ETYMOLOGY
from swag (to move heavily from side to side or up and down) + buttock
EXAMPLE
“… Mag. Look you heare then.
Fra. O see, see — dat is de gross english Douck, for
de swagbuttock’d-wife of de Pesant.
Mag. How like you this then? There’s a Reverence
I warrant you. …”
From: Five new playes, (viz.) The Madd Couple Well matcht. Novella. Court begger. City witt. Damoiselle
The Damoiselle, Or The New Ordinary
By Richard Brome, 1653
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin comitat- ppl. stem of comitari (accompany, attend, follow)
EXAMPLE
“… Thus to his guest Aeneas lodgings went
This Heroë brave, mindfull of’s high intent
And of his promis’d aid. With no lesse care
Aeneas in the morning doth prepare.
With Pallas young the king associated,
Achates kinde Aeneas comitated.
Met, they shake hands, and down together sit,
And having time for talk, and leisure fit,
The king thus first began; Great prince of Troy,
I ne’re shall think (whiles thou dost life enjoy)
Troyes crowns and comforts to be brought to thrall …”
From: The XII Aeneids of Virgil, the Most Renowned Laureat-Prince of Latine-Poets
Translated by John Vicars, 1632
EXAMPLE
“… Lus. A parlous melancholy, has wit enough
To murder any man, and Ile giue him meanes.
I thinke thou art ill monied.
Vin. Money, ho, ho,
Tas beene my want so long, tis now my scoffe.
Iue ene forgot what colour siluers off ….”
From: The Revenger’s Tragedie
By Thomas Middleton, 1607
ETYMOLOGY
apparently from affy (to trust in someone or something) + – ant + ‑ly
EXAMPLE
“…St. John saith expressely, Jesus did many things which are not written. Indeed we may chuse whether we will affiantly beleeve any thing that is not written; but to say positively, It never was, because it is not written, is unworthy Hieromes learning, and is elsewhere by him rejected, out of the humour of opposition. …”
From: The Acts and Monuments of the Church Before Christ Incarnate
By Richard Montagu, 1642
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