ETYMOLOGY
from man + mender
EXAMPLE
“… Man, I must have busines; this foolish fellow
Hinders himselfe: I have a dozen Rascalls
To hurt within these five dayes: good man mender,
Stop me up with Parsley, like stuft Beefe,
And let me walke abroad. …”
From: Comedies and Tragedies written by Francis Beaumont and Iohn Fletcher Gentlemen
By: Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, a1625
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin nudiustertianus from nudius tertius (day before yesterday, literally ‘today the third day’, counting inclusively)
EXAMPLE
“… I am not much offended if I see a trimme, far trimmer than she that wears it: in a word, whatever Christianity or Civility will allow, I can afford with London measure: but when I heare a nugiperous Gentledame inquire what dresse the Queen is in this week : What the nudiustertian fashion of the Court; I meane the very newest: with egge to be in it in all haste, what ever it be; I look at her as the very gizzard of a trifle, the product of a quarter of a cypher, the epitome of nothing, fitter to be kickt, if shee were of a kickable substance, than either honour’d or humour’d. …”
From: The Simple Cobler of Aggawam in America
By: Nathaniel Ward, 1647
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin oviaria (flock of sheep), from ovis (sheep) + -aria (-ary)
EXAMPLE
“… Any of the following lines would also be matched by the expression $meadow =~ /ovine/, giving false positives when looking for lost sheep:
Fine bovines demand fine toreadors.
Muskoxen are a polar ovibovine species.
Grooviness went out of fashion decades ago.
Sometimes they’re right in front of you but they still don’t match:
Ovines are found typically in oviaries. …”
From: Perk Cookbook
By: By Tom Christiansen & Nathan Torkington, 1998
PRONUNCIATION
OH-vee-uh-ree
ETYMOLOGY
? in medieval folklore, toads were often considered abominable or unappealing
EXAMPLE
“… Baltazar. Sirra, you Salfa-Perilla Rascall, Toads-guts, you whorson pockey French Spawne of a bursten-bellyed Spyder, doe you heare, Monsire.
Medina. Why doe you barke and snap at my Narcissus, as if I were de Frenshe doag? …”
From: The Noble Souldier. Or, A Contract Broken, Justly Reveng’d. A Tragedy
By: Samuel Rowley, 1634
ETYMOLOGY
from page (n.) + -ical; possibly after magical
EXAMPLE
“… Will: And besides madam we wood haue them knowe that your two little Pages, which are lesse by hälfe then two leaues, haue more learning in them then is in all their three volumnes.
Iack: I faith Will, and putt their great pagicall index to them too.
Hip: But how will ye excuse your abuses wags?
Will: We doubt not madam, but if it please your Ladiship to put vp their abuses …”
From: Sir Gyles Goosecappe Knight, A Comedie
By: George Chapman, 1606
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin grandævus (aged) + -al
EXAMPLE
“… But you are so mightily taken with your own performance, that to increase admiration, and for the bringing in a phrase or sentence out of Proclus, you could not with-hold from telling us that you are but a young man, and so we easily beleeve it. But the more saucy boy you to be so bold with Reverend Mr. Aristotle, that grandevall Patriarch in points of Philosophy. For the second admonition, it is little more then a noise or clatter of words, or if you will, a meere rattle for a boy to play with. …”
From: Observations upon Anthroposophia theomagica, and Anima magica abscondita by Alazonomastix Philalethes
By Henry More, 1650
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin blaterat- participial stem of blaterare (to babble)
EXAMPLE
From: The Court of the Gentiles, or, A discourse touching the original of human literature, both philologie and philosophie, from the Scriptures and Jewish church
Part III. The Vanity of Pagan Philosophie Demonstrated
By Theophilus Gale, 1677
Invocation of Saints from Demon-Invocation.
ETYMOLOGY
from totter +headed
EXAMPLE
“… These are the things which cause animosities among the totter-headed multitude, who are the tinder that the sparks of a few Designers may easily inflame. …”
From: A Treatise of Taxes & Contributions
By William Petty, 1662
Of the Causes which encrease and aggravate the several sorts of Publick Charges
ETYMOLOGY
Latin adverb, (urgently, earnestly), in late Latin (presently, at once);
originally a law term, but later a substitute for ‘instantly’
EXAMPLE
“… in the third place, the information being read, the Bishops would have excused their pleading to it instanter, but that in this they were refuted …”
From: The Ellis Correspondence:
Letters Written During 1686-1688, and Addressed to John Ellis, Esq.
Edited by George Agar Ellis, 1829
“The Bishops Release from the Tower upon Bail“. 16th June, 1688
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin cunctat-, participial stem of cunctari (to hesitate) + -ive
EXAMPLE
“… For it hath been a manner much used of late in my last lord’s time, of whom I learn much to imitate, and, somewhat to avoid ; that upon the solemn and full hearing of a cause nothing is pronounced in court, but breviates are required to be made; which I do not dislike in itself in causes perplexed. For I confess I have somewhat of the cunctative; and I am of opinion, that whosoever is not wiser upon advice than upon the sudden, the same man was no wiser at fifty than he was at thirty. …”
From: The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, 1803
Speech on taking his Place in Chancery, May 1617
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