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Word of the Day: EXHEREDATE

ETYMOLOGY
from Latin exheredat- participial stem of exheredare (to disinherit), from ex- + heredem (heir)

EXAMPLE
“…’Tis fit indeed, fortitude should be encouraged, all ages and Nations have need of it, and are made happy by it, therefore ought to reward it, and so have done, and so (for example sake) will do; but other vertues of equal merit, must not be exhaeredated, or become spurious, to advance its legitimation…”

From: A discourse and defence of arms and armory,
shewing the nature and rises of arms and honour in England, from the camp, the court, the city
By Edward Waterhouse, 1660

Word of the Day: NEPTUNIST

ETYMOLOGY
from Neptune + -ist

EXAMPLE
“…Let euery man in his degree enioy his due; and let the braue enginer, fine Dædalist, skilfull Neptunist, maruelous Vulcanist, and euery Mercuriall occupationer, that is, euery Master of his craft and euery Doctour of his mystery, be respected according to the vttermost extent of his publique seruice or priuate industry.…”

From: Pierces Supererogation:
Or A New Prayse of The Old Asse
By Gabriell Harvey, 1593

Word of the Day: HOUSE-DOVE

ETYMOLOGY
from house + dove

EXAMPLE
“…safe and sounde to Rome, and euery man riche and loden with spoyle: then the hometarriers and housedoues that kept Rome still, beganne to repent them that it was not their happe to goe with him…”

From: The Liues of the Noble Grecians and Romanes
– Plutarch
– Translated by Thomas North, 1579

Word of the Day: OPITULATE

ETYMOLOGY
– from Latin opitulārī (to bring aid, to assist),
from op-em (aid) + tul- (to bring)

EXAMPLE
“…A conserve to opitulate & helpe the digestione, of the stomacke…”

From: The Boock of Physicke
Wherin … Most of Them Selected, and Approved Remedyes, for All Corporall Diseases, and Sicknesses, which Out of Manye Highe, and Common Persons Written Physick-boockes, are Compacted, and United Together
By Oswald Gäbelkover, 1599

Word of the Day: AFFECTIOUS

ETYMOLOGY
– from affection on analogy of caution, cautious, action, actious, etc.

EXAMPLE
“…and geif ze think it meit, I pray zou, wryt ane afectious letter to my mother, that scho may mak delygens…”

From: Memoirs of the Maxwells of Pollok
By William Fraser, 1863
“Lady Elizabeth Maxwell to Sir John Maxwell of Pollok, 23d July, c. 1580”

Word of the Day: FACULENT

ETYMOLOGY
from medieval Latin faculentus, from facula, fax (torch)

EXAMPLE
“…Als it is red in storyis ancient,
Thocht it be not in ald nor new Testament.
How that Vergill that worthie wise doctour,
In latin toung was ane most faculent,
Nane mair pregnant, facund, nor eminent,
To writ, or dyit, he was of Clerkis flour…”

From: Ane Treatise callit the Court of VENVS,
deuidit into four Buikis,
Newlie Compylit be IOHNE ROLLAND in Dalkeith, 1575

Word of the Day: BELLY-SLAVE

ETYMOLOGY
– from belly + slave

EXAMPLE
“…The Sermon against to himself, by drinking, sorrow and care, with perpetual infamy and reproach unto the world’s end. If God spared not his servant Lot, being otherwise a godly man, nephew what will he do to these beastly belly-slaves, which, void of all godliness or virtuous behaviour, not once, but continually day and night, give themselves wholly to bibbing and banqueting?…”

From: Certain Sermons or Homilies Appointed to be Read in Churches
in the Time of the Late Queen Elizabeth of Famous Memory
The Church of England, 1822
An Homily Against Gluttony and Drunkenness, 1562

Word of the Day: DUNCIFY

ETYMOLOGY
from dunce (n.) + -fy

EXAMPLE
“…I would gladly rid my hands of it cleanly if I could tell how, for what with talking of coblers, & tinkers, & roapemakers, and botchers, and durt-daubers, the marke is cleane gone out of my muses mouth, and I am as it were more than dunsified twixt diuinitie and poetrie…”

From: The Vnfortvnate Traveller
Or, The Life of Iacke Wilton
Thomas Nashe, 1594

Word of the Day: GOOSECAP

ETYMOLOGY
– from goose (a foolish person) + cap (the head a1659)

EXAMPLE
“…And so will you Sonnes both, like a couple of goosecaps, (if you looke not to it) as your father did, with your own goose quil.…”

From: Martins Months Minde; that is, a certaine report, and true description of the death, and funeralls, of olde Martin Marreprelate, the great makebate of England
– Thomas Nash, 1589

Word of the Day: CONFARREATION

ETYMOLOGY
– from Latin confarreātiōnem, a noun of action from confarreāre (to unite in marriage by the offering of bread),
from con- + farreus (of spelt, corn, or grain), farreum (a spelt-cake),
from far, farr-is (grain, spelt)

EXAMPLE
“…And if fell out that, that iust number coulde not bee founde, the vse of confarreation, or marriage with a cake of Wheate, either not vsed, or only of a few: whereof he alleaged many reasons, though the chiefest was, the carelesnes of men and women…”

From: The Annales of Cornelius Tacitus. The Description of Germanie.
(Translation Richard Grenewey)
Cornelius Tacitus, 1598