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
ETYMOLOGY
from Old French surcuidant (present participle of surcuidier)
from popular Latin supercōgitāre ,
from super- (super- prefix) + cōgitāre (to think, to cogitate)
EXAMPLE
“…and yet they were but febly enformed in maister Porphiris problemes, and haue waded but weakly in his thre maner of clerkly workes, analeticall, topicall, and logycall: howbeit they were puffed so full of vaynglorious pompe and surcudant elacyon, that popholy and peuysshe presumpcion proyoked them to publysshe and to preche to people imprudet perilously…”
From: Honorificatissimo: Replycacion agaynst Yong Scolers
By John Skelton, 1528
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin amœnus (pleasant) + –ous
EXAMPLE
“…Whose mynde was none other but to pass the time, and their predestinate perpetual captivitie in the amenous varietie of over reading and revoluting many volumes and sundry books of divers sciences and strange matters…”
From: Some Specimens of the Poetry of the Antient Welsh Bards
By the Rev. Mr. Evan Evans, 1764
A Poem Entitled, The Ode of the Months, composed by Bwilym Ddu of Arfon, to Sir John Griffydd Llwyd, of Tregarnedd and Dinornig
ETYMOLOGY
from rutter (a dashing gallant) + -kin
EXAMPLE
“…COURTLY ABUSION. Huffa, huffa, taunderum, taunderum tayne, huffa, huffa
CLOAKED COLLUSION (To the audience.) This was properly prated, sirs. Wat said a?…”
COURTLY ABUSION. Rutty bully jolly rutterkin, heyda!
CLOAKED COLLUSION. De que pays este vous…”
From: Magnyfycence
By John Skelton, a1529
ETYMOLOGY
for n.1., apparently a reduplication with vowel variation of trim (adj.);
for n. 2., apparently a whimsical application of n.1.
EXAMPLE
“…Esebon, Marybon, Wheston next Barnet;
A trym tram for an horse myll it were a nyse thyng;
Deyntes for dammoysels, chaffer far fet:
Bo ho doth bark wel, but Hough ho he rulyth the ring…”
From: Speke Parott
By John Skelton, 1523
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