ETYMOLOGY
from Greek ἀκυρολόγος (akyrologos) (incorrect in speech);
from ἀ (not) + κῦρος (authority) + λόγος (speech) + -ical
EXAMPLE
for adverb form – (‘acyrologically – incorrectly as regards the use of words’)
“…He saith, (but Magisterially without the least proof) that the Apostle speaks Acurologically and abusively; and by sanctified, means quasi, as if they were sanctified…”
From: Plain Scripture Proof of Infants Church-Membership and Baptism
By Richard Baxter, 1651
ETYMOLOGY
from Greek καταμειδιᾶν [katameidian] (to despise) + ‑ate
EXAMPLE
Politicians who make false, unrealistic promises are unethical, unscrupulous, immoral, and deceitful. Catamidiate them.
ETYMOLOGY
in 16th–17th century France: apparently, a fanciful creation of Rabelais
EXAMPLE
“…My counsel to you in that case, my friend, is that you marry, quoth Hippothadee; for you should rather choose to marry once than to burn still in fires of concupiscence. Then Panurge, with a jovial heart and a loud voice, cried out, That is spoke gallantly, without circumbilivaginating about and about, and never hitting it in its centred point…”
From: Gargantua and Pantagruel, Book III.
By Francois Rabelais
Translation by Sir Thomas Urquhart and Peter Antony Motteux, 1693
ETYMOLOGY
apparently from pan- (all) + guts (the belly, stomach)
EXAMPLE
“…”Odzbodkins! You won’t spoil our sport,’ cried her husband. “Your crotchets are always coming in like a fox into a hen-roost.”
“I have work in hand that must be done,” replied his wife.
“Panguts!” she exclaimed, raising her voice and her fist at the same time, “what do you do? lazying about here like a mud-turtle nine days after it’s killed…”
From: Margaret: A Tale of the Real and Ideal, Blight and Bloom
By Sylvester Judd, 1845
ETYMOLOGY
perhaps representative (with some change of sense) Old English fedels (fatted bird),
the Germanic base of feed (vb.) + the Germanic base of ‑els
EXAMPLE
(for n. 2)
“…It will be of a pretty little Infant: O how heartily I shall love it! I do
already dote upon it; for it will be my dainty Fedle-darling, my genteel Dilli-minion …”
From: The third book of the Works of Mr. Francis Rabelais
Translation by Thomas Urquhart. 1693
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin largiloquus (talking copiously, garrulous) + -ent
EXAMPLE
“…I secretly admired and still admire the ease and smoothness with which she could pour forth her torrent floods of largiloquent Celtic rhetoric…”
From: Rosalba: The Story of Her Development
By Olive Pratt Rayner (Pseudonym), Grant Allen, 1899
ETYMOLOGY
from Greek αὐτεξούσιος (free will) + -ous
EXAMPLE
“…For First, as to Moral Evils, (which are the Chiefest) there is a Necessity that there should be Higher and Lower Inclinations in all Rational Beings Vitally United to Bodies, and that as Autexousious or Free-willed, they should have a Power of determining themselves more or less, either way…”
From: The True Intellectual System of the Universe
By Ralph Cudworth, 1678
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin emacitas, from emacem (fond of buying), from emere (to buy)
EXAMPLE
“…I found, however, that this gentleman was a little inflicted with the disease of emacity, or itch for buying bargains above-mentioned…”
From: Flowers of Literature
Edited by Francis William Blagdon, Francis Prévost, 1806
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin gracilis (slender) + -ous
EXAMPLE
“…Gracilious, slender, small, thin, soft and weak…”
From: The Academy of Armory; or, A Storehouse of Armory and Blazon
By Randle Holme, 1688
Some few terms of Art used by Historians in the description of Fish and Sea-Worms
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin fidelis (faithful, loyal) + -ous
EXAMPLE
“…I ever (quoth Rhoxenor) have found thee cordially fidelious, doe but doe as thou hast indented, and expect what wealth, or honour thou canst covet, while Clodomer lives, and when his death, puts the Diadem upon my head, to be my only favourite…”
From: The Loves of Amandus and Sophronia
By Samuel Sheppard, 1650
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