Tag: 1600 – 1699

Word of the Day: CAPERATE

ETYMOLOGY
from Latin caperat- participial stem of caperare (to frown)

EXAMPLE (for vb. 2.)
“… the first is called a Limmon which is turbinated with an oblong effigies, is colorated herbaceously, and turgid with a more acid acerb and frigid succe, corticated with a thinner pill, and not so amare as an Orenge: the second is the more vulgar Citron, very like the former, but its colour is more luteous, its pill more crasse, rugous and caperated, and it selfe more crasse, odorate, medicative and convenient for antidotes: the third is greatest called Pom-Citron, orbiculated like a melon, with a thick carnous pill, somtimes aequalling a mans nayle in crassitude, with a concolorated superficies, which we call Poncerium, Citroniatum, Assyrian Apple, and Adams Apple, all which names seem to be deflected from the Tree, and as they are alike in Idea, so also in facultyes. …”

From: A Medicinal Dispensatory, containing the whole body of physick discovering the natures, properties, and vertues of vegetables, minerals, & animals
By Jean de Renou
Translated by Richard Tomlinson, 1657
“Of Limmons, Citrons.“

Word of the Day: PLANILOQUENT

ETYMOLOGY
from Latin planiloquus (plain-speaking) (from planus [plain] + -loquus (from loqui [to speak])) + -ent

EXAMPLE
“… Dear Editor: Please continue your piperitious, planiloquent polemics against those omphaloskeptical, onychophagic, uxoravalent, philalethic, laodicean, opisthoporeiac, equivorous, kakorrhaphiophobiac, megalomaniacal, porlockian, contortuplicate, acritochromatic, and tragomaschaliac pseudoacademicians.
Cordially
Dr. Panos D. Bardis
Editor, Social Sciences …”

From: Maledicta (International Journal of Verbal Aggression, Volume 1 Number 2)
In Defense of Anticacademoidism
Edited by Reinhold Aman, 1978

Word of the Day: MULCIBLE

ETYMOLOGY
from Latin mulcibilis, from mulcere (to soothe) + -ibilis (-ible)

EXAMPLE
“… But now, partly through the ineffable quality of rich comedy, which was so much the constitution of Elliston, and partly from Miss Warren’s mulcible nature, which, to do her justice, was unrivalled, and all this aided by the pacific disposition of the clerk of the “long-room,” peace was tolerably restored. …”

From: Memoirs of Robert William Elliston, 
Comedian, 1774-1810
By George Raymond, 1844

Word of the Day: ATTOXICATED

ETYMOLOGY
from Latin at-, ad- (to) + toxicare (to poison) + -ed

EXAMPLE
“… Who seeth and feeleth not, that oftentimes while Reason attendeth to Contemplation, a villanous passion of Loue withdraweth the attention, and with an attoxicated delight imprisoneth the Affection? Who perceiueth not, that diuers times Reason would pardon all iniuries, and Ire opposeth it selfe, importuning reuenge? …”

From: The Passions of the Minde
By Thomas Wright, 1604

Word of the Day: FRABBLE

ETYMOLOGY
n. of unknown origin
vb. diminutive or frequentative of frab (to harass, worry)

EXAMPLE (for n.)
“… And those more refined Arians, how near they were to the Truth, or how near they might be understood to have come to the Truth, and that it might be proved to be rather a frabble of words than a distinct disagreement of senses, it were too operose a matter to declare here. How much some Fathers have cryed out against the over-much curiosity of Definitions by Councils, History will teach us. …”

From: Paralipomena Prophetica containing several supplements and defences of Dr Henry More his expositions of the Prophet Daniel and the apocalypse
By Henry More, 1685

Word of the Day: LIBENCE

ETYMOLOGY
from Latin libentia, from libentem, libens (willing)

EXAMPLE
“… They say the appetit confined to good is volent, and therfore free: but this volence is a meer libence, free from coactiv violence; no tru liberty to chus several objects; and therfore not arbitrary, becaus bar’d of indifferency. …”

From: Theoremata Theologica: = Theological Treatises.:
Octo theses theologicæ: eight theses of divinity
By Robert Vilvain, 1654

Word of the Day: DIMICATION

ETYMOLOGY
from Latin dimicationem, noun of action, from dimicare (to fight)

EXAMPLE
“… At this time there was one Alexander, a godly and worthy man, Bishop of Constantinople. He in the dimication which arose about Arius, shewed himself a very prudent and pious man: For as soon as Arius came to Constantinople, he presently raised divisions amongst the people there also, so that great tumults ensued whilest one part of the people stood for the Faith confirmed by the Nicene Council: …”

From: The Marrow of Ecclesiastical History contained in the lives of one hundred forty eight fathers, schoolmen, first reformers and modern divines which have flourished in the Church since Christ’s time to this present age
By Samuel Clarke, 1654

Word of the Day: QUAEDAM

ETYMOLOGY
from Latin quaedam (a certain woman), feminine singular of quidam (somebody)

EXAMPLE
“… So this Piece of his is very sweet in the Composure, and yet very tart against the sinfulness of vain Attire; wherein wanton Quaedams in those days came to that excess, that they delighted altogether in the Garb, and Habit, and roisterly Fashions of Men: This Sermon the King did greatly approve, as a fit Antidote against such corrupt Manners, and commanded it to be Printed. For the Doctor himself never wrote any thing, with intention to let the World see it in the Press, unless necessity constrain’d him. …”

From: Scrinia Reserata a memorial offer’d to the great deservings of John Williams, D. D., who some time held the places of Ld Keeper of the Great Seal of England, Ld Bishop of Lincoln, and Ld Archbishop of York
By John Hacket, 1693

Word of the Day: SHIT-BREECH

ETYMOLOGY
from shit + breech

EXAMPLE
“… Reverend Alderman Atkins (the shit-breech) his speech,: to Mr. Warner the venerable Mayor of London, the wise aldermen, and most judicious Common-Councell men, in relation to the present affaires in Kent, Essex, and Surrey, concerning the Scots invasion, and His Majesties interest. Published for the honour of my Lord Mayor and Common-Councell men. …”

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