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
ETYMOLOGY
from annoy (n.) + -ful
EXAMPLE
“…And eek men seyn þat thilke Iuge is wys þat soone vnderstondeth a matere & Iuggeth by leyser for al be it so þat al taryyng be anoyful algates it is nat to repreue...”
From: The Hengwrt manuscript of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin amœnus (pleasant) + –ous
EXAMPLE
“…Whose mynde was none other but to pass the time, and their predestinate perpetual captivitie in the amenous varietie of over reading and revoluting many volumes and sundry books of divers sciences and strange matters…”
From: Some Specimens of the Poetry of the Antient Welsh Bards
By the Rev. Mr. Evan Evans, 1764
A Poem Entitled, The Ode of the Months, composed by Bwilym Ddu of Arfon, to Sir John Griffydd Llwyd, of Tregarnedd and Dinornig
ETYMOLOGY
from Greek ἀδιάϕορ-ος (indifferent) + -ous
EXAMPLE
“…From all which may be inferred, that dissentions among the protestantes are not merely personall, or but pointes adiaphorous, indifferent, being as it were but peccant humors, and not true or formed diseases in their church, but they do concerne most profound doubtes of their religion, since otherwaies they would neuer anathematize, or condemne one an other with such acerbity of wordes…”
From: Whyte Dyed Black
Or A discouery of many most foule blemishes, impostures, and deceiptes
– Thomas Worthington, 1615
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