ETYMOLOGY
possibly from skimming + -ton as in simpleton, with the object of simulating a personal name
EXAMPLE
“…And then, if they meere with such dull Lubbers as these Drones are; they may may with lesse blame borrow a point of the Law, and enjoy their longing. Yet when they haue it, let them vse poore Skimmington as gently as they may especially in publike, to hide his shame…”
From: The Feminine Monarchie,
Or the Historie of Bees
By Charles Butler, 1623
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin palātum palate + -ive
EXAMPLE
“…Punish not thy self with Pleasure; Glut not thy sense with palative Delights; nor revenge the contempt of Temperance by the penalty of Satiety…”
From: Christian Morals
By Sir Thomas Browne, a1682
ETYMOLOGY
from Greek λόγος (logos) (word)
EXAMPLE
“…by the various ravishments of the excellencies whereof, in the frolickness of a jocound straine beyond expectation, the logofascinated spirits of the beholding hearers and auricularie spectators, were so on a sudden seazed upon in their risible faculties of the soul…”
From: Εκσκυβαλαυρον (Ekskybalauron);
Or, The Discovery of a Most Exquisite Jewel, More Precious Then Diamonds Inchased in Gold
By Thomas Urquhart, 1652
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin pacificat-, past ppl. stem of pacificare (to make peace, to pacify)
EXAMPLE
“…It mitigateth anger, letificateth those that bee sad, pacificateth such as are at discord. It temperateth choler, and (to conclude all in a word) it expelleth all vagrant, wandring, and imaginary cogitations whatsoeuer…”
From: The Secrets of Nvmbers.
According to Theologicall, Arithmeticall, Geometricall and Harmonicall Computation
By William Ingpen, 1624
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin scientissimus, superl. of sciens (knowing) + -ous
EXAMPLE
“…Scientissimous Interpreters of the Laws of England…”
From: Judges Judged out of their Own Mouthes,
or, The Question Resolved by Magna Charta, &c.
John Jones, 1650
ETYMOLOGY
from eye + brine
EXAMPLE
“…The Iudge that would be lik’st him, when he giues
His Doome on the Delinquent most that grieues.
Powders his words in Eye-brine, so to tast
of Grace, to them, that (so condemn’d) are grac’t…”
From: A Select Second Husband for Sir Thomas Ouerburie’s Wife,
now a Matchlesse Widow;
Divers Elegies Tovching the Death of the Never Too Mvch Praised and Pitied, Sir Thomas Overbvry
By John Davies, 1616
ETYMOLOGY
from anti- + -loquy (Latin loqui to speak)
EXAMPLE
“…The Antiloquie…”
(Heading)
From: The Utter Routing of the Whole Army of all the Independents and Sectaries, with the Totall Overthrow of their Hierarchy
By John Bastwick, 1646
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin vulpecula, dim. of vulpes (fox)
EXAMPLE
“..the Dun Cow went a maskarado last night, and is not as yet returned. Upon the fourth of this month our neighbour Geoffrey’s barn was eclipsed, ab ovo ad mala. And the night before Widdow Wamford was vulpeculated of her brood Goose.—latet anguis in herbâ. The Turkie Cock growes very melancholy…”
From: Mr Hobbs’s State of Nature Considered,
In a Dialogue Between Philautus and Timothy
By John Eachard, 1672
ETYMOLOGY
from need (vb.) + not
EXAMPLE
“…As if divine providence had so di∣vided it, that other lands should be at the care & cost to bear, dig out and refine, and Iudea have the honour and credit, to use, expend, yea neglect, such glittering need-nots to humane happinesse…”
From: A Pisgah-sight of Palestine and the Confines thereof with the History of the Old and New Testament acted thereon
By Thomas Fuller, 1650
ETYMOLOGY
from grumble (vb.), in imitation of Muggletonian and Grindletonian, names of religious sects in the 17th century
EXAMPLE
“…Whether great Sect of Grumbletonians in the Countrey, whom nothing will satisfie, been’t the worst Enemies which this Countrey can have?…”
From: Further Quaeries upon the Present State of New-English Affairs
By S.E., 1690
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