Category: Word of the Day – C

ETYMOLOGY
– from Old French concordieux, -euse,
from medieval Latin concordiōsus ,
from concordia,  
from concors, concord (of one mind) + -ous

EXAMPLE
“…the King found himself at more Leisure and Freedom, in the Absence of the Lord Marquess, to study the calling of a Comfortable and Concordious Parliament, wherein the Subject might reap Justice, and the Crown Honour…”

From: Scrinia Reserata: 
A Memorial Offer’d to the Great Deservings of John Williams.
By John Hacket, a1670
The Life of Arch-Bishop Williams

ETYMOLOGY
– of unknown origin

EXAMPLE
“…A got him cuddle-muddlin’ wee ane anither at the back o’ a dyke.”

From: The Dialect of Banffshire
Walter Gregor, 1866

ETYMOLOGY
– from Latin confarreātiōnem, a noun of action from confarreāre (to unite in marriage by the offering of bread), 
from con- + farreus (of spelt, corn, or grain), farreum (a spelt-cake),
from far, farr-is (grain, spelt)

EXAMPLE
“…And if fell out that, that iust number coulde not bee founde, the vse of confarreation, or marriage with a cake of Wheate, either not vsed, or only of a few: whereof he alleaged many reasons, though the chiefest was, the carelesnes of men and women…”

From: The Annales of Cornelius Tacitus. The Description of Germanie.
(Translation Richard Grenewey)
Cornelius Tacitus, 1598