ETYMOLOGY
from plume (mark of honour or distinction) + plucked
EXAMPLE
“…Yorke. Great Duke of Lancaster, I come to thee
From plume-pluckt Richard, who with willing Soule
Adopts thee Heire, and his high Scepter yeelds
To the possession of thy Royall Hand…”
From: The Tragedie of King Richard the Second
By William Shakespeare, 1597
ETYMOLOGY
from under- ;
? possibly for dunderhead
EXAMPLE (for n.2.)
“…And indeed wiser discretions, that have the thread of reason to conduct them, offend without a pardon; whereas under heads may stumble without dishonour…”
From: Religio Medici
By Thomas Browne, 1643
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin Cyprius (of Cyprus) + -an;
in French cyprien
EXAMPLE
“…Shall Curio streake his lims on his dayes couch,
In Sommer bower? and with bare groping touch
Incense his lust, consuming all the yeere
In Cyprian dalliance, and in Belgick cheere?
Shall Faunus spend a hundred gallions,
Of Goates pure milke, to laue his stallions,
As much Rose iuyce? O bath! ô royall, rich
To scower Faunus, and his salt proude bitch!…”
From: The Scourge of Villanie
By John Marston, 1598
ETYMOLOGY
from Old French charitatif, -ive, caritatif, -ive, medieval Latin caritativus (charitable)
EXAMPLE
“…And for that this only controversy is the cause of this visitation, I do mean that it shall be merely charitative, and not to burden the clergy of any procurations as yet; and withal not to trouble your lordship much longer about this matter there, than you shall be occasioned otherwise to tarry for the speeding of the visitation of the church…”
From: The Remains of Edmund Grindal, 1843
ETYMOLOGY
of uncertain origin; possibly imitative
EXAMPLE
“…for there is no more sullen beast, than a he drab. Ile make him pull his powting croscloath over his beetle browes for melancholie, and then my next booke, shall be Martin in his mubble fubbles…”
From: Pappe with a Hatchet:
Being a Reply to Martin Mar-prelate
By John Lyly, 1589
ETYMOLOGY
from Old French estoner (to astonish) + -ious
EXAMPLE
“…eyther nothyng holy at al, else not so holy, which graunt as it is extonyouse and vnbeleueable so vngodly and exchuable…”
From: A Treatise Againste the Preuee Masse
By Edmund Gest, 1548
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin tremebundus (trembling), from tremere (to tremble)
EXAMPLE
“…Thay tak delyt in martiall deidis,
And are of nature tremebund,
Thay wald men nurist all thair neidis,
Syne confortles lattis thame cnfound:
So find I thair affectioun
Contrair thair awin complexioun…”
From: Chronicle of Scottish Poetry,
From the Thirteen Century to the
By James Sibbald, 1802
Of Wemen-kind, By Alexander Scott, c1560
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin vafer, vafr- (sly, cunning, crafty) + -ous
EXAMPLE
“…thinkyng surely that they for the most part, would neuer cosent & longe agree with the Englishmen, accordyng to their olde vaffrous varietie: wherfore least ye he should offend or ministre cause of occasio to them (as in dede all me were not his frendes in Scotlad at that tyme) he desired y Ambassadours to cosent w truce & abstinece of warre for suen yeres…”
From: The Vnion of the Two Noble and Illustre Famelies of Lancastre [and] Yorke
By Edward Hall, 1548
ETYMOLOGY
from smart (sharp physical pain) + -ful
EXAMPLE
“…What kind harted husband: can se his kind wife,
In like carefull case, without wo at his hart.
What naturall father can se: for his life,
His naturall childerne, in dread quake and start.
Without his hart smarting, in most smartfull smart.
I thinke, ye thinke none: and euin so thinke I.
Meruell not then: though the spider be toucht nie…”
From: The Spider and the Flie
By John Heywood, 1556
ETYMOLOGY
shortened from Middle French peripateticien, from peripateticus (a person who walks about, a traveller; also, moving about from place to place) + French -ien (-ian)
EXAMPLE
“…Yet certes Moecha is a Platonist,
To all, they say, but whoso do not list;
Because her husband, a far traffick’d man,
Is a profest Peripatecian…”
From: Virgidemiarum. The Three Last Bookes
By Joseph Hall, 1598
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