ETYMOLOGY
formed by compounding, from loose
EXAMPLE
“…His dam was for certain some loose clackt bitch or other; and he is so far from being tongue tyed, that he walks quite cantipodes to the precept here, see and say nothing…”
From: Confused Characters of Conceited Coxcombs:
Or, A Dish of Traitorous Tyrants
By K.W., 1661
ETYMOLOGY
from one + where, after somewhere, nowhere
EXAMPLE
“…if we translate the Hebrew or the Greek word once by purpose, never call it intent; if onewhere journeying, never traveling, if one where think, never suppose; if one where pain, never ache; if one where joy, never gladness…”
From: Bible (King James)
Translator Miles Smith, 1611
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin parciloquium (speaking sparingly),
from parcus (sparing) + loqui (to speak)
EXAMPLE
She delivered a parciloquy to officially open the refurbished building.
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin sesquihora (an hour and a half)
EXAMPLE
“…but the greater part of those that were commissionated with the Scot-Ecclesiastical approbation) their rancour and spleen being still more and more sharpned against the English Nation, they in their tedious pharisaical prayers before Supper, and Sesquihoral Graces upon a dish of Skink, and leg of Mutton, would so imbue the mindes of the poor swains (on whose charge they were) with vaticinations of help from heaven…”
From: Εκσκυβαλαυρον (Ekskybalauron) (The Jewel)
By Thomas Urquhart, 1652
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin mentition-, mentitio (lying, falsehood),
from mentit-, past participial stem of mentiri (to lie)+ -iō (-ion)
EXAMPLE
From childhood, she has never been good at mentition. Her face always turned bright red when she tried.
ETYMOLOGY
from French gobe-mouches
(from gober (to swallow) + mouche (fly))
PRONUNCIATION
GOB-moosh
EXAMPLE
“…Such a representation the gobes mouches of Florence might have readily magnified into a change of religion.…”
From: Narrative Of A Residence In Algiers
By Edward Blaquière, translation of Filippo Pananti, 1818
ETYMOLOGY
badly formed on edibilis (edible),
after adjs. in –atory
EXAMPLE
“…“Amen to your creed!” said I: “edibilatory Epicurism holds the key to all morality: for do we not see now how sinful it is to yield to an obscene and exaggerated intemperance?…”
From: Pelham, Or, Adventures of a Gentleman
By Edward Bulwer Lytton, 1828
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin tonitruare (to thunder)
EXAMPLE
“…I cannot fulminate or tonitruate words,
To puzzle intellects; my ninth lassaffords
No Lycophronian buskins, nor can strain
Garagantuan lines to gigantize thy vein;
Nor make a jusjurand, that thy great plays
Are tierra-del-fuegos or incognitas;
Thy Pegasus, in his admir’d career,
Curvets no caprioles of nonsense here…”
From: Panegyric to James Shirley’s Grateful Servant, (preface verses)
By Thomas Randolph, 1630
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin nimius (excessive),
from nimis (too much) + -ous
EXAMPLE
“…That is trew, and be possybilyte;
therfor of my deth shew yow I wyll.
My fathyr, of nemyows charyte,
sent me, his son), to make redemcyon),
wyche was conseyvyd be puer verginyte…”
From: The Digby Mysteries
Mary Magdalene. c1500
ETYMOLOGY
from writing (vbl. n.) + -er
EXAMPLE
“…and that of the shape of the x from a form like theMS. & to the modern one, which occurs towards the end of the volume, may help some future and more learned writinger to settle the date more closely than I can…”
From: Bishop Percy’s Folio Manuscript
By F. J. Furnivall (Forewords)
J.W. Hales, 1867
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