ETYMOLOGY
from Latin quaeritāre (to search for, to seek, to ask,
from quaerere (to ask, inquire) + –itare (-itate)
EXAMPLE
“…for Carpenters seeke to the Trunk of its Tree; Dyers to its barke; Boyes to its fruit; Apothecaryes quaeritate its Medicinall use, which Mithridates knew…”
From: A Medicinal Dispensatory:
Containing the Whole Body of Physick
By Jean de Renou
Translated by Richard Tomlinson, 1657
ETYMOLOGY
from excrement + –ize
EXAMPLE
“…being inflamed with strong liquors, they went into the balcony belonging to that house, and putting down their breeches they excrementized in the street…”
From: Life, from 1632 to 1672, written by himself; continued till 1695
By Anthony Wood, c1670
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin ēlātrāt- ppl. stem of ēlātrāre, from ē (out) + lātrāre (to bark)
EXAMPLE
“…He was the only one to elatrate against the decision…”
ETYMOLOGY
from French gaberie (mockery, jest, deceit)
EXAMPLE
“…Those high-priced, verbose air- beaters, who think their gabberies are the centers of gravity for the entire universe, ought to be sent away back to sit down until they can learn to stand by the pledges in the platform of their party …”
From: The Literary Digest
Volume XXVI, March 1903
Territorial Press on Statehood Failure
ETYMOLOGY
of uncertain origin
EXAMPLE
“…The Waspes neast is begun by one great Waspe, which you may therefore call the Mother-waspes, the which in Cancer (or in hot and dry springs somewhat rather) within some hole, vsually made in the ground by a Moale, Mouse, or other meanes, worketh a comb of the vtter drix of pales or other timber, in forme of a round tent hanging by the top to the ouer-part of the hole.…”
From: The Feminine Monarchie,
Or the Historie of Bees
By Charles Butler, 1623
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin petulcus (inclined to butt, butting, wanton, frisky);
(from petĕre – to aim at, assail + -ulcus (suffix forming adjectives) + -ous
EXAMPLE
“…But what does the Pape or Christian Pastour do in this case When the tumult is once raised and a disorder begun in any part of his flock by som proud turbulent spirit amongst them, the Pape first whistles him and his fellow petulcous rams into order by charitable admonition which still encreases lowder by degrees…”
From: Fiat Lux:
Or, A general Conduct to a right understanding and charity in the great Combustions and Broils about Religion here in England, Betwixt Papist and Protestant, Presbyterian and Independent
By John Baptist Vincent Canes
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin impigr-
from im- + piger (slow, sluggish) + -ous
EXAMPLE
He was very impigrous in his work.
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin nefandus (wicked, impious, abominable),
from ne- (not) + fandus (‘to be spoken’), gerundive of fārī (to speak) + -ous
EXAMPLE
“…and it was for such things that savourd of a forreign clyme, and of some soft Levantine spirit rather than of a Druinian; there was a complication of many nefandous crimes, Sodomy and rap met in him with other base libidinous acts, and those displayed and prov’d with hatefull and horrid circumstances…”
From: Δενδρολογια.
Dodona’s Grove, Or The Vocall Forest
By James Howell, 1649
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin vultuōsus (having an affected look),
from vultus (face, countenance)
EXAMPLE
The portrait portrayed a vultuosous 15-year-old bride marrying a much older man.
ETYMOLOGY
from noddy (a fool, a simpleton) + pate (the head)
EXAMPLE
“…Needy poor and noddy pate, never part …”
From: Lexicon Tetraglotton, an English-French-Italian-Spanish Dictionary
By James Howell, 1660
British or Old Cambrian Proverbs
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