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
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
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
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
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
ETYMOLOGY
– from orthography + –ize;
from Old French ortografie, later ortographie, modern French orthographie, from Latin orthographia,
from Greek ὀρθογραϕία, noun from ὀρθογράϕ-ος (writing correctly, a correct writer, orthographer),
from ὀρθό-ς + -γράϕος (that writes, writer) + ize
EXAMPLE
“…whiles thou mak’st a tennis-court of their faces, by brick-walling thy clay-balls crosse up and downe their cheekes; whereas, if thou wert right orthographizd in the doctors elocution, thou wouldst say, in stead of, I pray, Sir, winke I must wash you, Sir, by your favour I must require your connivence…”
From: Haue with you to Saffron-Walden; or, Gabriell Harueys hunt is vp
Thomas Nashe, 1596
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin praestigiatorius from praestigiat– , past participial stem of praestigiare prestigiate (vb.) to deceive by illusion as if by magic
+ Latin –ōrius –ory
FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1588 – see EXAMPLE below
EXAMPLE
“…or finally of any their other colourable glosses, & hypocriticall subornations, in some like prestigiatory, and sophisticall veine?…”
From: A Discoursiue Probleme Concerning Prophesies
– John Harvey
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin nichilat-, past participial stem of nichilare,
variant of nihilare to reduce to nothing, to destroy
FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1560 – see EXAMPLE below
EXAMPLE
“…immediatlie after the proclamacion that Sir Robert Worsselye send that was nichlate, etc. …”
From: Liverpool Town Books
Proceedings of Assemblies, Common Councils, Portmoot Courts, &c., 1550 – 1862,
Edited by J. A. Twemlow, 1918
ETYMOLOGY
from French emburelucocquer, nonce-word of fanciful formation
FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
a1548 – see EXAMPLE below
EXAMPLE
“…Ha, for favour sake, (I beseech you) never emberlucock or inpulregafize your spirits with these vaine thoughts and idle conceits; for I tell you, it is not impossible with God, and if he pleased all women henceforth should bring forth their children at the eare….”
From: The Works of Mr. Francis Rabelais
Doctor in Physick. Containing Five Books of the Lives, Heroick Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and his Sonne Pantagruel
– Mr. Francis Rabelais
Translated into English by Sir Thomas Urquhart and Peter Antony Motteux
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