Tag: 1600 – 1699

Word of the Day: JARGOGLE

ETYMOLOGY
of unknown origin;
possibly a confused extension of jargon (n.)

EXAMPLE
“…Whether all you say have any thing more in it than this, I appeal to my readers: and should willingly do it to you, did not I fear, that the jumbling of those good and plausible words in your head, “of sufficient evidence, consider as one ought,” &c. might a little jargogle your thoughts, and lead you hoodwinked the round of your own beaten circle…”

From: The Works of John Locke
Vol. 5 Four Letters concerning Toleration
A Third Letter for Toleration
By John Locke, 1692

Word of the Day: HILUM

ETYMOLOGY
from Latin hilum (little thing, trifle);
according to Festus, thought to have originally meant ‘that which adheres to a bean’;
hence, later used in anatomy (the depression or opening where ducts, vessels, etc. enter an organ) and in biology (a scar on a seed or spore created by detachment)

EXAMPLE
“…Now Solomon was a wise, and an understanding childe. How much more then should you take care of ignorant, knotty, illiterate, and unhewn Sailors, that have no more than a meer hilum of goodness in them?…”

From: Πελαγος or, An Improvement of the Sea
By Daniel Pell

PRONUNCIATION
HIGH-luhm

Word of the Day: CHILDLING

ETYMOLOGY
from child + -ling

EXAMPLE
“…and therefore more than one hundred times doth he in this his rayling pasquill expresse himselfe against me in such termes as these: Youngling, novice, boy, childe, youth, young springlius, young glorioso, young ignaro, young Phaeton, vaine young man, unworthy young man, young Jenkins, young simplicius, childling, young Pragmatico, shamelesse young man, young Dictator, young Metropolitan, young Thraso, green-head, young peece of presumption, Prelaticall peece of Presbytery, unhallowed peece of Presbytery, swelling peece of vanity, san of shame and folly, illiterate soule, poore man, silly brain, mancipium of illiteratenesse, friend William, Batte mi fili, (as if with his religion and reason, he had also abjured good manners.) And he plainly tels his Reader, that his aime in writing his booke was thus: To make me know my selfe; though a gracious heart would have put him upon writing to have made the people know the truth….”

From: Ὁδηγος Τυϕλος [Odegos Tuphlos]: The Blind Guide, or, The Doting Doctor
By William Jenkyn
Written by John Goodwin, 1648

Word of the Day: REFICIATE

ETYMOLOGY
irregular from Latin reficere (to rebuild, repair, restore) + -ate

EXAMPLE
“…Bay-berryes calefye much, siccate, attenuate, and discusse flatuosity: they are mixed with medicaments that reficiate the lassitude of the nerves; and with unguents, which calefye and resolve; their oyle expressed or elicited by decoction, deleats and cures scabs, blew places, wheales, and many faedityes of the skin, and discusses effused humours…”

From: A Medical Dispensatory; Containing the Whole Body of Physick
By Jean de Renou, 1657

Word of the Day: LONGINQUE

ETYMOLOGY
from Latin longinquus (situated at a distance, remote, of time or distance: long, distant),
from longe (far) + a suffix also seen in propinquus (close at hand, neighbouring)

EXAMPLE
“…Of the Iles of the Gentiles in IAPHETS portion: of BEROSVS his too speedie seating GOMER the sonne of IAPHET in Italie; and another of IAPHETS sonnes TVBAL in Spaine: and of the antiquitie of Longinque Nauigation….”

From: the first part of The History of the World
By Sir Walter Raleigh, 1614

Word of the Day: INCULP

ETYMOLOGY
from Latin inculpare to inculpate, perhaps after French inculper 

EXAMPLE
“…For if Cri­sostomes impatience and headlong desire slew him; why should mine honest proceed­ing and care be inculped therewithall? If I preserve mine integrity in the society of these Trees; why would any desire me to lose it, seeing every one covets to have the like himself, to converse the better among men?…”

From: The History of The Valorous and Witty Knight-Errant, Don-Quixote, of the Mancha
By Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
Translated by Thomas Shelton, 1612