from Latin præstāntia excellence + -ous 1638 - The Tree of Humane Life; or The Blood of the Grape, Tobias Whitaker;
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from Latin interturbāre, from inter between + turbāre to disturb 1554 - Lord Darnley in Ellis's Original Letters; see Example below From: Original Letters, Illustrative of English History
Edited by Henry Ellis Second Series. Volume II. 1827 Letter CLI. Henry Lord Darnley, afterwards Husband to the Queen of Scots, to Queen Mary of England P. 250 from Latin certātiōnem, from certāre to contend 1572 - Theophilus, Sir William Forrest; see Example below From: Anglia: Zeitschrift für Englische Philologie
Published 1884 Forrest's Theophilus P. 104 ? from the "sharpness" of a steel trap 1872 - as per E-NED, in Mrs. Stowe's Oldtime Fireside Stories; earlier Example (1821) below From: Life of Michael Martin,
Who was Executed for Highway Robbery December 20. 1821 As Given by Himself Printed 1821 P. 24 ? altered form of scorken (vb.) to be scorched or parched c1374 - (for the verb) Boethius De Consolatione Philosophia, Geoffrey Chaucer;
see below From: Chaucer's "Boece" Edited by F. J. Furnivall. 1886 P. 43 from yank (vb.) + -er 1822 - The Three Perils of Man; or War, Women and Witchcraft, James Hogg; see Example below From: The Three Perils of Man: War, Women and Witchcraft.
A Border Romance By James Hogg Volume I. 1822 Chapter XII P. 330 probably a formation from booze (vb.) to drink, after 'lushington' c1860 - as per A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, Eric Partridge
from Latin rīxārī to quarrel + -trix, used to form a feminine noun From: The North American Review
Volume XXVI. New Series Volume XVII. 1828 Legal Condition of Women P. 343 a1779 - Writings, Dougal Graham; see Example below From: Collected Writings of Dougal Graham
Edited by George Macgregor Volume II. 1883 The Young Coalman's Courtship to a Creel-Wife's Daughter The Tenth Edition. Printed 1782 P. 49 From: Tammas Bodkin
Or The Humours of a Scottish Tailor By William Duncan Latto, 1864 Chapter XVI. The Valentines P. 151 from Italian aggratare (Florio):—late Latin aggrātāre to be pleasing 1591 - The Teares of the Muses, Edmund Spenser; see Example below From: The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser
Volume V. 1825 The Teares of the Muses P. 291 from Latin minimus least + -ficentia after magnificence 1759 - Letters, Horace Walpole; see Example below From: The Letters of Horace Walpole
Edited by Peter Cunningham Volume III. 1877 636. To the Earl of Strafford. Strawberry Hill, Oct. 30. 1759 P. 260 before 1812 - as per A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, Eric Partridge From: Faith and Falsehood
Or, The Fate of a Bushranger By William Leman Rede. 1830 Act I. Scene II P. 9 from Old French mescognoiss-, stem of mescognoistre (modern French méconnaître) 1603 - Plutarch's Philosophie, Commonlie called the Morals, Philemon Holland;
see below from E-NED DEFINITIONS CONTINUED NOUNS 4. a slate used to form the gutter of a roof (English dialect) 5. anything held in reserve (English dialect) 6. a recess to enable vessels to pass VERBS to lie idle; to lie unused (Scottish) CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES from. phrase 'to lie by' - to have a concubine (obsolete) a1656 - The Annals of the World Deduced from the Origin of Time, James Ussher; see below from E-NED From: The West Somerset Word-Book
By Frederic Thomas Elworthy, 1886 P. 434 a1734 - Examen or, An Enquiry into the Credit and Veracity of a Pretended Complete History, Roger North;
see below from E-NED from Latin saltātōrius pert. to dancing + -al 1823 - The New Monthly Magazine; see Example below From: The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal
Volume IX. Historical Register. 1823 Music. King's Theatre P. 297 From ED-EDD:
"This arose from a test of drunkenness; viz. the ability to say 'truly rural' distinctly. The 'merry' man says tooralooral" from melancholy + -ize 1597 - Guillemeau's Frenche Chirurgerye Or all the Manualle Operations of Chirurgerye, A.M.; see below from E-NED From: Biographia Literaria
Or Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions By Samuel Taylor Coleridge Second Edition. Volume II. 1847 P. 339 |
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