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EXAMPLE From: Du Bartas His Diuine Weekes and Workes Translated and Written by Famous Philomusus, Iosvah Sylvester, 1641 The Third Day of the First Weeke. P. 27
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ETYMOLOGY from Latin mollitūdo, from mollis soft + -tude EXAMPLE From: Lexiphanes, A Dialogue Imitated from Lucian and suited to the present Times. The Fourth Edition, 1774 P. 11 CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
ETYMOLOGY from French rubicond (= Italian rubicondo, Spanish and Portugese rubicundo), or from Latin rubicundus, from rubēre to be red EXAMPLE From: A Tour in Switzerland, Or, A View of the Present State of the Governments, and Manners of those Cantons By Helen Maria Williams, Volume I, 1798 Chapter XIII. P. 195 CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES ETYMOLOGY origin known; From: The Rural Economy of Yorkshire, By Mr. Marshall, Volume II, 1796 EXAMPLE From: The English Dialect Dictionary, Joseph Wright, 1898-1905 also FLISKMAHAIGO
CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES ETYMOLOGY from E-NED: from flisk (vb. to move about in a frolicsome way) Jamieson gives also Fliskmahaigo with similar sense; the unmeaning endings may have been suggested by the place-names Dalmahoy and Lesmahago EXAMPLE From: Waverley Novels, Volume 2 By Sir Walter Scott, 1843 The Antiquary, Chapter The Thirty-Fifth DEFINITIONS CONTINUED
NOUNS 1. a roisterer, a swaggerer (obsolete) 2. a state of hurry or excitement (dialect obsolete) VERBS to behave uproariously (obsolete) CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES ETYMOLOGY From: E-NED Origin obscure: perhaps originally a reduplication or rhyming expansion of rory, roary, from roar (n.) or (vb.) The English Dialect Dictionary cites it from South Lancashire as meaning ‘a state of hurry or excitement’. After 1680 it was sometimes abusively associated with Tory (n.); but there can hardly have been any original connection. Reference to the Irish Tories or outlaws and marauders is chronologically possible, but not evidenced. EXAMPLE From: The Works of Mr. Francis Rabelais, Doctor in Physick, Translated into English, 1653 Volume II The Most Certain, True, and Infallible Pantagruelian Prognostication Chapter IV. Of the Fruits of the Earth this Year. P.431 also ABBREVYE, ABREVYE
CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES ETYMOLOGY from mid. French abrévier, abb-, (14th c.) from Latin abbreviāre to shorten EXAMPLE From: The Stanford Dictionary of Anglicised Words and Phrases Edited by C. A. M. Fennell, 1892 also FERTLE, FURTLE
CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES EXAMPLE From: The English Dialect Dictionary, Joseph Wright, 1898-1905 CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES ETYMOLOGY From: Folk-Etymology: A Dictionary of Verbal Corruptions Or Words Perverted in Form or Meaning, by False Derivation or Mistaken Analogy, By Rev. Abram Smythe Palmer, 1890 EXAMPLE From: The History of English Poetry from the Close of the Eleventh to the Commencement of the Eighteenth Century. By Thomas Warton, Vol. II, 1824, Section IX CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
ETYMOLOGY from Italian malevolo, from. Latin malevolus: enemy, foe, ill-wisher EXAMPLE From: The Harleian Miscellany Or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and Entertaining Pamphlets and Tracts Found in the Earl of Oxford's Library Volume VI, 1810 The British Bellman "Printed in the Year, Of the Saints Fear" Anno Domini 1648 P.183 CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
ETYMOLOGY formed on exquisititious (adj.) from Latin exquīsīt- ppl. stem of exquīrĕre to search out EXAMPLE From: The Philosophical Transactions and Collections to the End of the Year MDCC (1700) By John Lowthorp, Volume III, 1731 Chapter II, Chronology, History, Antiquities CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
ETYMOLOGY from gin (n. skill, ingenuity, obs.) + -ous EXAMPLE From: The Master of Game By Edward, Second Duke of York The Oldest English Book on Hunting (written between 1406 and 1413) Edited by Wm. A. and F. Baillie-Groham With a foreword by Theodore Roosevelt, 1909 Chapter VII. The Wolf and His Nature. P. 60 CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
ETYMOLOGY from Latin colloqui, after loquacious EXAMPLE From: Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country Vol, XVI. July to December 1837 Blue Friar Pleasantries No. XV. Report of a Visit to the Consolidated National Knowledge Company also ILL-TRICKED, ILL-TRICKIT
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ETYMOLOGY formed on French habiller to dress, or English habiliment, after adjectives etymologically formed in -atory EXAMPLE From: Pelham: Or, The Adventures of a Gentleman By Edward George E.L. Bulwer- Lytton, Volume III, 1828 Chapter XV. P. 239 also from E-NED:
soveniht, seoveniht, -niþt, seve-, sove-niȝt, -nyȝt, seovenyght, sefnight, seve-nyht, -niȝth, sevenyght(e),sevenyȝt, seve-nyth, -nyut, sevenighte, sevenight, seue'night, sev'night; sennyȝt, synyght, sennett, sennyt, senit, senyght, sennet, senighte, senyghte, seneyt, sennyght, senight, senet, senith, sennit, sinnitt, s'ennight, (dial.) se'night, se'ennight, se'nnight, (dial.) zennet, sen'night CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES ETYMOLOGY originally two words: Old English seofon seven, nihta pl. of niht night (n.) Old English had the derivative seofonnihte (adj.), seven days old (of the moon). EXAMPLE From: The Poetical Works of Alfred Tennyson Printed 1860 Edwin Morris, Or The Lake P. 159 CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
ETYMOLOGY from philo-, combining form. loving, having an affection for and Latin fēles, -is cat EXAMPLE From: The Doctor, &c. By Robert Southey Edited by John Wood Warter, 1848 Fragments to the Doctor. P. 681 CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
ETYMOLOGY aphetic form of Old French enfaunt, enfant: infant. The shortened form has not been found in French, but Italian has the corresponding fante boy, servant, foot-soldier, whence German fant EXAMPLE From: A New English Dictionary on English Principles, James Murray, 1888-1933 CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
ETYMOLOGY from Old French barateus, from barat: masc. (= It. baratto, Old Spanish barato, Provencal barat), also Old French barate fem. (= Old Spanish, Catalan, Provencal barata) ‘deceit, fraud, confusion, trouble, embarrassment’ + -ous EXAMPLE From: Pierce Penilesse His Supplication to the Devill By Tho. Nash, Gent. 1592 P. 100 |
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