1607 - The Tragedy of Coriolanus, William Shakespeare; see Example below From: The Works of William Shakespeare,
Containing His Plays and Poems: To which is Added a Glossary, Volume V, 1797 Coriolanus, Act I Scene IV P. 103
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from French insolite (16th c.), from Latin insolitus unusual, from in- + solitus accustomed, from solēre to be wont 1490 - The Boke yf Eneydos, William Caxton; see Example below From: Caxton's Eneydos, 1490
Edited by W.T. Culley, and F.J. Furnivall Published for the Early English Text Society, 1890 Ch. IV. P. 20 apparently a fanciful alteration by Scott of halokit (halok, a light, thoughtless girl or young woman); perhaps with some notion of hell-cat 1815 - Guy Mannering ; Or The Astrologer, Sir Walter Scott; see Example below From: Guy Mannering;
Or, The Astrologer By Sir Walter Scott Volume II, 1821 Chapter X. P. 116 from much (adj.) + -ity 1621 - Diatribæ on the First Part of the Late History of Tithes (by J. Selden), Bp. Richard Montagu; see below from E-NED From: The Old Dominion:
A Monthly Magazine of Literature, Science and Art, Volume VI, 1872 All's Well That Ends Well, Chapter III P. 323 from nash impertinence (dialect) + gab (n.) 1816 - Old Mortality, Sir Walter Scott; see Example below From: Old Mortality
By Sir Walter Scott Bibliophile Edition, 1893 Chapter VIII P. 111 as if from Greek γλωσσοµάχος (from γλῶσσα (glosso) tongue + -µάχος (machos) fighting) + -ic + -al 1597 - The Trimming of Thomas Nashe, Gabriel Harvey; see Example below From: The Works of Gabriel Harvey
In Three Volumes Edited by the Rev. Alexander B. Grosart Volume III, 1597 The Trimming of Thomas Nashe, Gentleman. To the polypragmaticall, parasitupocriticall, and pantophainoudendeconticall Puppie Thomas Nashe, Richard Leichfield wisheth the continuance of that he hath: that is, that he want not the want of health, wealth, and libertie. also MALAPART, MALEPARTE, MALAPERTE, MALEAPERT, MALEPART, MALEPEIRT, MALEPERT, MALEPERTE, MALIPART, MALIPERT, MALLAPARTE, MALLAPERT, MALLIPART, MALLY PART, MALOPERTE CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES Pronunciation of MALAPERT from E-NED: from Old French malapert, used by E. Deschamps as the contrary of appert = espert clever, able (:—Latin expertus expert adj.). Here mal has (as in maladroit, malcontent) the effect of reversing a favourable signification; but the English sense of the compound points to its having been apprehended as if from mal (in the sense ‘improperly’) + apert bold, outspoken, insolent c 1420 - The Assembly of Gods: Or The Accord of Reason and Sensuality in the Fear of Death, John Lydgate; see below From: English Studies The Assembly of Gods: Or The Accord of Reason and Sensuality in the Fear of Death, By John Lydgate Edited by Oscar Lovell Triggs, 1895 The Assembly of Gods By Don John Lydgate P. 16 From: The Comedies of Terence
Translated into Familiar Blank Verse by George Colman, 1810 The Self-Tormentor, Scene VI P. 195 from bi- + -loquist a 1810 - Carwin the Biloquist (Title), Charles Brockden Brown; see Example below From: Carwin, the Biloquist,
And Other American Tales and Pieces By Charles Brockden Brown Volume I, 1822 P. 1 From: Shropshire Word-book:
A Glossary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Etc., Used in the County By Georgina F. Jackson, 1879 from like (vb.) + -ful c 1305 - Land of Cokaygne; see below From: Early English Poems and Lives of Saints Edited by Frederick J. Furnivall, Published for the Philological Society, 1862 XXXV. The Land of Cokaygne P. 158 From: The Monthly Review,
Or, Literary Journal, From July to December, 1774 By Ralph Griffiths, G.E. Griffiths, Volume LI Warton's History of English Poetry, Vol. I P. 50 from Latin gravisonus (from gravis heavy + sonus sound) + -ous 1727 - An universal etymological English Dictionary, Nathan Bailey;
"GRAVISONOUS sounding with a grave air" Adjective: from. Latin inquīsītus, pa. pple. of inquīrĕre to inquire Verb: from Latin inquīsīt-, ppl. stem of inquīrĕre to inquire perhaps back-formation from inquisition 1639 - Paolo Servita's (P. Sarpi) History of the Inquisition, Robert Gentilis; see below from E-NED From: The Life of the Honourable Sir Dudley North, Knt.
By Roger North, 1744 P. 191 From: The Tudor Shakespeare
Love's Labour's Lost Edited by James F. Royster, 1912 Act V, Sc. II from quail (n.) + pipe ? a 1400 - The Churl and the Bird, John Lydgate; see below from E-NED From: Clarissa:
Or, The History of a Young Lady. By Samuel Richardson, Volume VI, 1748 Letter LIV. Mr. Lovelace, To John Belford, Friday night, July 21 P. 213 from Latin similis or simile 1605 - Du Bartas His Divine Weekes and Workes, Josuah Sylvester; see Example below From: The Complete Works of Joshuah Sylvester
Edited by the Rev. Alexander B. Grosart Volume I, 1880 The Captains The Fourth Part of the Third Day of the II. Week. P. 202 also GRAYKYNG, GREIKING, GREYKING, GRIGING, GRIKING, GRIKINGE, GRYGYNGE, GRYKING CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES Corresponds to Middle Dutch grakinge, griekinge of the same meaning; apparently a derivative, with -k-suffix, from the root of Old Norse gryacuja to dawn a 1300 - An Early English Psalter; see below From: The Publications of the Surtees Society Anglo-Saxon and Early English Psalter Volume II 1847 P. 45 From: The Poetical Works of Gavin Douglas,
Bishop of Dunkeld, With Memoir, Notes, and Glossary, By John Small, F.S.A. Scot, 1874 Book IV, The Fowrt Buik of Eneados (How queen Dido beheld Aeneas depart, And what she said with harms at her heart) from Latin exoptāre, from ex- + optāre to wish 1548 - The Pleasaunt Poesye of Princelye Practise, Sir William Forrest; see Example below From: England in the Reign of King Henry the Eighth
Part I. Starkey's Life and Letters With an Appendix, giving an Extract from Sir William Forrest's Pleasaunt Poesye of Princelie Practise, 1548 Edited by Sydney J. Herrtage, 1878 P. xcix. ? from pinch (vb.) + commons, provisions provided for a community or company in common 1822 - The Pirate, Sir Walter Scott; see Example below From: The Pirate
By Sir Walter Scott Vol, I, 1822 P. 124 1767 - Lexiphanes; A Dialogue Imitated from Lucian, Archibald Campbell; see Example below From: Lexiphanes,
A Dialogue. Imitated from Lucian and Suited to the Present Times By Archibald Campbell The Fourth Edition, 1774 P. 29 |
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