ETYMOLOGY
from ‘to claw the back of‘ (to flatter, fawn upon)
EXAMPLE
“…Yea, trouble not your self sir, ye may hauke and hunt, & take youre pleasure. As for the guiding of your kingdom and people, let vs alone with it.
These flattering clawbackes ar original rotes of all mischief…”
From: The Second Sermon of Maister Hughe Latimer, which be Preached before King Edward
By Hugh Latimer, 1549
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin increpāt-, ppl. stem of increpāre (to make a noise at, scold, chide),
from in- (in-) + crepāre (to make a noise, creak, etc.)
EXAMPLE
“…Yes, Jonas is passionate, but God doth oppose him; he is eager upon a cruell bent, but God doth increpate, and interrogate him…”
From: God’s plea for Nineveh,
or, London’s Precedent for Mercy Delivered in Certain Sermons within the city of London
By Thomas Reeve, 1657
ETYMOLOGY
after French quatre (four) + voie (way)
EXAMPLE
“…Of these conduits two are speciall, the one of them standeth and is within the cemiterie or churchyard of the cathedrall church of the said citie, and is called saint Peters conduit: the other being of great antiquitie standeth in the middle of the citie, at the méeting of foure principall streets of the same, and whereof somtimes it tooke his name, being called the conduit at Quatrefois or Carfox; but now the great conduit…”
From: Raphael Holinshed’s Chronicle
By Abraham Fleming, 1587
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin mammothreptus, from Greek µαµµόθρεπτος (brought up by one’s grandmother),
from µάµµη (grandmother) + θρεπτός (vbl. adj.), from τρέϕειν (to bring up)
EXAMPLE
“…Amor. Nay play it I pray you, you do well, you do well: how like you it Sir?
Hed. Very well in troath.
Amor. But very well? O you are a meere Mammothrept in iudgement then; why do you not obserue how excellently the Ditty is affected in euery place? that I do not marry a word of short quantity, to a long Note, nor an zscending Sillable to a discending Tone…”
From: The Fountaine of Selfe-Loue;
or, Cynthias Reuels
By Benjamin Jonson, 1601
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin operatorius (creating, forming) + -ous
EXAMPLE
“…For no Lesse are they effectuall to transubstantiate the cup, then their wordes spoken of the bread are operatorius & myghty to transubstātiate the bread. For as they say of the bread, Thys is my body, so say they of the Cup, This cup is the new testament…”
From: Two Notable Sermons
By John Bradford, 1574
ETYMOLOGY
from flap (to move up and down) + sauce (n.)
EXAMPLE
“…hath nowe brought (to howse) nowe hathe this glutton. i. this flappe sawce (the thyng) that he may plentuously swallowe downe hole…”
From: Gulielmus Gnapheus’ Comedye of Acolastus
Translated by John Palsgrave, 1540
ETYMOLOGY
obsolete or dialect form of ‘coil‘
EXAMPLE
“…I haue seene them, which haue seene such hurly burlies about a couple (that were no Fathers of the Church neither) Aristotle and Ramus, or els sake the Vniuersities, such a quoil with pro and con, such vrging of Ergoes, til they haue gone from Art togither by the eares, and made their conclusions end with a Clunchfist, right like the old description of Logicke…”
From: Plaine Perceuall, the Peace-maker of England
By Richard Harvey, 1590
ETYMOLOGY
from hoddy (? snail or horned) + peak (a silly or foolish person, obs.),
but the sense is obscure
EXAMPLE
“…As well apparelyd at eche poynt of hys aray
Who dwelleth here wyll no man speke
Is there no fole nor hody peke
Now by the bell yt were almys to breke…”
From: Nature, A Goodly Interlude of Nature
Compiled by Henry Medwall, 1500
ETYMOLOGY
???
EXAMPLE
“...Sym of Lyntoun, be the ramis horn,
Quhen Phebus rang in sing of Capricorn,
And the mone wes past the gussis cro,
Thair fell in France ane jeperdie forlo…”
From: Select Remains of the Ancient Popular Poetry of Scotland
King Berdok
Edited by David Laing, 1822
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin hospitālis (hospitable) + -ous
EXAMPLE
“…Too much, too little, or a meane, sort out alike, we see,
House-keeping, nor Humilitie, in any of the Three.
Be hospitalious, Churchmen: Lay, cease sacrilegious sinne:
Your Soules-sore, but their Stores-salue, whence, euē whiningly, they winne,
By pinching from the Pulpet, and their Purses, with this note,
Scarse will their Studies stipend them, their wiues, and Children cote…”
From: Albions England
A continued historie of the same kingdome, from the originals of the first inhabitants thereof
By William Warner, 1596
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