ETYMOLOGY
from. Latin obserat-, past participial stem of obserare (to bolt),
from ob- + sera (bolt)
EXAMPLE
“…he commenced to supparasite the juratory bevy relative to their noetical habilitation to sarse Fritz’s maleficence, and adjudicate to ablegate him to a lobspound, and have him there immured and securely obserated…”
From: Frontier Experience
Or Epistolary Sesquipedalian Lexiphanicism from the Occident
by J.E.L. Seneker, 1906
ETYMOLOGY
– from ob and sol (scholastic disputation, subtle debate – shortened from objection) + -er
EXAMPLE
“…Where Hinderson, and th’ other Masses,
Were sent to cap Texts, and put Cases:
To pass for Deep and Learned Scholars;
Although but Paltry, Ob-and-Sollers:
As if th’ unseasonable Fools
Had been a Cursing in the Schools…”
From: Hudibras. The third and last part,
By Samuel Butler, 1678
ETYMOLOGY
– from Latin opitulārī (to bring aid, to assist),
from op-em (aid) + tul- (to bring)
EXAMPLE
“…A conserve to opitulate & helpe the digestione, of the stomacke…”
From: The Boock of Physicke
Wherin … Most of Them Selected, and Approved Remedyes, for All Corporall Diseases, and Sicknesses, which Out of Manye Highe, and Common Persons Written Physick-boockes, are Compacted, and United Together
By Oswald Gäbelkover, 1599
ETYMOLOGY
– from onycho- (relating to the nails) + –phagist (denoting people or animals who eat a particular food)
EXAMPLE
“…My eldest daughter had finished her Latin lessons, and my son had finished his Greek; and I was sitting at my desk, pen in hand and in mouth at the same time, (a substitute for biting the nails which I recommend to all onygophagists)…”
From: The Doctor &c.
By Robert Southey, 1834
“The Utility of Pockets. A Compliment Properly Received”
ETYMOLOGY
– from ppl. stem of Latin obrogāre (partly to repeal a law by passing a new one),
from ob- (ob-) + rogāre (to ask, supplicate, propose a law, introduce a bill)
EXAMPLE
“…makes it a badge of royalty, that the Prince, without his subjects consent, may prohibite, abrogat, derogat, subrogat, and obrogate to the standing laws, wheir he sees it necessar, excepting the laws of God, of nature…”
From: Historical Notices of Scottish Affairs
By Lord John Lauder Fountainhall, 1848
ETYMOLOGY
– from orthography + –ize;
from Old French ortografie, later ortographie, modern French orthographie, from Latin orthographia,
from Greek ὀρθογραϕία, noun from ὀρθογράϕ-ος (writing correctly, a correct writer, orthographer),
from ὀρθό-ς + -γράϕος (that writes, writer) + ize
EXAMPLE
“…whiles thou mak’st a tennis-court of their faces, by brick-walling thy clay-balls crosse up and downe their cheekes; whereas, if thou wert right orthographizd in the doctors elocution, thou wouldst say, in stead of, I pray, Sir, winke I must wash you, Sir, by your favour I must require your connivence…”
From: Haue with you to Saffron-Walden; or, Gabriell Harueys hunt is vp
Thomas Nashe, 1596
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