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ETYMOLOGY Nup of unknown origin + son EXAMPLE From: The Works of Ben Jonson, Edited by Peter Whalley, 1756 Every Man in His Humour Act IV. Scene VI.
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ETYMOLOGY from Greek ἀβροδίαιτς living delicately + -ical From: In Memoriam, William Harvey Wells: Sketches of His Life and Character, 1887 Dictionaries CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
EXAMPLE From: The Dramatick Works of Beaumont and Fletcher. Vol. IX, 1778 Wit at Several Weapons, A Comedy, Act I CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
ETYMOLOGY from ex- prefix + Latin cerebrum brain + -ose EXAMPLE From: The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science, and Art Volume LXXXVII, 1899 John Douglas Cook, Philip Harwood, Frank Harris, Walter Herries Pollock, Harold Hodge CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
Pronunciation of LOGOLATRY ETYMOLOGY from Greek λόγος word + -latry EXAMPLE From: The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Edited by Henry Nelson Coleridge, 1839, Volume IV Notes on Whitaker's Origin of Arianism Disclosed. 1810. Chapter I. CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
ETYMOLOGY from philo- + Greek ϕιλόκαλος, from καλός (kalos) beautiful EXAMPLE From: Rab and His Friends and Other Papers By John Brown, 1884 The Black Dwarf's Bones CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
ETYMOLOGY Norwegian dialect flog (Old Norse id.), flight + drift, busyness, diligence. The -a- may represent a reduced form of Norwegian og, and. CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
EXAMPLE From: Lacy's Acting Edition of Plays, Dramas, Farces, Extravaganzas, Etc., Etc. Volume 93, 1871 Robert Macaire, Or, The Roadside Inn Turned Inside Out. By Henry J. Byron, Scene II CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
Pronunciation of QUOMODOCUNQUIZE ETYMOLOGY from Latin quomodocunque in whatever way (with allusion to Horace Ep. i. i. 66) + -ize EXAMPLE From: The Works of Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty, Knight. Reprinted From the Original Editions, 1834 The Discovery of a Most Exquisite Jewel, 1652 CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES EXAMPLE From: Autobiography of a Publican A Tale for the Times, Founded on Fact Anonymous, 1870 CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES ETYMOLOGY irregular formed on Latin minuĕre to lessen + -ate EXAMPLE From: A Medicinal Dispensatory: Containing the Whole Body of Physick: Composed By The Illustrious Renodaeus, Englished and Revised by Richard Tomlinson, of London, Apothecary, 1657 The Apothecaries Shop Part I. Sect II. Of Liquid Antidotes Chap. I. The Confection of Alkermes also PRAESTIGIATORY
CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES ETYMOLOGY from Latin præstigiātor agent-noun from præstigiāre and -ory EXAMPLE From: The Works of the Learned Isaac Barrow, Published by The Reverend Dr. Tillotson, Dean of Canterbury, 1683 Volume II CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
EXAMPLE From: The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, (Price Twopence) No. 17, Saturday, October 22, 1842, Vol. II, 1842 UPDATED ON NEW SITE: RAUCID CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
Pronunciation of RAUCID ETYMOLOGY from Latin raucus hoarse + -id EXAMPLE From: The Englishman's Magazine From April to August, 1831, Vol. I Edited by E. Moxon To The Shade of Elliston CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES ETYMOLOGY from Latin ūnus one + asinus ass, after unanimous EXAMPLE From: An Examen of Mr. T. Hobbs his Dialogus Physicus Robert Boyle, 1682 The Preface also, pa. ppl. HONEST
CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES ETYMOLOGY from Old French honiss-, extended stem of honir (modern French honnir), from Old High German hônen (modern German höhnen) to scoff at, scorn EXAMPLE From: Piers the Plowman and Richard the Redeless, William Langland Edited by The Rev. Walter W. Skeat, 1886 Notes to Piers the Plowman CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES ETYMOLOGY from medieval Latin ni(c)hilātus, pa. pple. of nihilāre, from nihil nothing EXAMPLE From: Wills and Inventories from the Registry at Durham, Part II, 1860 Testamentum Henrici Comitis De Westmerland, Aug. 18, 1563 UPDATED ON NEW SITE: PEBBLE-BEACHED From: A Pink 'Un and a Pelican. Arthur M. Binstead, and Ernest Wells, 1898 Chapter XII |
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