Friday, December 11, 2009

Increpate:

To chide, to reprehend.

Thursday, December 10, 2009

Reticense:

Concealment by silence

Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Macaroon:

A coarse, rude, low fellow; whence macaronick poetry, in which the language is purposely corrupted.

Like a big wife, at sight of lothed meat,
Ready to travail; so I sigh and sweat,
To hear this macaroon talk in vain.

-Donne

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Pervicacious

Spitefully obstinate; peevishly contumacious.

"May private devotions be efficacious upon the mind of one of the most pervicacious young creatures!"

Clarissa

Monday, December 7, 2009

Peat:

A little fondling; a darling; a dear play thing. It is now commonly called pet.

Sunday, December 6, 2009

Glance

To Glance:

To censure by oblique hints.

"It was objected against him that he had written verses wherein he glanced at a certain reverend doctor, famous for his dulness."

-Swift.

Saturday, December 5, 2009

Opinion

to Opinion:

To opine; to think. A word out of use and unworthy of revival.

"It is opinioned, that the earth rests as the world's centre; while the heavens are the subject of the universal motions.

-Glanville, Scepsis, c. xi