CLIVOSE ADJ. full of hills, hilly, steep ...1731 ETYMOLOGY from Latin clīvōsus (hilly, steep), from Latin clīvus (slope, hill) FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1731 - CLIVOSE [clivosus, L] full of cliffs, steep and hanging downwards From: The Universal Etymological English Dictionary - Nathan Bailey EXAMPLE "...Since the streams have cut deeply into the surface, the canon of the mesa resembles greatly the canon of the foot-hills. There are riparian, rupestrine, clivose, and fontinal elements compressed within the space of a few feet..." From: The Flora of Boulder, Colorado, and Vicinity - Francis Potter Daniels, 1911
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AVENANT ADJ. 1. convenient, suitable, agreeable ...c1300 obs. 2. handsome, comely, graceful; pleasant ...1340 obs. NOUN that which suits one; convenience, purpose ...c1400 obs. ETYMOLOGY from Old French avenant, present participle of avenir (to arrive, happen, succeed, to suit, befit, become), from Latin advenīre (to come, to arrive, to reach), from ad- (to) + venīre (to come) FIRST DOCUMENTED USE c1300 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...Anothir folk ther is, stronge men and foule They buth long, and blak, and lokith as an houle. They no haveth camayle, no olifaunt, No kow, no hors, avenaunt. On hand they creoputh, at o word, They n'ul have non othir lord..." From: Kyng Alisaunder (A long and sophisticated thirteenth century romance poem, written in Middle English, about the life of Alexander the Great) FAYFULLY ADVERB faithfully; loyally ...a1400 ETYMOLOGY from fay (n. religious belief) + -fully FIRST DOCUMENTED USE a1400 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...They are enbuschede on blonkkes, with baners displayede, In ȝone bechen wode appon the waye sydes. Thay hafe the furthe forsette all of þe faire watyre, That fayfully of force feghte vs byhowys; For thus vs schappes todaye, schortly to tell, Whedyre we schone or schewe—schyft as þe lykes..." From: Morte Arthure, or the Death of Arthur BLUE MAN NOUN a Black man; an African' a 'Bloman' ...a1387 hist. ETYMOLOGY an alteration of bloman (obs. n. a Black man), with the substitution of blue (n.) for the first element. FIRST DOCUMENTED USE a1387 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...Also þe sonne þat tyme brende nouȝt onliche Ethiopia blewe men lond, bote he brende also the lond of Scythia..." From: Polychronicon Ranulphi Higden Maonachi Cestrensis; Together with the English translations of John Trevisa and of an unknown writer of the fifteenth century - Ranulf Higden PERCEIVERANT NOUN a person who perceives something; an observer ...1517 obs. rare ETYMOLOGY from perceiver (vb. to perceive; to make out, to discover) + -ant, after perceiverance (n. perception, awareness) and probably also after perseverant (n. † a person who remains or continues in a specified state or condition; later: * a person who perseveres) FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1517 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...Doctrine, perseueraunce, and exercise And also therto, is equipolent Euermore, the perfite practise For first doctrine, in all goodly wise The perseuerant trouthe, in his booth of wil In vnderstandyng, for to knowe good from yll..." From: The Historie of Graunde Amoure and La Bell Pucel, called the Pastime of Plesure Conteining the Knowledge of the Seue(n) Sciences, (and) the Course of Mans Life in this Worlde - Stephen Hawes MINATORIAL ADJ. minatory, threatening, menacing ...1873 obs. rare ETYMOLOGY from minatory (adj. threatening, menacing) + -al FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1873 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...Some men seem more foolish than those Indians or heathen who scarify their bodies and torment themselves. It would seem as though men tried to make their troubles and sorrows that are minatorial worse than they are..." From: The Original Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn September, 1872 to March, 1873 - Henry Ward Beecher UNFAIN ADJ. not glad or delighted; displeased, sorry, sorrowful; reluctant; having a feeling of dislike; unfond ...1338 arch. exc. Eng. dial. ETYMOLOGY from Old English unfægen (from un- + fægen [fain adj. glad under the circumstances], = Old Norse úfeginn (Norwegian ufegen). FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1338 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...Whan he had samned his oste of folk fer & nere, He seged bi þat coste þe kastelle of Tenkere. Whilom Wiliam Mortayn þerof lord was, þe Courthose is vnfayn, him þenk it a trespas. þerfor þe duke him dight, as man of grete value, Roberd Beleyse with myght, þe sege þei wend remue..." From: Peter Langtoft's Chronicle As Illustrated and Improv'd by Robert of Brunne (Robert Mannyng), from the Death of Cadwalader to the End of K. Edward the First's Reign - Translated by Robert Mannyng DULCEAN ADJ. sweet, pleasing ...1606 obs. rare ETYMOLOGY from dulce (adj. sweet in taste or smell), or from its etymon Latin dulcis (sweet; sweet-smelling) + -an FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1606 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...Such were the mirth, and pleasant harmony, The Organ ayre, did gently seeme to make, With dulcean straynes of heauenly melody, As once Mercurie whispred by the Lake: Whose trembling breath, new descants did deuise, Till Iuones Argus, clos'd his hundred eyes..." From: Dolarnys Primerose. Or, The First Part of the Passionate Hermit - John Reynolds GENITRICE NOUN a female parent, a mother ...a1500 obs. chiefly Sc. usage ETYMOLOGY from Anglo-Norman genitriz, Middle French genitrice (title given to the Virgin Mary [beginning of the 12th cent. in Old French as genetris; also genitris], mother), or its etymon classical Latin genetric-, genetrīx (a female parent, a mother) FIRST DOCUMENTED USE a1500 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...Sancta Anna, genytryce of marye, ffunde preces thy doughtur to praye..To speed oure kyng yn hys yournay..." From: Religious Lyrics of the XVth Century Edited by Carleton Fairchild Brown VIRICUND ADJ. in a green state ...1599 obs. ETYMOLOGY from Latin viri-dis (green, blooming, vigorous), after rubicund FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1599 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...For the Podagra. Take hoppes with the stalckes, & roote, ether viricunde, or exsiccated, a good qvantity, as best we can obtayne it, put this in a kettle with halfe wine, & halfe water, boyle the third part from the fyer, & bath over the dampe of the kettle your feete, wheri the payn is, till such time as they begnne to sweate..." From: The Boock of Physicke: Wherin Throughe commaundement of the most illustrious, & renoumned Duke & Lorde, Lorde Lodewicke, Duke of Wirtenberghe, & of Yeck, Earle of Mompelgart, &c. Most of them selected, and approved remedyes, for all corporall diseases, and sicknesses, which out of manye highe, and common Persons written Physick-boockes, are compacted, and vnited together - Oswald Gäbelkover Translated out of Low Dutch by A.M. |
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