 CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES ETYMOLOGY from medieval Latin minōrāt-, ppl. stem of minōrāre to diminish, from Latin minōrem less EXAMPLE From: Speech of Sir Robert Heath in the Case of Alexander Leighton, Edited by Samuel Rawson Gardiner, 1875 Preface. Leighton's Case 
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 CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES From: The Vocabulary of East-Anglia By The Rev. Robert Forby, Volume I, 1830  From: A General Dictionary of Provincialisms By William Holloway, 1888   CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES EXAMPLE From: Black and White: A Monthly Magazine of Facts for Insurance Policy, 1898  
CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES EXAMPLE From: Nothing Venture, Nothing Have Anne Beale, Volume I, 1864 Chapter I, Twenty Years Ago 
CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES ETYMOLOGY from Latin tinctus (a dyeing) + mūtāntem changing EXAMPLE From: The Popular Science Monthly January, 1895 
 CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES ETYMOLOGY from Latin redamāre to love in return, from re(d)- re- + amāre to love EXAMPLE From: A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, James Murray, 1888-1928   also CLOOTY, CLUTIE CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES ETYMOLOGY diminutive of cloot, a cloven hoof, the devil EXAMPLE From: Demonologia: Or, Natural Knowledge Revealed, An Exposé of Ancient and Modern Superstitions, By J.S. Forsyth, 1831 Demonology   CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES EXAMPLE From: Yorksher Puddin' Readings and Writings by John Hartley, 1877 There's A Mule I' Th' Garden; A Christmas Story   CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES EXAMPLE From: Tales and Sketches By The Ettrick Shepherd (James Hogg), 1837 The Siege of Roxburgh. Chapter XI.  
CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES ETYMOLOGY from medieval Latin faculentus, from fax torch EXAMPLE From: Ane Treatise Callit The Court of Venus Edited by the Rev. Walter Gregor, 1884 The Thrid Buik. 
 CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES ETYMOLOGY from Italian amorevole loving + -ous EXAMPLE From: The Stanford Dictionary of Anglicised Words and Phrases Edited by C.A.M. Fennell, 1892   CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES Pronunciation of ABDERIAN ETYMOLOGY from Abdera, in Thrace, the birthplace of Democritus, who was much given to laughter, and who was styled the Abderite EXAMPLE From: Memoirs of the Society of Grub-Street Vol. II, Printed for J. Wilford, 1737  
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ETYMOLOGY from ppl. stem of Latin pernegāre to deny altogether, from per- + negāre to deny 
CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES ETYMOLOGY from Latin doctiloquus learnedly-speaking EXAMPLE From: Posthumous Works of Frederic II, King of Prussia, Vol. IX, Correspondence. Letters Between Frederic II and M. Jordan Translated From the French By Thomas Holcroft, 1789 Letter LIV, From the King, The Camp of Molwitz, May 13, 1741 
 CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES EXAMPLE From: A Poetical Grammar of the English Language And an Epitome of the Art of Rhetoric By Robert Clarke, 1855 Comic Pieces. The Miser's Will   CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES EXAMPLE From: Certain Sermons or Homilies Appointed to be Read in Churches in the Time of the Late Queen Elizabeth of Famous Memory The Church of England, 1822 An Homily Against Gluttony and Drunkenness   also, for definition 3, CUTTED SNIBBLE-NOSE CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES ETYMOLOGY Dialect form of SNIVEL-NOSE EXAMPLE From: The English Dialect Dictionary, Joseph Wright, 1898-1905   also LAMENTACIOUS CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES ETYMOLOGY from lamentation: from French lamentation or from Latin lāmentātiōnem, n. of action from lāmentārī to lament EXAMPLE From: The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer; Compared with the Former Editions, 1721 The Testament of Love   CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES ETYMOLOGY adaptation of Old French concordieux, -euse, adaptation of medieval Latin concordiōs-us, formed on. concordia: and -ous. EXAMPLE From: Scrinia Reserata: A Memorial Offer'd to the Great Deservings of John Williams. By John Hacket, 1693 The Life of Arch-Bishop Williams  |
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