ETYMOLOGY
fancifully from solemn (adj.), after melancholy
EXAMPLE
[Dr. John Beatty to Philip Fithian]
Philadelphia, December 18th, 1772
“… I rode that evening you left me as far as Cormans; being very Solemncholly and somewhat tired, I concluded to stay there all night; and very early next morning breakfasted at Gloucester and got into Philadelphia before Eleven of the clock …”
From: Journal and Letters
By Philip Vickers Fithian, 1900
ETYMOLOGY
reduplicated extension of prattle (to talk in a foolish, childish, or inconsequential way)
EXAMPLE (for vb.)
“… they are poore honest folkes, and haue here an honest company at their mariage, now they lacke wyne, I pray you helpe, She was not long in bibble bable, with saying she wist not what, but sayth at one word, helpe for it is nede. She doth not, as our Papistes do, whiche prittle prattle a whole day uppon their Beades, saying our Ladyes Psalter. But she only sayth, they haue no wyne; helpe. etc. …”
From: Frutefull Sermons
A Sermon Preached by Hugh Latymer, a1552
ETYMOLOGY
from sniffle (vb.) + -er
EXAMPLE (for n. 1.)
“… Gin this be courting, well I wat ’tis clear,
I gat na sik a teazle this seven year :
Sae ye maun gee your answer now perqueer,
I maunna ilka day be coming here,
To get sic sniflers ; courting’s nae a jest.
Another day like this’ll be my priest.’ …”
From: Helenore: Or the Fortunate Shepherdess, a Pastoral Tale
By Alexander Ross, 1768
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin exundat- participial stem of exundare,
from ex- (out) + undare (to rise in waves), from unda (wave)
EXAMPLE
“… Thus armed, he advanced to the well. The yew-twig struck the bright motionless water, and strongly agitated it. The stream exundated on every side, kindled as it mounted, and, tumbling and commingling, in a few seconds, like an enormous flame of fire, rolled forwards and backwards round the margin of the fountain. …”
From: Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine
Volume LVI. July-December 1844
Traditions and Tales of Upper Lusatia
No. III. The Dwarf’s Well
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin gaudibundus, from gaudere (to rejoice)
EXAMPLE
Her gaudibund expression showed that she had heard the good news.
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin malus (bad) + -ferous (bearing, producing)
EXAMPLE
“… I had really forgotten to mention that gallant, fine-hearted soldier, who – as I heard to my infinite regret, shared by every one who knew his kindly, honest, genial nature – fell a victim to the maliferous climate of China! …”
From: From: My Diary in India, In the Year 1858-9,
By William Howard Russell, Volume I, 1860
Cowasjee’s Shop
ETYMOLOGY
shortened from knick-knackatory (a repository for knick-knacks)
EXAMPLE
“… it found its way to the knackatory, where it seems to have become No. 18 in Case 1. “A handkerchief made of the asbestos rock, which fire cannot consume. …”
From: The Lure of Old Chelsea
By Reginald Blunt, 1922
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin epistola (epistle) + -ist
EXAMPLE
Mrs. Carter to Miss Talbot, Deal, April 16, 1743.
“… I am extremely obliged to you, my dear Miss Talbot, for your account of the Italian epistolists. I find I am not likely to be much edified by their sense, but they may perhaps be of use to me in gaining the improvement I wish for in the language. …”
From: A Series of Letters Between Mrs. Elizabeth Carter and Miss Catherine Talbot, from the year 1741 to 1770
By Elizabeth Carter, 1743
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin necation-, necatio (killing); from Latin necat-, past participial stem of necare (to kill); (from nec-, nex (death, violent death)) + ‑iō ‑(ion)
EXAMPLE
“… Yet such an inveterate poacher was he that at the next sessions he was “up” again for a like offence at the same place, save that on this second charge the evidence seems to have extended to “exagitation” only, and not to “necation.”…”
From: The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine
Volume XIX, 1881
Extracts from the Records of the Wiltshire Quarter Sessions.
‘Trespass in Pursuit of Game. Licence to Shoot’
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin scriptitation-, scriptitatio (act of writing down, act of writing or composing, that which is written, text) from scriptitat-, past participial stem of scriptitare (to be in the habit of writing, to write regular or repeated letters), (frequentative formation from scribere (to write))
EXAMPLE
“… There is something in this Amory’s manner of scriptitation which is..utterly void of all pretensions to the business of argument. …”
From: The Church of England Vindicated, 1779
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