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      • Reverse Dictionary DISABILITY - DISCOVERY
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      • Reverse Dictionary DO - DOLTISH
      • Reverse Dictionary DOMESTIC - DRAGONFLY
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      • Reverse Dictionary EXACERBATE - EXCELLENTLY
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      • Reverse Dictionary FOOD - FOOD POISONING
      • Reverse Dictionary FOOL - FOOLISHNESS
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      • Reverse Dictionary HONEST - HORROR-STRUCK
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      • Reverse Dictionary IMBECILE - IMPERVIOUS
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      • Reverse Dictionary. LIBEL - LION
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      • Reverse Dictionary MALL - MARMOT
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      • Reverse Dictionary MENTAL - MILDNESS
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      • Reverse Dictionary MONEY - MONEY ORDER
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NICEBICE

29/4/2018

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NIBSOME
a) squeamish, precise
b) like a gentleman, gentlemanly
c) very well; in good health
d) affectedly proper, prissy
 
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NICEBICE
 
NOUN
a dainty, fine, or fashionable girl or woman ...1595 obs. rare
 
ETYMOLOGY
origin obscure;
perhaps a fanciful formation from 'nice' (adj.)
 
FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1595 - see EXAMPLE below
 
EXAMPLE
"...No, by my troth, mistresse nicebice. How fine you can nickname me."
 From: The Lamentable Tragedie of Locrine
By: authorship has been assigned to several dramatists of the era
- George Peele and Robert Greene being the
two most common candidates
 

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NIBSOME
​b) like a gentleman, gentlemanly ...1839 beggars' sl.
 
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HUFF-SNUFF

27/4/2018

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CHIROPONAL
a) involving manual labour
b) skilled in handwriting
c) fighting with the fists
d) pert. to palmistry
 
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HUFF-SNUFF
 
ADJ.
arrogant, hectoring, blustering ...a1693 obs.
 
NOUN
a conceited fellow who gives himself airs and is quick to take offense;
a braggart, a hector, a blustering person ...1583 obs.
 
ETYMOLOGY
from 'huff' (vb.) + 'snuff' in the sense offense, resentment
 
FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1583 - see EXAMPLE below
 
EXAMPLE
"...Linckt was in wedlock a loftye Thrasonical huf snuffe:
In gate al on typstau's stalcking in phisnomye daring."
From: Thee First Foure Bookes of Virgil his Æneis
Translated by: Richard Stanyhurst, 1583

 
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CHIROPONAL
​a) involving manual labour ...1651 obs.

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EMINOUSLY

25/4/2018

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TIDDLYWINKY
a) tipsy, fuddled by drink
b) flighty, giddy
c) tiny, insignificant
d) satisfactory, first-class, excellent
 
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EMINOUSLY
 
ADVERB
remotely, distantly ...1657 obs. rare
 
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin eminus at a distance + -ous + -ly
 
FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1657 - see EXAMPLE below
 
EXAMPLE
"...which rolling up and down the fields,
eminously represents a running hare..."
From: A Medicinal Dispensatory: Containing the Whole Body of Physick
Composed by the Illustrious Renodæus,
Chief Physician to the Monarch of France,
and now Englished and Revised,
By: Richard Tomlinson of London, Apothecary, 1657
 
 
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TIDDLYWINKY
c) tiny, insignificant ...1901 Eng. dial.
 
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SQUIRK

25/4/2018

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A PAD IN THE STRAW
a) something amiss or wrong; a danger concealed
b) a needle in a haystack, something impossible or difficult to find
c) much ado about nothing, a fuss over something trivial.
d) a diamond in the rough
 
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SQUIRK
 
NOUN
1. a half-suppressed laugh; a sniggering ...1882
2. a sharp squeaking sound ...1902
 
ETYMOLOGY
imitative
 
FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1882 - see EXAMPLE below
 
EXAMPLE
"...which expressed itself in subdued whispers, varied by little gurgles and "squirks" of laughter..."
 From: Vice Versa
By: F. Anstey, 1882

 
Daily Word Quiz Answer
 
A PAD IN THE STRAW
a) something amiss or wrong; a danger concealed ...1530 obs.
 
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KILL-POT

23/4/2018

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FLAVERS
a) breeches; trousers
b) the fingernails
c) dried flowers
d) drops from the tongue of a dog
 
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Today's Featured Word
KILL-POT
 
NOUN
one who drinks to excess, a hard drinker, a toper ...1616
 
ETYMOLOGY
from kill (vb.) + pot
 
FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1616 - see EXAMPLE below
 
EXAMPLE
"...This Carol plays, and has been in his days
A chirping boy, and a kill-pot:
Kit Cobler it is, I'm a father of his,
And he dwells in a lane called Fill-pot."
 From: The Masque of Christmas
By: Ben Jonson, 1616
 

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FLAVERS
​d) drops from the tongue of a dog ...19th-century Eng. dial.


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REMORDENCY

22/4/2018

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DWEEDLE
a) to defeat comprehensively
b) to leave quickly, to run off
c) to cajole, to wheedle
d) to reject, to snub
 
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REMORDENCY
 
NOUN
compunction, remorse ...1717 obs. rare
 
ETYMOLOGY
from pres. pple. of Latin remordere to vex, to disturb
from re- + mordere to bite, sting, attack, etc.
 
FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1717 - see EXAMPLE below
 
EXAMPLE
"...that remordency of Conscience, that extremity of grief,
they feel within themselves."
From: Eighteen Sermons on Practical Subjects
By: John Killingbeck, 1717
 

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DWEEDLE
c) to cajole, to wheedle ...1688 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
 
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CLITTER

20/4/2018

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MEAZY
a) excellent, first-rate
b) giddy, empty-headed
c) meddlesome, interfering
d) lacking energy, ailing
 
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Today's Featured Word
CLITTER
 
VERB
1. to talk excessively, to chatter ...a1528 obs.
2. to make a thin vibratory rattle; to cause to vibrate and rattle lightly
...1530
3. to emit the sound of a grasshopper or cicada ...1844
 
ETYMOLOGY
a parallel form of clatter, expressing a more attenuated
action of the same kind
 
FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
a1528 - see EXAMPLE below
 
EXAMPLE
"...He prates and he patters,
He clytters and he clatters,
He medles and he smatters..."
 From: Colyn Cloute
By: John Skelton, a1528
 

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MEAZY
​b) giddy, empty-headed ...1854 Eng. dial.

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PARASCEUASTIC

19/4/2018

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DESIDIOUS
a) spiteful, malevolent, malicious, cruel
b) idle, lazy, slothful, negligent
c) destructive, prone to destroy
d) excellent; first-rate
 
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Today's Featured Word
PARASCEUASTIC
 
ADJ.
preparatory, preliminary ...1672 obs. rare
 
ETYMOLOGY
from Greek προκαταρκτικός paraskeuastikos, preparatory
 
FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1672 - see EXAMPLE below
 
EXAMPLE
"...touching the Latine and Greek and those other Learned Languages ... they are the Parasceuastick part of Learning."
 From: Hieragonisticon, Or, Corah's Doom
By: D.T., 1672
 

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DESIDIOUS
​b) idle, lazy, slothful, negligent ...a1540 obs.
 
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ORNATIVE

18/4/2018

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WAPPERED
a) fatigued, wearied, restless
b) crooked, askew, lopsided
c) imprisoned
d) informed, cognizant
 
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ORNATIVE
 
ADJ.
tending or serving to adorn, decorative, ornamental ...1660 obs. rare
 
ETYMOLOGY
from ppl. stem of Latin ornare to adorn
 
FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1660 - see EXAMPLE below
 
EXAMPLE
"...as an ornative and exemplary reason, according to which the
Maker of the Universe caused all things ..."
 From: The History of Philosophy
By: Thomas Stanley, 1660
 

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WAPPERED
​a) fatigued, wearied, restless ...1868 Eng. dial.
 
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DEFAMOUS

16/4/2018

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LET THE MULES OUT
a) to reveal the facts after withholding them for some time
b) to celebrate wildly
c) to make an embarrassing mistake
d) to regard the course of events with unconcern
 
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 Today's Featured Word
DEFAMOUS
 
ADJ.
1. infamous, disgraceful, dishonourable ...1426 obs.
2. of speech or writing: defamatory, slanderous, calumnious ...1557 obs.
 
ETYMOLOGY
from Anglo-French deffamous, Old French type deffameux
from diffame defame
 
FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1426 - see EXAMPLE below
 
EXAMPLE
"...ther is no sinne so fowl, so defamowse, that is put ther inne..."
From: The Pilgrimage of the Lyfe of the Manhode
Translated by: John Lydgate, 1426

 
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LET THE MULES OUT
c) to make an embarrassing mistake ...1954 Amer. dial.


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ALTERATE

16/4/2018

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BLICKEN
a) to expel snot from the nose
b) to bribe, to give or take bribes
c) to sulk, to mope, to be sullen
d) to shine
 
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 Today's Featured Word
ALTERATE
 
ADJ.
altered, changed ...c1450 obs.
 
VERB
to alter, to change ...c1475 obs.
 
ETYMOLOGY
from late Latin alteratus
pa. pple. of alterare to alter
 
FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
c1450 - see EXAMPLE below
 
EXAMPLE
"...Under smiling she was dissimulate,
Provocative with blinkes amorous,
And sodainly chaunged and alterate..."
 From: The Testament of Cresseid
By: Robert Henryson, c1450

 
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BLICKEN
​d) to shine ...19C Eng. dial.

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VICINATE

12/4/2018

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SUBITANEOUS
a) exalted, excited
b) inferior, subordinate to
c) sudden, hasty, unexpected
d) of the voice: low, uttered in an undertone
 
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VICINATE
 
VERB
to lie near to, to be next to, to adjoin ...1638 obs. rare
 
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin vicinat- ppl. stem of vicinari
from vicinus neighbouring, near
 
FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1638 - see EXAMPLE below
 
EXAMPLE
"...seated so advantagiously for traffique with all the world,
both the Indies possible to be awed by her; and vicinating
those golden countries of Mozambiq'...
From: Some Yeares Travels Into Divers Parts of Asia and Afrique
By: Sir Thomas Herbert, 1638

 
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SUBITANEOUS
​c) sudden, hasty, unexpected ...1651 rare
 

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BRANLING

11/4/2018

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PEG-PUFF
a) a young woman with the manners of an old one
b) a thick, muscular leg
c) a pregnant horse
d) a small, furry dog
 
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Today's Featured Word
BRANLING
 
ADJ.
wavering, vacillating, irresolute ...c1645 obs.
 
NOUN
a wavering; an instance of irresolution or vacillation ...1646 obs. rare
 
ETYMOLOGY
from branle (vb.) to agitate, toss about, bandy + -ing
 
FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
c1645 - see EXAMPLE below
 
EXAMPLE
"...Whosoever was found pendulous, or branling in his Religion..."
From: Epistolae Ho-Elianae: Familiar Letters, Domestick and Foreign
By: James Howell, c1645
 

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PEG-PUFF
​a) a young woman with the manners of an old one ...1824 Sc.
 
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TRABOCCANT

10/4/2018

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MALAPERT
a) a presumptuous, impudent or saucy person
b) insincere or exaggerated talk intended to flatter or deceive
c) an evil speaker, a slanderer
d) a caterpillar that devours cabbages
 
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TRABOCCANT
 
ADJ.
superabundant; excessive, superfluous ...1651 obs. rare
 
ETYMOLOGY
from Italian traboccante
pres. pple. of traboccare to overflow, superabound
 
FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1651 - see EXAMPLE below
 
EXAMPLE
"...that the power of one might not so out-poize and be trabocant
that the rest should be in danger to be blown up."
From: A Survay of the Signorie of Venice
By: James Howell, 1651

 
Daily Word Quiz Answer
 
MALAPERT
​a) a presumptuous, impudent, or saucy person ...1622 obs. exc. arch.
 
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LINGE

9/4/2018

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DASIBERD
a) insincere compliments; flattery
b) a stupid fellow, a fool
c) spirit, enthusiasm
d) an old lean cow or horse
 
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LINGE
 
also: LINDGE, LINCH, LINSE
 
ADJ.
pliable, as new leather ...Bk1902 Eng. dial.
 
VERB
1. to beat severely, to thrash, to flog ...1600 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
2. to lounge...1892 Eng. dial.
3. to work so violently as to cause exhaustion ...Bk1902 Eng. dial.
4. to lunge ...Bk1902 Northern Ireland
5. to stick out the tongue ...Bk1902 Eng. dial.
 
ETYMOLOGY
of obscure origin
 
FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1600 - see EXAMPLE below
 
EXAMPLE
"...Met he with a soldior out of his ranke and file? If he were a Roman,
up he went and he was well lindged and swaddled with
vine-wands by the centurion."
 From: Livy's Romane Historie
Translated By: Philemon Holland, 1600
 
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DASIBERD
​b) a stupid fellow, a fool ...c1400 obs
 

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FORTUNATION

8/4/2018

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RUSH THE CAN
a) to drink freely at a bar
b) to make a hasty departure
c) to assault violently 
d) to urinate
 
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FORTUNATION
 
NOUN
the act of making fortunate; the being favoured by fortune; luckiness
...c1470 obs.
 
ETYMOLOGY
from fortunate
 
FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
c1470 - see EXAMPLE below
 
EXAMPLE
"...He was full glad and made greate exultacion,
Reioysed highly of his fortunacion..."
 From: The Chronice of John Harding
By: John Harding, c1470
 
Daily Word Quiz Answer
 
RUSH THE CAN
​a) to drink freely at a bar ...1919 sl.

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PROPINQUANT

5/4/2018

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LIBENTIOUSLY
a) with great speed, quickly
b) extremely, completely
c) foolishly, like an idiot
d) willingly
 
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PROPINQUANT
 
ADJ.
near, neighbouring, adjacent ...1633 rare
 
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin propinquantem,
pres. pple. of propinquare to bring near, approach
 
FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1633 - see EXAMPLE below
 
EXAMPLE
"...That cannot be called closely propinquant, nearly future,
which is actually present, yea, which hath been before."
 From: An Exposition Upon the Second Epistle General of St. Peter
By: Thomas Adams, 1633

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LIBENTIOUSLY
d) willingly ...1606 obs. rare


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HEREDITARIOUS

4/4/2018

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KUMBIX
a) an illness, a complaint
b) a miser, a niggard
c) an old, dilapidated house
d) the head
 
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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

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Daily Word Quiz Answer
 
KUMBIX
​b) a miser, a niggard ...1857 obs.

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MEDIOCRITURE

3/4/2018

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SPAGGERS
a) an unpleasant, stupid person
b) a curl of wax on a burning candle
c) spaghetti
d) money
 
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MEDIOCRITURE
 
NOUN
moderation; moderateness of quantity, amount, degree ...1574 obs.
 
ETYMOLOGY
irregular from Latin mediocris mediocre + -ture
 
FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1574 - see EXAMPLE below
 
EXAMPLE
"... all the cause of prosperous health vnto temperate moderature of meate and drinke, and an expedient Mediocriture of seasonable exercise."
From: Direction for the Health of Magistrates and Students
By: Guglielmo Gratarolo
Translated By: Thomas Newton, 1574
 
Daily Word Quiz Answer
 
SPAGGERS
​c) spaghetti ...1960 sl.
 
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INASPERATE

2/4/2018

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AMPLEX
a) to cut off, to amputate
b) to wash, to cleanse
c) to embrace, to clasp
d) to heed, to care for
 
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Today's Featured Word
INASPERATE
 
VERB
1. to provoke to cruelty or bitterness; to exasperate, to embitter
...1599 obs. rare
2. to exacerbate suffering ...a1639 obs. rare
 
ETYMOLOGY
from in- + Latin asperare to make rough or fierce,
after exasperate
 
FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1599 - see EXAMPLE below
 
EXAMPLE
"...As on the other side their doubt of farther inasperating
the Turk in his Crueltie against them..."
From: Europae Speculum
Or, A View or Survey of the State of Religion
in the Western Parts of the World
By: Edwin Sandys, 1599
 
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AMPLEX
c) to embrace, to clasp ...1543 obs.

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