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. …”
From: Title
ETYMOLOGY
from Greek ἐπαινετικός, from ἐπαινεῖν (to praise)
EXAMPLE
“… another thing yet more considerable is conduct and design in whatever kind of Poetry, whether the Epic, the Dramatic, the Lyric, the Elegiac, the Epaenetic, the Bucolic , or the Epigram; under one of which all the whole circuit of Poetic design, is one way or other included; …”
From: Theatrum Poetarum, or, A Compleat Collection of the Poets especially the most eminent, of all ages, the antients distinguish’t from the moderns in their several alphabets
By Edward Phillips, 1675
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin inscius (not knowing, ignorant), (from in- + -scius (knowing)) + -ous
EXAMPLE
“… This they are willingly ignorant of. Hee begins with the Dunces, those stubborne and unruly Blockheads; inscious, nescious, conscious, wilfull Ignorants. It is one thing, velle scire quod oportuit latere; another, velle latere quod oportuit scire. The former, is a sawcie ambition of forbidden knowledge; the other, a headstrong preclusion of commanded knowledge. …”
From: A Commentary or, Exposition vpon the Diuine Second Epistle Generall, written by the Blessed Apostle St. Peter
By Thomas Adams, 1633
ETYMOLOGY
from dislike (adj.) + -en, after like, liken
EXAMPLE
“… Dis-mantle you, and (as you can) disliken
The truth of your owne seeming, that you may
(For I do feare eyes ouer) to Ship-boord
Get vndescry’d. …”
From: Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies
By Wiliam Shakespeare, 1632
The Winters Tale, a1616
ETYMOLOGY
from late Latin increpatorius (Sidonius), from participial stem of increpare (to increpate, to chide, to rebuke)
EXAMPLE
“… The power archbishop Loundres had as lord justice, and the pope’s legate, gave him the opportunity of encroaching on the rights of the crown and the liberties of the subject, by drawing temporal causes to the ecclesiastical courts, of which the citizens of Dublin complained to the king, who this year sent him an increpatory writ, prohibiting him front such practices for the future, with threats of severe treatment if he persisted. …”
From: The History and Antiquities of the City of Dublin,
From the Earliest Accounts
By Walter Harris, 1766
ETYMOLOGY
n. of uncertain origin uncertain;
perhaps from the female forename Mab, shortened in Middle English from Mabel, from Amabel
vb. related to mab (a promiscuous woman), perhaps as a variant of mob (to dress oneself untidily
EXAMPLE (for n. 1.)
“… Mido. Take my life for a penny, whither shall I ren?
Esau. Come out, thou little fiend, come out, thou skittish gill.
Abra. Out, alas, alas! Esau will us all kill.
Esau. And come out, thou mother Mab; out, old rotten witch!
As white as midnight’s arsehole or virgin pitch. Where be ye? come together in a cluster. …”
From: A Newe Mery and Wittie Comedie or Enterlude, Newely Imprinted, Treating vpon the Hhistorie of Iacob and Esau, 1568
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin salarium (salary) + -ate
EXAMPLE
“… The Sanhedrim of Israel being the Supream, and a constant Court of Judicature could not choose but be exceeding gainful. The Senate of the Bean in Athens, because it was but annual, was moderately salariated, but that of the Areopagites being for life bountifully; what advantages the Senators of Lacedemon had, where there was little mony or use of it, was in honour for life. …”
From: The Common-Wealth of Oceana
By James Harrington, 1656
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin propudiosus (shameful, infamous), from propudium (a shameful action),
(from pro- + pudere (to make ashamed) + -ium) + -osus (-ous)
EXAMPLE
“… Yea in the Cirque or Race-yard, (where was the greatest Concourse of People) they de-cryed Iulian; calling vpon Niger, the chiefest Officer of the sacred Empire, to vindicate the Roman State, and hasten to free them from that propudious Gouernour . ….”
From: Herodian of Alexandria His History of Twenty Roman Cæsars
Interpreted out of the original Greek by James Maxwell, 1629
ETYMOLOGY
reduplicated from noddy (a fool, a simpleton)
EXAMPLE
“… Lastly it is no where to be shewed, that Christ gaue any speciall commaundement, that Peter should remooue his seat from Antioche to Rome. If this hoddy Noddy thinke otherwise, let him if he canne, bring foorth his proofes, and shew where this commaundement is to be séene. …”
From: A briefe replie to a certaine odious and slanderous libel, lately published by a seditious Iesuite,
By Matthew Sutcliffe, 1600
ETYMOLOGY
from babble (to talk excessively, to chatter quickly) + -iaminy (of uncertain origin)
EXAMPLE
“… Out you babliaminy, you vnfetherd cremitoryed queane, you cullisance of scabiosity. …”
From: A Trick to Catch the Old-one
By Thomas Middleton, 1608
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