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ETYMOLOGY from Latin opitulārī to bring aid, to assist, from. op-em aid + tul- to bring EXAMPLE From: Restituta: Or, Titles, Extracts, and Characters of Old Books in English Literature, Revived By Sir Egerton Brydges, Vol. IV, 1816 The Soldier's Sorrow and Learninge's Losse
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EXAMPLE From: The Dialect of West Somerset, by Frederic Thomas Elworthy, 1875-86 CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
EXAMPLE From: The Works of Alfred Tennyson Printed 1882 Harold: A Drama, Act V. Scene I. CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
ETYMOLOGY from Latin prōstibulum a prostitute, also a brothel, from prōstāre to stand forth publicly as for sale, from prō, pro- + stāre to stand CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
ETYMOLOGY from ob., abbreviation of objection, used in conjunction with sol. = solution, in old books of divinity EXAMPLE From: Hudibras Written in the Time of the Late Wars. By Samuel Butler, 1765 Part III, Canto 2, The Argument CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
EXAMPLE From: The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia By St Philip Sidney, Knight, 1655 The Third Book CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
ETYMOLOGY from Latin rejectāneus (coined by Cicero to render the Stoic ἀποπροηγµένος), from rejicĕre to reject EXAMPLE From: Forty Sermons upon Several Occasions By Anthony Tuckney, Edited by Jonathan Tuckney, 1676 Sermon XXV. Mat.5.13. Ye are the Salt of the Earth: But if the Salt have lost *his Savour, wherewith shall it be Salted? It is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and troden underfoot of Men. CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
ETYMOLOGY erroneously formed on Latin labascĕre, inceptive formed on labāre to totter CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
EXAMPLE From: Shakespeare's Library A Collection of the Plays, Romances, Novels, Poems and Histories employed by Shakespeare in the Composition of his Works Edited by William Carew Hazlitt, Volume the Third, 1875 The Life of Coriolanus also incorrectly SCRIBATIOUS
CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES ETYMOLOGY from Latin scrībĕre to write + -acious EXAMPLE From: The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872 Volume I, Printed 1883 XLVII. Carlyle to Emerson, Chelsea, London, 1 April, 1840 CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
ETYMOLOGY from Neptune + -ist EXAMPLE From: Pierces Supererogation: Or A New Prayse of The Old Asse By Gabriell Harvey, 1593 CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES Note: 'a fat woman' is in E-ASH, and E-WRI only, 'a mangy or scabby animal' is in E-JOH, E-NAR; see etymology below ETYMOLOGY some connection with French rogne mange From: A Glossary of Obscure Words and Phrases In the Writings of Shakspeare and his Contemporaries By Charles Mackay, 1887 EXAMPLE From: The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare Volume the First, Part II, 1790 The Merry Wives of Windsor CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
ETYMOLOGY from Latin prōspiciens, -entem, pr. pple. of prōspicĕre to look forward EXAMPLE From: The History of Ivstine (Justine) Taken out of the Four and Forty Books of Trogus Pompeius Translated into English by Robert Codrington, 1654 Book 43. CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
ETYMOLOGY from stiria, an icicle + -ous EXAMPLE From: Sir Thomas Browne's Works Edited by Simon Wilkin, Volume the Second, 1835 Enquiries into Vulgar and Common Errors Book II. Chapter I. That Crystal is nothing else but Ice strongly congealed. CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
EXAMPLE From: The Works of John Milton. Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Volume I, 1753 Animadversions Upon the Remonstrants Defence Against Smectymnuus, Preface CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
ETYMOLOGY from night (n.) + piece (n.) EXAMPLE From: The Devil Upon Two Sticks Translated from the Diable Boiteux of M. Le Sage Printed 1762 Chapter XII. The Lovers CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
ETYMOLOGY ? from twitter (vb. to move tremulously, shake, quiver) + light EXAMPLE From: Old English Plays: Being a Selection from the Early Dramatic Writers Volume III, 1814 More Dissemblers Besides Women: A Comedy, Act III, Scene I form of MELCH-HEARTED (dialect)
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