ETYMOLOGY
? from bunger (? for bungler) + -ly
EXAMPLE (for adj.)
“… I saw her conferring with no worseman then Master Snagge. The bungerliest vearses they were that euer were scande, beeing most of them bought and cut off by the knees out of Virgill, and other Authors. …”
From: Haue vvith you to Saffron-vvalden. Or, Gabriell Harueys hunt is vp.
By Thomas Nashe, 1596
ETYMOLOGY
adj. 1: from Latin viripotent-, viripotens, from vir (man, husband) + potens (able)
adj. 2: from Latin viripotent-, viripotens, from vires (strength)
EXAMPLE
“… The king thus hauing vanquished and ouercome the Welshmen, placed garisons in sundrie townes & castels, where he thought most necessarie, and then returned to London with great triumph. Thither shortlie after came ambassadours from the emperour, requiring the kings daughter affianced (as before you haue heard) vnto him, and (being now viripotent or mariable) desired that she might be deliuered vnto them. …”
From: The first and second volumes of Chronicles. [vol. 3 (i.e. The Third Volume of Chronicles)] comprising 1 The description and historie of England, 2 The description and historie of Ireland, 3 The description and historie of Scotland:
First collected and published by Raphaell Holinshed, William Harrison, and others: now newlie augmented and continued (with manifold matters of singular note and worthie memorie) to the yeare 1586. by Iohn Hooker aliàs Vowell Gent and others.
Henrie the first, yoongest sonne to William the Conquerour. (Book Henry I)
ETYMOLOGY
irregular from jolly (adj.) + -ment
EXAMPLE
“… And therein sate a Ladie fresh and faire,
Making sweet solace to her selfe alone;
Sometimes she sung, as loud as larke in aire,
Sometimes she laught, that nigh her breth was gone,
Yet was there not with her else any one,
That might to her moue cause of meriment:
Matter of merth enough, though there were none
She could deuise, and thousand waies inuent,
To feede her foolish humour, and vaine iolliment. …”
From: The Faerie Queene
By Edmund Spenser, 1590
ETYMOLOGY
back formation from manqueller (a murderer), from man + queller (a person or thing who subdues someone or something)
EXAMPLE
“… At which wordes kyng Edward sayd nothyng, but with his hād thrust hym from hym (or as some say, stroke him with his gauntlet) whom incontinent, they that stode about, whiche were George duke of Clarence Rychard duke of Gloucester, Thomas Marques Dorset, and Williā lord Hastynges, sodaynly murthered, & pitiously manquelled. The bit ternesse of which murder, some of the actors, after in their latter dayes tested and assayed by the very rod of Iustice and punishment of God. …”
From: The vnion of the two Noble and Illustre Famelies of Lancastre [and] Yorke
By Edward Hall, 1548
ETYMOLOGY
from lip + favour
EXAMPLE
“… As soon as she had sealed up her letter, she brooked no delay but sent it straight by one of
her waiting-women to Lutesio, whom she found sitting alone in his chamber reading
upon a book. Interrupting his study, she delivered him the letter and the message of her
lady. Lutesio, kind, gave the gentlewoman a kiss, for he thought she valued a lip-favour
more than a piece of gold, and with great courtesy gave her leave to depart. She was
scarce out of the chamber but he opened the letter and found what he expected, the
resolution of a chaste countess, too worthy of so jealous a husband. …”
From: Philomela
The Lady Fitzwater’s Nightingale
By Robert Greene, 1592
ETYMOLOGY
from Middle French aidance, from aider (aid) + -ance
EXAMPLE
“… All swolne with chafing, downe Adonis sits,
Banning his boystrous, and vnruly beast;
And now the happie season once more fits
That louesicke loue, by pleading may be blest:
For louers say, the heart hath treble wrong,
When it is bard the aydance of the tongue. …”
From: Venus and Adonis
By William Shakespeare, 1593
ETYMOLOGY
from number (n.) + -ous
EXAMPLE
“… She sawe, she sawe the prophane route,
rushe in, without all measure:
Unto thy sacred holy house,
that route, whiche thou (O Lorde)
Forboddste, that they, ne shoulde come in,
the mansion of thy worde.
Her numbrous folke (a syghyng flocke)
and seekyng after foode,
Dyd geue for meate, what so they had,
thynges precious or good.
To cheryshe theyr so needie sowles. …”
From: A Medicinable Morall, that is, the two bookes of Horace his satyres,
Translated by T. Drant, 1566
ETYMOLOGY
from heed (careful attention, care, observation) + -y
EXAMPLE
“… Not wythstandynge (ryght worshipfull) I haue attempted an enterpryce in prouynge eche parcel of the pryuye masse to dysplease god, whiche I can neyther word, matier, ne reason accordynglye, and so am rather dyslyked then lyked of manye for thys my doyng, rather heady then heedy as they suppose: Howebeyt in case the sayd persons woll wythe me earnestly respect my bounden deutie in the sayd doyng, they (I doubte not (woll be rathere contented then discontented with me for the same. …”
From: A Treatise againste the preuee masse
By Edmund Gest, 1548
ETYMOLOGY
from make (to produce by action, bring about) + sport (activity involving physical exertion and skill)
EXAMPLE (for adj.)
“… Graunt that this present Tyrian with Troian asemblye
May breede good fortune to our freends and kynred heer after.
Let make sport Bacchus, with good ladye Iuno, be present.
And ye, my freend Tyrians, thee Troian coompanye frollick
Thus sayd, with sipping in vessel nycelye she dipped. …”
From: Thee first foure bookes of Virgil his Aeneis
Translated by Richard Stanyhurst, 1582
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin eximius (excepted, select, choice), from eximere (to take out) + -ous;
common in 17th century literature
EXAMPLE
“… For this matter let euery man make frendes to the kinges maiestie, for it doth perteine to a king to help this infirmity, by the grace the which is giuen to a king anointed. But for as much as some men doth iudge diuers times a Fistle or a French pocke to be the kings euil, in such matters it behoueth not a king to meddle withal, except it be thorow & of his boutiful goodnes to giue his pitifull and gracious councell. For kinges & kinges sonnes & other noble men hath been eximious Phisicions, as it appeareth more largely in ye Introduction of knowledge, a booke of my making. …”
From: The Breuiarie of Health vvherin doth folow, remedies, for all maner of sicknesses & diseases,
By Andrew Boorde, 1547
PRONUNCIATION
uhg-ZIM-ee-uhss, ek-SIM-ee-uhss
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