ETYMOLOGY
from Latin ardelio, from ardere (to burn, be eager or zealous)
EXAMPLE
“…we run, ride, take indefatigable pains, all up early, down late, striving to get that which we had better be without, (Ardelion’s busybodies as we are) it were much fitter for us to be quiet, sit still, and take our ease…”
From: The Anatomy of Melancholy
By Robert Burton, 1624
ETYMOLOGY
variant of rampageous, after adjectives ending in -acious
EXAMPLE
“…In the main street of Ipswich, on the left-hand side of the way, a short distance after you have passed through the open space fronting the Town Hall, stands an inn known far and wide by the appellation of the Great White Horse, rendered the more conspicuous by a stone statue of some rampacious animal with flowing mane and tail, distantly resembling an insane cart-horse, which is elevated above the principal door…”
From: The Pickwick Papers
By Charles Dickens, 1836
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin falsiloquus (from falsus (false) + loqui (to speak)) + -ence
EXAMPLE
“…And that their Mutual Forces Join’d,
Harnass’d with Wit so much refin’d;
And so adorn’d instead of Sense,
With Trappings of Falsiloquence,
Might draw misjudging Fools to be,
In Love with their Sincerity;…”
From: The Fifth and last Part of Vulgus Britannicus
By Edward Ward, 1710
ETYMOLOGY
from each + where
EXAMPLE
“…A sely synful was she þis
For al hir synne turned in to blis
She was lyuynge in cuntre þere
Whenne ihesus preched vche where
And mony a pert myracle did
Wher wiþ to men he him kid
And mony seke he ȝaf her hele
And as he coom bi o castele…”
From: Cursor Mundi (The Cursur o the World).
A Northumbrian poem of the XIVth century, a1400
ETYMOLOGY
perhaps a variation of jimp (slender, slim, delicate, graceful, neat)
EXAMPLE
“…Hys wifis, Toppa and Partelot, hym by,
As byrd al tyme that hantis bigamy.
The pantyt povn, pasand with plomys gym,
Kest vp his taill, a provd plesand quheill rym,
Yschrowdyt in hys fedrame brycht and scheyn,
Schapand the prent of Argus hundreth eyn…”
From: Virgil’s Aeneid translated into Scottish verse
By Gavin Douglas, 1513
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin pluviatilis consisting of rain,
from pluvia (rain) + -atilis (-atile)
EXAMPLE
“…Take Hogges suet lb 6. Terebinthine which hath binne washed in pluviatile water & mixe the Quicksilver therwith…”
From: The Boock of Physicke
By Oswald Gaebelkhover
Translation by A.M., 1599
ETYMOLOGY
from Greek ὀνόµατ– ὄνοµα (name) + -ous
PRONUNCIATION
uh-NOM-uh-tuhss
EXAMPLE
“…For our own parts, we will not be forward to remove the disguise, and, indeed, in very many cases we should as a rule prefer the anonymous to the onomatous mode of addressing the public…”
From: The Spectator
A Weekly Review of Politics, Literature, Theology, and Art
Volume the Forty-Second, 1869
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin arguit- ppl. stem of arguere + -ive, as if from Latin arguitivus (attacking or accusing)
EXAMPLE
“…But, as it is, the only knowledge of God to which the mind of man can naturally attain, is arguitive, being deduced from his cognitions of the creature; and therefore in the enunciation of the Thesis, the direct measure of the human intellect is restricted to finite Being…”
From: The Metaphysics of the School
By Thomas Harper, 1879
ETYMOLOGY
from Epicurus (or epicure) + -ize
EXAMPLE
“…See whether in our time this be not a custom among some people, that if a man were disposed to epicurize a little, he would not rather choose to fast as some hold fasting, than to feast at a sober banquet…”
From: An Exposition Upon the Prophet Jonah
By George Abbot, 1600
ETYMOLOGY
formed by compounding, from ring
EXAMPLE
He was a ring-pigger and a debauchee, and his family were divided in opinion as to whether he died from the effects of drink or from licentious living.
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