ETYMOLOGY
from Latin tonitruare (to thunder)
EXAMPLE
“…I cannot fulminate or tonitruate words,
To puzzle intellects; my ninth lassaffords
No Lycophronian buskins, nor can strain
Garagantuan lines to gigantize thy vein;
Nor make a jusjurand, that thy great plays
Are tierra-del-fuegos or incognitas;
Thy Pegasus, in his admir’d career,
Curvets no caprioles of nonsense here…”
From: Panegyric to James Shirley’s Grateful Servant, (preface verses)
By Thomas Randolph, 1630
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin poculentus (drinkable, suitable for drinking),
from poculum (a cup, a drinking vessel) + -lentus (-lent), after vinolentus (addicted to drinking wine)
EXAMPLE
“…As for radish and tarragon, and the like, they are for condiments, and not for nourishment. And even some of those herbs which are not esculent, are notwithstanding poculent; as hops, broom, &c…”
From: Sylva Sylvarum
By Francis Bacon, 1626
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin dormire (to sleep) + -ous
EXAMPLE
“…and the busie Bell-man bounced twice at the door, and as well the Champion as Soto began to grow dormious, which occasioned the Host to petition their present departure to bed, which (with heavie heads heaven knows) they went to…”
From: Don Zara del Fogo: a Mock-Romance
By Samuel Holland, 1656
ETYMOLOGY
from Greek ὑπέροχος (eminent, distinguished) + -al + -ity
EXAMPLE
“…correspondent to the Iron-Age of Prelats, so plague the Metropoliticality of York and Canterbury, and the Hyperocality of all the other Prelats, as I will never leave them, till I have sent them to the place where the two Fulmina Belli, Alexander the Great cries Mustard and Green Sauce, and where Julius Caesar plays Plato’s Ratcatcher…”
From: The Letany of Doctor Bastwick
By John Bastwick, 1637
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin ante before + ambulat- ppl. stem of ambulare (to walk);
suggested by ante-ambulo (one whose business is to walk in front, an usher)
EXAMPLE
Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead.
Don’t anteambulate me, I may not follow.
Just walk beside me and be my friend.
ETYMOLOGY
from spatter (to scatter or disperse in fragments)
EXAMPLE
“...Or when the court removes, or what’s a clock,
Or where’s the wind (or some such windy mock)
With such fine scimble, scemble, spitter-spatter,
As puts me clean besides the money-matter?
Thus with poor mongrel shifts, with what, where when?…”
From: A Kicksey Winsey: Or, A Lerry Come-Twang
By John Taylor, 1619
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin fracidus, from frac-, frax (lees of oil)
EXAMPLE
“…Natures recreation, which she out of the fracid ferment of putrifying Bodies doth form…”
From: The Reformed Common-wealth of Bees,
presented in several letters and observations to Samuel Hartlib, 1655
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin ambifarius two-sided, of double meaning + -ous
EXAMPLE
“…The Bridegroom, with his Bride is brought,
To Bed with various Turn of Thought;
By Ruth, with ambifarious Jest:
To please them both, she thinks it best…”
From: Poems on Various Subjects,
By Thomas Sadler, 1766
The Unfortunate Batchelor, Or Wife’s Resentment
ETYMOLOGY
? from frop, variant of frap (to strike, to beat) + -ish
EXAMPLE
“…God doth usually, if not constantly, break their wills by de∣nying them, as one would cross a froward. Child of his stub∣born humour: or else puts a sting into them, that a man had been as good he had been without them, as a man would give a thing to a froppish Child, but it may be with a knock on his Fingers, and a frown to boot.…”
From: Christian letters full of spiritual instructions tending to the promoting of the power of godliness, both in person and families.
By Joseph Alleine, 1659
ETYMOLOGY
from vomit + -urient (desiring to do something)
EXAMPLE
“…He was sick at Stomach, and seemed to be in a very vomiturient condition…”
From: The Miraculous Conformist
By H. Stubbe, 1666
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