ETYMOLOGY
from Latin reiecticius, reiectitius (deserving rejection, useless; rejected, abandoned)
from Latin reiect- , past participial stem of reicere (to reject) + -icius + -ous
EXAMPLE
“…The refuse and reiectitious people of Israel…”
From: The Mirrour of Maiestie
Set forth in five sermons
– William Hull, 1615
ETYMOLOGY
from rag + mannered (having manners of a specified kind)
EXAMPLE
“…Let us now take a Turn or two with Sir Tunbelly’s Heiress of 1500 pounds a year. This Young Lady swears, talks smut, and is upon the matter just as rag-manner’d as Mary the Buxsome. ‘Tis plain the Relapser copyed Mr. Durfey’s Original, which is a sign he was somewhat Pinch’d…”
From: A Short View of the Immorality, and Profaneness of the English Stage:
Together with the sense of antiquity upon this argument
– Jeremy Collier, 1698
ETYMOLOGY
from roundabout (engaging in circumlocution, long-winded)+ -ation
EXAMPLE
“…At dinner fair Adelaide brought up a chicken
A bird that she never had met with before;
But, seeing him, scream’d, and was carried off kicking,
And he bang’d his nob’gainst the opposite door.
To finish my tale without roundaboutation,
Young master and missee besieged their papa;
They sung a quartetto in grand blubberation
The Stranger cried Oh! Mrs. Haller cried Ah!
Though pathos and sentiment largely are dealt in,
I have no good moral to give in exchange…”
From: Rejected Addresses;
Or, The New Theatrum Poetarum
– Horatio Smith and James Smith, 1812
ETYMOLOGY
from ruggy (Sc. – rough, hard, difficult) + duggy (Sc. – ? diminutive of dog)
EXAMPLE
“…Noo loudly swell’d, wi’ cheery soun’
Ye banks an’ braes o’ bonnie Doon,
When Watty, daiz’d, said, lookin’ roun’,
We’re a’ as fou as puggies!
Syne Jamie Gould, an Embro’ chiel’,
Grew fidgin’ fain at ilka heel –
Up wi’ a a dance! – a reel! – A reel!
A reel, ye ruggy-duggies!…”
From: The Merry Bridal O’ Firthmains
And Other Poems and Songs
By James Smith, 1866
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin rēiectānea (things which, while not absolutely bad, fall beneath the level of indifference),
from rejicĕre (to reject) + -āneus + -ous
EXAMPLE
“…Let them looke carefully about them, and let them be assured of this, that God will haue his glory upon them either in their conversion, if they belong to the number of his chosen servants, or in their confusion, if they be rejectaneous and castawaies.…”
From: Romphaiopheros = the Sword-Bearer.
Or, The Byshop of Chichester’s armes emblazoned in a sermon preached at a synod by T.V. B. of D. sometimes fellow of Queenes Colledge in Oxford,
and now pastor of the church at Cockfield in Southsex.
by Thomas Vicars, 1627
also Scottish and dialect form ROW-DE-DOW
ETYMOLOGY
– originally a variant of row dow dow ( a series of sounds as produced by beating a drum)
– later possibly influenced by rowdy dowdy (characterized by noisy roughness)
EXAMPLE
“…There has been a terrible rowdydow in the operatic green-room…”
From: Dashes at Life with a Free Pencil
By Nathaniel Parker Willis, 1845
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin redamāre (to love in return),
from re(d)- re- + amāre (to love)
EXAMPLE
“…Where Christ is not exemplified, in three conformities: In his death, in his life, in his Redamation…”
From: Of the Heart and its right Soveraign;
and Rome no Mother Church of England:
or, an historical account of the title of our Brittish Church
By Thomas Jones, 1678
ETYMOLOGY
from rotund (adj.) + -ant, after quadrant
EXAMPLE
“…He is a good anatomist to scrue into the very center of a loaf, and to pry into the joynt of separation. A good surveyour only, he measures not by the chaine nor the quadrant, no, by the retundant* rather, i.e. the jugg…”
From: Confused Characters of Conceited Coxcombs,
Or, A Dish of Traitorous Tyrants
K.W., 1661
Note: – * ‘retundant’ as shown in the above example is correct
– The Oxford English Dictionary only shows ‘rotundant’ as a noun.
However, there are examples of it being used as an adjective, as in this example from 1846:
“…“Oh!” exclaimed the rotundant figure of the queen…”
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin raucus (adj.) hoarse, harsh, raucous + -id
FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1730 – see EXAMPLE below
EXAMPLE
“…In Needy Thraldom, fearful, darkling lay,
Expected fond were the sweet-warbled Ode
Of vig’rous Stretch; when not th’ Elegiac Tone
Which on Maander’s Stream the raucid Swan,
At Fate’s Approach, was storied erst t’ emit,
The pining, heartless, wasted Pris’ner groans…”
From: Freedom; A Poem, Written in Time of Recess from the Rapacious Claws of Bailiffs, and Devouring Fangs of Goalers
To which is annexed The Author’s Case
– Andrew Brice
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