ETYMOLOGY
from glim (a light of any kind; a candle, a lantern) + flashy (given to show)
EXAMPLE
“… What ho, my kiddy,” cried Job, “don’t be glimflashy: why you’d cry beef on a blater; the cove is a bob cull, and a pal of my own; and, moreover, is as pretty a Tyburn blossom as ever was brought up to ride a horse foaled by an acorn.. …”
From: Pelham; Or, The Adventures of a Gentleman
Volume I, Second Edition, 1828
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin enecat- participial stem of enecare,
from e (out) + necare (to kill)
EXAMPLE
“… The differences of Plagues are specified by the degree, qualification, or modus substantiae of the Pestilent Seminaries, which according to their grosseness or subtility, activity, or hebetude, cause more or less truculent plagues, some partaking of such a pernicious degree of malignity, that in the manner of a most presentaneous poyson, they enecate in two or three hours, suddenly corrupting or extinguishing the vital spirits; others at their first appulse excite a Per-per-acute malign Feaver; and some begin with a putrid feaver, swiftly changing into a malign one, which nature this present Pest seems to have assumed, gradually encroaching upon us, as we have already expressed. …”
From: A Discourse of the Plague containing the nature, causes, signs, and presages of the pestilence in general
By Gideon Harvey, 1665
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin liripipium, leropipium, (explained in glosses as ‘tippet of a hood’, ‘cord’, ‘shoe-lace’, and ‘inner sole-leather of shoes’);
no plausible etymology has been found; connection of the latter part with French pipe (pipe (n.)) is not unlikely;
the form loripipium, which suggests Latin lorum strap, is likely an etymologizing corruption
EXAMPLE (for n. 3)
“… I say againe, my horses:
Are ye so hot? have ye your private pilgrimages?
Must ye be Jumping-Jone? Ile wander with ye:
Ile jump ye, and Ile joggle ye: my horses;
And keep me this young Lirry-poope within dores,
I will discover, dame. …”
From: Comedies and Tragedies
By Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, 1647
The Pilgrim
ETYMOLOGY
as if from Latin evasor, agent-noun;
from evadere from e– (out) + vadere (to go) + -ious
EXAMPLE
“… This is a very true and assured Diary of the chief Passages in those stirs made in Sir William York’s House, but withal a very brief one. Which made me get Mr. Richardson to send certain Queries touching several Passages which were answered from a very sure and authentick Hand; and in virtue of which Answers, I shall be able to give a stop to all the tergiversations of the Incredulous, and their evasorious Pretences, as if things might be resolved into waggish Combination. …”
From: A Continuation of J. Glanvill’s Collection of Remarkable and True Stories of Apparitions and Witchcraft
By Henry More, 1682
ETYMOLOGY
from sable (black) + -ize
EXAMPLE
“…Some chroniclers that write of kingdom’s states,
Do so absurdly sableize my white
With maskes, and interludes, by day and night,
Bald may games, beare baytings, and poore orations,
Made to some prince, by some poore corporations. …”
From: The Scourge of Folly
By John Davies of Hereford, 1611
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin hæsitationem, noun of action from hæsitare (to hesitate) + -ous
EXAMPLE
“… he did not advance with his Army as near as, as he might have done, nor did endeavor to enforce others, nor to be enforced himself to fight, but rather went out of his direct way, which he had taken to come to Vienna, and kept for the most part in strong and commodious seats, as between the two Rivers of Sava and Drava; and if a powerful and vain glorious Prince, who professed that he had undertaken that War meerly out of a desire of glory would make use of haesitatious counsels, where the consequences were so great and so heavie; …”
From:
Politick Discourses written in Italian by Paolo Paruta, a noble Venetian, cavalier and procurator of St. Mark;
Translated by the Right Honorable Henry, Earl of Monmouth, 1657
ETYMOLOGY
from French gastrolatre,
from Greek γαστρ(ο)-, γαστήρ (belly) + -λατρος (serving)
EXAMPLE
“… At the Court of that great Master of Ingenuity, Pantagruel observ’d two sorts of troublesom and too officious Apparitors, whom he very much detested. The first, were call’d Engastrimythes; the others, Gastrolaters. …”
From: Pantagruel’s Voyage to the Oracle of the Bottle
Being the fourth and fifth books of the works of François Rabelais
Translated by Peter Anthony Motteux, 1694
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin Gnathonicus,
from Gnathonem (gnatho),
from Latin Gnatho, the name of a parasite in the “”Eunuchus” of Terence
EXAMPLE
“… The gnathonick Parasite sweareth to all that this benefactor holdeth. The mercenary Pensioner will bow before he break. He, who only studieth to have the praise of some witty invention can not strick upon another anwile. …”
From: A Dispute Against the English-Popish Ceremonies, obtruded upon the Church of Scotland
By G. Gillespie, 1637
ETYMOLOGY
from Middle French preallable (preceding, preliminary);
from preal(l)er (to precede);
from pre- + aller (to go) + -able
EXAMPLE
“… And it was not to bee modelled or directed by the patterne of regular and remisse friendship, wherein so many precautions of a long and preallable conversation, are required. This hath no other Idea than of it selfe, and can have no reference but to it selfe. …”
From: The Essayes, or Morall, Politike, and Millitarie Discourses of Lord Michaell de Montaigne
Translated by John Florio, 1603
Of Friendship
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin claudicare,
from claudus lame
EXAMPLE
“… Toss’d, half the night, as Vulcan a whole morn,
No Lemnian there to catch the wretch forlorn;
Till his last step to claudicate in gait,
Like him halt, hobble, and hallucinate! …”
From: The Vestriad: A Poem
By Hans Busk, 1820
Canto IV. The Descent.
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