The OED Quotations and Authors: Yet he, as telleth us Swetonius, 3655This wyde world hadde in subieccioun,Both Est and West, South and Septemtrioun;Of rubies, saphires, and of perles whyteWere alle his clothes brouded up and doun;For he in gemmes greetly…
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Prepossessing
MW Explore Prepossessing in the context of the full text in the works of Austen Dickens Melville James Some examples of usage, including by other authors: …yet the degree of harshness inseparable from Galliclineaments was, in his case, softened by…
Esoteric
MW Quotations and Authors: With an easy condescension, and kind forbearance towards our stupidity,—which, to his order of mind, must have seemed little short of crime,—would he forthwith, by the merest touch of his finger, make the incomprehensible as clear…
Gadabout
MW Quotations and Authors: “Then must I hew a passage,” cried the stranger, with his shoulder braced round and his hand upon his hilt. “I am not to be stopped on the king’s service by every gadabout.” “Should you be…
Garden Pot
The OED Quotations and Authors: MOON. [within.] Here, mistress.NIGHT. How now, Ursula? in a heat, in a heat?URS. My chair, you false faucet you; and my morning’s draught,quickly, a bottle of ale, to quench me, rascal. I am all fire…
Nostrum
MW Quotations and Authors: I am most apprehensive about Miss Howe. She has a confounded deal of wit, and wants only a subject, to shew as much roguery: and should I be outwitted with all my sententious boasting of conceit…
Cod’s Head
The OED Quotations and Authors: She that, being anger’d, her revenge being nigh,Bade her wrong stay and her displeasure fly;She that in wisdom never was so frailTo change the cod’s head for the salmon’s tail;She that could think and ne’er…
Pet
The OED PET n. 3 Offence at being or feeling slighted; a fit of peevishness or ill humour from this cause, (now) esp. a childish sulk. Frequently in in a pet. Also to take (the) pet: to take offence, to become bad-tempered or sulky…
Categorical
Word of the Day: MW Quotations and Authors: Now, Belford, I had really some apprehension of treachery from thee; which made me so miserably evade; for else, I could as safely have sworn to the truth of this, as to…
Words of the Day: December 19 2020 – January 28 2021
To explore quotations for the OED or Merriam-Webster Word of the Day 19/12/2020-28/1/2021, follow this link. Jeopardy Itinerant Ear-tickling Obeisance Insouciance Sarcophagus Gulosity Conjecture Preeminent Modicum Effusive Servile Nevvy Rapport Pedantic Treason Haet Devious Pugilism Comely Megrim Dissociate Apologia Feckless…