ETYMOLOGY
from Latin ambifarius two-sided, of double meaning + -ous
EXAMPLE
“…The Bridegroom, with his Bride is brought,
To Bed with various Turn of Thought;
By Ruth, with ambifarious Jest:
To please them both, she thinks it best…”
From: Poems on Various Subjects,
By Thomas Sadler, 1766
The Unfortunate Batchelor, Or Wife’s Resentment
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin aqua (water) + bibere (to drink)
EXAMPLE
“…To call a man a total abstainer would imply that he abstained from everything; to call him a temperance man is absurd, because from time immemorial men have drunk, as they still drink, wine temperately. Aquabib and hydropot may mean one who drinks water, but most men do that. I drink it always to quench thirst, but then I drink also a moderate quantity of wine…”
From: The Medical Times and Gazette,
A Journal of Medical Science, Literature, Criticism, and News
Volume I for 1883
“Temperance Appellations”
ETYMOLOGY
rom Latin aversationem, noun of action from aversat-
EXAMPLE
“…He can bear glory to their fleet, or shut up all their toils In his one suff’rance on thy lance.” With this deceit she led, And, both come near, thus Hector spake: “Thrice have I compassed This great town, Peleus’ son, in flight, with aversation That out of fate put off my steps; but now all flight is flown, The short course set up, death or life. Our resolutions yet Must shun all rudeness, and the Gods before our valour set For use of victory;…”
From: The Whole Works of Homer in his Iliads and Odysses
Translated by George Chapman, 1616
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin appropinquāre (to approach),
from ad (to), and propinquus, from prope (near)
EXAMPLE
“…The knotted bloud within my hose,
That from my wounded body flows,
With mortal Crisis doth portend
My dayes to appropinque an end.
I am for action now unfit,
Either of fortitude or wit…”
From: Hudibras, Written in the Time of the Late Wars
By Samuel Butler, 1663
Canto III. The Argument
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin amnicola (growing beside a river)
(from amnis (river) + -cola (inhabitant, worshipper)) + -ist
EXAMPLE
“…society without seleection, constitutional bumpers, and stale anecdotes, I determined to explore the banks of the Liffey, and to search among the amnicolists for that entertainment which eluded my pursuit in the urbanity of the capital…”
From: Hibernian Magazine
By Robert Jephson, 1782
ETYMOLOGY
from Greek anthos (flower) + mania (madness)
EXAMPLE
“…I had a little garden, too, of my own, which generated the intense love of flowers that has procured for me the kindred title of an anthomaniac…”
From: The Moneyed Man,
Or, The Lesson of a Life
By Horace Smith, 1814
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin adversarius (opposed, hostile, adverse, harmful, injurious) + -ous
EXAMPLE
“…This resisting and aduersarious Empire, while it fought against Christ it serued Christ, while it killed his Church it increased his Church, and while it fought against Religion, it became a meanes to spread and inlarge it…”
From: Diseases of the Time Attended by their Remedies
By Francis Rous, 1622
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin avītus of or pertaining to the avus (grandfather) + -ous
EXAMPLE
“…Being a leucothiop, he was not even a mediocrist, but a mere polypragmatical hafter or barrator. His inscience of avitous justicements, and of lexicology, his perissology and battology, imparted to his tractation of his cause, an imperspecuity which rendered it immomentous to the juratory audients…”
From: Letters to Squire Pedant in the East
Letter No. IX, 1843
By Lorenzo Altisonant (pseudonym Samuel Klinefelter Hoshour),
an Emigrant to the West, 1856
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin anser (goose) + -ous
EXAMPLE
“…Can any one be so anserous as to suppose, that the faculties of young men cannot be exercised, and their industry and activity called into proper action, because Mr. Hamilton teaches, in three or four years, what has (in a more vicious system) demanded seven or eight?…”
From: The Edinburgh Review, June, 1826
Hamilton’s Method of Teaching Languages
ETYMOLOGY
from anti- + -loquy (Latin loqui to speak)
EXAMPLE
“…The Antiloquie…”
(Heading)
From: The Utter Routing of the Whole Army of all the Independents and Sectaries, with the Totall Overthrow of their Hierarchy
By John Bastwick, 1646
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