ETYMOLOGY
from Greek θερσίτης Thersites (‘the Audacious’), an ill-tongued Greek at the siege of Troy + -ical
EXAMPLE
“…The Genuensians saith he, having received from the Mauritanians their Progenitors this Custome, to compresse the Temples of their Infants as soon as they are Borne, now, without that Compression, are Borne with a Thersiticall Head and Heart…”
From: Anthropometamorphosis: = Man Transform’d: or, The Artificiall Changling
– John Bulwer, 1650
ETYMOLOGY
? alteration of twilight after twitter (vb. to move tremulously, shake, quiver) + light
EXAMPLE
“…You can steale secretly hether, you misticall queane you, at twylight, twitterlights,
You haue a priuiledge from your hat forsooth,
To walke without a man, and suspition,”
But we poore gentlewomen that goe in Tires
Haue no such liberty, we cannot do thus…”
From: Your fiue gallants
As it hath beene often in action at the Black-friers
By Thomas Middleton, 1608
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin tinctus (a dyeing) + mūtāntem (changing)
EXAMPLE
“…The chameleon is the best known of all the tinctumutants (tinctus, color, and mutare, to change), though many other animals possess this faculty in a very marked degree…”
From: The Popular Science Monthly
January, 1895
Animal Tinctumutants
By Dr. James Weir, Jr.
Lexicophilia 