
But whether that ye dwelle or for him go,
I am, til God me bettre mynde sende,
At dulcarnoun, right at my wittes ende…”
From: Letter from Mrs. M. Roper in Thomas More’s Works, 1441
“…Siva holds the drums of creation in one hand and the fires of destruction in the other—an either/or dulcarnon from which there seems no escape…”
From: A Wake Newslitter
December, 1974
ETYMOLOGY
echoic;
compare globbe, glop, gulp (to swallow greedily);
also Danish (dial.) gluffe, Swedish (dial.) gluffa (to eat hastily or noisily (said e.g. of pigs)), gluffi (a glutton)
EXAMPLE
Big John is such a gloffer, he never refuses a second helping, and often goes back for a third.
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin fidelis (faithful, loyal) + -ous
EXAMPLE
“…I ever (quoth Rhoxenor) have found thee cordially fidelious, doe but doe as thou hast indented, and expect what wealth, or honour thou canst covet, while Clodomer lives, and when his death, puts the Diadem upon my head, to be my only favourite…”
From: The Loves of Amandus and Sophronia
By Samuel Sheppard, 1650
ETYMOLOGY
from fop (n.) + doodle (n.)
EXAMPLE
“…Quoth he, This scheme of th’ heavens set,
Discovers how in fight you met
At Kingston with a may-pole idol,
And that y’ were bang’d both back and side well;
And though you overcame the bear,
The dogs beat you at Brentford fair;
Where sturdy butchers broke your noddle,
And handled you like a fop-doodle…”
From: Hudibras: The Second Part
By Samuel Butler, 1664
ETYMOLOGY
from yule + girth
EXAMPLE
“…and for gewing him monye injurious and ewill wourdis, for breking of Yule gerthe and trubling of the towne, is adjugit in amerciament and dome giffin thairvpon…”
From: Records of Inverness
Volume I. Burgh Court Books: 1556-86
1569-70 14 Jan.
ETYMOLOGY
from French jectigation (‘wagging, shrugging’ (Cotgrave)),
from medieval Latin jectigare, from jact-, ject-, ppl. stem of Latin jacere (to throw)
EXAMPLE
“…both Men and Women seemed to Prophetize and Vaticinate, because of an affected kind of wagging of the Head, shrugging of the Shoulders, and Jectigation of the whole Body, which they used then most punctually…”
From: The Third Book of the Heroick Deeds and Sayings of the Good Pantagruel
By François Rabelais
Translated by Thomas Urquhart and Peter Anthony Motteux, 1693
ETYMOLOGY
from be- + blubber (to weep effusively) + -ed
EXAMPLE
“…Thee seas, thee regions and eeche place worldlye beholding,
On Lybye land lastly fixt his celestial eyesight.
And thus as he mused, with tears Venus heauye beblubberd
Prest foorth in presence, and whimpring framed her errand…”
From: The First Booke of Virgil His Aeneis
Translated by Richard Stanyhurst, 1582
ETYMOLOGY
from debat (debate, a controversy or discussion + -ous
EXAMPLE
“…Appetytes of auaryce be to them so amerous
Abusyon and arrogaunce ben of one affynyte
Aduenture and angre ben aye so debatous.
Faynynge estate of counterfet auctoryte
Adulacyon of aduenture mayst thou not auaunt the
As a lyer in goodnes in thyne araye doest appere
Englande may wayle that euer it came here…”
From: Here Begynneth a Treatyse of this Galaunt
By John Lydgate (attributed name), ?1510
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