ETYMOLOGY
of uncertain derivation; the suffix as in bast-ard, etc
EXAMPLE (for n.)
“… one daye as in a mornyng that he came out of the hous of a comyn woman He mette wyth a lewde haskarde, whyche for to doo the sayd synne of lechery went to the hous there as the holy man fro…”
From: Vitas Patrum
Translated by William Caxton, 1495
ETYMOLOGY
adj.: from Latin fatigatus, past participle of fatigare (to fatigue)
vb.: from Latin fatigat- participial stem of fatigare (to fatigue)
EXAMPLE (for adj.)
“… Oyle of Lune and water wyth labour grett,
I made Calcynyng yt with salt precipytate,
And by hyt selfe with vyolent hett
Gryndyng with Vynegar tyll I was fatygate:
And also with a quantyte of Spyces acuate;
Uppon a Marble whych stode me oft in cost,
And Oyles with Corrosyves I made; but all was lost. …”
From: Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum, Containing Severall Poeticall Pieces of our Famous English Philosophers, who have written the hermetique mysteries in their owne ancient language. Faithfully collected into one volume, with annotations;
By Elias Ashmole, 1652
ETYMOLOGY
from charge (n.) + -ful
EXAMPLE (for adj. 1.)
“… For so it is that whan the Kyng coude nat fynde with the seid Lowes bi alle the forseid costeley and chargefull ambassades but fraude, deceipte, and illusion, his Highnesse, of a grete prudence and foresight, purchased alliaunces and amyties with two the myghtyest princes of Fraunce, the Dukes of Burgoigne and Britaigne, …”
From: Literae Cantuarienses: The Letter Books of the Monastery of Christ Church, Canterbury, 1474
Edited by Joseph Brigstocke Sheppard, 1887
ETYMOLOGY
so called because the cittern (musical instrument) usually had a grotesque head carved at the extremity of the finger-board
EXAMPLE
“… Pedan.
I will not be put out of countenance.
Bero.
Because thou hast no face.
Pedan.
What is this?
Boyet.
A Cytterne head.
Duma.
The head of a Bodkin.
Bero.
A deaths face in a Ring.
Long.
The face of an olde Roman coyne, scarce seene.
Boyet.
The pummel of Caesars Fauchion.
Duma.
The carud-bone face on a Flaske.
Bero.
Saint Georges halfe cheeke in a Brooch. …”
From: A Pleasant Conceited Comedie called, Loues Labors Lost
By William Shakespeare, 1598
ETYMOLOGY
from French negatoire or Latin negatorius negative; from negāt-, past participial stem of negare (to negate, to render invalid) + –orius (‑ory)
EXAMPLE
“… Only one thing grieved me by anticipation; the sorrow of my Berga, for whom, dear tired wayfarer, I on the morrow must overcloud her arrival, and her shortened market – spectacle, by my negatory intelligence. She would so gladly (and who can take it ill of a rich farmer’s daughter?) have made herself somebody in Neusattel, and overshone many a female dignitary! …”
From: Translations From The German
Schmelzle’s Journey to Flaetz
By Jean Paul Feiedrigh Richter
Translated by Thomas Carlyle, 1827
ETYMOLOGY
from blast + bob (a light blow as with anything rebounding)
EXAMPLE
“… Much lyke as in forrest a long set dottrel, or oaktree,
With northen blusters too parts contrayrye retossed:
Thee winds scold strugling, the threshing thick crush crash is owtborne,
Thee boughs frap whuarring, when stem with blastbob is hacked:
Yeet the tre stands sturdy: for as yt toe the skytyp is haunced,
So far is yt crampornd with roote deepe dibled at helgat’s:
So this courragious gallant with clustered erraunds
Is cloyed and stinging sharp car’s in brest doe lye thrilling.
His mynd vnuariant doth stand, tears vaynelye doe gutter. …”
From: Thee First Foure Bookes of Virgil his Æneis
Translated into English heroical verse by Richard Stanyhurst, 1582
ETYMOLOGY
from gain- (against, in opposition to) + strive (to endeavour vigorously)
EXAMPLE (for vb. 1.)
“… Giue vs that peace, which we doo lacke,
Through misbelief and ill lyfe:
Thy Word to offer thou dost not slacke,
Which we unkindly gainstriue.
With fire and swoord,
This healthfull woord:
Some persecute and oppres:
Some with the mouth,
Confess the truth,
Wythout sincere godlynes. …”
From: The Whole book of Psalms: collected into English metre, by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, and others, 1569
“Da Pacem, Domine“
ETYMOLOGY
from peace (n.) + -ify, influenced by pacify (vb.)
EXAMPLE
“… yet she wolde not but rather suffre dethe she was so stedfaste in the feythe relygyous and chaste, and thus he beynge in great perplexyte and doutfull peryll, the foresayde Blessyd vyrgyne his Donghter was warnyd by an Aungell that she shulde goo to her Fader and bydde hym agree to the other Kynys requeste and desyre, and that she shulde assent therto, / and so shulde she comforte and assure her Fader and peacyfye and make glad the other parte.
From: Here Begynneth the Kalendre of the Newe Legende of Englande, 1516
ETYMOLOGY
from the name of the chief character (Ralph Royster Doyster) in Nicholas Udall’s comic play, based upon roister (a boisterous or noisy reveller), written about 1533
EXAMPLE
“… The terriblest tearmes may be repayed-home with aduauntage: I haue knowen the raylingest Sophister in an Vniuersity, sett non plus: and haue seene the mad-braynest Roister-doister in a countrey, dashte out of countenaunce. …”
From: Foure Letters, and Certaine Sonnets especially touching Robert Greene, and other parties, by him abused
By Gabriel Harvey, 1592
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin onerarius (suitable for carrying a burden or cargo) + -ous
EXAMPLE
“… For that he emongest all gouernors, chiefly did remembre that a kyng ought to bee a ruler with wit, grauitie, circumspeccion, diligence and constancie, and for that cause to haue a rule to hym comitted, not for an honor, but for an onorarious charge and daily burden, and not to looke so muche on other mennes liuynges, as to consider and remembre his owne doynges and propre actes. …”
From: The vnion of the two noble and illustrate famelies of Lancastre [and] Yorke
By: Edward Hall, 1548
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