  people have their faults as surely as the bean has its black eye  a 1624 - Sermons, Bishop Miles Smith; see below: A Sermon vpon the First to the Hebrevves The Eleventh Sermon So the Pomegranate is a very extraordinary fruite, the hard rinde being dryed, is medicinable many wayes; as for the iuice and kernels, they are not onely wholesome, but also delightsome, yet for all that, it is obserued, and the Iewes vse it for a Prouerbe amongst them, that There is no Pomegranate so sound, but it hath some rotten kernels in it, fewer or more: and we also vse to say, Euery Beane hath his blacke: And Plutarch reporteth it to haue beene the speech ofSimonides,* that as euery Larke hath his tuft, so euery man hath his imperfection. Now it is not so in the Word of God; euery part of it is, Homogenous, euery part like it selfe, as being deliuered by one Spirit, and leuelled by one rule. You know what is deliuered by the Prophet; All) the words of the Lord are pure words, as the siluer that is tryed in a fornace of earth, and fined seuen-fold:  From: The Pytchley Hunt: Past and Present By H.O. Nethercote, 1888 P. 262 
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  from Latin aprīcāt- ppl. stem of aprīcāri to bask in the sun, from aprīcus exposed (to the sun)  see below from E-NED   From: The Polyanthea: Or, A Collection of Interesting Fragments in Prose and Verse By Charles Henry Wilson Volume I. 1804 Sir Thomas More P. 149    1641 - The Siege: Or, Love's Convert, A Tragi-Comedy, William Cartwright see Example below  From: The Siege: Or, Love's Convert, A Tragi-Comedy By William Cartwright Act 5. Scene 3    from French badaud gaping fool, idler, from Provencal badar to gape  1653 - The First Book of the Works of Mr. Francis Rabelais, Sir Thomas Urquhart; see Example below  From: The Works of Mr. Francis Rabelais The First Book of Dr. Francis Rabelais Volume I Published for the Navarre Society P. 54    1592 - A Quip for an Upstart Courtier; Robert Greene; see Example below  From: A Quip for an Upstart Courtier, Or A Quaint Dispute between Velvet Breeches and Cloth-Breeches By Robert Greene, 1592    from poly- + Latin loquentem speaking  1656 - Glossographia, or a Dictionary Interpreting such Hard Words..., Thomas Blount; "Polyloquent, that speaketh much"  From: The Chronicle Volume IX. September, 1877-June, 1878 University of Michigan, April 6, 1878 Things Chronicled P. 187    formed after Old French délicier (12–16th c.), trans. to rejoice, refl. to enjoy oneself, feast, medieval Latin dēliciarī to feast, from L. dēlicia, -æ delight, pleasure, charm + -ate  1633 - Partheneia Sacra. Or, the Mysterious and Delicious Garden of the Sacred Parthenes, H.A. (Henry Hawkins); see Example below  From: Partheneia Sacra Or, the Mysterious and Delicious Darden of the Sacred Parthenes By Henry Hawkins, 1633 The II. Symbol. The Rose. The Devise. The Character. P. 18    from number (n.) + -ful  1594 - Huarte's Examination of Men's Wits, Richard Carew; see below from E-NED   From: Temple Bar A London Magazine for Town and Country Readers Te Eighty-Fifth Volume, January to April 1889 The Reliquary, A Monologue P. 271    1785 - A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, Francis Grose; "GENTLEMAN OF THREE OUTS, i.e. one without money, without wit, and without manners"  From: La Belle Assemblée: Or, Bell's Court and Fashionable Magazine Volume XXI - New Series. From January 1 to January 30, 1820 La Belle Assemblée for August 1820 A Tour Round London and its Environs P. 69    from atter (n.) poison, venom + -ling  c 1430 - Babees Book; see below From: The Babees Book Edited by Frederick J. Furnivall Published for the Early English Text Society, 1868 P. 38    from French morosophe (Rabelais), from Greek µωρόσοϕος foolishly wise, from µωρός foolish + σοϕός wise  a 1693 - The Third Book of Francis Rabelais, Sir Thomas Urquhart; see Example below  From: The Works of Francis Rabelais Translated from the French By Sir Thomas Urquhart and Motteux A New Edition Volume II, 1864 Book III. P. 153    from Italian noncurante not caring, careless + -ist  1882 - The Future of Islam, Wilfrid Scawen Blunt; see Example below  From: The Future of Islam By Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, 1882 Chapter I. Census of the Mohammedan World P. 42    from pick- in combining from, mostly the stem or imperative of pick (vb.) + tree  1615 - A Strappado for the Divell, Richard Brathwaite see Example below  From: A Strappado for the Divell By Richard Brathwaite 1878 Edition An Eglogue between Billie and Iockie called the Mushrome. P. 134    from betwattle (vb.) to bewilder (dialect)  From: The Comical History of Don Quixote With the Marriage of Mary the Buxome. Part III. Written by Mr. D'Urfey, 1729 Act II. P. 225    from log (n.) + -ish  1642 - Naaman the Syrian, his Disease and Cure, Daniel Rogers; see below from E-NED   From: The Vocal Magazine: Containing the Most Choice, Favorite, Popular, & Celebrated Songs In the English Language Volume II, 1815 Jerry Grig and the Pig-Fac'd Lady A Pathetic Ballad, as sung by Mr. P. Roberts P. 90    from Latin catillāt- ppl. stem of catillāre to lick a plate, from catillus dish, plate  1623 - The English Dictionarie, or an Interpreter of Hard English Words, Henry Cockeram;
"Catillate, To licke dishes"   1719 - Wit and Mirth : or Pills to Purge Melancholy, being a Collection of . . Ballads and Songs, Thomas D'Urfey; see Example below  From: Songs Compleat Pleasant and Divertive By Mr. Durfey, 1719 Volume III The Old and New Courtier P. 272    from vocabulary + -ize  1873 - (as per E-NED, and The Historical Thesaurus of English), The Egyptian Sketch-Book, Charles Leland; see Example below; earlier Example (1861) also shown below  From: The Egyptian Sketch-Book By Charles G. Leland, 1873 Chapter XVIII P. 233/234  earlier example: From: The Castes of Edinburgh By John Heiton, 1861 Chapter VII. The Female Philosophers P. 117    From: Dialect Notes, A Publication of the American Dialect Society, 1905-1912 Word-List from Nebraska  |
