ETYMOLOGY
from Latin longinquus (situated at a distance, remote, of time or distance: long, distant),
from longe (far) + a suffix also seen in propinquus (close at hand, neighbouring)
EXAMPLE
“…Of the Iles of the Gentiles in IAPHETS portion: of BEROSVS his too speedie seating GOMER the sonne of IAPHET in Italie; and another of IAPHETS sonnes TVBAL in Spaine: and of the antiquitie of Longinque Nauigation….”
From: the first part of The History of the World
By Sir Walter Raleigh, 1614
ETYMOLOGY
from notion + -ate
EXAMPLE
“…I pray remember my seruice to Mr Dury & the Ladies, & remembringe him of notionatinge his essay vpon Mr Webbe…”
From: Letter 2, November 2, 1645
By Cheney Culpeper
In 17th-Century Political and Financial Papers, 1996
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin eloquium (eloquence) + -ous
EXAMPLE
“…Eloquious hoarie beard father Nestor, you were one of them, and you M. Vlisses the prudent dwarfe of Pallas another, of whome it is Illiadizd that your very nose dropt sugar candie, and that your spittle was honye. Natalis Comes if he were aboue ground…”
From: Lenten Stuffe
By Thomas Nashe, 1599
ETYMOLOGY
from vagary (from Latin vagari (to wander)) + -ous
EXAMPLE
“…Thus life’s vagarious tenure passes on! And thus, the scenic vision glows with change! …”
From: Tour in Wales
By R.P., 1798
PRONUNCIATION
vuh-GAIR-ee-uhss
ETYMOLOGY
a humorous formation from Latin circum( round about) + bend + Latin –ibus (ablative plural ending)
EXAMPLE
“…Dominic: Let him alone; let him alone; I shall fetch
him back with a circum-bendibus I warrant him…”
From: The Spanish Fryar;
or, The Double Discovery
By John Dryden, 1681
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin uranicus (heavenly)
EXAMPLE
“…And therefore so much as spiritual and heavenly things exceed natural and Earthly, so much do the Uranicks exceed the Physicks…”
From: Synopsis Medicinæ
or, A Compendium of Astrological Galenical & Chymical Physick
By William Salmon, 1671
ETYMOLOGY
adj. & adv.: from French par cœur (by heart, by memory, perfectly, exactly)
vb.: from Latin perquirere (to make diligent search for), formed on per- + quærere (to seek)
EXAMPLE (for vb.)
“…Sweetly disposed soul (for so I hope)
Though most deluded by thy self, and Pope;
Perquire Zoographers, and none recite,
A Romane Pope turn’d willing Anchorite.
Now they so much abhor such doubtful ways,
They’ll not to Heaven go, without false ayes.…”
From: Divine Glimpses of a Maiden Muse
By Christopher Clobery, 1659
ETYMOLOGY
from snug + -ery
EXAMPLE
“…“Here you will be quite to yourselves,” said Lady Clonbrony; “let me establish you comfortably in this, which I call my sanctuary – my snuggery – Colambre, that little table! …”
From: The Absentee
In Tales of Fashionable Life
By Maria Edgeworth, 1812
ETYMOLOGY
from white + nose
EXAMPLE
“…We now hoisted sail and stood off the land. The wind, together with the sea, was fast rising, many a ‘white nose‘ chequering the blueness of the more open water…”
From: A Naturalist’s Ramble to The Orcades
By A. W. Crichton, 1866
ETYMOLOGY
alteration of gobble
EXAMPLE
“…A dinner nice the oad folks have,”
At race-time, ollis ‘ood, –
That day, they had a toad-in-hole,
A dish that’s deadly gud
But when oad Styles to goffle it,
Bargun, he soon ded cry out: –
“Missus! I thinks as how, taa-day,
“Yow’ve put the meller’s eye out!…”
From: John Noakes & Mary Styles:
Or, “An Essex Calf’s” Visit to Tiptree Races
By Charles Clark, 1839
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