“The stalwart ignorance of it! Little Latin and less Greek even Ben Jonson allowed our William, and manifestly he was fed on Tudor translations. And the illiteracy of Michael Angelo is just an inspiration of Chamberlain’s. He knows his readers.…
Tag: The OED
Pasch
pasch, n.Forms: Old English pasca, late Old English–Middle English paschesOrigin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Partly a borrowing from French. Etymons: Latin pascha; French pasche.Etymology: Originally < post-classical Latin paschaNow archaic and historical. Passover; the Passover feast.OE—2001(Show…
Brummagem
But a day of reckoning, he stated crescendo with no uncertain voice, thoroughly monopolising all the conversation, was in store for mighty England, despite her power of pelf on account of her crimes. There would be a fall and the…
Queach
One of the earliest examples of usage cited in the OED is in Golding’s translation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses: 1565 A. Golding tr. Ovid Fyrst Fower Bks. Metamorphosis i. f. 2v Their houses were the thyckes, And bushie queaches. from “queach,…
Words of the Day: March 5 – March 9 2021, Abhor Impunity Meticulous Pivot Luminary
Merriam-Webster: March 5: Abhor And out of dust reduce our scattered rimes,Th’reiected iewels of these slouthfull times,Who with the Muses would mispend an hower,But let blind Gothish Barbarisme deuoureThese feuerous Dogdayes, blest by no record,But to be euerlastingly abhord. Author…
Rabbity
Sometimes, in the distance one sees a black-and-white peasant riding lonely across a more open place, a tiny vivid figure. I like so much the proud instinct which makes a living creature distinguish itself from its background. I hate the…
Pantechnic
OED These having been sufficiently gazed at, and beginning to lose their attractiveness except for the flies, and, truly, the boys also (in whom I find it impossible to repress, even during school-hours, certain oral and telegraphic communications concerning the…
Stromboli
OED stromboli, n. Origin: Stromboli, the name of a 1950 Italian-American film < Stromboli , the name of a volcanic island in the Mediterranean, one of the Lipari Islands (see Strombolian adj.).The name seems to have been an attempt to…
Words of the Day: February 17 – February 22 2021, Sui-similar Indissoluble Toady Anodyne Cognoscente
The OED: February 17: Meta-analysis February 18: Ice master February 19: Oliver current February 20: Sari-sari store February 21: Phronesis February 22: Sui-similar When the Black Prince went to set the exiled king of Castile into his kingdom, there was…
Amoret
The OED … Yet should it be a pleasant tale, to tellThe diuerse vsage and demeanure daint,That each to other made, as oft befell.For Amoret right fearefull was and faint,Lest she with blame her honor should attaint,That euerie word did…