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EXAMPLE From: Past and Present By Thomas Carlyle, 1843 Book III. The Modern Worker. Chapter VIII. Unworking Aristocracy. P. 152
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ETYMOLOGY from Old French (queint-) cointerelle feminine of cointerel beau, fop, from cointe quaint (adj.) EXAMPLE From: The Pilgrimage of the Lyf of the Manhode From the French of Guillaume de Deguileville Edited by William Aldis Wright, 1869 P. 160 CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
EXAMPLE From: The Complete Works of John Davies of Hereford (15..-1618) Edited by the Rev. Alexander B. Grosart, Vol. II, 1878 The Scourge of Folly. P. 10 CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
Pronunciation of NEGATORY ETYMOLOGY from French négatoire or late Latin negātōrius negative EXAMPLE From: The Bookmart, Volume 4, June, 1886 to May, 1887 Edited by Richard Halkett, 1887 Abraham Hayward CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
ETYMOLOGY from lick (vb.) + spittle EXAMPLE From: Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine Volume XVIII, July-December, 1825 Noctes Ambrosianae, No. XXI, Sept. 1825 Note: E-CEN definition: happening, to be met with, or to be looked for in this world
E-FUN definition: happening in this present world CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES ETYMOLOGY from Latin mundus, world + -cidious from -cida, killer EXAMPLE From: The Simple Cobler of Aggawam in America By Rev. Nathaniel Ward, Edited by David Pulsifer, 1843 P. 21 CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
ETYMOLOGY from E-NED: this adjective, which is presupposed in the derivative cullibility (known 1728), would normally be derived from a verb cull; but none such is recorded; cf. however cull n., cully v. Gullible,gullibility, from gull vb., appear much later than cullibility EXAMPLE From: Sketches and Essays By William Hazlitt, 1839 On the Spirit of Partanship. P. 324 DEFINITIONS CONTINUED
NOUNS 2. a rude, quarrelsome person; a playful or frolicsome child (dialect) 3. a lie; a petty deception or theft (dialect) VERBS 1. to disagree, to quarrel, to dispute; to wrangle; to scold, to find fault with (chiefly dialect) 2. to worry about trifles; to fret, to grumble (dialect) 3. to lie; to shuffle or cheat in joke; to boast unduly (dialect) 4. to sport, to frolic (dialect) 5. to praise (dialect) 6. to make a harsh or strident noise; to creak, as a cart (obsolete) CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES ETYMOLOGY ? onomatopœic EXAMPLE From: Belgravia An Illustrated London Magazine Vol. LIII. March to June 1884 'The Wearing of the Green' . By Basil. Chapter XXIII. A Sunday-School Class. P. 500 CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
ETYMOLOGY from sleuth (n. sloth, laziness); in later use only Scottish EXAMPLE From: Certain Tractates Together with the Book of Four Score Three Questions And a Translation of Vincentius Lirinensis by Ninian Winzet, Edited by James King Hewison, 1888 The First Tractate To the Quenes Maiestie, Pastouris, And Nobilitie CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
ETYMOLOGY from French badin, -ine, derivative of Pr. badar:—late Latin badāre to gape. Badin was in earlier usage ‘silly,’ as if ‘gaping.’ EXAMPLE From: A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, James Murray, 1888-1933 CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
ETYMOLOGY ? from fisticuff EXAMPLE From: The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles By Captaine John Smith, Vol. II From the London edition of 1629. Printed 1819 The Fourth Booke 1619. The government surrendered to Sir George Yearly. P. 38 CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
ETYMOLOGY from Latin morigeratus, past part. of morigerari to comply with, gratify, from morigerus EXAMPLE From: A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, James Murray, 1888-1933 CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
ETYMOLOGY from chatter (n.) + mag (n. EXAMPLE From: Stubble Farm; Or, Three Generations of English Farmers By Hubert A. Simmons, Vol. II, 1880 Chapter I. P. 14 CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
ETYMOLOGY from Greek µονοϕάγος (monofagos) that eats alone + -ize EXAMPLE From: Prose Halieutics Or, Ancient and Modern Fish Tattle By the Rev. C. David Badham, 1854 Chapter XXII. Opsophagy, P. 520 CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
ETYMOLOGY from Latin impendiōsus from impendium outlay, expense, from impendĕre impend vb., to spend, expend CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
ETYMOLOGY from Latin habitāculum dwelling-place EXAMPLE From: Ye Oldest Diarie of Englysshe Travell: Being the hitherto unpublished narrative of the pilgrimage of Sir Richard Torkington to Jerusalem in 1517 Edited bu W. J. Loftie, 1884 Torkington's Pilgrimage P. 20 form of dialect DATHER
CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES ETYMOLOGY Cf. dodder, didder, dither: the form is that of a frequentative, as in patter, shiver, totter, etc.: but the etymology of the stem dad-, did-, dod-, is obscure EXAMPLE From: The English Dialect Dictionary, Joseph Wright, 1898-1905 |
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