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ETYMOLOGY from Latin innocēntia innocence EXAMPLE From: The Works of Beaumont and Fletcher, With an Introduction and Explanatory Notes By Henry Weber, 1812 Volume the Eleventh The Honest Man's Fortune
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CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES ETYMOLOGY from offence (n.) + -ful EXAMPLE From: The Works of Shakespeare: In Eight Volumes By Mr. Theobald Lewis, Volume the First, 1762 Measure for Measure, Act II. P. 326 also LEEVABLE
CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES ETYMOLOGY from leve (vb.) (Old English (Anglian) léfan, (West Saxon) liacuefan, a shortened form of ᵹeléfan, ᵹeliacuefan: see y-leve, believe) + -able EXAMPLE From: A Collection of Ordnances and Regulations for the Government of the Royal Household From King Edward III to King William and Queen Mary Also Receipts in Ancient Cookery Printed 1790 Liber Niger Domus Regis Edw. IV. P.74 CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
ETYMOLOGY from gripe (vb. to grasp strongly) + penny EXAMPLE From: The Idioms of the French and English Languages By Lewis Chambaud, A New Edition, 1793 More French proverbs, with the English adapted. P. 196 CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
EXAMPLE From: A Continuation of the Comical History of the Most Ingenious Knight, Don Quixote De La Mancha By the Licentiate Alonso Fernández de Avellaneda, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Translated by Captain John Stevens, 1705 also A STOPPING OYSTER
CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES EXAMPLE From: Early English Dramatists The Spider and the Fly By John Heywood Edited by John S. Farmer, 1908 Cap. 13. P.66 CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES ETYMOLOGY From: A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon, and Cant, Albert Barrere, 1890 EXAMPLE
From: Great Expectations By Charles Dickens, Printed 1868 Chapter XL. P. 191 CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
ETYMOLOGY from late Latin præviāntem, pres. pple. of præviāre to go before, from præ, pre- A. + viāre to travel EXAMPLE From: A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, James Murray, 1888-1933 also OUERWHERE
CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES ETYMOLOGY from E-NED: a reduction of outherwhere, autherwhere, from outher + where, the contraction being the same as in outher, our, ather, ar, either, er, other, or, whether, wher. The etymological sense was thus ‘either-where’, i.e. ‘either one where or the other’, ‘somewhere or other’, and thus at length = owhere, anywhere. It is possible that our- or ouer- was later associated with over, and so with such combinations as overall, overall-where, whence perhaps 'everywhere'; but the northern forms in awre-, aure-, could be derived only from awther. EXAMPLE (for 'anywhere') From: A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, James Murray, 1888-1933 DEFINITIONS CONTINUED
NOUNS 2. a fabulous sea-fish which ‘feeling himselfe taken with a hooke, casteth out his bowels, vntill hee hath vnloosed the hooke, and then swalloweth them vp againe’ (from Bullokar Eng. Expos. 1616) (obsolete) 3. a centipede or millipede; also (with capital S), a Linnena genus of myriapods, including the largest and most formidable of the centipedes also SCOLOPENDRIA (erroneous) CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES ETYMOLOGY Latin, from Greek σκολόπενδρα (skolopendra) centipede EXAMPLE (for definition 1) From: The Works of Sr William D'avenant Kt, 1673 The Siege. Act V. P. 83 also GLOAMIN' GLOMIN(G), GLOMYNG, GLOWMIN(G)
CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES ETYMOLOGY from E-NED representing Old English glómung str. fem., from (on the analogy of ǽfning evening) glóm twilight, probably from the Teut. root *glô-; the etymological sense would thus seem to be the ‘glow’ of sunset or sunrise, whence the passage to the recorded sense is not difficult. EXAMPLE From: Ancient and Modern Scottish Songs, Heroic Ballads, Etc. By David Herd, Volume the Second, 1776 Appendix, P. 46 CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
ETYMOLOGY from Old French zelateur (= Italian zelatore, Spanish celador, Portugese zelador) or its source eccl. Latin zēlātor, from zēlāre (vb. to be zealous for) The spellings with zeal- are due to assimilation to zeal, zealot EXAMPLE From: The Westminster Review, July and October, 1865 Volume XXVIII, 1865 Art. IV. Palgrave's Travels in Arabia Narrative of a Year's Journey through Central and Eastern Arabia (1862-1863) By William Gifford Palgrave CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
EXAMPLE From: A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, James Halliwell, 1855 also HOUNSFOOT
CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES ETYMOLOGY from Dutch hondsvot, German hundsfott, scoundrel, rascal, lit. cunnus canis EXAMPLE From: The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin By Dr. Swift, Dr. Arbuthnot, Mr. Pope, and Mr. Gay, 1751 Vol. VI. Miscellanies in Prose The History of John Bull, Chap. IX. P.105 CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
ETYMOLOGY from Latin nūgātōrius, from ppl. stem of nūgārī to trifle EXAMPLE From: A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, James Murray, 1888-1933 also ROCKLED
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ETYMOLOGY From E-WRI: (Fr.); ? form of galimatias (confused language, nonsense) CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
ETYMOLOGY from Latin calēns, calēntem pr. pple. of calēre to be hot EXAMPLE From: The History of Four-Footed Beasts, Serpents, and Insects Collected out of the Writings of Conradus Gesner and other Authors By Edward Topsel, 1658 Of the Lion. P. 377 |
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