ETYMOLOGY
from eye + brine
EXAMPLE
“…The Iudge that would be lik’st him, when he giues
His Doome on the Delinquent most that grieues.
Powders his words in Eye-brine, so to tast
of Grace, to them, that (so condemn’d) are grac’t…”
From: A Select Second Husband for Sir Thomas Ouerburie’s Wife,
now a Matchlesse Widow;
Divers Elegies Tovching the Death of the Never Too Mvch Praised and Pitied, Sir Thomas Overbvry
By John Davies, 1616
ETYMOLOGY
from anti- + -loquy (Latin loqui to speak)
EXAMPLE
“…The Antiloquie…”
(Heading)
From: The Utter Routing of the Whole Army of all the Independents and Sectaries, with the Totall Overthrow of their Hierarchy
By John Bastwick, 1646
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin vulpecula, dim. of vulpes (fox)
EXAMPLE
“..the Dun Cow went a maskarado last night, and is not as yet returned. Upon the fourth of this month our neighbour Geoffrey’s barn was eclipsed, ab ovo ad mala. And the night before Widdow Wamford was vulpeculated of her brood Goose.—latet anguis in herbâ. The Turkie Cock growes very melancholy…”
From: Mr Hobbs’s State of Nature Considered,
In a Dialogue Between Philautus and Timothy
By John Eachard, 1672
ETYMOLOGY
from need (vb.) + not
EXAMPLE
“…As if divine providence had so di∣vided it, that other lands should be at the care & cost to bear, dig out and refine, and Iudea have the honour and credit, to use, expend, yea neglect, such glittering need-nots to humane happinesse…”
From: A Pisgah-sight of Palestine and the Confines thereof with the History of the Old and New Testament acted thereon
By Thomas Fuller, 1650
ETYMOLOGY
from grumble (vb.), in imitation of Muggletonian and Grindletonian, names of religious sects in the 17th century
EXAMPLE
“…Whether great Sect of Grumbletonians in the Countrey, whom nothing will satisfie, been’t the worst Enemies which this Countrey can have?…”
From: Further Quaeries upon the Present State of New-English Affairs
By S.E., 1690
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
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