Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Monday, March 29, 2010
Inmate:
Inmates are those that be admitted to dwell for their money jointly with another man, though in several rooms of his mansion-house, passing in and out by one door.
-Cowell.
-Cowell.
Saturday, March 27, 2010
Friday, March 26, 2010
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Anthropophaginian:
A ludicrous word, formed by Shakespeare from anthropophagi, for the sake of a formidable sound.
"Go, knock, and call; he'll speak like an anthropophaginian unto thee; knock I say."
-Shakespeare The Merry Wives of Windsor
"Go, knock, and call; he'll speak like an anthropophaginian unto thee; knock I say."
-Shakespeare The Merry Wives of Windsor
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Scurrilous:
Grossly opprobrious; using such language as only the licence of a buffoon can warrant; loudly jocular; vile; low.
Monday, March 22, 2010
Friday, March 19, 2010
Kingsevil:
A scrofulous distemper, in which the glands are ulcerated, commonly believed to be cured by the touch of the king.
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Tory:
(A cant term, derived, I suppose, from an Irish word signifying a savage.) One who adheres to the antient constitution of the state, and the apostolical hierarchy of the church of England, opposed to a whig.
"The knight is more a tory in the country than the town, because it more advances his interest."
-Addison.
"The knight is more a tory in the country than the town, because it more advances his interest."
-Addison.
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Monday, March 15, 2010
Saturday, March 13, 2010
Friday, March 12, 2010
Fit:
A paroxysm or exacerbation of any intermittent distemper.
It is used without an epithet of discrimination, for the hysterical disorders of women, and the convulsions of children; and by the vulgar for the epilepsy.
It is used without an epithet of discrimination, for the hysterical disorders of women, and the convulsions of children; and by the vulgar for the epilepsy.
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Monday, March 8, 2010
Mushroom:
An upstart; a wretch risen from a dunghill; a director of a company.
"Mushrooms come up in a night, and yet they are unsown; and therefore such as are upstarts in state, they call in reproach mushrooms."
-Bacon's Natural History.
"Mushrooms come up in a night, and yet they are unsown; and therefore such as are upstarts in state, they call in reproach mushrooms."
-Bacon's Natural History.
Saturday, March 6, 2010
Insult:
The act of leaping upon any thing. In this sense it has the accent on the last syllable: the sense is rare.
"The bull's insult at four she may sustain,
But after ten from nuptiles rites refrain"
-Dryden's Virgil.
"The bull's insult at four she may sustain,
But after ten from nuptiles rites refrain"
-Dryden's Virgil.
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Regrate:
To offend; to shock.
"The clothing of the tortoise and viper rather regrateth than pleaseth the eye."
-Derham's Physico-Theology.
(2) To engross; to forestal.
"Neither should they buy any corn, unless it were to make malt thereof; for by such engrossing and regrating, the dearth, that commonly reigneth in England, hath been caused."
-Spencer.
"The clothing of the tortoise and viper rather regrateth than pleaseth the eye."
-Derham's Physico-Theology.
(2) To engross; to forestal.
"Neither should they buy any corn, unless it were to make malt thereof; for by such engrossing and regrating, the dearth, that commonly reigneth in England, hath been caused."
-Spencer.
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Monday, March 1, 2010
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