Daily Word Quiz
LURRIES a) clothes, garments b) the female breasts c) the kidneys d) the male genitals Answer below. Today's Featured Word: TRANQUILLITATE VERB to render tranquil, to calm, to soothe, to mitigate, to alleviate ...1657 obs. rare ETYMOLOGY from Latin tranquillitatem from tranquillus quiet, calm, tranquil FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1657 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...Theriack complects all antidotes, which either by assumption or admotion tranquillitate diseases..." From: A Medicinal Dispensatory: Containing the Whole Body of Physick Composed by the Illustrious Renodæus, Chief Physician to the Monarch of France, and now Englished and Revised, By: Richard Tomlinson of London, Apothecary, 1657 Daily Word Quiz Answer LURRIES a) clothes, garments ...1676 sl. obs.
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