LUBRIC

LUBRIC

ADJ.
1. having a smooth surface, slippery ...1490 arch.
2. lascivious, wanton, lewd ...1490 obs.
3. slippery, shifty, deceitful; wavering, unsteady, uncertain;
prone to danger or error ...1631 obs.
 
ETYMOLOGY
from French lubrique
or Latin lubricus slippery, slimy; fleeting; inconstant; deceitful; hazardous, unsteady
 
FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1490 - see Example below
 
EXAMPLE (for definition 1)
"...sette and imposed vnder the feet of the righte chaste quene, thyng slypper and lubrik, for to make hir to ouerthrowe..."
 
From: The Boke yf Eneydos
Translated by William Caxton, 1490
 
SOURCES
• A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles,
James Murray, 1887-1933
• The Encyclopaedic Dictionary,
Robert Hunter, 1879-1888
• The Imperial Dictionary of the English Language,
Rev. John Ogilvie, 1847-1850
• A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words,
​Walter W. Skeat, 1914