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ETYMOLOGY from Latin scriptitātiōnem, noun of action from scriptitāre, frequent. of scrībĕre to write EXAMPLE From: A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, James Murray, 1888-1933 form of EMMET
also EMMOT, EMOCK CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES ETYMOLOGY form of EMMET repr. Old English ǽmete wk. fem EXAMPLE From: Poems on Various Subjects By Robert Fergusson, 1799 Elegy on John Hogg, Late Porter to the University of St. Andrews. P. 167 CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
ETYMOLOGY from Latin omniscius all-knowing (from omni- + scīre to know + -ous) EXAMPLE From: The Anatomy of Melancholy. What it Is, With All the Kinds Causes, Symptomes, Prognostickes, & Severall Cures Of It. By Democritus Junior (Robert Burton) The Eighth Edition, 1676 Democritus to the Reader P. 44 CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
ETYMOLOGY from Latin repandus bent backwards, turned up, from re- re- + pandus bent EXAMPLE From: Pseudodoxia Epidemica: Or Enquiries Into Very Many Received Tenents and Commonly Presumed Truths By Thomas Brown The Fourth Edition, 1658 The Fifth Book. Of many things questionable as they are commonly described in Pictures. Chap. II. Of The Picture of Dolphins. P. 287 CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
EXAMPLE From: St. Clair of the Isles; Or, The Outlaws of Barra. A Scottish Tradition. By Elizabeth Helme, 1843 Chapter VIII CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
EXAMPLE From: The Protestants Evidence: Take out of Good Records. By Simon Birckbek Second Edition, 1657 Why Christ Spoke in Parables? P. 484 also ORISONT
CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES ETYMOLOGY from E-NED: from Old French orizonte (13th c. in Hatz.-Darm.), orizon (14th c.), modern French horizon (= Italian obsolete orizonte, orizzonte, Spanish, Portugese horizonte), from late L.atin horīzontem (horīzōn), from Greek ὁρίζων (sc. κύκλος) the bounding circle, horizon, pres. pple. of ὁρίζειν to bound, from ὅρος boundary, limit. In later Old French and English, conformed to the Latin nominative.; but at first stressed ˈhorĭzon (Gascoigne, Shakespeare, Sylvester); hoˈrīzon appears in Cowley, 1647 EXAMPLE From: The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer Compared with the Former Editions, and Many Valuable MSS Printed 1721 The Conclusions Of the Astrolabie P. 445 CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
Pronunciation of EXIMIOUS ETYMOLOGY from Latin eximius excepted, select, choice (from eximĕre: see exempt vb.) + -ous. Common in 17th century literature. EXAMPLE From: A Commentarie Upon the Books of Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and the Song of Songs By John Trapp, 1650 Chapter IV. Canticles, or the Song of Songs P. 243 CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
EXAMPLE From: The True Convert: Or an Exposition Upon the XV Chapter of St. Lukes Gospell Containing Three Parables, The Lost Sheepe The Lost Groat. The Lost Sonne. By Nehemiah Rogers, 1632 An Exposition of the Parable of the Lost Sonne. P. 361 DEFINITIONS CONTINUED
NOUNS 3. a catch, trigger, bolt that fastens anything by falling or springing into position (obsolete or dialect) 4. a contrivance for making a clicking sound; a clapper or rattle carried by beggars in France, like the 'clap-dish' in England; bones rattled as accompaniment to music; anything that makes a rattling noise (obsolete or dialect) 5. a chattering tongue 6. a valve or lid that shuts with a click; the valve of a pump 7. supposed by some to be a she-fox 8. a wooden salt-box with a hinged lid, hung against the wall in old-fashioned kitchens (dialect) 9. a small wedge (dialect) 10. a thin board, having four or five small arched apertures, placed before the mouth of a hive in the winter months to protect the bees from mice or other vermin (dialect) VERBS 1. to latch or lock; to fasten the wooden latch of a door by inserting a peg above it, thus preventing it from being raised 2. to chatter 3. of the fox or hare: to be in heat, to copulate 4. to protect hives by means of a 'clicket' (see noun 10) (dialect) also CLEKET, CLEKYT, CLICKETTE, CLIKET, CLIKETT, CLIQUET, CLYCKED, CLYCKET, CLYKET, CLYKETT, KLEKET, KLIKET CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES ETYMOLOGY Middle English cliket from Old French cliquet, which appears to have had most of the English senses; EXAMPLE (for verb 2) From: A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandry By Thomas Tusser, 1570 A Hundreth Good Pointes of Huswiferye DEFINITIONS CONTINUED
NOUNS 2. in geology: name (proposed by H. D. Rogers) for the twelfth of the fifteen subdivisions of the Palæozoic strata of the Appalachian chain 3. in logic: the posits or affirms CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES ETYMOLOGY from Italian ponente, Spanish poniente, obsolete French ponent, -ant, medieval Latin (Itatlian 13th c.) ponens, -entem, west, west wind, sunset, lit. setting, pr. pple. of Latin pōnĕre to put, place, set, lay down; in Spanish also ‘to set’ as the sun or a star EXAMPLE From: The Poetical Works of John Milton With Notes of Various Authors Volume II, 1824 Paradise Lost also HAPLES, HAPLESSE
CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES ETYMOLOGY from hap (n.) (early Middle English from Old Norse happ neut., chance, hap, good luck; the same root is found in Old English ᵹehæp adj., fit, hæpliacuc equal) + -less EXAMPLE From: An Alarum Against Usurers By Thomas Lodge, 1584 Truths Complaint over England. p. 39 also GELAZIN
CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES ETYMOLOGY from French gelasin (Cotgr.), from Greek γελασῖνος (gelasinus), from γελᾶν to laugh EXAMPLE From: Of Wisdome By Pierre Charron Translated by Samson Lennard, 1670 Chapter V. Of the goods of the body: Health, Beauty, &c. P. 19 DEFINITIONS CONTINUED
NOUNS 4. the buttocks (dialect and slang) 5. a useless article (dialect) 6. an oatcake (dialect) 7. a small heap of soil or dirt (dialect) VERBS to knock about, to bruise (dialect) also DOMMOCK, DUMMUCK CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES ETYMOLOGY for noun 7: probably a diminutive of dam; Cf. Dutch dam, a bank; Iceland dammr EXAMPLE (for verb) From: The English Dialect Dictionary, Joseph Wright, 1898-1905 CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
ETYMOLOGY from obsolete French repentin, -ine, or from Latin repentīnus, from repent-, repens sudden EXAMPLE From: The Mirrour of Good Maners Compiled in Latin by Dominike Mancin Translated into English by Alexander Barclay Reprinted from the Edition of 1570 Printed 1885 Of The First Cardinall vertue named Prudence P. 22 DEFINITIONS CONTINUED
NOUN 1. a quarrelsome hussy (dialect obsolete) 2. an imperfectly castrated animal, especially a horse (dialect) 3. the common tern, Sterna fluviatilis (dialect) CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES EXAMPLE From: The Dwale Bluth: Hebditch's Legacy and Other Literary Remains of Oliver Madox-Brown Edited by Willliam M. Rossetti, and F. Hueffer Volume I, 1876 Book I. The Birth of The Heroine. Chapter I. Matrimonial Developments. P. 57 also DROTEN, DROTYNE Note: from E-HAL: "It is still used in the North under the form 'drite'. (see etymology below) CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES ETYMOLOGY E-NED, E-HUN show the etymology as unknown, or doubtful. From: A Glossary of the Cleveland Dialect, Rev. J.C. Atkinson, 1868 EXAMPLE From: A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, James Murray, 1888-1933 Note; E-NED has THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK VELVET
CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES ETYMOLOGY A Jacobite phrase, referring to the belief that the death of William III was caused by his horse's stumbling over a mole-hill, and the animal became a toast in certain circles under this disguise. EXAMPLE From: The English Illustrated Magazine, Volume XIX, April to September, 1898 Ben the Mole-Catcher, by J.J. Britton |
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