Tag: 1600 – 1699

Word of the Day: CAUPONATE

ETYMOLOGY
from Latin caupōnāt- ppl. stem of caupōnāri (to traffic or trade in),
from caupōnem (retail tradesman, huckster, innkeeper)

EXAMPLE
“…Nor may these false and flattering Dalilahs of our times (who by cauponating Religion and handling the Scriptures deceitfully, seek to betray the strength, honour, and order this reformed Church in England, under pretences of great kindness)…”

From: Hieraspistes: A Defence by Way of Apology for the Ministry and Ministers of the Church of England
By John Gauden, 1653

Word of the Day: HARRIDAN

ETYMOLOGY
of uncertain origin;
possibly from French haridelle (an old jade of a horse – 1558), (a woman (especially a servant) who is too weak to work – 1690) + a derivative suffix of uncertain origin)

EXAMPLE
“…Parret. Doest take me for a Harridan, or a Cuffey? ha!
Owmuch. I believe thee a very obliging Creature, truely.
Parret. I won’t be believed an obliging Creature by ne’re a Sir Fopling of you all, the Court know me a Creature of Heavens special Handy-work, and if I live to see the City, Bow shall Ring with thy abominations, till Mary-Overs eccho thy lewdness: Tempt me to be an obliging Creature…”

From: Tunbridge-Wells, or, A days courtship a comedy
By Thomas Rawlins, a1670

Word of the Day: TRISTITIATE

ETYMOLOGY
rom Latin tristitia (sadness) + -ate

EXAMPLE
“…What man is it which lives so happily, which feares not something that would sadden his soule if it fell? Nor is there any whom calamity doth so much tristitiate, as that hee never sees the flashes of some warming joy. Beasts with beasts are terrified and delighted…”

From:  Resolves or, Excogitations: A Second Centurie
By Owen Felltham, 1628

Word of the Day: OPIFEROUS

ETYMOLOGY
from Latin opifer (help-bringing),
from opem (help) + -fer

EXAMPLE
“…I heard that a hardy little band tried to read it through , but fell asleep after having read the opiferous leaves of the first chapter . I speak not of the puffs , profusely given to it by generous friends , interested or stipended parties…”

From: Critical Dialogue Between Aboo and Caboo On A New Book:
Or A Grandissime Ascension
Edited by E. Junius (A.E. Rouquette), 1880

Word of the Day: GIXY

ETYMOLOGY
? possibly connected with gig (an eccentric person)

EXAMPLE
“…Hereupon it fell out, after the expiring of a scantling of Weeks, that Master Carvel became as jealous as a Tygar, and entred into a very profound suspition, that his new-married Gixy did keep a Buttock-stirring with others: to prevent which inconveniency, he did tell her many tragical Stories of the total Ruine of several Kingdoms by Adultery…”

From: The Third Book of the Heroick Deeds and Sayings of the good Pantagruel.
By Francois Rabelais
Translated by Thomas Urquhart, 1693

Word of the Day: TRIPUDIANT

ETYMOLOGY
from Latin tripudiāntem, pres. pple. of tripudiare from tripudium (a beating the ground with the feet, a leaping or dancing, a religious dance)

EXAMPLE
“…All which I mention with a kinde of tripudiant joy, and exultation of spirit, belonging so skilfull a Pilot…”

From: An Exposition vvith Notes, On The whole Fourth Chapter To The Romanes
By W. Sclater, 1650

Word of the Day: PHILOXENY


ETYMOLOGY
from Latin philoxenia (love of strangers; eagerness to show hospitality);
or: from Greek ϕιλοξενίζειν from ϕιλόξενος (philoksenos) (loving hospitality or strangers), from ϕιλο- (philo-) + ξένος (xenos) (stranger) + -ia (-y)


EXAMPLE
“…for by this philoxeny, the virtue inclining and disposing the mind to the entertainment of strangers, is in the first place intended…”

From: An Exposition of the Epistle to the Hebrews
By John Owen, 1814

Word of the Day: CALAMISTRATE

ETYMOLOGY
from Latin calamistratus (crisped, curled with the curling iron), 
from calamistrum (curling iron)

EXAMPLE
“…Which belike makes our Venetian Ladies at this day, to counterfeit yellow haire so much, great women to Calamistrate and curle it up, vibrantes ad gratiam crines, & quot orbibus in captivitatem flexos, to adorne their heads with spangles, pearles, and made flowres, and all Courtiers to affect a pleasing grace in this kinde…”

From: The Anatomy of Melancholy
By Robert Burton, 1628

Word of the Day: MAGNOPERATE

ETYMOLOGY
from Latin magnopere (greatly) (short for magno opere [with great labour, especially, much]) + -ate

EXAMPLE
“…so that after-ages may rightly admire what noble Mecaenas it was that so inchayned the aspiring wits of this understanding age to his only censure, which will not a little magnoperate the splendor of your well knowne honor to these succeeding times…”

From: Baculum Geodæticum 
By Arthur Hopton, 1610