ETYMOLOGY
from Latin adversarius (opposed, hostile, adverse, harmful, injurious) + -ous
EXAMPLE
“…This resisting and aduersarious Empire, while it fought against Christ it serued Christ, while it killed his Church it increased his Church, and while it fought against Religion, it became a meanes to spread and inlarge it…”
From: Diseases of the Time Attended by their Remedies
By Francis Rous, 1622
ETYMOLOGY
from the fancied resemblance of the face to the shape of a lantern
EXAMPLE
“…A lanthorn-jaw’d woman, with a hatchet face, sunk eyes, a hook nose, taper lips, leather cheeks, dark Gums, straggling teeth, and such a low forehead, that her hair serves instead of eyebrows…”
From: The Comical Works of Don Francisco de Quevedo
Translated by John Stevens, 1707
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin novitius, from novus (new)
EXAMPLE
“…I know many great and ancient families have been subject to eclipses and interruptions, which some mistaking for their primeve original, have erroneously accounted those families mean and novitious which have been truly ancient and ennobled…”
From: The Autobiography and Correspondence of Sir Simonds D’Ewes (a1650)
Edited by James Orchard Halliwell, 1845
ETYMOLOGY
? from Middle English hôd, hode (state, condition)
EXAMPLE
“…O my Child, my Child—Thy father is prettie hoddie again, but this will break his heart quite—O my Child—Has he not hurt thee?…”
From: The Cheats; A Comedy
By John Wilson, 1664
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin inimīcitia unfriendliness, enmity + -ous
EXAMPLE
“..The first is the nocent, and inimicitious creatures, which are here enumerated to be seven; first the Wolfe, secondly the Leopard, thirdly the yong Lyon, fourthly the Beare, fiftly the Lyon, sixtly the Aspe, seventhly the Cockatrice …”
From: The True Euangelical Temper
By John Jackson, 1641
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin inanis (inane) + loquentem, pres. pple. of loquī (to speak)
EXAMPLE
“…But that is just the beginning. Beginning of the elegantly inaniloquent disassembling of bourgeois literary sensibilities vis-a-vis the text…”
From: The Politics of Style in the Fiction of Balzac, Beckett and Cortazar
By Mark Richard Axelrod, 1992
Beckett’s Metarrhetoric
ETYMOLOGY
from superstiti- + -ate
EXAMPLE
“…Wherefore I will say to such, as one wiser than Solomon said to the Jews, when they superstitiated the gift, in counting it more honourable than the altar, ‘Ye fools, and blind, for whether is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifieth the gift?…”
From: The Saints’ Privilege and Profit
Or, The Throne of Grace
By John Bunyan, a1688
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin celeripedem (swift-footed),
(from celer (swift) + pedem (foot)) + -ean
EXAMPLE
“…with a decutient shrug of his stooped shoulders, as tho to desarcinate himself of funebrous thoughts, departed at a pace very different from the celeripedean gait of pristine years …”
From: American Speech, Volume 2
Edited by Arthur Garfield Kennedy, Kemp Malone, Louise Pound, William Cabell Greet, 1927
ETYMOLOGY
from Old French faillance, from faillir (to almost do something, to fail)
EXAMPLE
“…but when you come to Exercise the whole company ioyned, you may at some times for your owne satissaction in the more ready & gracefull performance of them, command the Postures to bee done by the whole number at once, with such pawse betweene euery Posture, as may afford you meanes to discerne any faylance therein: but whensoeuer you skirmish you shall vse no more of direction then,
1. Make Ready.2. Present.3. Giue Fyre…”
From: The Compleat Gentleman, fashioning him absolute in the most necessary & commendable qualities concerning minde or bodie that may be required in a noble gentleman
By Henry Peacham, 1627
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin librārius (concerned with books) + -ous
EXAMPLE
“…Garniston. Exactly, This is the illustration and the measure of what you rightly consider our progress in this matter. The acted Shakespearian drama, now attracts crowds of studious people.
Warnford. Or librarious people, at any rate. I don’t say it isn’t the same thing: only I prefer my own word…”
From: MacMillan’s Magazine
Vol. L, May 1884, to October
The Consolations of Pessimism: A Dialogue
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