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MEDICUS NOUN a doctor, a physician ...1570 ETYMOLOGY from classical Latin medicus (a physician) FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1570 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...Ask Medicus councel, ere medeen ye make, and honour that man, for necessities sake. Though thousāds hate phisick, because of the cost, yet thousands it helpeth, that else should be lost..." From: A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandry lately Maried vnto a Hundreth Good Poynts of Huswifery: newly corrected and amplified with dyuers proper lessons for Housholders, as by the table at the latter ende, more plainly may appeare - Thomas Tusser
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INGORDIGIOUS ADJ. greedy, avaricious ...1637 obs. rare ETYMOLOGY from Italian ingordigi-a (greediness) from ingordo (greedy) + -ous FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1637 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...And for their conversations, they are exorbitantly luxurious, temulent, inordinately proud, and excessively ingerdigious and exacting; and of such debauchednes of lives and manners, and so brutish and unnaturall, as the very sinnes of Sodome and the old world are revived againe amongst them..." From: The Letany - John Bastwick DESIDERATE ADJ. desired, longed for, wanted; desirable ...1640 obs. NOUN a thing that is desired; something for which a desire or longing is felt ...1640 obs. VERB to desire with a sense of want or regret; to feel a desire or longing for; to feel the want of; to desire, to want, to miss ...1646 ETYMOLOGY (adj. & noun) from Latin dēsīderātus (desired) (verb) from Latin dēsīderāt-, participial stem of dēsīderāre (to miss, long for, desire) FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1640 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...For where we deliver up any thing as a DESIDERATE, so it be a matter of merit, and the reason thereof may seem somewhat obscure, so as, upon good consideration, we may doubt, that we shall not be so easily conceived what we intend...." From: Of the Advancement and Proficiencie of Learning, Or the Partitions of Sciences: IX Bookes - Written in Latin by Francis Bacon Translated by Gilbert Watts VOLLIERE NOUN a large bird cage; an aviary ...1638 obs. rare ETYMOLOGY from French volière (aviary), from voler (to fly) FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1638 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...he has here a pretty Carvan-sraw and Summer houses for his owne delight, wherein are five neat roomes curiously painted in Imagery and imbost with gold; his Gardens are also sweet and prettily contrivd into grotts, mazes, vollieres, and the like, equall to that of Aladeul' at Caramit for his Assassinates; but nasty and deformed if compard with Paradize..." From: Some Yeares Travels into Divers Parts of Asia and Afrique Describing Especially the Two Famous Empires, the Persian, and the Great Mogull - Thomas Herbert ENFANTILLAGE NOUN a childish action or prank; childish behaviour ...1827 ETYMOLOGY from French s'enfantiller (childishness), from enfant (child) FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1827 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...Soult and Oudinot, Duc de Reggio and Duc de Dalmatie, have sent back their invitations, and many both ultra and liberals, fifty peers and all that belong to the army, have agreed they will not go to the house. I think it is an enfantillage, a bêtise, on the part of the Austrian Government, and most natural of the Marshals and their wives not to go to Appony's...." From: Letters of Harriet, Countess Granville, 1810-1845 Edited by Her Son The Hon. F. Leveson Gower (1894) To Lady Carlisle, Paris, 1827 GRAVAMINOUS ADJ. grievous, burdensome, annoying, distressing ...1659 obs. ETYMOLOGY from Latin gravāmin-, gravāmen (a grievance) + -ous FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1659 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...Many creep into the States service, that are both a disgrace to it, a dishonour unto God, and a gravaminous burthen to the ships and men they go amongst. Let me tell the States of England thus much, That the entertaining and countenancing of heretical, erroneous, factious and unpeaceable persons in their ships, has exceedingly hurt, poisoned and infected the silly and ignorant Sailors..." From: Pelagos: Nec inter vivos, nec inter mortuos, neither amongst the living, nor amongst the dead. Or, An improvement of the sea upon the nine nautical verses in the 107 Psalm - Daniel Pell SPAUGHT also SPAUT, SPOWT NOUN a young fellow approaching manhood; a youth, a lad, a stripling ...1598 obs. rare ETYMOLOGY of unknown origin FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1598 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...Came you to day to our house? he denies it: but that other came beeing a spaught of sixeteene yeares old, whome Parmeno brought with him...." From: Terence in English - Terence Translated by Richard Bernard HEFFALUMP NOUN 1. an imaginary creature resembling an elephant; also, an elephant ...1926 colloq. 2. (potentially offensive) a fat or ungainly person ...1993 colloq. ETYMOLOGY apparently from an arbitrary first element + lump (n. a compact mass of no particular shape, often with an implication of excessive size) FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1926 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...And then he had a Clever Idea. He would go up very quietly to the Six Pine Trees now, peep very cautiously into the Trap, and see if there was a Heffalump there. And if there was, he would go back to bed..." From: Winnie the Pooh - Alan Alexander Milne CURTILATE VERB to curtail ...1665 obs. ETYMOLOGY from curtal (n. [anything docked or cut short] & adj. [abridged, curtailed]), apparently after mutilate FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1665 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...to give you more Satisfaction nevertheless therein, and to make this Doctor's Integrity more fully appear, you are to know, that Mr. Jones cannot properly be said to have curtilated the Text; because he doth not ex professo meddle with it here..." From: The Most Notable Antiquity of Great Britain, Vulgarly called Stone-heng, on Salisbury Plain, Restored, To which are added, the Chorea Gigantum, Or, Stone-Heng Restored to the Danes, by Doctor Charleton; and Mr. Webb's Vindication of Stone-heng Restored - Inigo Jones, Architect General to the King LINGIBLE ADJ. meant to be licked ...1661 obs. rare ETYMOLOGY from Latin type *lingibilis, from lingĕre (to lick) FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1661- see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...Others are lingible, as lohochs, syrups, and sublinguale troches: Some masticable, as boles, conditements, conserves, confections, marchpane, marmaleds, electuaries, rotuls, and trageas..." From: Πανζωορυκτολογια, Sive Panzoologicomineralogia Or a Compleat History of Animals and Minerals, Containing the Summe of all Authors, both Ancient and Modern, Galenicall and Chymicall, touching Animals... - Robert Lovell |
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