CHRISTIANOCATEGORIAN NOUN an accuser of Christians - 1620 obs. rare ETYMOLOGY from Latin Christianocategorus (accuser of Christians) from Byzantine Greek Χριστιανοκατήγορος, from Χριστιανο- Christiano- comb. form + ancient Greek κατήγορος (katḗgoros) (accuser) FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1620 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...In a word, we find in your images the Hellenisme, the doctrine of Simon Magus, of the Carpocratians, of the Basilidians, the Christianocategorians, and others your fore-fathers..." From: The Three Conformities; Or The Harmony and Agreement of the Romish Church with Gentilisme, Iudaisme and Auncient Heresies - Written in French by Francis de Croy, translated by William Hart
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EXOUSIASTIC ADJ. pert. to authority; authoritative - 1688 obs. rare ETYMOLOGY from Greek ἐξουσιαστικός (exousiastikos) (authoritative), from ἐξουσιάζειν (to exercise authority,) from ἐξουσία (authority) FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1688 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...Finally, the Exousiastick power of trying, sending, & Authorizing office-bearers in the Church, is made useless & void by this Toleration...." From: The Testimony of Some persecuted Presbyterian Ministers of the Gospel, unto the Covenanted Reformation of the Church of Scotland - James Renwick TRACTATRIX NOUN a female shampooer - 1874 rare ETYMOLOGY from Latin tractātrix feminine of tractātor shampooer, also, one who treats of a subject FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1874 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...Their ladies are very hard in what they say about gentlemen, but their actions seem to belie them. That stout Miss Susanetta, with her shrill voice, and her hand of the tractatrix, is a strange creature...." From: Frances - M. [and F.) Collins GLACIOUS ADJ. resembling ice - 1646 obs. rare ETYMOLOGY from French glacieux (obs.), from Latin glaciēs (ice) FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1646 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...which although to some degree exhaled and placed in cold conservatories, will Crystallise and shoot into white and glacious bodyes; yet is not this a congelation primarily effected by cold...." From: Pseudodoxia Epidemica, or, Enquiries into Very Many Received Tenents and Commonly Presumed Truths... - Sir Thomas Browne DADDLE NOUN n. 1. a hand or fist - 1725 Eng. dial. & sl., arch. n. 2. gait - 20C Irish sl. VERB vb. 1. to be slow in motion or action; to dawdle; to idle, to trifle, to waste time; to potter about; to saunter - 1673 colloq., later Sc. & Eng. dial. vb. 2. to walk totteringly or unsteadily, like a child; to stagger; to walk with short steps, as a small child or an infirm person 1710 obs. exc. Eng. dial. vb. 3. of a prostitute: to walk the streets - 1825 Sc. obs. vb. 4. to cheat, to trick, to swindle - 1883 rare vb. 5. to enjoy lesbian sex; the implication is of mutual masturbation - 19C sl. vb. 6. to trouble, bother, annoy, worry - Bk1900 Eng. dial. ETYMOLOGY of unknown origin (vb. 4. - possibly a variation of 'diddle' (to cheat or swindle)) FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1673 (see vb. 1) - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...When I and my Bride [went to] bed, on my wedding-day at night, My fancies with pleasure she fed, for I had my full delight. She [could teach in] Venus's school, and with me she did daddle; But I, a young puny fool, [knew nothing of curb or] saddle....." From: Mirth for Citizens; Or, A Comedy for the Country - A. Miles RISCONTER NOUN a meeting, an encounter ...1592 obs. rare ETYMOLOGY possibly from an alteration of rescounter (n. obs. an encounter, meeting, esp. a hostile or competitive one), after Italian riscontro (feedback, reply, confirmation) FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1592 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...The Cardinal had only signified the Fact, as suspecting (belike) the risconter of the Pope's Courriers, and since then that matter hath been quiet in open appearance..." From: Reliquiæ Wottonianæ: Or a Collection of Lives, Letters, Poems with Characters of Sundry Personages - Henry Wotton MENDICIARY ADJ. appropriate to beggars ...1652 obs. rare ETYMOLOGY from OED: from mendic- (in e.g. mendicity n.) + -iary, after formations in -ary on stems in -i- (e.g. judiciary adj., auxiliary adj., pecuniary adj.) FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1652 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...devesting Noble-men of their rights of Patronages, and bringing their persons to stand before them on Penitentiary Pews (like so many varlets) in mendiciary and gausapinal garments, not so much for any trespass they had committed, as thereby to confirm the Soveraignty of their Hierarchical jurisdiction, which is neither Monarchical, Aristocratical, nor Democratical, but a meer Plutarchy, Plutocracy, or rather Plutomanie..." From: Ekskybalauron: or, The discovery of a most exquisite jewel, more precious then diamonds inchased in gold, the like whereof was never seen in any age; found in the kennel of Worcester-streets, the day after the fight. Serving in this place, to frontal a vindication of the honour of Scotland - Thomas Urquhart DRIFFLE NOUN 1. a slight shower of rain or snow; a drizzle; a short spell of stormy weather; a gale ...1824 Sc. 2. a scolding ...1866 Sc. 3. a quantity of work done with speed ...1866 Sc. 4. haste, speed ...1925 Sc. VERB 1. to utter in driblets ...1593 obs. 2. to drink deeply ...c1645 obs. 3. to drizzle; to rain or snow fitfully or in sparse drops, as at the ‘tail’ of a shower ...1639 Sc. 4. to scold ...1898 Sc. 5. to drip, to cause to drop ...1906 Amer. dial. ETYMOLOGY possibly allied to dribble (vb.) FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1593 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...Why, man, he is worth a thousand of these pidlinge and driblinge Confuters, that sitt all day buzzing vpon a blunt point, or two: and with much adoe drifle-out as many sentences in a weeke, as he will powre∣downe in an howre...." From: Pierces Supererogation: Or, A New Prayse of the Old Asse - Gabriel Harvey USELL ADJ. wretched, miserable, lowly ...c1175 obs. rare ETYMOLOGY from early Scandinavian, Old Danish usel (Danish ussel [miserable, wretched]), from the Scandinavian base of Old Icelandic ú- (un-) + the Scandinavian base of Old Icelandic sæll (happy) FIRST DOCUMENTED USE c1175 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...Acc uss birrþ witenn þatt he warrþ, All wiþþ hiss aȝhenn wille, Unnorne & wrecche & usell child Inn ure mennisscnesse, Forr þatt he wollde inn heoffness ærd Uss alle makenn riche..." From: The Ormulum (The Ormulum is a 12th century work of biblical exegesis, written by a monk named Orm, or Ormin, an Augustinian canon in the north of England) - Edited by Robert William Burchfield PECCADILLIE NOUN a minor fault or sin; a trivial offense, a petty crime ...1660 obs. rare ETYMOLOGY from peccadillo (n.) with the ending assimilated to -y FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1660 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...There is great commerce of all wares and merchandise, of slaves especially, both males and females; 'tis but a peccadillie, for a Master to lye with his slave, but if she proves with child, the law enfranchises her, and she may go whither she pleases...." From: The World Surveyed, or The Famous Voyages & Travailes of Vincent le Blanc, or White, of Marseilles - Vincent Le Blanc Translated by Francis Brooke BAZE also BAIZE NOUN confusion, bewilderment ...1833 Sc. VERB to stupefy, to frighten, to alarm; to puzzle, to bewilder, to daze ...1603 obs. exc. Eng. dial. ETYMOLOGY from OED: apparently identical with Dutch bazen, verbazen (to astonish, to stupefy); but its late appearance in English (or Scots) is not explained FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1603 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...Supponing mee ane Deuill of Hell, With crewell conjuratiounes fell, Did mee out of his hous expell, As with a Bogill bazed: As ane out of his mynde or marrit, He hes mee of his hous debarrit, I can not tell quhat hes him skarrit, Or hes the man amazed..." From: Ane Verie Excellent and Delectabill Treatise Intitulit Philotus Quhairin we may persave the greit inconveniences that fallis out in the mariage betvvene age and zouth FUCATE ADJ. artificially coloured, beautified with paint; hence, falsified, disguised, counterfeit ...1531 obs. VERB to colour, to paint, to counterfeit ...1535 obs. ETYMOLOGY from Latin fūcātus, past participle of fūcāre (to paint, rouge), from fūcus (n. paint or cosmetic for beautifying the skin) FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1531 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...Finally all disceyte and dissimulation, in the opinion of them whiche exactely honoure iustyce, is nerre to dispraise than commendation, all though that therof mought ensue some thinge that were good. For in vertue may be nothing fucate or counterfayte...." From: The Boke Named The Governour - Thomas Elyot CHICKET ADJ. cheerful ...1682 obs. exc. Eng. dial. NOUN a dormer window ...1845 Eng. dial. ETYMOLOGY of unknown origin; perhaps from chick (vb. to chirp, to cheep) + -et FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1682 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...A third remains; The Prelate takes the Urn, And to play fair gives it a double turn: Their fligg'ring Souls do now on Tiptoes stand, 'Twixt fears and hopes for the deciding hand; How blithe wast thou, how Buxome, and how chicket, When once thy Name proclaimed by the Ticket, Past all the fear of Contingent Disaster, Appear'd before the face of thy great Master, Boirude (I mean) the Sexton? Some do say, Thy livid Front e're while as pale as Clay, Glow'd into Sanguine; and thy Rosy Hew Did the Wan Sallow of thy Hide Subdue! Thy Gouty Legs and Toes benumm'd before, Ventur'd to cut three Capers on the Floor!..." From: Le Lutrin an Heroick Poem - originally written in French by Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux; made English by N. O. AWKY ADJ. untoward, perverse, difficult, awkward, clumsy ...1655 obs. ETYMOLOGY from awk (untoward, froward, perverse) + -y FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1655 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...Thirdly, Because it is so awky a business, and hard a work, to recover the activity of Grace once lost, and to revive a duty in disuse: I have put off my Coat, faith the Spouse, Cant..." From: The Christian in Compleat Armour. Or, a Treatise of the Saints War Against the Devil - William Gurnall HEREDATION NOUN the act of inheriting; inheritance ...1606 obs. rare ETYMOLOGY from Latin heredation-, heredatio (action of inheriting), from heredat-, past participial stem of heredare (to inherit) + Latin -iō (-ion) FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1606 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...For the Iewes doe comprise all titular rights vnder one of three: acquisition, like Abrahams (in the conqueis of the caue Gen. 23.) Heredation, like Isaacs (succeding thereto) lucrifaction, like Iacobs, whose wealth was the winning of his owne hand-hammers..." From: The Blame of Kirk-Buriall tending to perswade Cemiteriall Civilitie - William Birnie SCALPTIZE VERB to scratch ...1708 obs. ETYMOLOGY from Latin scalpt-, scalpĕre (scalp vb. † to scrape, to scratch) + -ize FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1708 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...but also discovers, that, through the Revolution of many Retrograde Moons, you have in Egypt press'd the Extremities of your Fingers, with the hard Tenants of your Mouths, and scalptiz'd your heads with frequent applications of your Unguicules..." From: The Works of F. Rabelais, M.D.: or, The Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and Pantagruel, done out of French by Sir Tho. Urchard, Mr. Motteux, and others - Peter Antoine Motteux FLOCCIPEND VERB to regard as insignificant, worthless, or of no account; to make no account of, to regard as unimportant or irrelevant ...1548 rare ETYMOLOGY from Latin phrase floccī pendĕre (floccī, + pendĕre to weigh, esteem) FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1548 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...any other ridiculous articles they layde to hym, whiche the cares of euery honest creature knowynge the duetie of the subie to hys prynce, woulde abhorre and floccipend, to the whiche he so wisely and boldely aunswered, that in parte he asswaged their malice, and mitigated their rage. In so much that he was more gentler entreated then he was before..." From: The vnion of the two noble and illustre famelies of Lancastre (and) Yorke, beeyng long in continual discension for the croune of this noble realme with all the actes done in bothe the tymes of the princes, bothe of the one linage and of the other, beginnyng at the tyme of kyng Henry the fowerth... - Edward Hall MENALTY NOUN the middle class of society ...1548 rare ETYMOLOGY from mean (adj. intermediate, intermediary) + -alty; possibly after commonalty (n.) FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1548 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...In this parliament wer adnichilate al the actes paed in the parliament holden by kyng Richard in the .xxj. yere of his reigne, whiche was called the euill parliament for the nobilitee, the worse for the menaltie, but worste of all for the cōmonaltee..." From: The vnion of the two noble and illustre famelies of Lancastre (and) Yorke, beeyng long in continual discension for the croune of this noble realme with all the actes done in bothe the tymes of the princes, bothe of the one linage and of the other, beginnyng at the tyme of kyng Henry the fowerth... - Edward Hall VIBRATIUNCLE NOUN a minute or slight vibration or agitation ...1749 ETYMOLOGY from Latin vibratiuncula, diminutive of Latin vibrātio (vibration n.) FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1749 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...Sensory Vibrations, by being often repeated, beget, ini the medullary Substance of the Brain, a Disposition to diminutive Vibrations, which may also be called Vibratiuncles, and Miniatures, corresponding to themselves respectively..." From: Observations on Man, His Frame, His Duty, and His Expectations - David Hartley GAYSOME ADJ. 1. full of gaiety; blithe, light-hearted, buoyant, cheerful ...1598 rare 2. inspiring with gaiety; cheery; pleasant ...1633 rare ETYMOLOGY from gay (adj. bright or lively-looking) + -some FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1598 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...To these quick Nuptials entred suddenly Admired Teras with the Ebon Thye, A Nymph that haunted the greene Sestyan groves, And would consort soft virgins in their loves, At gaysome Triumphs, and on solemne dayes, Singing prophetike Elegies and Layes: And fingring of a silver Lute she tide, With black and purple skarfs by her left side..." From: Hero and Leander - Begun by Christopher Marlowe and finished by George Chapman |
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