ETYMOLOGY
from one + where, after somewhere, nowhere
EXAMPLE
“…if we translate the Hebrew or the Greek word once by purpose, never call it intent; if onewhere journeying, never traveling, if one where think, never suppose; if one where pain, never ache; if one where joy, never gladness…”
From: Bible (King James)
Translator Miles Smith, 1611
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin nimius (excessive),
from nimis (too much) + -ous
EXAMPLE
“…That is trew, and be possybilyte;
therfor of my deth shew yow I wyll.
My fathyr, of nemyows charyte,
sent me, his son), to make redemcyon),
wyche was conseyvyd be puer verginyte…”
From: The Digby Mysteries
Mary Magdalene. c1500
ETYMOLOGY
possibly from maum (mellow, soft, esp. over-ripe) + –ish
EXAMPLE
“…but she fed more vpon fancie, than glutted hir selfe with any cates there presente: more vpon daintie deuices, than any parcell of repast: for this meate forsooth was mawmish, & this melancholie: this dish would driue hir to drincke, and this cause hir to drie…”
From: Narbonus The Laberynth of Libertie
By Austin Saker, 1580
ETYMOLOGY
from high + stomached
EXAMPLE
“…For the which in those dayes, they had moche a do with these hygh stomaked Romanes…”
From: The Actes of Englysh Votaryes
By Iohan Bale, 1546
ETYMOLOGY
from penny + father
EXAMPLE
“…This skapethrifte, throweth his good{is} against the walles. That pennie father, skrapeth it togethers, bothe by God, and by the diuell…”
From: The Praise of Folie
Moriæ encomium a booke made in Latine by that great clerke Erasmus Roterodame,
Translated by Thomas Chaloner Knight, 1549
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin derogatorius derogatory + -ous
EXAMPLE
“…if the said archbishop intermeddled after the said provocation, his doings were derogatorious not only to the dignity of the patriarche but to the supremacy of the Pope and to the authority also of the general Counsell…”
From: A Treatise on The Pretended Divorce Between Henry VIII and Catharine of Aragon
By Nicholas Harpsfield, a1575
Modernized Text By Nicholas Pocock, 1878
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin insipientem, from in- + sapientem (wise, sapient)
EXAMPLE
“…Where the Chylde or Insypient drynkyth the swete and delycious wordis unauysydly…”
From: The New Cronycles of Englande & Fraunce
By Robert Fabyan, a1513
ETYMOLOGY
of uncertain origin
EXAMPLE
“…The Emperour yaf the Pope somtyme
So hyghe lordshyp hym aboute,
That at the laste the sely kyme
The proude Pope putte hym out!
So of thys realme is in doute,
But lordes be ware and them defende;
For nowe these folke be wonder stoute:
The kynge and lordes nowe thys amende!…”
From: The Ploughman’s Tale, c1535
ETYMOLOGY
after the manner of Cleopatra
EXAMPLE
“…Oh, Cleopatricall! what wanteth there
For curious cost, and wondrous choise of cheare?
Beefe, that earst Hercules held for finest fare;
Porke for the fat Boeotian; or the hare,
For Martiall, fish, for the Venetian…”
From: Virgidemiarum
By Bishop J. Hall, 1597
Satire III
ETYMOLOGY
from Old French gorel, gorreau (a pig, hog);
related to Old French gore (sow): of unknown origin.
EXAMPLE (for n. 1.)
“…Crampe that comyth of replycyon fallyth ofte to fatte men and flesshly and well fedde and gorrelles…”
From: Bartholomew de Glanville’s De Proprietatibus Rerum,
Translated by John Trevisa, 1495
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