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
ETYMOLOGY
from notion + -ate
EXAMPLE
“…I pray remember my seruice to Mr Dury & the Ladies, & remembringe him of notionatinge his essay vpon Mr Webbe…”
From: Letter 2, November 2, 1645
By Cheney Culpeper
In 17th-Century Political and Financial Papers, 1996
ETYMOLOGY
a humorous formation from Latin circum( round about) + bend + Latin –ibus (ablative plural ending)
EXAMPLE
“…Dominic: Let him alone; let him alone; I shall fetch
him back with a circum-bendibus I warrant him…”
From: The Spanish Fryar;
or, The Double Discovery
By John Dryden, 1681
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)
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