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EXAMPLE From: The Anatomy of Melancholy By Democritus Junior, (Robert Burton), 1883 Subject VI. Poverty and Want, Causes of Melancholy
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ETYMOLOGY from inter- + gern girn (vb.) EXAMPLE From: Du Bartas His Diuine Weekes and Workes Translated and Written by Famous Philomusus, Iosvah Sylvester, 1641 The Decay The Fourth Book of the Fourth Day of the II Weeke of Bartas CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
EXAMPLE From: The Works of Mr. Francis Rabelais Printed for The Navarre Society, Volume I, 1653 The Second Book of Dr. Francis Rabelais Chapter XI. How the Lords of Kissebreech and Suckfist did plead before Pantagruel without an Atturney CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
EXAMPLE From: Notes and Queries: A Medium of Inter-Communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, Etc. Third Series, Volume Second, July-December, 1862 CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
ETYMOLOGY from pauci- (comb. form. of Latin paucus few, little) + Latin loquentem speaking EXAMPLE From: Through War to Peace Be Benjamin F. Mason, 1891 Chapter XVIII, The Vandal Congress, Continued CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
ETYMOLOGY irregular from French assopir (Cotgr.), modern assoupir, or Italian assopire, from Latin as- = ad- to + sopīre to lull asleep EXAMPLE From: The Voiages and Travels of John Struys Done out of Dutch by John Morrison, 1684 The Second Voyage of John Struys, Chap. I CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
ETYMOLOGY from Latin blæsiloquentem, from blæsus lisping, stammering + loquentem speaking EXAMPLE From: The Saturday Review Of Politics, Literature, Science, and Art No. 1,834, Vol. 70, December 20, 1890 The New World of Words CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
ETYMOLOGY from dunce (n.) + -fy EXAMPLE From: The Athenaeum, Journal of English and Foreign Literature, Science, the Fine Arts, Music, and the Drama No. 3081, Saturday, November 13, 1886 Drama, The Pilgrimage to Parnassus, Edited by the Rev. W.D. Macray CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
EXAMPLE From: Contested Etymologies in the Dictionary of The Rev. W.W. Skeat, By Hensleigh Wedgwood, 1882 CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
ETYMOLOGY Obsolete or dialect form of YEX - Old English ᵹeocsian, ᵹiscian, corresponding to Old High German geskôn, gesgizôn ‘oscitare’: of imitative origin EXAMPLE From: The Works of John Taylor The Water Poet Reprinted from the Folio Edition of 1630, Part I, 1868 Taylors Goose Goose Faire at Stratford Bow, the Thursday after Whitsuntide CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
ETYMOLOGY from marine after panorama EXAMPLE From: The Atlantic Monthly A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics Volume XLVIII, 1881 A Tropical Sequence SPELT - a species of grain related to wheat, formerly much cultivated in Southern Europe
CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES ETYMOLOGY from Latin confarreātiōnem, n. of action from confarreāre to unite in marriage by the offering of bread, from con- + farreus of spelt, corn, or grain, farreum a spelt-cake, from far, farr-is grain, spelt, whence farreātus, farreātio EXAMPLE From: Brides and Bridals By John Cordy Jeaffreson, Vol. I, 1873 CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
ETYMOLOGY from the Italian dapoco of little value FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1674 - Blount CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
ETYMOLOGY from Latin marītātus pa. pple. of marītāre to marry EXAMPLE From: Letters to Squire Pedant,In the East, By Lorenzo Altisonant, an Emigrant to the West. By Samuel Klinefelter Hoshour, 1870 Amenityville, Occident, July 4, 1844. To Seignior Lorenzo Altisonant CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
ETYMOLOGY from the French abaisser to depress From: The Poetical Works of Sir Thomas Chatterton, With an Essay on the Rowley Poems by The Rev. Walter D. Skeat, Vol II, 1891 Rowley Poems |
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