ETYMOLOGY
Old English (West Saxon) ealdmodor,
from eald (eld old) + mother
EXAMPLE
“…þis es þat man men sais was born
Bath his fader and moder be-forn.
He had his eldmoder maiden-hede,
And at his erthing all lede…”
From: Cursor Mundi (The cursur o the world)
A Northumbrian poem of the XIVth century
a1300
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin exheredat- participial stem of exheredare (to disinherit), from ex- + heredem (heir)
EXAMPLE
“…’Tis fit indeed, fortitude should be encouraged, all ages and Nations have need of it, and are made happy by it, therefore ought to reward it, and so have done, and so (for example sake) will do; but other vertues of equal merit, must not be exhaeredated, or become spurious, to advance its legitimation…”
From: A discourse and defence of arms and armory,
shewing the nature and rises of arms and honour in England, from the camp, the court, the city
By Edward Waterhouse, 1660
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.
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
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
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