1860 - Speeches, Lectures, and Letters, Wendell Phillips; see Example below From: Speeches, Lectures, and Letters
By Wendell Phillips, 1864 Lincoln's Election P. 295
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1675 - Burlesque upon Burlesque, or the Scoffer Scoft, Charles Cotton; see Example below From: The Poetical Works of Charles Cotton
The Second Edition. 1725 Burlesque upon Burlesque Or, The Scoffer Scoft. Dialogue. Juno and Latona P. 232 From: In Cap and Gown
Three Centuries of Cambridge Wit Edited by Charles Whibley, 1889 Thoughts Suggested by the New Caius Gown P. 140 from medieval Latin abecedārius alphabetical; a learner of the alphabet + -an 1665 - Scepsis Scientifica, or Confest Ignorance the Way to Science, Joseph Glanvill; see Example below From: Scepsis Scientifica:
Or, Confest Ignorance, the Way to Science By Joseph Glanvill Edited by John Owen. 1885 Chapter XXIV P. 176 irregular from Latin helluo, hēluo a gormandizer 1799 - Public Characters; see Example below From: Public Characters of 1799-1800
By Alexander Stephens, 1799 Doctor Parr P. 101 Old English murcian, a formation (with k suffix as in talk, lurk) on the onomatopœic root murr- (Middle Low German murren, Dutch morren, German mürren to grumble) Old English had also murcnian in the same sense c 888 - Boethius De Consolatione Philosophiae, King Aelfred;
see below From: King Alfred's Old English Version of Boethius De Consolatione Philosophiae Edited by Walter John Sedgefield, 1899 P. 11 apparently related in form and sense to Old English tættec a rag, a tatter 1513 - The xiii Bukes of Eneados of the Famose Poete Virgil, Bishop Gavin Douglas; see below From: The Poetical Works of Gavin Douglas, Bishop of Dunkeld Edited by John Small Volume Third. 1874 The Sevynt Buik of Eneados Cap. XII. P. 129 From: Thomas Carlyle
A History of the First Forty Years of His Life 1795-1835 By James Anthony Froude, Volume II. 1882 Chapter XVIII. A.D. 1834 Extracts from Journal P. 428 from Latin inficiāt-, infitiāt-, ppl. stem of infitiārī to deny, from infitiæ denial + -ory 1611 - A Dictionarie of the French and English Tongues, Randle Cotgrave;
"Negatoire, negatorie, inficiatorie, denying" from Latin cachinnāre to roar with laughter + -ate 1824 - Wallador in London Magazine; see Example below From: The London Magazine
Volume X. July to December 1824 Walladmor: Sir Walter Scott's German Novel P. 354 from Latin mēnsūrātus, pa. pple. of mēnsūrāre to measure, from mēnsūra measure (n.) + -ate 1653 - Physiognomie and Chiromancie, Metoposcopie, the Symmetrical Proportions and Signal Moles of the Body, Fully and Accurately Handled, Richard Saunders; see Example below From: Saunders Physiognomie, and Chiromancie, Metoposcopie
By Richard Saunders, 1671 Of the Moles and parts of the Body Symmetrically XXI P. 300 from Latin lurcāt-, ppl. stem of lurcāre, -ārī to eat greedily 1661 - Glossographia, Thomas Blount (Edition 2);
"Lurcation,..a greedy eating or gluttonizing' You don't find definitions like the following any more! From: The English Scholar Compleat, 1706 DEFINITIONS CONTINUED VERB 2. to creep or slink away, to sneak (dialect) 3. to quench one's thirst (dialect) 4. to prune a hedge; to cut one side of it only (dialect) also SLENSH, SLINCH, pa. tense SLENT, SLEYNT CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES repr. Old English *slęncan, causative form from slincan slink (vb.) c 1330 - (for verb definition 2) Amis and Amiloun;
see below From: Metrical Romances Of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Centuries Edited by Henry Weber Volume II. 1810 Amis and Amiloun P. 464 from Paddyland, Ireland, from Paddy, a nickname for the Irish given name Padraig c 1820 - as per A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, Eric Partridge From: The Ladies' Repository:
A Monthly Periodical, Devoted to Literature and Religion Edited by Rev. D.W. Clark Volume XVI. 1856 Our First Whale, By Charles Nordhoff P. 403 from Latin tenellus, diminutive of tener tender + -ous 1651 - On the Vanity of the Craft of Physic or a New Dispensatory, Noah Biggs;
see below from E-NED Latin, from Greek ornithōn, enclose for poultry or similar, from ornith-, ornis bird From: A Treatise on Fishponds,
Addressed to the Nobility and Gentry of Sussex By J. Hoare, 1870 The Fish-Ponds of the Ancient Romans P. 38 from French buvable, from buv- stem of boire to drink 1480 - Six Bookes of Metamorphoses of Ovyde, William Caxton;
see below from E-NED from Latin revirescentem, pres. pple. of revirescĕre grow strong or young again 1644 - King David's Sanctuary, Richard Harwood; see below E-NED From: The History of Hindostan
Volume I. 1795 Chapter IX. P. 287 from whizz (n.) or (vb.) + -y 1866 - Greatheart, George Walter Thornbury; see Example below From: Greatheart
By Walter Thornbury Volume III. 1866 Chapter XVI. The Counting-House P. 210 |
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