Daily Word Quiz
KUMBIX a) an illness, a complaint b) a miser, a niggard c) an old, dilapidated house d) the head Answer below. Today's Featured Word HEREDITARIOUS ADJ. hereditary ...1527 obs. rare ETYMOLOGY from Latin hereditarius, from hereditas heredity FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1527 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...I reason, that as some sicknesses are hereditarious and come from the father to the sonne..." From: The Booke Made By the Right Worshipful Master Robert Thorne (1527) in Divers Voyages Touching the Discouerie of America and the Islands Adjacent By: Richard Hakluyt, 1582 Daily Word Quiz Answer KUMBIX b) a miser, a niggard ...1857 obs.
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