ETYMOLOGY
from Latin scortator, agent-noun from scortari (to associate with harlots) + -ory
EXAMPLE
“… Delights of Wisdom Concerning Conjugial Love
After which Follow Pleasures of Insanity Concerning Scortatory Love …”
From: A Translation of “De Amore Conjugiali“
By Emanuel Swedenborg
Translated by Alfred Acton, 1794
ETYMOLOGY
earlier form of smuggle (vb.)
EXAMPLE
“… Which computation is sufficiently justified by the Customs of the Three Kingdoms, whose intrinsick value are thought to be near a Million per annum, viz. Six hundred thousand pounds, payable to the King; 100 thousand Pounds, for the charges of Collecting, &c. Two hundred thousand pounds smuckled by the Merchants, and one Hundred thousand pounds gained by the Farmers; according to common Opinion, and Mens Sayings: And this agrees also with that proportion, or part of the whole Trade of the World, which I have estimated the Subjects of the King of England to be possessed of; viz, of about Ten of Forty Five Millions. …”
From: Political Arithmetick
By Sir William Petty, 1691
ETYMOLOGY
from sable (black) + -ize
EXAMPLE
“…Some chroniclers that write of kingdom’s states,
Do so absurdly sableize my white
With maskes, and interludes, by day and night,
Bald may games, beare baytings, and poore orations,
Made to some prince, by some poore corporations. …”
From: The Scourge of Folly
By John Davies of Hereford, 1611
ETYMOLOGY
fancifully from solemn (adj.), after melancholy
EXAMPLE
[Dr. John Beatty to Philip Fithian]
Philadelphia, December 18th, 1772
“… I rode that evening you left me as far as Cormans; being very Solemncholly and somewhat tired, I concluded to stay there all night; and very early next morning breakfasted at Gloucester and got into Philadelphia before Eleven of the clock …”
From: Journal and Letters
By Philip Vickers Fithian, 1900
ETYMOLOGY
from Old French solacieus (soulaceus, etc.),
from solas (solace, comfort, consolation)
EXAMPLE
“… þou allone most swete & most solacious, þou allone most faire & most louely, þou allone most noble and most gloriose, …”
From: Translation of Thomas à Kempis, De Imitatione Christi, c1450
ETYMOLOGY
from sinister: from Old French senestre, sinistre or Latin sinister (left, left-hand)
EXAMPLE
“… That which still makes her mirth to flow,
Is our sinister-handed woe,
Which downwards on its head doth go,
And, ere that it is sown, doth grow.
This makes her spleen contract,
And her just pleasure feast:
For the unjustest act
Is still the pleasant’st jest. …”
From: Lucasta: Posthume Poems
Lucasta Laughing
By Richard Lovelace, a1657
ETYMOLOGY
from segge (to say) + -er
EXAMPLE (for n.1.)
“… As yoe are a lorde most lofsom of lyre
Vndir sir Pilate that lyfis in this empire,
Ȝone segger that callis hymselffe a sire
With tresoure and tene sall we taste hym.
Of yoone losell his bale schall he brewe,
Do trottes on for that traytoure apas
In hast. …”
From: York Mysteries, c1440
The Agony and Betrayal
ETYMOLOGY
from sniffle (vb.) + -er
EXAMPLE (for n. 1.)
“… Gin this be courting, well I wat ’tis clear,
I gat na sik a teazle this seven year :
Sae ye maun gee your answer now perqueer,
I maunna ilka day be coming here,
To get sic sniflers ; courting’s nae a jest.
Another day like this’ll be my priest.’ …”
From: Helenore: Or the Fortunate Shepherdess, a Pastoral Tale
By Alexander Ross, 1768
ETYMOLOGY
of obscure origin
EXAMPLE
“… I squarkyn, I burne the utter part of a thyng agaynst the fyer, or roste mete unkyndly, je ars …”
From: Lesclarcissement de la langue Francoyse
By John Palsgrave, 1530
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin sudat-, past participial stem of sudare (to sweat)
EXAMPLE
“… Take five Wallenuttes with their shelles, glowe them in the fyere then proiecte them in a gobblet with oulde wine, cover the same least the vigor therof exhalate. Drincke then the Wine as warm as you may, & then rest theron, and cause yourselfe to be well deckede, because you might sudate, and it will helpe. …”
From: The Boock of Physicke
By Oswald Gaebelkhover
Translated by A.M., 1599
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