Tag: 1600 – 1699

Word of the Day: PURSE-LEECH

ETYMOLOGY
– from purse (receptacle for money) + leech (a person who will ‘stick to’ another for the purpose of getting gain out of him)

EXAMPLE
“…False Counsellors (Concealers of the law),
Turn-coate Attornes, that with both hands draw,
Slie Peti-foggers, Wranglers at the barr,
Proud purse-leaches, Harpies of Westminster,
With fained chiding, and foul iarring noise
Breake not his braine, nor interrupt his ioyes…”

From: Bartas his deuine weekes and workes
– Guillaume de Saluste Du Bartas 
Translated and dedicated to the Kings most excellent Maiestie By Iosuah Syluester 
(translated by Joshua Sylvester) 

Word of the Day: OBROGATE

ETYMOLOGY
– from ppl. stem of Latin obrogāre (partly to repeal a law by passing a new one), 
from ob- (ob-) + rogāre (to ask, supplicate, propose a law, introduce a bill)

EXAMPLE
“…makes it a badge of royalty, that the Prince, without his subjects consent, may prohibite, abrogat, derogat, subrogat, and obrogate to the standing laws, wheir he sees it necessar, excepting the laws of God, of nature…”

From: Historical Notices of Scottish Affairs
By Lord John Lauder Fountainhall, 1848

Word of the Day: REDAMATION

ETYMOLOGY
from Latin redamāre (to love in return),
from re(d)- re- + amāre (to love)

EXAMPLE
“…Where Christ is not exemplified, in three conformities: In his death, in his life, in his Redamation…”

From: Of the Heart and its right Soveraign;
and Rome no Mother Church of England:
or, an historical account of the title of our Brittish Church 
By Thomas Jones, 1678

Word of the Day: AMOREVOLOUS

ETYMOLOGY
from Italian amorevole (loving) + -ous

EXAMPLE
“…that the Espousals between him and the Infanta might be ratified, within ten days after the dispensation unstopt the way unto them; and he would leave it to the Princessa to shew her Cordial and Amoreuolous Affections how soon she would prepare to follow after him.…”

From: Scrinia Reserata: a memorial offer’d to the great deservings of John Williams, D. D., who some time held the places of Ld Keeper of the Great Seal of England,
Ld Bishop of Lincoln, and Ld Archbishop of York:
containing a series of the most remarkable occurences and transactions of his life, in relation both to church and state.
By John Hacket, a1670

Word of the Day: BELLY-FURNITURE

ETYMOLOGY
– from belly + furniture (a provision, stock, or supply of anything; stores in general, provisions; necessaries obs.)

EXAMPLE
“…For that, having a great desire to obey the pleasure of the king, I armed myself from toe to top with belly furniture, of the soles of good venison-pasties, to go see how my grape-gatherers and vintagers had pinked and cut full of small holes their high-coped caps, to lecher it the better, and play at in and in…”

From: The Works of Mr. Francis Rabelais
Printed for The Navarre Society, Volume I, 1653
The Second Book of Dr. Francis Rabelais
Chapter XI. How the Lords of Kissebreech and Suckfist did plead before Pantagruel without an Atturney

Word of the Day: ABDERIAN

ETYMOLOGY
from Abdera, in Thrace, the birthplace of Democritus, who was much given to laughter, and who was styled the Abderite

EXAMPLE
“…T’obvaricate his dearest health, and vary
His armes from Temple into Mortuary.
His mirth’s Abderian laughter; does but tend
To make him agelastick in the end…”

From: Ἐπιλοιμια ἐπη
Or, The Anatomy of the Pestilence.
A Poem, In three Parts.
Describing
The deplorable Condition of the City of London under its merciless dominion, 1665
By William Austin, 1666

Word of the Day: PERNEGATE

ETYMOLOGY
from ppl. stem of Latin pernegāre (to deny altogether),
from per- + negāre (to deny)

EXAMPLE
(the below example is for the noun pernegation – absolute denial)

“…I and my Friends shall be allowed the full benefit of all the variations, interpretations, reservations, postvariations, tergiversations, excusations, contemporations, pernegations, alterations, illaqueations, extrications, devotions, mentimutations, rementimutations, distinctions, evasions, possessions, plenipotentialities and fedifractions…”

From: Discolliminium;
Or, A most obedient reply to a late book
By Nathaniel War