ETYMOLOGY
from Latin prehendere (to grasp, seize, catch), variant of præhendere,
from præ, (pre-) + a second element; sometimes perhaps aphetic from apprehend
EXAMPLE
“…but he lay not longe ther, but was delyveryd with-owt punyshment & styll Inioyed his beneffysis; they were greatly blamed that prehended hym and comitted hym…”
From: Political, Religious, and Love Poems
By John Stowe, a1605
Edited by Frederick James Furnivall, 1866
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin plenitudinarius (full, complete, plenary),
from Latin plenitudin-, plenitudo (abundance, fullness, fullness of shape, thickness, full amount, the whole) + -arius (-ary)
EXAMPLE
“…and a strange kind of Government must that needs be, wherein the Servants Throne is above his Masters, and a Subject shall have a plenitudinary power beyond that which his Lord and King had, or, as the times then were, was capable of …”
From: An Historical and Political Discourse of the Laws & Government of England from the First times to the End of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth
By Nathaniel Bacon, 1647
ETYMOLOGY
from blow (to burst into flower, to blossom, to bloom) + -th
EXAMPLE
“…I of no willing wrong complaine,
Which force or stealth hath wrought,
No fruit I promise from the tree,
Which forth this blooth hath brought…”
From: The Survey of Cornwall
By Richard Carew, 1602
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin appropinquāre (to approach),
from ad (to), and propinquus, from prope (near)
EXAMPLE
“…The knotted bloud within my hose,
That from my wounded body flows,
With mortal Crisis doth portend
My dayes to appropinque an end.
I am for action now unfit,
Either of fortitude or wit…”
From: Hudibras, Written in the Time of the Late Wars
By Samuel Butler, 1663
Canto III. The Argument
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin rumor (a rumour), and foras (abroad)
EXAMPLE
Don’t gossip or rumiforate. When rumours are spread, a person’s reputation or character can be greatly damaged, even when the rumours aren’t true.
ETYMOLOGY
from medieval Latin vagitare, from Latin vagari (to wander)
EXAMPLE
“…But we must consider, that they euermore kept the coast, and crept by the shores, which made the way exceeding long. For before the vse of the Compasse was knowne, it was impossible to vagitate athwart the Ocean; and therefore Salomons ships could not finde Peru in America…”
From: The History of the World
By Sir Walter Raleigh, 1614
ETYMOLOGY
from: a) Middle French pusille, puzil, pusil (very small, weak),
b) Latin pusillus (very small, insignificant, petty) from pusus (boy) + -illus
EXAMPLE
“…And to amase her weake, and pusill minde,
In creepe through crannies of imagination.
Deformd Idean formes, and phansies blinde.
Sent foorth by hir sicke sences, instigation.
Like staringe greisly fendes, threatninge invasion.
Presenting to her heart, the homely iarres.
And houshold cares, accurringe nuptiall warres…”
From: Eustathia, or the Constancie of Susanna
By Robert Roche, 1599
ETYMOLOGY
From Oxford English Dictionary: either from early Scandinavian (compare Old Icelandic hnjósa , Norwegian nyse , †njosa , Old Swedish niusa (Swedish nysa ), Danish nyse ), or the reflex of an unattested Old English word from the same Germanic base, as is perhaps suggested by the number of cognates in other West Germanic languages: Middle Dutch niesen (Dutch niezen ), Middle Low German nēsen , neysen , neesen , etc., Old High German niesan , niosan , niusan (German niesen)
EXAMPLE (for noun)
“…Soto was in an exteam Agony for his Master: Lamia was grieved and her Hand-Maids heavie, but the Inchantress soon recovered him by watering his Visnomy with her warm Urine (the customary way (it seems) of that Countrey to revive the enfeebled) which not onely illuminated his dim eyes, but circumgyring about his weasand, enforced him to a manly neese, so that within a little time (to their great comfort) he sate up, calling for some Wine, which being brought, he drank a hearty draught to the Inchantress, though one might perceive (with half an eye) wrath and disdain in Capitall Characters on his front; which Lamia perceiving, administred this Julip to allay his fiery Choller….”
From: Don Zara del Fogo; A Mock-Romance
By Samuel Holland, 1656
ETYMOLOGY
of uncertain origin
EXAMPLE
“…Foster could make an Irish Lord a Nokes,
And Betty Morris had her City Cokes.
A Woman’s nere so ruin’d, but she can
Be still reveng’d on her Undoer Man:
How lost so e’re, she’ll find some Lover more
A lewd abandon’d Fool, then she’s a Whore…”
From: Artemisa to Cloe.
A letter from a lady in the tovvn to a lady in the country; concerning the loves of the tovvn.
John Wilmot Rochester, 1679
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin opiparus (richly furnished, sumptuous),
from opem (wealth, means) + parāre (to prepare, furnish, equip) + -ous
EXAMPLE
“…With sweet odours and perfumes, generous wines, opiparous fare, &c., besides the gallantest young men, the fairest virgins, puellae scitulae ministrantes, the rarest beauties the world could afford, and those set out with costly and curious attires…”
From: The Anatomy of Melancholy
By Democritus Junior (Robert Burton)
The Cure of Melancholy. Memb. IV. Exercise Rectified of Body and Mind
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