ETYMOLOGY
from gripple (niggardly, usurious) + -minded
EXAMPLE
“…L. BEAU. That a man of your estate should be so gripple-minded and repining at his wife’s bounty!…”
From: Any Thing for a Quiet Life
– Thomas Middleton and Thomas Webster, a1632
ETYMOLOGY
from bigot + -ical
EXAMPLE
“…Or is any thing the more excellent and Venerable, because it exceeds all Understanding? Is he to be deemed the fittest subject for Religion, who is most Bigotical and carelesly credulous? Are we to put off Humane Nature that we may become Religious?…”
From: A discourse of the use of reason in matters of religion shewing that Christianity contains nothing repugnant to right reason, against enthusiasts and deists
– George Rust, translated Henry Hallywell, a1670
ETYMOLOGY
irregular from frigid + -ious
EXAMPLE
“…Like curelesse cures, past and repast repaire:
Frigidious Ianus two-fold frozen face,
Turnes moyst Aquarius into congeal’d yce:
Though by the fires warme side the pot haue place…”
From: All the workes of Iohn Taylor the water-poet
Beeing sixty and three in number
Anagrams and Sonnets, 1630
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin tolūtiloquentia (a talking on a trot, volubility)
EXAMPLE
“…After prolonged study of this pestiferous tolutiloquence I understand and sympathize with the editor’s policy ; nothing useful can or need be done…”
From: The Classical Review
Volume 4, 1954
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin meditabundus,
from meditari (to meditate) + -bundus (suffix forming verbal adjectives)
EXAMPLE
“…While this he spoke, his Horse he lights off,
And with his Handkerchief he dights off
Tears from his eyes, then on the ground
He grovelling lyes meditabound,
His Horses grievous succussation
Had so excoriat his Foundation,
That till the Hide his Hips did come on,
The earth he could not set his Burn on…”
From: Mock Poem,
Or, Whiggs Supplication
– Samuel Colvil, 1681
ETYMOLOGY
from salad + -ing
EXAMPLE
“…Sow also (if you please) for early Colly-flowers.
Sow Chervil, Lettuce, Radish, and other (more delicate) Salletings; if you will raise in the Hot-bed.
In over wet, or hard weather, cleanse, mend, sharpen and prepare Garden-tools…”
From: Kalendarium Hortense:
Or, The Gard’ners Almanac
– John Evelyn, 1666
ETYMOLOGY
from Greek θερσίτης Thersites (‘the Audacious’), an ill-tongued Greek at the siege of Troy + -ical
EXAMPLE
“…The Genuensians saith he, having received from the Mauritanians their Progenitors this Custome, to compresse the Temples of their Infants as soon as they are Borne, now, without that Compression, are Borne with a Thersiticall Head and Heart…”
From: Anthropometamorphosis: = Man Transform’d: or, The Artificiall Changling
– John Bulwer, 1650
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin amicus (friendly, loyal, loving, favourable) + -ic + -ous
EXAMPLE
“…as by which each single species draws and assimilates that only to it self, which it finds most amicous and congruous to its nature; and if so it be, then have we no more to do, than to learn how to prepare our Ferments, and apply them accordingly…”
From: A philosophical discourse of earth relating to the culture and improvement of it for vegetation,
and the propagation of plants, &c. as it was presented to the Royal Society
– John Evelyn, 1675
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin venustāt-, participial stem of venustāre,
from venustus, from Venus (Venus, Roman goddess of beauty and love)
EXAMPLE
Colourful baskets of flowers venustate the city throughout the summer.
ETYMOLOGY
from cock + stride
EXAMPLE
“…It is now February and the Sun has gotten up a cocke-stride of his climbing, the vallies now are painted while, and the brooks are full of water…”
From: Fantasticks
– Nicholas Breton, 1626
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