Daily Word Quiz
EXUPERATE a) to wander at large, to roam at will b) to go to extravagance in c) to banish; to put to flight d) to surpass, to excel; to overcome Answer below. Today's Featured Word: RAM-HEAD NOUN 1. a halyard block ...1514 nautical usage obs. 2. one who has a head like a ram; a dull, thick-witted, obstinate person; a stupid person, a blockhead ...1605 obs. 3. a cuckold ...1632 obs. VERB to make a cuckold of ...1713 obs. ETYMOLOGY from ram (n.) a male sheep FIRST DOCUMENTED USE "Ramehedes with ij shevers of Brasse" In Michael Oppenheim's A History of the Administration of the Royal Navy ... (1896) "Here ensuyth An Inventorie or boke of All such Stuff, tacle, apparell, Ordynaunce, Artillarie and habillamentes for the warre...", 1514 EXAMPLE (noun 2) "...And make the ram-heads hear that are within." From: The Play of Stucley (1605) in The School of Shakspere, 1878 SOURCES • A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, James Murray, 1887-1933 Daily Word Quiz Answer EXUPERATE d) to surpass, to excel; to overcome ...1559 obs.
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