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      • Reverse Dictionary MONEY - MONEY ORDER
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WORDS AND PHRASES FROM THE PAST

WORD OF THE DAY: ROTUNDIOUS

20/6/2021

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ROTUNDIOUS
 
ADJ.
round or rounded; rotund, spherical ...1614 rare
 
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin rotundus (rotund) + -ious

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1614 - see EXAMPLE below
 
EXAMPLE
"...He's now obscur'd and now his beames out: powres
As skies are cleare, or thicke twixt vs and him.
Thus all the Aprill, ar bopeepe he plaies,
Incircling daily the Rotundious spheare.
And at the Bull he hides his glistring raies..."
From: The Nipping Or Snipping of Abuses: Or the Woolgathering of Witte
- John Taylor
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WORD OF THE DAY: MINDY

19/6/2021

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MINDY
 
ADJ.
having recollection or remembrance, retaining memories; taking thought or care, mindful, heedful; being conscious or aware ...a1000 obs. rare

ETYMOLOGY
from mind (n.) + -y

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
a1000 - see EXAMPLE below
 
EXAMPLE
"... Recordatus est petrus uerbi quod dixerat ei iesus: myndig wæs petrus wordes ðætte cweden wæs him ðe hæland..."
From: The Rushworth Gospels,
The Gospel According to Saint Mark in Anglo-Saxon and Northumbrian Versions synoptically arranged
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WORD OF THE DAY: EFFROYABLE

18/6/2021

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EFFROYABLE
 
ADJ.
dreadful, frightful, terrifying, horrifying, appalling ...1689 obs. rare

ETYMOLOGY
from French effroyable, from effroi (fright)

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1689  - see EXAMPLE below
 
EXAMPLE
"...It is probable, the whole Chorus not arriving together, the first come, upon the sight of such an effroyable symptom, either being not sufficiently skilful, or not taking time to examine into the case, might mistake it for an Apoplexy, and too precipitantly advise bleeding, to make room in the Vessels for the Blood to move, and consequently to prevent stagnation, and coagulation..."
From: The Art of Curing Diseases by Expectation with Remarks on a Supposed Great Case of Apoplectick Fits
- Gideon Harvey
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WORD OF THE DAY: CENTIMILLIONAIRE

17/6/2021

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CENTIMILLIONAIRE
 
NOUN
a person whose assets are worth at least 100 million dollars ...1881 US

ETYMOLOGY
from centi- (prefixed to the name of a unit of measurement, in later use esp. one in the metric system of weights and measures, to denote a factor of one-hundredth) + millionaire (n.), after multimillionaire

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1881 - see EXAMPLE below
 
EXAMPLE
"...as counsel for the Knights of St. Crispin, for the Seven Sisters of Sorrow, and private clients in many important cases; as biographer of James C. Ayer, the centimillionaire; as the historian of the siege of Charleston and the city of Lowell..."
From: Preliminaries to a History of the Cowley Family
- Edward Cowley
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WORD OF THE DAY: HORNSWOGGLE

16/6/2021

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HORNSWOGGLE

NOUN
1. nonsense, foolery, humbug ...Bk1942 US sl.
2. an act of surpassing or confusing; a confidence trick ...1877 US sl.
3. a trickster, a charlatan ...1908 US sl.
 
VERB
1. to embarrass, to disconcert, to confuse ...1829 colloq., orig. US
2. to get the better of; to cheat or trick, to swindle, to deceive; to hoodwink, to humbug, to bamboozle ...1834 colloq., orig. US


ETYMOLOGY
of unknown origin

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1829 - Hornswoggle, to embarrass irretrievably.
From: Virginia Literary Museum and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, etc.

EXAMPLE
"..."Well, now." said he, "I wish I may be horn swoggled, if ever I thought to live to see the day when I should 'sculp' a Christian man; but there it is, you see; I left h is head as clean as a peeled onion..."
From: The Kentuckian in New York; or, The adventures of three Southerns
- William Alexander Caruthers
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WORD OF THE DAY: SCOTOPHOBIA

15/6/2021

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SCOTOPHOBIA
 
NOUN
1. an intense aversion or hostility towards Scotland, its people, or its culture ..1828
2. an irrational fear or dislike of the dark ...1844

ETYMOLOGY
noun 1. - from Scoto- (forming adjectives and nouns with the sense ‘of or relating to Scotland or its people) + -phobia (forming nouns with the sense ‘fear of ——’, ‘aversion to ——’);
noun 2. - from Scoto- (forming adjectives and nouns with the sense ‘of or relating to darkness) + -phobia (forming nouns with the sense ‘fear of ——’, ‘aversion to ——’)

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1828 - see EXAMPLE below
 
EXAMPLE
"...Now, that the writer has been bit, is obvious enough, even though he had not confessed it. He has been driven to his pen by the influence of a sort of Scotophobia, which rendered seven copious evacuations necessary, in order to avoid more fatal consequences..."
From: Anglicanus Scotched
- Marcus Dods
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WORD OF THE DAY: FENERATITIOUS

14/6/2021

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FENERATITIOUS
 
ADJ.
pertaining or given to usury; relating to interest ...1656 obs.

ETYMOLOGY
from Latin faenerātīcius (relating to interest) , from faenerāre (lend money at interest) + -ous

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1656 - Feneratitious (foeneratitius) taken or given to usury, or pertaining thereto.
From: Glossographia: or, A Dictionary Interpreting All Such Hard Words...as are Now Used in Our Refined English Tongue
- Thomas Blount
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WORD OF THE DAY: OCCIDE

13/6/2021

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OCCIDE
 
VERB
to kill ...a1538 obs. rare

ETYMOLOGY
from occīdere (to cut down, to kill), from ob- + caedere (to strike, to kill, to cut down)

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
a1538 - see EXAMPLE below
 
EXAMPLE
"...But so importunate forsooth was hir request,
That ignorance notwithstanding I began to descriue,
How that in the Historiographie it is playne expressed,
That Graccus by suggestion falsly did contriue
The Romains to rebel with the Senatours to striue,
Chalenging equipolent all things to be deuided,
Through whose discention as Oroke doth discriue,
Much ruine there befell, and many men occided..."
From: The Fall and Euill Successe of Rebellion from Time to Time Wherein is contained Matter, Moste Meete for All Estates to Vewe
- Wilfrid Holme
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WORD OF THE DAY: TIDDLYPUSH

12/6/2021

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TIDDLYPUSH
 
NOUN
1. (also TIDDERLY-PUSH) a word substituted for the name of a person or thing which the speaker has forgotten, does not know, or is unwilling to mention; a thingummy ...1923 colloq.
2. the male genitals ...1934 Irish sl.

INT.
(as TIDDLY PUSH!) a nonsense word for goodbye ...c1920-1940

ETYMOLOGY
of unknown origin

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1923 - see EXAMPLE below
 
EXAMPLE
"...And tidderly push, et patati et patata..."
From: Le Slang: Lexique de L'Anglais Familier et Vulgaire
- Joseph Manchon
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WORD OF THE DAY: LOITEROUS

11/6/2021

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​LOITEROUS
 
ADJ.
inclined to loiter; sluggish ...1566 obs.

ETYMOLOGY
from loiter (vb.) + -ous

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1566 - see EXAMPLE below
 
EXAMPLE
"...I ryse at ease, walke forth at ease, and then a caste at booke,
All secretly, (a ioy of ioyes at it to syt and loke)
For weryed with my bookishe gase, I noynte with supple oyle,
My loytrous limmes and when sir Phebe with brande beginnes to broyle:
I washe my corps in cooly shade, my dyat [...]male and thin,
Of pretie pittaunce, not so muche as stomacke woulde let in..."
From: A Medicinable Morall
- Horace
Translated by Thomas Drant
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WORD OF THE DAY: CLIVOSE

10/6/2021

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​CLIVOSE
 
ADJ.
full of hills, hilly, steep ...1731
 
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin clīvōsus (hilly, steep), from Latin clīvus (slope, hill)

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1731 - CLIVOSE [clivosus, L] full of cliffs, steep and hanging downwards
From: The Universal Etymological English Dictionary
- Nathan Bailey

EXAMPLE
"...Since the streams have cut deeply into the surface, the canon of the mesa resembles greatly the canon of the foot-hills. There are riparian, rupestrine, clivose, and fontinal elements compressed within the space of a few feet..."
From: The Flora of Boulder, Colorado, and Vicinity
- Francis Potter Daniels, 1911
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WORD OF THE DAY: AVENANT

9/6/2021

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​AVENANT
 
ADJ.
1. convenient, suitable, agreeable ...c1300 obs.
2. handsome, comely, graceful; pleasant ...1340 obs.

NOUN
that which suits one; convenience, purpose ...c1400 obs.

ETYMOLOGY
from Old French avenant, present participle of avenir (to arrive, happen, succeed, to suit, befit, become), from Latin advenīre (to come, to arrive, to reach), from ad- (to) + venīre (to come)

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
c1300 - see EXAMPLE below
 
EXAMPLE
"...Anothir folk ther is, stronge men and foule
They buth long, and blak, and lokith as an houle.
They no  haveth camayle, no olifaunt,
No kow, no hors, avenaunt.
On hand they creoputh, at o word,
They n'ul have non othir lord..."
From: Kyng Alisaunder
(A ​long and sophisticated thirteenth century romance poem, written in Middle English, about the life of Alexander the Great)
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WORD OF THE DAY: FAYFULLY

8/6/2021

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FAYFULLY
 
ADVERB
faithfully; loyally ...a1400
​
ETYMOLOGY
from fay (n. religious belief) + -fully

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
a1400 - see EXAMPLE below
 
EXAMPLE
"...They are enbuschede on blonkkes, with baners displayede,
In ȝone bechen wode appon the waye sydes.
Thay hafe the furthe forsette all of þe faire watyre,
That fayfully of force feghte vs byhowys;
For thus vs schappes todaye, schortly to tell,
Whedyre we schone or schewe—schyft as þe lykes..."
From: Morte Arthure, or the Death of Arthur
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WORD OF THE DAY: BLUE MAN

7/6/2021

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BLUE MAN
 
NOUN
a Black man; an African' a 'Bloman' ...a1387 hist.

ETYMOLOGY
an alteration of bloman (obs. n. a Black man), with the substitution of blue (n.) for the first element.

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
a1387 - see EXAMPLE below
 
EXAMPLE
"...Also þe sonne þat tyme brende nouȝt onliche Ethiopia blewe men lond, bote he brende also the lond of Scythia..."
From:  Polychronicon Ranulphi Higden Maonachi Cestrensis; Together with the English translations of John Trevisa and of an unknown writer of the fifteenth century
- Ranulf Higden
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WORD OF THE DAY: PERCEIVERANT

6/6/2021

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PERCEIVERANT

NOUN
a person who perceives something; an observer ...1517 obs. rare

ETYMOLOGY
from perceiver (vb. to perceive; to make out, to discover) + -ant, after perceiverance (n. perception, awareness) and probably also after perseverant (n. † a person who remains or continues in a specified state or condition; later: * a person who perseveres)

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1517 - see EXAMPLE below

EXAMPLE
"...Doctrine, perseueraunce, and exercise
And also therto, is equipolent
Euermore, the perfite practise
For first doctrine, in all goodly wise
The perseuerant trouthe, in his booth of wil
In vnderstandyng, for to knowe good from yll..."
From: The Historie of Graunde Amoure and La Bell Pucel, called the Pastime of Plesure Conteining the Knowledge of the Seue(n) Sciences, (and) the Course of Mans Life in this Worlde
- Stephen Hawes
​
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WORD OF THE DAY: MINATORIAL

5/6/2021

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MINATORIAL

ADJ.
minatory, threatening, menacing ...1873 obs. rare

ETYMOLOGY
from minatory (adj. threatening, menacing) + -al

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1873 - see EXAMPLE below

EXAMPLE
"...Some men seem more foolish than those Indians or heathen who scarify their bodies and torment themselves. It would seem as though men tried to make their troubles and sorrows that are minatorial worse than they are..."
From: The Original Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn
September, 1872 to March, 1873
- Henry Ward Beecher
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WORD OF THE DAY: UNFAIN

4/6/2021

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​UNFAIN

ADJ.
not glad or delighted; displeased, sorry, sorrowful; reluctant; having a feeling of dislike; unfond ...1338 arch. exc. Eng. dial.

ETYMOLOGY
from Old English unfægen (from un- + fægen [fain adj. glad under the circumstances], = Old Norse úfeginn (Norwegian ufegen).

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1338 - see EXAMPLE below

EXAMPLE
"...Whan he had samned his oste of folk fer & nere,
He seged bi þat coste þe kastelle of Tenkere.
Whilom Wiliam Mortayn þerof lord was,
þe Courthose is vnfayn, him þenk it a trespas.
þerfor þe duke him dight, as man of grete value,
Roberd Beleyse with myght, þe sege þei wend remue..."
From: Peter Langtoft's Chronicle As Illustrated and Improv'd by Robert of Brunne (Robert Mannyng), from the Death of Cadwalader to the End of K. Edward the First's Reign
- Translated by Robert Mannyng
​
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WORD OF THE DAY: DULCEAN

3/6/2021

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DULCEAN

ADJ.
sweet, pleasing ...1606 obs. rare

ETYMOLOGY
from dulce (adj. sweet in taste or smell), or from its etymon Latin dulcis (sweet; sweet-smelling) + -an

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1606 - see EXAMPLE below

EXAMPLE
"...Such were the mirth, and pleasant harmony,
The Organ ayre, did gently seeme to make,
With dulcean straynes of heauenly melody,
As once Mercurie whispred by the Lake:
   Whose trembling breath, new descants did deuise,
   Till Iuones Argus, clos'd his hundred eyes..."
From: Dolarnys Primerose. Or, The First Part of the Passionate Hermit
- John Reynolds
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WORD OF THE DAY: GENITRICE

2/6/2021

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GENITRICE

NOUN
a female parent, a mother ...a1500 obs. chiefly Sc. usage

ETYMOLOGY
from Anglo-Norman genitriz, Middle French genitrice (title given to the Virgin Mary [beginning of the 12th cent. in Old French as genetris; also genitris], mother), or its etymon classical Latin genetric-, genetrīx (a female parent, a mother) 

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
a1500 - see EXAMPLE below

EXAMPLE
"...Sancta Anna, genytryce of marye, ffunde preces thy doughtur to praye..To speed oure kyng yn hys yournay..."
From: Religious Lyrics of the XVth Century
Edited by Carleton Fairchild Brown
 ​
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WORD OF THE DAY: VIRICUND

1/6/2021

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​VIRICUND

ADJ.
in a green state ...1599 obs.

ETYMOLOGY
from Latin viri-dis (green, blooming, vigorous), after rubicund

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1599 - see EXAMPLE below

EXAMPLE
"...For the Podagra.
Take hoppes with the stalckes, & roote, ether viricunde, or exsiccated, a good qvantity, as best we can obtayne it, put this in a kettle with halfe wine, & halfe water, boyle the third part from the fyer, & bath over the dampe of the kettle your feete, wheri the payn is, till such time as they begnne to sweate..."
From: The Boock of Physicke: Wherin Throughe commaundement of the most illustrious, & renoumned Duke & Lorde, Lorde Lodewicke, Duke of Wirtenberghe, & of Yeck, Earle of Mompelgart, &c. Most of them selected, and approved remedyes, for all corporall diseases, and sicknesses, which out of manye highe, and common Persons written Physick-boockes, are compacted, and vnited together
- Oswald Gäbelkover
Translated out of Low Dutch by A.M.
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