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
ETYMOLOGY
from fop (n.) + doodle (n.)
EXAMPLE
“…Quoth he, This scheme of th’ heavens set,
Discovers how in fight you met
At Kingston with a may-pole idol,
And that y’ were bang’d both back and side well;
And though you overcame the bear,
The dogs beat you at Brentford fair;
Where sturdy butchers broke your noddle,
And handled you like a fop-doodle…”
From: Hudibras: The Second Part
By Samuel Butler, 1664
ETYMOLOGY
from French jectigation (‘wagging, shrugging’ (Cotgrave)),
from medieval Latin jectigare, from jact-, ject-, ppl. stem of Latin jacere (to throw)
EXAMPLE
“…both Men and Women seemed to Prophetize and Vaticinate, because of an affected kind of wagging of the Head, shrugging of the Shoulders, and Jectigation of the whole Body, which they used then most punctually…”
From: The Third Book of the Heroick Deeds and Sayings of the Good Pantagruel
By François Rabelais
Translated by Thomas Urquhart and Peter Anthony Motteux, 1693
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin type cognoscibilis (knowable), from cognscere
EXAMPLE
“…There remains nothing entire, nor cognoscible in Germany, but the Sea and the Mountains…”
From: Le Prince
By Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac
Translated by H. Gresby, 1648
ETYMOLOGY
apparently a random formation, possibly influenced by doodle (n.) and perhaps also fopdoodle (n.)
EXAMPLE
“…But to look for such things from a revengful mind, is as unlikely as to make the bristly skin of a Hedghog smooth. And when all the Stuff in the Letters are scann’d, what Fadoodles are brought to light?…”
From: Scrinia Reserata a Memorial Offer’d to the Great Deservings of John Williams
By John Hacket, 1693
ETYMOLOGY
from the female forename Dowsabel (also Dowsabell, Dousabella);
probably from Anglo-Norman and Old French douce (quiet, sedate, prudent) + ‑abel (in the female forenames Amabel, Isabel, Mirabel);
perhaps originally used as the name of a character in a lost romance
EXAMPLE
“…With thinking on the booties, Dol., brought in
Daily, by their small parties. This deare houre,
A doughtie Don is taken, with my Dol.;
And thou maist make his ransome, what thou wilt,
My Dousabell: He shall be brought here, fetter’d
With my faire lookes, before he sees thee; and throwne
In a downe-bed, as darke as any dungeon…”
From: The Alchemist
By Ben Jonson, 1612
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