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ETYMOLOGY from Latin script-, ppl. stem of scrībĕre to write + -itious EXAMPLE From: Rationale of Judicial Evidence Specially Applied to English Practice From the Manuscripts of Jeremy Bentham, Vol, I, 1827 Chap. IV. Of the Several Species or Modifications of Evidence. P. 55
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ETYMOLOGY from Latin mināci-, minax (from minārī to threaten) + -ous. Cf. Italian minaccioso EXAMPLE From: An Explanation of the Grand Mystery of Godliness By H. More, 1660 Book III. The Pagans Evasion of Polytheism Chap. III. His Manifestations in the External World. P. 63 Also MUMBLE-FUBBLES
CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES EXAMPLE From: Pap with a Hatchet: Being a Reply to Martin Mar-prelate By John Lyly, 1844 also ILL-GABBIT
CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES EXAMPLE From: The Men of the Moss-Hags By Samuel Rutherford Crockett, 1895 Chapter XXIII. Birsay the Cobbler. P. 151 CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
ETYMOLOGY from Latin fallax: from fallĕre to deceive and -ity EXAMPLE From: The Berkeley Manuscripts The Lives of the Berkeleys Lords of the Honour, Castle and Manor of Berkeley In the County of Gloucester, From 1066 to 1618 Edited by Sir John Maclean, Vol. II, 1883 Life of Thomas the Fifth. P. 226 also ELEGAZAM
CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES EXAMPLE From: Dialect Notes Publication of The American Dialect Society, Vol. IV, 1912-1917 Word-List From Nebraska (III) CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
ETYMOLOGY from Latin obēdīre to obey EXAMPLE From: The Works of the Right Reverend Father in God Joseph Hall Edited by Josiah Pratt, Vol. II, 1808 Contemplations Christ Among the Gergesenes. Or Legion and the Gadarene Herd. P. 279 CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
ETYMOLOGY from Goemagot, the greatest of the British giants, according to Geoffrey of Monmouth; altered after the biblical names Gog and Magog EXAMPLE From: The Story of England By Robert Manning of Brunne, A.D. 1338 Edited from MSS. at Lambeth Palace and the Inner Temple By Frederick J. Furnivall, part I, 1887 The British Giants Attack the Trojans. P. 63 CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
ETYMOLOGY from Old French charitatif, -ive, caritatif, -ive, medieval Latin cāritātīvus charitable EXAMPLE From: Knowledge and Practice: Or A Plain Discourse of the Chief Things Necessary to be Known, Believ'd, and Practised in Order to Salvation. The Third Edition revised and corrected, By Samuel Cradock, 1673 Chap. XVI. Of Christian and Brotherly Reproof. P. 49 also WEZZLE-BRAINED
CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES EXAMPLE From: Ripple and Flood, A Novel By James Prior, 1897 Chapter XIII, Ivy's Gratitude also PUTHERY
CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES ETYMOLOGY from pother (n.) + -y EXAMPLE From: A new Theory of the Earth From Its Original, to the Consummation of all Things By William Whiston, 1708 Chapter III, Solutions, P. 356 also CIPRIAN
CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES ETYMOLOGY from Latin Cyprius of Cyprus + -an. In French cyprien EXAMPLE From: The Empire of the Czar; Or, Observations on the Social, Political, and Religious State and Prospects of Russia By The Marquis de Custine Translated from the French Vol. II, 1843. Chapter XXIX. P. 84 CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
ETYMOLOGY from Latin Thrason-, Thraso Thraso, braggart soldier in the comedy Eunuchus by Terence EXAMPLE From: Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages Vol. VI. Printed for the Percy Society, 1842 Ixions Wheele P. 48 CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
ETYMOLOGY from Greek ϕιλο-, ϕιλ-, combining form from root of ϕιλεῖν to love, ϕίλ-ος dear, friend + θήρ wild beast EXAMPLE From: The Harvard Advocate Vol. XI. Cambridge, Mass., February 28, 1871. No. I Editorial CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
ETYMOLOGY from under- ; ? possibly for dunderhead EXAMPLE From: Religio Medici The Eighth Edition Corrected and Amended By Thomas Browne, 1682 CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
EXAMPLE From: Nursery Rhymes, Tale, and Jingles The Camden Edition Compiled by Mrs. Valentine Fifteenth Class. Relics. P. 392 CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
EXAMPLE From: The Tragedie of King Richard the Second By William Shakespeare Facsimile of 1597 Edition CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
EXAMPLE From: Humour, Wit and Satire of the Seventeenth Century Edited by John Ashton, 1883 Poor Robin's Prophesie Or, The Merry Conceited Fortune-Teller. P. 345 CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
ETYMOLOGY adjective: from Latin collacrimātus, pa. pple. of collacrimāre verb: from Latin collacrimāt- ppl. stem of collacrimāre, fron col- together + lacrimāre to shed tears, weep, from lacrima (in med. spelling lachryma) tear EXAMPLE From: A Medicinal Dispensatory Containing the Whole Body of Physick Composed by the Illustrious Renodaeus, Englished and Revised by Richard Tomlinson, 1657 Three Books of Medicinal Materials. The First Book: Of Plants: Section 4. Of Indigenous Calefactives. P. 342 |
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