Category: Word of the Day – I

ETYMOLOGY
from Latin insipientem, from in- + sapientem (wise, sapient)

EXAMPLE
“…Where the Chylde or Insypient drynkyth the swete and delycious wordis unauysydly…”

From: The New Cronycles of Englande & Fraunce
By Robert Fabyan, a1513

ETYMOLOGY
from Latin impendiosus, from impendium (outlay, expense), 
from impendere (to impend, to spend, to expend)

EXAMPLE
He tried to get back into my good books by buying impendious gifts.

ETYMOLOGY
from in- + dexterous

EXAMPLE
“…An Issue must also be made with the hand of a skilfull Artist, for I have often observed from an indextrous way of making an Issue in the occiput a thousand mischiefs and death has followed: for if the Chirurgeon try to burn all the Skin with the Iron, I have often seen a Convulsion follow, and the child die of a most cruel death…”

From: Mercurius compitalitius;
Or, A Guide to the Practical Physician
By Theophill Bonet, 1684

ETYMOLOGY
from Latin incolere (to inhabit) + -ist

EXAMPLE
“…which maladyes much molest the Germanes, and Septentrionall incolists; the like whereof hapned upon Caesars Souldiers when they came beyond Rhene, who there finding a River, drunk of the water, which within two dayes caused their teeth to fall out, and resolved the joynts of their knees, but the herb Britannica will help such as are thus infested…”

From: A Medicinal Dispensatory
Composed by the Illustrious Renodaeus,
Englished and Revised by Richard Tomlinson, 1657
Section 6. Of Fruits. Chapter XVII.

ETYMOLOGY
irregular from indulge or Latin indulgere + -ate

EXAMPLE
“…Sergius Oratus was the first that made pits for them about his house here; more for profit, then to indulgiate his gluttony. For by such devices he purchased much riches…”

From: A Relation of a Journey Begun an Dom. 1610
By George Sandys, 1615

ETYMOLOGY
from Latin infīdus (untrue, disloyal) + -ous

EXAMPLE
“…The Arabian Interpreters are also miserably out, in rendring Tabaxir Spodium, and Spodium Burnt Ivory: for Tabaxir is the succe or concreted liquor of certain Trees, or very crass and tall Reeds, which by the agitation of the wind, and their mutual collision, sometimes conflagrate; from which burning, Avicenna mendicated his Spodium, or rather Tabaxir, which his infidous Interpreter Clusius calls his Spodium. But we get not this Tabaxir from India, nor the ashes of these burnt Canes from Arabia…”

From: A Medicinal Dispensatory, containing the whole body of physick discovering the natures, properties, and vertues of vegetables, minerals, & animals
By Jean de Renou
Translated by Richard Tomlinson, 1657