ETYMOLOGY
from Latin uranicus (heavenly)
EXAMPLE
“…And therefore so much as spiritual and heavenly things exceed natural and Earthly, so much do the Uranicks exceed the Physicks…”
From: Synopsis Medicinæ
or, A Compendium of Astrological Galenical & Chymical Physick
By William Salmon, 1671
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
ETYMOLOGY
from long + tongued
EXAMPLE
“…And tyme hathe this one vngracious propertee,
to blab at length open all that he doothe see.
Than a daughter eke he hath called veritee,
As vnhappie a longtounged girle as can bee.
she bringeth all to light, some she bring[eth] to shame,
she careth not a grote what manne hathe thanke or blame.
yf men be praise worthie she dothe so declare them
And if otherwyse in faithe she dothe not spare them…”
From: Respublica: an interlude for Christmas
Attributed to Nicholas Udall, 1553
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin femina (woman, feminine) + -ary
EXAMPLE
“…and not (lest any bodie should be deceiued) a softnesse, a feminarie, sottish calmenesse and vitious facilitie, whereby a man delighteth to please all, and not to displease or offend any, although he haue a iust and a lawfull cause…”
From: Of Wisdome,
By Pierre Charron
Translated by S, Lennard, 1630
ETYMOLOGY
from quarter + cleft (n. and adj. split asunder)
EXAMPLE
“…It is the fashion to talk of Lord Ellenborough in contemptuous terms, as a mere nincompoop, or quartercliff, or what else you will, that implies feebleness of intellect and deficiency of talents; but those who so describe him either mistake his character, or wilfully misrepresent it…”
From: Fraser’s Magazine for Town and Country
Vol. IV. August, 1831 to January 1832
Parliamentary Eloquence, No. IV, House of Lords, by Oliver Yorke
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin versutus (wily, cunning) + – ious
EXAMPLE
“…And what do I not ow thee for thy versutious Complements to my Lady Lambert, whose beauty and elegance bewitched my affections, as thou well knowest; so that I could not forbear toying and tickling her at my son Ireton’s Funeral in Somerset-house, before all the Company!…”
From: A Third Conference Between O. Cromwell and Hugh Peters In Saint James’s Park, 1660
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin meretricat-, past participial stem of meretricari (to frequent a prostitute; later, to play the whore),
from Latin meretrīc- (a prostitute)
EXAMPLE
They meretricated in Egypt; they meretricated in their youth.
(Taken from Ezekiel 23, replacing ‘played the whore’ with meretricated)
ETYMOLOGY
from elench ,from Latin elenchus, from Greek ἔλεγχος (cross-examination) + -ize
EXAMPLE
“…Lady. So do all Politicks in their Commendations.
Host. This is a State-bird, and the verier Fly;
Tipto. But Hear him problematize. Prudence. Bless us, what’s that?
Tipto. Or syllogize, elenchize. Lady. Sure, petard’s,
To blow us up. Lat. Some inginous strong words!
Host. He means to erect a Castle i’ the Air,
And make his Fly an Elephant to carry it….”
From: The New Inne, or The Light Heart, a Comedy
By Ben Jonson, 1631
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin oceanus + -ine
EXAMPLE
Gulls, petrels, albatrosses, cormorants are all oceanine birds.
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin philosophāt-, ppl. stem of philosophārī (to do the philosopher, to philosophize), from philosophus (a philosopher)
EXAMPLE
“…If, as some say, to philosophate be to doubt; with much more reason to rave and fantastiquize, as I doe, must necessarily be to doubt: For, to enquire and debate belongeth to a scholler, and to resolve appertaines to a cathedrall master…”
From: The Essayes, or Morall, Politike, and Millitarie Discourses of Lord Michaell de Montaigne
Translated by John Florio, 1603
PRONUNCIATION
fuh-LOSS-uh-fayt
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