Tag: 1500 – 1599

Word of the Day: GLAVERY

ETYMOLOGY
from glaver (to flatter, to deceive with flattery) + -y;
glaver is of obscure origin

EXAMPLE
“… But I staie my selfe and assure you of this, that in al crations and speeches, in all pleas, and actions, for and against any man amongst them, honest plainenesse was euer an argument of fauour and succour, and holowe smoothing glauerie a note of reprooch and an argument to perswade the contrarie. Nowe therefore let vs gather vppe all these againe together, and if heathens hate it, Christians loath it, and the God of life and death abhor it, what strength should anie cause in the earth haue to tempt you vnto it? …”

From: A Briefe Conference betwixt Mans Frailtie and Faith
By Gervase Babington, 1584

Word of the Day: NEGANT

ETYMOLOGY
from Latin negant-, negans, present participle of negare (to negate)

EXAMPLE
“… The affirmantes of this proposition, were almost treble so many as were the
negantes. Amongst whiche affirmantes, diuers were then vnmaryed, and neuer dyd afterwarde take the libertie of maryage, as doctor Tailor the bishop, doctor Benson, doctor Redman, doctor Hugh Weston, maister Wotton. &c. …”

From: A Defence of Priestes Mariages stablysshed by the imperiall lawes of the realme of Englande, agaynst a ciuilian, namyng hym selfe Thomas Martin doctour of the ciuile lawes,
Archbishop Matthew Parker, 1567?

Word of the Day: TWIGGER

ETYMOLOGY
apparently from twig (to do anything strenuously or vigorously, obs.) + -er

EXAMPLE
“… Eaws yerely by twining, rich masters do make the lamb of such twynners, for breeders go take.
For twinlings be twiggers, encrease for to bring:
though some for their twigging, peccantem may sing
Calues likely, yt come betwene Christmas & Lent,
take huswife to rere, or else after repent. …”

From: Fiue Hundreth Points of Good Husbandry vnited to as many of good huswiferie first deuised,
By Thomas Tusser, 1573

Word of the Day: DESCENTIVE

ETYMOLOGY
from descent + -ive

EXAMPLE
“… howsoeuer I purpose not in the like nice respect to leape ouer the laudable petigree of Yarmouth, but will fetch her from her swadling clouts or infancy, & reueale to you when and by whom she was first raught out of the oceans armes, and start vp and aspired to such starry sublimitie ; as also acquaint you with the notable immunities, franchises, priuileges she is endowed with beyond all her confiners, by the discentiue line of kings from the conquest. …”

From: Lenten Stuffe
By Thomas Nashe, 1599
The Praise of the Red Herring

Word of the Day: COLL-HARDY

ETYMOLOGY
perhaps from coll (a fool, simpleton, dupe) + hardy,
though the dupe or simpleton is not exactly the type of the ‘hardy’ fool

EXAMPLE
“… Is this the profession of a Byshop? is this the Diuinitie of Osorius? Downe with that Pecockes tayle, away with this arrogancie: be no more so collhardy, and write hereafter more aduisedly, and take better regard to your penne, lest you bryng your name into odious contempt with all Christendome. …”

From: Against Ierome Osorius Byshopp of Siluane in Portingall and against his slaunderous inuectiues An aunswere apologeticall: for the necessary defence of the euangelicall doctrine and veritie,
By Walter Haddon and John Foxe
Translated by James Bell, 1581

Word of the Day: RIGGISH

ETYMOLOGY
of uncertain origin
n. 1. possibly from rig (a wanton girl or woman)

EXAMPLE (for adj. 1.)
“… As it is to be seene, namely at Rome, what reuenues and rents, that great and soueraign ruffian getteth by his whoores. And afterward of the drouning and killing of children, and secretly murthering, and casting in corners and ditches, as is vsually practised amongst these riggish and lecherous prelates. …”

From:  Jan van der Noot’s Theatre, wherein be represented the miseries that follow the Voluptuous Worldings
By Jan van der Noot
Translated by Theodore Roest, 1569

Word of the Day: BLANDILOQUENT

ETYMOLOGY
from Latin blandiloquent-, blandiloquens (smooth-talking), from blandus (bland) + ‑loquens ‑loquent (speaking in an indicated manner)

EXAMPLE
“… Graunt to me no learning, Muses, thou Pagan Apollo,
Cynthia, with Charites, thou blandiloquent mery Pytho,
Mercury, with Sappho, Pallas nam’d also Minerva,
Graunt to me no favour: but thou, thou mightie Jejova,
Thou, Lord Emmanuel, Lord of celestial heaven,
Only God imperiall, to mee wretch terrestrial harken. …”

From: The First Booke of the Oreseruation of King Henry the vij. when he was but Earle of Richmond, grandfather to the Queenes maiesty, 1599

Word of the Day: BROTHELLOUS

ETYMOLOGY
from brothel + ‑ous

EXAMPLE
“… I could show you the sharp Inuections, and grounded rea∣sons of many, as of Augstine, Hierome Chrisostome, Gregorie, Caluin, Peter Mar∣tyr, Gualter, and of an infinite number more: yea of all generally since the beginning of the world, against this whorish and brothellous painting and coulouring of faces, but to auoid prolixitie, I will omit them, deferring them to further oportunitie, for pauca sapienti, To a wiseman few woords are sufficient. …”

From: The Anatomie of Abuses
By Phillip Stubbes, 1583

Word of the Day: OUTBRAID

ETYMOLOGY
vb. 1. 2. 4. from out- + braid (to make a sudden movement with the hand, etc.; to brandish a spear;. to deal a blow)
vb. 3. altered form of abraid (to reproach, to reprove)

EXAMPLE (for vb. 3.)
“… And for that this displeasour doth hym dere
His frende: he soone out-braydeth of the same
Hym-self (for malyce) drawynge by the here
So hath this fole by malyce and yll name
His rewarde lost for it rebuked and shame
And no meruayle: for no man that hath skyll
Shall thanke hym for goodnes done agaynst his wyll …”

From: The Shyp of Folys of the Worlde
By Alexander Barclay, 1509