ETYMOLOGY
from late Latin devenustare (to disfigure, deform),
from de- + venustare (to beautify), venustus (beautiful)
EXAMPLE
“…but that Christ and his Servants may have comfort and stability amongst us, that those who Rule would fence the Vine, Learning, against beasts of Prey, and Foxes of spoil, who would rejoyce to see what yet remains of beauty and order, devenustated and exposed to shame and dishonour…”
From: An Humble Apologie for Learning and Learned men
By Edward Waterhouse, 1653
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin edulis, from edere (to eat)
EXAMPLE
“…That the Prodigal Son desired to eat of Husks given unto Swine, will hardly pass in your apprehension for the Husks of Pease, Beans, or such edulious Pulses; as well understanding that the textual word or Ceration, properly intendeth the Fruit of the Siliqua Tree so common in Syria, and fed upon by Men and Beasts…”
From: Certain Miscellany Tracts
By Sir Thomas Brown, a1682
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin menti-, mens (mind) + mutation
EXAMPLE
“…I..shall be allowed the full benefit of all the..illaqueations, extrications,..mentimutations, rementimutations,..that I..can devise…”
From: Discolliminium: Or, A Most Obedient Reply to a Late Book, Called, Bounds & Bonds, So Farre as Concerns the First Demurrer and No Further
By Nathaniel Ward, 1650
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin lachanopoles (seller of herbs) + -ist
EXAMPLE
On the way home from work, I stopped by the local lachanopolist for some fresh oregano and thyme to flavour the soup I was making for supper.
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin degrandinare,
from de- + grandinare (to hail),
from grando, grandinem (hail)
EXAMPLE
It rained and then degrandinated heavily just as we left, the stones being of all shapes and sizes.
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
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