ETYMOLOGY
from chatter + mag (a chatterbox)
EXAMPLE
“…Now then, stop that; we don’t want no such dal’d nonsense; we come here to work. Now then, you women, divide into twos, and begin at both ends, or we shan’t get any work done for your chattermagging…”
From: Stubble Farm;
Or, Three Generations of English Farmers
By Hubert A. Simmons, Vol. II, 1880
Chapter I. P. 14
ETYMOLOGY
from the Oxford English Dictionary:
“This adjective, which is presupposed in the derivative cullibility (known 1728), would normally be derived from a verb cull ; but none such is recorded”
EXAMPLE
“…The cullibity of man praeterite, I allow, but because men are & have been cullible, I see no reason why shd always continue so, – Have there not been fluctuations in the opinions of mankind; and as the stuff which soul is made of must be in every one the same …”
From: The Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley,
Edited by Frederick Lafayette Jones, 1964,
– Shelley to Hogg, January 12, 1811
ETYMOLOGY
adj.: from Latin collacrimatus, pa. pple. of collacrimare;
vb. : from Latin collacrimat- ppl. stem of collacrimare, from col- (together) + lacrimāre (to shed tears, weep), from lacrima (tear)
EXAMPLE
“…A tormentor would collachrymate my case, and rather choose to have been tortured himself than torment me with ingratitude as thou dost…”
From: Christs teares ouer Ierusalem,
By Thomas Nashe, 1593
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin Cyprius (of Cyprus) + -an;
in French cyprien
EXAMPLE
“…Shall Curio streake his lims on his dayes couch,
In Sommer bower? and with bare groping touch
Incense his lust, consuming all the yeere
In Cyprian dalliance, and in Belgick cheere?
Shall Faunus spend a hundred gallions,
Of Goates pure milke, to laue his stallions,
As much Rose iuyce? O bath! ô royall, rich
To scower Faunus, and his salt proude bitch!…”
From: The Scourge of Villanie
By John Marston, 1598
ETYMOLOGY
from Old French charitatif, -ive, caritatif, -ive, medieval Latin caritativus (charitable)
EXAMPLE
“…And for that this only controversy is the cause of this visitation, I do mean that it shall be merely charitative, and not to burden the clergy of any procurations as yet; and withal not to trouble your lordship much longer about this matter there, than you shall be occasioned otherwise to tarry for the speeding of the visitation of the church…”
From: The Remains of Edmund Grindal, 1843
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin contortuplicatus, from contortus (twisted together) + plicatus (folded)
EXAMPLE
“…Cruspini, who, in spite of his selfishness, is a shrewd dog, for a foreigner, says it is allowing to his violin; and he takes care that its influence shall not be wanting, for he eviscerates as much noise from its contortuplicated bowels, every day, as would disconcert a herd of swing remonstrating against a high wind…”
From: Thurlston Tales
“Grey Joan”
Robert Pierce Gillies, 1835
ETYMOLOGY
a humorous perversion of substantial, intended to suggest ‘drunken’
EXAMPLE
“…He that is borne vnder Capricornus shall be a slouenly, ill-fauoured, and vncleane fellowe, bicause the gote is a beast filthie, stinking and vncleane. He that is borne vnder Aquarius and Pisces shall be fortunate by water, bicause watermen haunt the waters, and fishes swim in the same. These be cupstantiall reasons and well seasoned arguments, and as strong to prooue their purpose, as a castell of paper to resist the enimie…”
From: Phillip Stubbes’s Anatomy of the Abuses in England in Shakspere’s Youth, A.D. 1583
Folly of the Zodiacal Signs influencing men.
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin confragosus (broken, rough, uneven),
from Latin confringere and fragosus, from stem frag- of frangere (to break)
EXAMPLE
“…But, what appeared most stupendous to me, was the rock of St. Vincent, a little distance from the towne, the precipice whereof is equal to any thing of that nature I have seene in the most confragose cataracts of the Alpes, the river gliding between them at an extraordinary depth. Here, we went searching for diamonds, and to the Hot Wells, at its foote…”
From: The Diary of John Evelyn
27 June 1654
ETYMOLOGY
from clapper (the tongue of a bell; a talkative person’s tongue) + tongue
EXAMPLE
“…She has an e’e, she has but ane,
The cat has twa the very colour;
Five rusty teeth, forbye a stump,
A clapper tongue wad deave a miller:
A whiskin beard about her mou’,
Her nose and chin they threaten ither;
Sic a wife as Willie had,
I wadna gie a button for her!…”
From: The Scots Musical Museum
By James Johnson, 1792
Sic A Wife as Willie had – Robert Burns
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin caupōnāt- ppl. stem of caupōnāri (to traffic or trade in),
from caupōnem (retail tradesman, huckster, innkeeper)
EXAMPLE
“…Nor may these false and flattering Dalilahs of our times (who by cauponating Religion and handling the Scriptures deceitfully, seek to betray the strength, honour, and order this reformed Church in England, under pretences of great kindness)…”
From: Hieraspistes: A Defence by Way of Apology for the Ministry and Ministers of the Church of England
By John Gauden, 1653
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