ETYMOLOGY
from gain- (against, in opposition to) + stand (vb.)
EXAMPLE (for vb.)
“… Throuch his falsheid and craftynes
He sall flow in to welthynes
The Godlye pepyll he sall noye
By creuell deith, and thame distroye
The kyng of Kyngis, he sall ganestand
Syne be distroyit withouttin hand. …”
From: Ane Dialog Betuix Experience and ane Courteour off the Miserabyll Estait of the Warld
By David Lindsay, 1554
ETYMOLOGY
from glum + -y
EXAMPLE (for adj. 1)
“… yet it can not be denyed, but that such casuall blastes may happen, as are most too bee feared, when the wether waxeth darke and glummy. …”
From: The Triall of Truth, wherein are discovered three greate enemies vnto mankind
By Edward Knight, 1580
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin gaudibundus, from gaudere (to rejoice)
EXAMPLE
Her gaudibund expression showed that she had heard the good news.
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin gula (gullet, appetite, gluttony) + -ist
EXAMPLE
“… He that sell’s himselfe to the custome of disloyalty to his Creator, become’s ignorant of his offence; and, instead of correction, prove’s unskilfull in the knowledge of his sinne. The gluttonous satiety of our swelling Gulists, argue’s their necessity of offending by forgetfulnes: and their own abundance barr’s them frō the just weighing of the poverty of the distressed. The common drunkard cannot be taken with a due thanks-giving for that superfluity which he corrupt’s, from whence many thirstie soules might sucke a reasonable supply for necessity. …”
From: The Honor of Chastity
By John Featley, 1632
ETYMOLOGY
from grim (adj.) + sir, sire
EXAMPLE
“…And I, Baruk prophete, conferme wurdys thes,
Lord and prince of pes, thow that chylde be,
Al his fomen ageyn hym that pres,
Ryght a grym syre at domysday xal he be. …”
From: Ludus Coventriæ, A Collection of Mysteries, c1450
The Prophets
Printed for the Shakespeare Society, 1841
also GELAZIN
ETYMOLOGY
from French gelasin, from Greek γελασῖνος (gelasinus), from γελᾶν (to laugh)
EXAMPLE
“… The beauty of the face consisteth in a large, square, well extended and cleere front, eye-browes well ranged, thin and subtile, the eye well diuided, cheerefull, sparkling: as for the colour I leaue it doubtfull, the nose leane, the mouth little, the lips coraline, the chinne short and dimpled, the cheekes somewhat rising and in the middle the pleasant gelasin, the eares round and well compact, the whole countenance with a liuely tincture white and vermilion. …”
From: Of Wisdome, three bookes written in French by Peter Charron
Translated by Samson Lennard ?1608
ETYMOLOGY
from English dialect gotch (a big-bellied earthenware pot or jug) + bellied
EXAMPLE
“… Then did ye see e’r an old Bald-pated, Beetle-Brow’d, Gotch-Gutted, Squint-Ey’d, Sowr-Fac’d Rascal, the very Canker-Worm of Heaven and Earth, and Store-House o’ Mischief, Roguery, and Villany, leading o’ two good likely Girls? …”
From: Plautus’s Comedies,
By Titus Maccius Plautus
Translated by Laurence Echard, 1694
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin gravis (grave, weighty, important) + loqui, loquent- (to speak)
EXAMPLE
“… I treasure her unsentimental, enterprising, and no-nonsense-responsible spirit, her gravitas and graviloquence. I’d like to be capable (at least at times) of such classical conservatism, a necessary leaven for my mushy murky utopian pink political daydreaming …”
From: The Theater of Maria Irene Fornes, 1999
ETYMOLOGY
from German Grobian, from medieval Latin Grobianus, name of an imaginary personage, often referred to by writers of the 15th – 6th century in Germany as the type of boorishness,
from German grob (coarse, rude)
EXAMPLE
“…In breefe, he became from an Idiot and a Clowne, to be one of the most compleat Gentlman in Cyprus and did many valorous exploits, and all for the loue of Mistris Iphiginia. In a word, I may say thus much of them all, let them be neuer so clownish, rude and horrid, Gobrians and sluts, if once they be in loue, they will be most neat & spruce and beginne to trick vp, and to haue a good opinion of themselues. …”
From: The Anatomy of Melancholy VVhat It Is
By Robert Burton, 1621
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin galactopota (milk-drinker); from Greek γαλακτοπότης (milk drinker)
EXAMPLE
“…Moreover, it not only satiates the country people with abundance of milk and cheese, but also garnishes the tables of the elegant with agreeable and numerous dishes. To some nations, indeed, which are intirely destitute of corn, it furnishes their whole sustenance: hence it is, that very many of the Nomades and Getae are called Galactopotae (milk-drinkers). …”
From: L. Junius Moderatus Columella Of Husbandry
By Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella, 1745
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