ETYMOLOGY
from Latin macilentus (lean),
from macies (leanness) + -lentus (-lent)
EXAMPLE
“…Þay þat haue strong vertuez, grete veynez, & brode habitude, not mych macillent, i. lene or megre…”
From: Grande Chirurgie,
Translated by Guy de Chauliac, a1425
ETYMOLOGY
from waker (unsleeping, watchful, vigilant obs.) + -ly
EXAMPLE
“…Sothely he, as a good herde, was ful wakkerly and besy vppon the kepynge of that litell flok, his byloued disciples…”
From: The Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ;
an adaptation/translation of Pseudo-Bonaventure’s Meditations on the Life of Christ into English
By Nicholas Love, c1400
ETYMOLOGY
from ever adv.. + living adj.
EXAMPLE
“… to gaine pardon of the sinne to Rosemond, pittie to distressed Cleopatra, and
everliving praise to her loving Delia…”
From: Shakespeare’s Centurie of Prayse
By Clement Mansfield Ingleby, Lucy Toulmin Smith, 1879
William Clarke, 1595
ETYMOLOGY
aphetic from averty (well-advised, prudent, cautious)
EXAMPLE
“…He wes wys and rycht werty…”
From: The Orygynale Cronykil of Scotland
By Andrew of Wyntoun, c1425
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin luculentus, from luc-, lux (light)
EXAMPLE
“…Trie out the grape vnhurt, neither to ripe
Neither to sowre, as gemmys luculent,
Of soft and hard as goodly is to gripe…”
From: The Middle-English translation of Palladius De Re Rustica
ETYMOLOGY
from Old French orafle (giraffe),
from Arabic zarāfa , zurāfa (giraffe)
EXAMPLE
“…Þere also be many bestes þat ben clept Orafles, In Arabye þei ben clept Gerfauntz, þat is a best pomelee or spotted…”
From: Mandeville’s Travels, a1425
Edited by Paul Hamelius, 1919
ETYMOLOGY
from Middle English roboraten, from Latin roboratus,
past participle of roborare (to strengthen, confirm),
from robor-, robur (strength)
EXAMPLE
“…This pope roborate the sentence of excommunicacion ageyne Frederyke the emperoure…”
From: Ranulf Higden’s Polychronicon
Translated by John Trevisa, a1475
ETYMOLOGY
from Old French type couardos + -ous
EXAMPLE
“…The cowardous pees that was ordeyned…”
From: The Chronicles of England
By: William Caxton (1480)
ETYMOLOGY
from Anglo-Norman peisant, peisaunt, pesaunt, Anglo-Norman and Middle French pesant (of things – heavy, massive, oppressive, wearisome, difficult), (of the hand, a blow, etc. – forcible, coming down heavily), (of people – slow, sluggish), use as adjective of present participle of peiser , peser (to weigh)
EXAMPLE
“…But as for so poure a man as I, there would none aduocate pleden without wages paid byfore in honde; for pledours in worldly courtes hauen tonges lyke to t he languet of the balaunce that draweth hym alwey to the more peysaunt party, that better wyl rewarden…”
From: The Booke of the Pylgremage of the Sowle,
Translated from the French of Guillaume de Deguileville
ETYMOLOGY
Old English undernmǽl
EXAMPLE
(for n. 2.)
“…that drawes deepe, and by that time his Tobacco marchant is made even with, and hee hath dinde at a tauerne, and slept his vnder-meale at a bawdy house, his purse is on the heild and only fortie shillings hee hath behinde, to trie his fortune with at the cardes in the presence…”
From: Lenten Stuffe
– Thomas Nashe, 1599
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