Tag: 1600 – 1699

Word of the Day: TERRIBLIZE

ETYMOLOGY
from terrible + -ize

EXAMPLE
“…Both Camps appoach, their bloudy rage doth rise,
And even the face of Cowards terriblize;
New Martial heat inflames their mindes with ire,
Their bloud is moov’d, their heart is all on fire.
Their cheerfull limbs (seeming to march too slowe).
Longing to meet, the fatall drums out-goe;
And even already in their gesture fight:
Th’ iron-footed coursers, lusty, fresh, and light, …”

From: Du Bartas his Deuine Weekes and Workes translated
By Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas
Translated by Josuah Sylvester, 1606

Word of the Day: MOTABLE

ETYMOLOGY
from late Latin motabilis (mobile, moving), from Latin motare (to set in motion, keep moving) (from mot-, past participial stem of movere (to move)) + -abilis (-able)

EXAMPLE
“…The heat had, also, made the whole atmosphere tremulous and visible, so that the outline of towers, turrets, and majestic edifices of stone and marble, was fluttering and motable as if an etherial sea of some subtle fluid, with trembling waves and a constant, rippling motion, was flowing and dancing over it. …”

From: The Ladies’ Companion
A Monthly Magazine Embracing Every Department of Literature
Volume XIV, Printed 1841
‘The English Family; Or, Who Are They? ‘
A Sketch by Joseph Holt Ingraham

Word of the Day: FOGGISH

ETYMOLOGY
adj. 1.: from fog (fat, bloated) + -ish
adj. 2.: from fog (cloud of small water droplets that is near ground level) + -ish

EXAMPLE (for adj. 1.)
“…He that lyueth after the rules of phisike lyueth wretchedly. As thoughe it were an happynes and felicitie, the body to be swolen and stretched out with surfettyng, to be brasted with the pleasure of the body, to waxe foggyshe with drinkyng of good ale, & to be sepulte and drowned in slepe …”

From: Declamatio in Laudem Nobilissimæ Artis Medicinæ.
= A declamacion in the prayse and co[m]me[n]dation of the most hygh and excellent science of phisyke
By Desiderius Erasmus
Translated out of Latin into English, ?1537

Word of the Day: CENATORY

ETYMOLOGY
from Latin cenatorius (pertaining to dinner)

EXAMPLE
“…The consent of the Jews with the Romans in other ceremonies and rites of feasting, makes probable their conformity in this. The Romans washed, were anointed, and wore a cenatory garment: and that the same was practised by the Jews, is deduceable from that expostulation of our Saviour with Simon, that he washed not his feet, nor anointed his head with oyl: the common civilities at festival entertainments: and that expression of his concerning the cenatory or wedding garment; and as some conceive of the linnen garment of the young man or St. John; which might be the same he wore the night before at the last Supper. …”

From: Pseudodoxia Epidemica:
Or, Enquiries into Very many Received Tenents and And Commonly Presumed Truths
By Thomas Browne, 1650

Word of the Day: GALACTOPOTE

ETYMOLOGY
from Latin galactopota (milk-drinker); from Greek γαλακτοπότης (milk drinker)

EXAMPLE
“…Moreover, it not only satiates the country people with abundance of milk and cheese, but also garnishes the tables of the elegant with agreeable and numerous dishes. To some nations, indeed, which are intirely destitute of corn, it furnishes their whole sustenance: hence it is, that very many of the Nomades and Getae are called Galactopotae (milk-drinkers). …”

From: L. Junius Moderatus Columella Of Husbandry
By Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella, 1745

Word of the Day: LINGUACIOUS

ETYMOLOGY
from Latin linguaci-, linguax (loquacious, talkative) (from lingua tongue + -ax [-acious]) + -ous

EXAMPLE
“…These and such like starting-holes and subtilties have made of Physick a Meander, a Wildernesse, and wild labirynth of incertainty and unstable formalities. We desire the linguacious Chymistry of these heads to tell us, how many bitter things there are in taste, which neverthelesse (according to the edict of that rule) are not hot at all?  …”

From: Matæotechnia Medicinæ Praxeōs, The Vanity of the Craft of Physick
By Noah Biggs, 1651

Word of the Day: CONSEQUENTIOUS

ETYMOLOGY
from. obs. French consequentieux, from Latin consequentia: + -ous

EXAMPLE
“…Now when the politicke Ambassadour, had wrought Prince Temeriske, as he desired, he then perswades with Abbas, that the Georgians hated him, that their King had entertained discourse with the Grand Signior, and sought but an aduantage to betray his trust, that if his words seemed of no moment, the matter was not consequentious, and his employment carried him, to other ends then forreigne Obiects. …”

From: A Relation of some Yeares Trauaile begunne anno 1626. Into Afrique and the greater Asia
By Thomas Herbert, 1634

Word of the Day: LATITATE

ETYMOLOGY
from Latin latitat-, participial stem of latitare (to lie hid)

EXAMPLE
“…According to the statement of Townsend, a gardener and discharged servant of Sheriff Lax, but which was afterwards proved to be highly coloured, and in parts wholly false, one of the sheriffs had fled to the Recorder’s bed-room and taken refuge behind the state bed; and other aldermen were latitating in the upper bed-rooms. …”

From: Modern State Trials
By William Townsend, 1850
Trial at Bar of Charles Pinney, Esq. Mayor of Bristol,
On a Criminal Information for Neglect of Duty, in the Court of King’s Bench,
October 25, 26, 27, 29, 30, 31, and November 1, 1832

Word of the Day: REELING-RIPE

ETYMOLOGY
from reeling (moving with a swaying or staggering motion) + ripe (adj.)

EXAMPLE
“…  SEBASTIAN He is drunk now. Where had he wine?
ALONSO And Trinculo is reeling ripe. Where should they
 Find this grand liquor that hath gilded ’em?
 ⌜To Trinculo.⌝ How cam’st thou in this pickle?
TRINCULO  I have been in such a pickle since I saw you
 last that I fear me will never out of my bones. I
 shall not fear flyblowing. …”

From: The Tempest
By William Shakespeare, a1616