ETYMOLOGY
from im- + memorious
EXAMPLE
“…And we like wretches, carelesly oreseene
Neglecting all continuance of our good,
Of our owne birth haue immemorius beene,
And quite forgot the Nephewes of our blood,
And of neere kin are growne meere strāgers rather,
Almost forgetting we had all one father…”
From: Svvord and Buckler, or, Seruing-Mans Defence
By William Basse, 1602
ETYMOLOGY
from frost + brained
EXAMPLE
“…MARTIANUS: Madam, we all have so importund him
Laying unto his judgement every thing
That might attract his sences to the crowne;
But he, frost-braind, will not be obtaind
To take upon him this Realmes government…”
From: No-Body and Some-Body, 1606
“Printed for John Trundle, and are to be sold
at his shop in Barbican, at the signe of No-body.”
ETYMOLOGY
adj. 1: ? from side (adj.) + -y
adj. 2: from side (pretentiousness, swagger, conceit )
PRONUNCIATION
SIGH-dee
EXAMPLE
She is such a sidy woman – happy one minute, then angry the next.
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin novus (new) + antique
EXAMPLE
“…yet as they will not counterbalance the weight of those other arguments that militate on the contrary side, so they will without any difficulty be answered by the assertors of this Novantique philosophy…”
From: Treatise Concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality
By Ralph Cudworth, a1688
ETYMOLOGY
? from Latin imago, imaginem (image) + -ous,
or ? from imagine (vb.) + -ous
PRONUNCIATION
uh-MAJ-uh-nuhss
EXAMPLE
“…I oft haue heard there is a kind of cure
To fright a lingring Feuer from a man
By an imaginous feare, which may be true,
For one heate (all know) doth driue out another,
One passion doth expell another still,
And therefore I will vse a fainde deuice
To kindle furie in her frozen Breast,
That rage may fire out griefe, and so restore her
To her most sociable selfe againe…”
From: Monsieur D’Oliue
By George Chapman, 1606
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin dicterium (a witty saying, bon-mot), of uncertain origin
EXAMPLE
“…I took a snatch where I could get it; nay more, I railed at marriage downright, and in a public auditory, when I did interpret that sixth Satire of Juvenal, out of Plutarch and Seneca, I did heap up all the dicteries I could against women; but now recant with Stesichorus…”
From: The Anatomy of Melancholy
By Robert Burton, 1632
ETYMOLOGY
formed by compounding, from loose
EXAMPLE
“…His dam was for certain some loose clackt bitch or other; and he is so far from being tongue tyed, that he walks quite cantipodes to the precept here, see and say nothing…”
From: Confused Characters of Conceited Coxcombs:
Or, A Dish of Traitorous Tyrants
By K.W., 1661
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin parciloquium (speaking sparingly),
from parcus (sparing) + loqui (to speak)
EXAMPLE
She delivered a parciloquy to officially open the refurbished building.
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin sesquihora (an hour and a half)
EXAMPLE
“…but the greater part of those that were commissionated with the Scot-Ecclesiastical approbation) their rancour and spleen being still more and more sharpned against the English Nation, they in their tedious pharisaical prayers before Supper, and Sesquihoral Graces upon a dish of Skink, and leg of Mutton, would so imbue the mindes of the poor swains (on whose charge they were) with vaticinations of help from heaven…”
From: Εκσκυβαλαυρον (Ekskybalauron) (The Jewel)
By Thomas Urquhart, 1652
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin mentition-, mentitio (lying, falsehood),
from mentit-, past participial stem of mentiri (to lie)+ -iō (-ion)
EXAMPLE
From childhood, she has never been good at mentition. Her face always turned bright red when she tried.
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