SCORPIONISTNOUN
one born under the zodiac sign Scorpio ...1676 obs. rare ETYMOLOGY from Scorpion, the zodiac sign Scorpio + -ist FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1676 - See Example below EXAMPLE "...But if the grandeur of this Native be, to be attributed solely to his Horoscope; why is not that of every Scorpionist? or why is not every Scorpionist as eminent ..." From: Some Further Remarks upon Mr. Gadbury's Defence of Scorpio By: The Man in the Moon (William Lilly), 1676 SOURCES • A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, James Murray, 1887-1933
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MUTABILATEVERB
to change ...c1685 obs. rare ETYMOLOGY from Latin mutabilis changeable, from mutare to change + -ate FIRST DOCUMENTED USE c1685 - See Example below EXAMPLE "..Fye, Doctor, Fye! you know it is a Folly, Thus to submit and yield to Melancholly; For 'twill mutabilate poor Nature's Light, And turn its Day into a gloomy Night;" From: The Works of Mr. Thomas Brown Advice to Dr. Oates Not to be Melancholly, in 1685, When a Prisoner in the King's Bench. SOURCES • A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, James Murray, 1887-1933 • A Supplementary English Glossary, O. Davies, T. Lewis, 1881 KNAVIGATIONNOUN
a knavish invention or relation ...1613 jocular obs. ETYMOLOGY formed after 'navigation' FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1613 - see e Example below EXAMPLE "...For my part, I wish so well to Navigation and Discoveries, that I would wish such complaints to be but calumnies, and to be the knavigations of false discoverers..." From: The Pilgrimage, or Relations of the World, and the Religions observed in all Ages and Places.... By: Samuel Purchas, 1613 SOURCES • A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, James Murray, 1887-1933 |
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