ETYMOLOGY
from Latin exterraneus (from ex- (out) + terra (land)) + -ous
EXAMPLE
“… had they only a morsel of standing room – an exterraneous rock from which to pull. How the wheels crush and pulverise all that they come upon, under their three or four tons weight! …”
From: The Dublin University Magazine
A Literary and Political Journal
Volume II, July to December, 1833
Familiar Epistles from London. No. IV
ETYMOLOGY
apparently from air (n.) + -ling
EXAMPLE (for n. 1.)
“… Some more there be, slight ayrelings, will be wonne,
With dogs, and horses ; or, perhaps, a whore ;
Which must be had : and, if they venter Hues,
For vs, AVRELIA, we must hazard honors
A little. Get thee store, and change of women,
As I haue boyes; and giue ‘hem time, and place, And all conniuence : be thy selfe, too, courtly ;
And entertayne, and feast, sit vp, and reuell ;
Call all the great, the faire, and spirited Dames
Of Rome about thee ; and beginne a fashion
Of freedome, and community. …”
From: Catiline His Conspiracy
By Benjamin Jonson, 1611
ETYMOLOGY
irregularly formed on Latin dexter (on the right hand or right side) + -ic + -al
EXAMPLE
“… It is called of the Hebrewes, … the hande of the Soule, or … the right hand of the minde, because it makes any conceit dexterical, one of the two things, for which a pregnant Poet (as imagine of Homer, Naso, or any other) especially is to be admired: …”
From: The optick glasse of humors.
Or The touchstone of a golden temperature
Or, The philosophers stone to make a golden temper.
By Thomas Walkington, 1607
ETYMOLOGY
from bauble (n.) + -ing
EXAMPLE (for adj. 1.)
“…euen so by the smalest booke that can be written, by ye most babling ballet that can be made, and by the least word that can be spoken, his strange and wonderful workes in man, with his most liberall and incomparable guiftes vnto thē do as perfectly set forth and shew themselues as by the greatest volume yt euer was written, by the wayghtyest or wysest concept that euer was made, or by the most eloquente or learned oration that euer was vttered. …”
From: A Short Inuentory of Certayne Idle Inuentions
By C. Thimelthorpe, 1581
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin oberration- oberratio (action of wandering around or about),
from Latin oberrat- past participial stem of oberrare (to wander about) + -io (ion)
EXAMPLE
Jasmine is a travel writer and describes her oberrations in her soon to be published book.
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin circumforaneus (from circum + forum (market)) + -ous
EXAMPLE
“… Water is good for any thing: It will part dogs, it will make Pottage, and howsoe’r and wheresoe’r the Barber found out this recipe for a dead sleep, it was no dry device, Veritatem è puteo hauriunt tantam, the truth of it is, the very Probatum for a Lethargy, and drawn out of a deep well cures a deep sleep. The Moon was alwaies beholding to the Pleiades, for waking of Endymion. I doe believe the Barber learned it of a Mountebanck, and ’twas first taught him to awaken drunken customers, who fell asleep in trimming-while, and with the sprinkling of this Frigida, were restor’d to their senses againe, and paid for the nap, as well as the snip. But the circumforaneous Emperick rais’d his Fame, in using this admirable Element upon any other disease. …”
From: Pleasant Notes upon Don Quixot
By Edmund Gayton, 1654
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin lepidus (pleasant; charming; witty)
EXAMPLE
“… In his daily walks into the fields, nothing pleased him so much as the chat of some well-informed fellow of the college, who would join him in quoting ‘sweet extemporaries’ from Gelius or Macrobius, or ‘in guessing at the lepid derivation’ of English words. To those who were of his own standing, it is to be feared that his conceit and pedantry proved in many cases offensive. …”
From: Simonds D’Ewes in John Howard Marsden’s College Life in the Time of James the First, 1851
Chapter IV: D’ewes’s Diligence in Study, and His Strict Observance of the Duties of Religion, c1619
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin contradictorius (contradictory) + -ous
EXAMPLE (for adj. 1.)
“… after the grete clerk Plinius, libro quinto, capitulo decimo octavo, what distaunce is betwene cenit of oure hedde and a poynte contradictorious to hit in heuyn, soe moche distaunce is from the este in to the weste;…”
From: Polychronicon
By Ranulf Higden
Translated by John Trevisa, a1475
ETYMOLOGY
of origin uncertain
EXAMPLE (for n.1.)
“… And as for Ser John Hevenyngham, Ser John Wyndefeld, and othere wurchepfull men ben mad but here doggeboltes, the which I suppose wull turne hem to diswurchep here-after…”
From: Paston Letters and Papers of the fifteenth century
Edited by Norman Davis, Richard Beadle, and Colin Richmond, 2004
Letter from Margaret Paston to John Paston, 1465
ETYMOLOGY
vb. 1: from participial stem of Latin uberare , from uber (rich, plentiful) + -ate
vb. 2: from Latin uber (udder) + –ate
EXAMPLE (for vb. 1.)
Seafood uberates at the historic market in the old fishing village.
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