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Word of the Day: EFFOCATE

ETYMOLOGY
– from Latin effōcāt- ppl. stem of effōcāre,
from ex (out) + faux (throat)

EXAMPLE
A post-mortem on the body revealed that the victim had been effocated.

Word of the Day: EXCEREBROSE

ETYMOLOGY
from ex- (prefix) + Latin cerebrum (brain) + -ose

EXAMPLE
“…It brands him at once as an excerebrose scallywag, an eviscerated elasmobranch, worthy of being hurled neck and crop along with Mendelssohn into the limbo of discredit desuetude…“

From: The Musical Times and Singing-Class Circular,
Volume XXXVII, 1896

Word of the Day: EMBERLUCOCK

ETYMOLOGY
from French emburelucocquer, nonce-word of fanciful formation

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
a1548 – see EXAMPLE below

EXAMPLE
“…Ha, for favour sake, (I beseech you) never emberlucock or inpulregafize your spirits with these vaine thoughts and idle conceits; for I tell you, it is not impossible with God, and if he pleased all women henceforth should bring forth their children at the eare….”

From: The Works of Mr. Francis Rabelais
Doctor in Physick. Containing Five Books of the Lives, Heroick Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and his Sonne Pantagruel
– Mr. Francis Rabelais
Translated into English by Sir Thomas Urquhart and Peter Antony Motteux