ETYMOLOGY
from sarcasm + -ous
EXAMPLE
“…Like th’ Hebrew-calf, and down before it
The Saints fell prostrate, to adore it.
So say the Wicked—and will you
Make that Sarcasmous Scandal true.
By running after Dogs and Bears,
Beasts more unclean than Calves or Steers?…”
From: Hudibras: in three parts, the first part
By Samuel Butler, 1663
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin veriloquus (speaking truly)
EXAMPLE
“…Those ungrateful disingenuous Galenists (who always resisting the truth, set this Brazenface on work deceitfully to oppose Haematias.) contrived heretofore a scurrilous Pamphlet against a veriloquous treatise of mine, (namely A Chymical tryal of the Galenists) and injoyned Johnson their Pseudo-Chymist to patronize it…”
From: A Letter Sent to Mr. H. Stubbe,
By George Thomson, 1672
‘Animadversions on Mr. Stubbe’s Answer’
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin impendiosus, from impendium (outlay, expense),
from impendere (to impend, to spend, to expend)
EXAMPLE
He tried to get back into my good books by buying impendious gifts.
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin morigeratus, past participial stem of morigerari (to to be obedient or compliant), from morigerus
EXAMPLE
“…Certaynely in the auncient tyme, whan thou were peopled with ryght and trewe Romayns, and not as thou arte nowe with bastarde chylderne, than the armies, that wente froo Rome, were as well disciplyned and morigerate, as the schooles of the philosophies, that were in Grece…”
From: The Golden Boke of Marcus Aurelius,
By Antonio de Guevara, 1546
ETYMOLOGY
from French badin (as a noun – a light-hearted person, fool, idiot; also used to denote the fool or clown in drama), (as an adjective – light-hearted, cheerful, foolish, silly),
from Old Occitan badin, adjective and noun, from badar (to gape), from Latin badare (to gape) + -in (-ine)
EXAMPLE
“…Such a Badeen ne’er came upon the Stage,
So droll, so monkey in his play and rage;
Sprawling upon his back, and pitching pyes,
Twirling his head, and flurring at the flies.
A thousand tricks and postures would he show,
Then rise so pleas’d both with himself and you,
That the amaz’d beholders could not say
Whether the bird was happier, or they…”
From: Poems by Sir W.T.
By William Temple, 1670
‘Upon My Lady Giffard’s Loory’
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin mundus (world) + –cidious from –cida (killer)
EXAMPLE
“…Since I knew what to feare, my timerous heart hath dreaded three things: a blazing starre appearing in the aire: a State Comet, I mean a favourite rising in a Kingdome, a new Opinion spreading in Religion: these are Exorbitancies: which is a formidable word: a vacuum and an exorbitancy, are mundicidious evils…”
From: The Simple Cobler of Aggawam in America
By Rev. Nathaniel Ward, 1647
ETYMOLOGY
from open + tail (posterior extremity)
EXAMPLE
“…Kate still exclaimes against great Medlers,
A busie-body hardly she abides,
Yet she’s well pleas’d with all Bum-fiddlers,
And hir owne Body stirring still besides:
I muse her stomacke now so much should faile,
To loath a Medlar, being an Open-taile…”
From: The Scourge of Folly,
By John Davies, 1611
ETYMOLOGY
adj.: from Latin collacrimatus, pa. pple. of collacrimare;
vb. : from Latin collacrimat- ppl. stem of collacrimare, from col- (together) + lacrimāre (to shed tears, weep), from lacrima (tear)
EXAMPLE
“…A tormentor would collachrymate my case, and rather choose to have been tortured himself than torment me with ingratitude as thou dost…”
From: Christs teares ouer Ierusalem,
By Thomas Nashe, 1593
ETYMOLOGY
from ninny (a simpleton, a fool) + broth (liquid in which anything has been boiled)
EXAMPLE
“…How to make coffee, alias ninny-broth: a new invention of buttering turneps: to make a loaf of bread to dance about the table, intermixed with profit and delight …”
From: Poor Robin,
By William Winstanley, 1694
ETYMOLOGY
from under- ;
? possibly for dunderhead
EXAMPLE (for n.2.)
“…And indeed wiser discretions, that have the thread of reason to conduct them, offend without a pardon; whereas under heads may stumble without dishonour…”
From: Religio Medici
By Thomas Browne, 1643
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