|
acrasial
|
adj
|
1851
-1851
|
|---|
|
ill-regulated; ill-tempered
|
| The acrasial judge was known for her rants against younger lawyers.
|
|
addecimate
|
v
|
1612
-1755
|
|---|
|
to tithe
|
| They addecimated regularly but were not otherwise known for their charity.
|
|
adimpleate
|
v
|
1657
-1657
|
|---|
|
to fill up
|
| The new technique adimpleates the cans with milk through injection.
|
|
adnascentia
|
npl
|
1706
-1731
|
|---|
|
root-like branches that sprout into the earth from a plant's stem
|
| Every winter, the adnascentia would shift around, destroying the lawn's even texture.
|
|
aeipathy
|
n
|
1847
-1853
|
|---|
|
continued passion; an unyielding disease
|
| Her aeipathy for stamp collecting bordered at times on the pathological.
|
|
affictitious
|
adj
|
1656
-1656
|
|---|
|
feigned; counterfeit
|
| The forger was caught despite his masterfully-crafted affictitious signatures.
|
|
affuage
|
n
|
1753
-1847
|
|---|
|
right to cut wood in a forest for family fire
|
| The family's right of affuage ensured they would have enough wood for winter.
|
|
agonarch
|
n
|
1656
-1656
|
|---|
|
judge of a contest or activity
|
| Our competition will require six agonarchs to ensure fairness.
|
|
agonyclite
|
n
|
1710
-1710
|
|---|
|
member of a heretical sect that stood rather than kneeled while praying
|
| Agonyclites must have had hardy feet to endure their services.
|
|
airgonaut
|
n
|
1784
-1784
|
|---|
|
one who journeys through the air
|
| Balloonists, skydivers and other airgonauts are all a little mad, if you ask me.
|
|
alabandical
|
adj
|
1656
-1775
|
|---|
|
barbarous; stupefied from drink
|
| His behaviour after the party was positively alabandical.
|
|
albedineity
|
n
|
1652
-1652
|
|---|
|
whiteness
|
| The monotonous albedineity of the snow-covered field was blinding.
|
|
alogotrophy
|
n
|
1753
-1853
|
|---|
|
excessive nutrition of part of body resulting in deformity
|
| Was he born with that huge head, or is it the result of alogotrophy?
|
|
amandation
|
n
|
1656
-1755
|
|---|
|
act of sending away or dismissing
|
| His rude amandation of his guests earned him a reputation for curtness.
|
|
amarulence
|
n
|
1731
-1755
|
|---|
|
bitterness; spite
|
| After losing her job to a less qualified man, she was full of amarulence.
|
|
amorevolous
|
adj
|
1670
-1670
|
|---|
|
affectionate; loving
|
| Our father, though amorevolous, could be a strict taskmaster at times.
|
|
antipelargy
|
n
|
1656
-1731
|
|---|
|
reciprocal or mutual kindness; love and care of children for their parents
|
| Having never received any antipelargy, they wrote their daughter out of the will.
|
|
apanthropinization
|
n
|
1880
-1880
|
|---|
|
withdrawal from human concerns or the human world
|
| His life as a hermit in the woods was characterized by apanthropinization.
|
|
aporrhoea
|
n
|
1646
-1880
|
|---|
|
a bodily emanation; an effluvium
|
| The evening's revelries were followed by an unfortunate episode of aporrhoea.
|
|
aquabib
|
n
|
1731
-1883
|
|---|
|
water-drinker
|
| I was never much of an aquabib, and always preferred harder libations.
|
|
archigrapher
|
n
|
1656
-1656
|
|---|
|
principal or head secretary or clerk
|
| The archigrapher efficiently designated transcription duties to her underlings.
|
|
archiloquy
|
n
|
1656-
1656
|
|---|
|
first part of a speech
|
| We stopped paying attention during his talk due to his monotonous archiloquy.
|
|
aretaloger
|
n
|
1623
-1656
|
|---|
|
braggart; one who boasts about his own accomplishments
|
| While he seemed nice at first, he turned out to be a loudmouthed aretaloger.
|
|
artigrapher
|
n
|
1753
-1753
|
|---|
|
writer or composer of a grammar; a grammarian
|
| Today's prescriptivists are no better than the artigraphers of the Renaissance.
|
|
ascoliasm
|
n
|
1706
-1753
|
|---|
|
boys' game of beating each other with gloves or leather while hopping
|
| If you think bullies are bad today, look at brutal games of the past like ascoliasm.
|
|
assectation
|
n
|
1656
-1656
|
|---|
|
act of following after something else
|
| She stood in the on-deck circle, her assectation virtually guaranteed.
|
|
austerulous
|
adj
|
1731
-1731
|
|---|
|
somewhat or slightly harsh
|
| The austerulous monks were rarely lenient with their pupils.
|
|
autexousious
|
adj
|
1678
-1678
|
|---|
|
exercising or possessing free will
|
| If we are truly autexousious, then why do we so often feel powerless?
|
|
auturgy
|
n
|
1651
-1656
|
|---|
|
self-action; independent activity
|
| The film director's legendary auturgy frustrated editors and producers alike.
|
|
avunculize
|
v
|
1662
-1662
|
|---|
|
to act as an uncle; to behave like an uncle
|
| I often avunculize to my younger friends, which no doubt annoys them.
|
|
bajulate
|
v
|
1613
-1662
|
|---|
|
to bear a heavy burden
|
| Their Sherpa aides were vexed by the demand that they bajulate as well as guide.
|
|
bimarian
|
adj
|
1731
-1731
|
|---|
|
pertaining to two seas
|
| Some think that America needs to improve its bimarian naval defenses.
|
|
binoternary
|
adj
|
1817
-1817
|
|---|
|
combining binary and trinary aspects
|
| The dots on the '6' face of a die are arranged in a binoternary fashion.
|
|
blateration
|
n
|
1656
-1864
|
|---|
|
chatter; babbling
|
| I've had just about enough of your garrulous blateration, you clod!
|
|
bonifate
|
adj
|
1656
-1656
|
|---|
|
lucky; fortunate
|
| The gambler was too bonifate, and attracted the casino manager's attention.
|
|
boreism
|
n
|
1833
-1839
|
|---|
|
behaviour of a boring person
|
| The professor, while brilliant, was afflicted by boreism when lecturing.
|
|
boscaresque
|
adj
|
1734
-1734
|
|---|
|
picturesque; scenically wooded
|
| Despite northern England's industrial pollution, parts of it remain boscaresque.
|
|
brabeum
|
n
|
1675
-1675
|
|---|
|
reward or prize
|
| Without some brabeum, the students will have no incentive to work harder.
|
|
brephophagist
|
n
|
1731
-1875
|
|---|
|
one who eats babies
|
| The character Fat Bastard is a disgustingly obese Scottish brephophagist.
|
|
brochity
|
n
|
1623
-1678
|
|---|
|
projecting or crooked quality of teeth
|
| His parents later regretted that they did not correct his brochity in his youth.
|
|
bromography
|
n
|
1860
-1860
|
|---|
|
a treatise on food
|
| It's not enough to write a bromography - today's celebrity chefs need to be on TV!
|
|
bubulcitate
|
v
|
1623
-1678
|
|---|
|
to act as a cowherd; to cry like a cowherd
|
| When their cat went missing, they were on the street bubulcitating for weeks.
|
|
buccellation
|
n
|
1657
-1731
|
|---|
|
act of dividing into small morsels
|
| The buccellation and apportionment of their rations was the subject of heated argument.
|
|
bumposopher
|
n
|
1834
-1886
|
|---|
|
one learned in bumps; a phrenologist
|
| Craniology has progressed greatly since the days of bumposophers.
|
|
cacatory
|
adj
|
1684
-1753
|
|---|
|
accompanied by loose bowels
|
| For the diners, the effects of the chicken cacciatore, alas, were cacatory.
|
|
cacozealous
|
adj
|
1656
-1696
|
|---|
|
imitating badly; poorly affected
|
| Her cacozealous attempt at mimicking her boss bordered on being offensive.
|
|
cagastric
|
adj
|
1662
-1753
|
|---|
|
of diseases, originating under an ill star
|
| We no longer believe in cagastric causes for illness and deformity.
|
|
cameranious
|
adj
|
1791
-1791
|
|---|
|
of or relating to a chamber
|
| The social gathering benefited from the cozy, cameranious setting.
|
|
canitude
|
n
|
1656
-1742
|
|---|
|
greyness; hoariness; whiteness
|
| The first snowfall of the year gave the field a pleasant canitude.
|
|
caprizant
|
adj
|
1730
-1736
|
|---|
|
of the pulse, uneven or irregular
|
| While he hadn't had a full-blown heart attack, his pulse was very caprizant.
|
|
casitive
|
adj
|
1652
-1652
|
|---|
|
having grammatical cases
|
| The casitive nature of Finnish and Hungarian makes them difficult to learn.
|
|
castaldy
|
n
|
1623
-1800
|
|---|
|
stewardship
|
| His castaldy over the manor was dependent on his good relations with the lord's sons.
|
|
cecograph
|
n
|
1851
-1874
|
|---|
|
writing device for the blind
|
| The development of computers has made the cecograph entirely obsolete.
|
|
celeberrimous
|
adj
|
1768
-1768
|
|---|
|
very or most highly celebrated
|
| Her celeberrimous accomplishments were lauded by her colleagues.
|
|
celeripedean
|
adj
|
1623
-1656
|
|---|
|
swift-footed
|
| The most celeripedean of the Greek deities was Hermes.
|
|
cestuan
|
adj
|
1711
-1711
|
|---|
|
of or pertaining to a boxer's gloves or cesti
|
| No cestuan improvements can negate the damage of such blows to the head.
|
|
chermadic
|
adj
|
1842
-1842
|
|---|
|
of a heavy weight used as a projectile
|
| Wile E. Coyote continues to be crushed by his own chermadic snares.
|
|
chronanagram
|
n
|
1613
-1882
|
|---|
|
an anagram of a chronogram
|
| Jacobites used chronanagrams to cryptically express support for their cause.
|
|
cibosity
|
n
|
1656
-1656
|
|---|
|
store of food; plenty of food supplies
|
| The cibosities of those paranoid about Y2K are still rotting in their cellars.
|
|
circuland
|
n
|
1821
-1821
|
|---|
|
that which is to be circulated
|
| Here we have the circuland, as opposed to our internal earnings report.
|
|
circumbilivagination
|
n
|
1611
-1693
|
|---|
|
going around in a circular motion; circumambulation
|
| She saw many quaint seaside towns in her circumbilivagination of England.
|
|
citharize
|
v
|
1623
-1692
|
|---|
|
to play the harp
|
| If you plan to citharize, prepare to build up calluses on your fingers.
|
|
cloakatively
|
adv
|
1674
-1674
|
|---|
|
superficially
|
| These reforms have only cloakatively made the situation better for the poor.
|
|
coherentific
|
adj
|
1834
-1834
|
|---|
|
causing to become coherent; causing cohesion
|
| Her speech was the coherentific factor behind the jury's consensus verdict.
|
|
colaphize
|
v
|
1450
-1656
|
|---|
|
to beat or buffet
|
| His lawyer claimed that police had colaphized him, which confused the judge.
|
|
commendaces
|
npl
|
1611
-1658
|
|---|
|
funeral orations; prayers for the dead
|
| At his funeral, his brother delivered a set of exquisite commendaces.
|
|
coquinate
|
v
|
1656
-1658
|
|---|
|
to behave as a cook
|
| Martha may seem to be able to coquinate, but her actions are highly scripted.
|
|
cosmogyral
|
adj
|
1808
-1808
|
|---|
|
whirling round the universe
|
| The great cosmogyral peregrinations of galaxies follow simple physical laws.
|
|
crassulent
|
adj
|
1656
-1656
|
|---|
|
very fat; grossly obese
|
| While some point to Brando's crassulent state, others focus on his acting.
|
|
crebrity
|
n
|
1656
-1740
|
|---|
|
frequency; period between two occurrences
|
| Old Faithful is a natural clock, and its invariant crebrity continues to amaze.
|
|
crocitation
|
n
|
1623
-1656
|
|---|
|
croaking; cawing
|
| The crocitation of the gulls meant that I got no sleep last night.
|
|
cynicocratical
|
adj
|
1881
-1881
|
|---|
|
pertaining to rule by cynics
|
| When people mistrust government, our leaders become cynicocratical.
|
|
deartuate
|
v
|
1623
-1653
|
|---|
|
to dismember
|
| He cunningly hoped that if he deartuated the body, he could hide it in the hole.
|
|
decutient
|
adj
|
1656
-1656
|
|---|
|
shaking down; beating down
|
| Their decutient technique for getting apples from trees annoyed the farmer.
|
|
defedate
|
v
|
1669
-1669
|
|---|
|
to defile; to pollute
|
| The toxic chemicals continue to defedate our town's water supply.
|
|
desarcinate
|
v
|
1656
-1736
|
|---|
|
to unload; to unburden
|
| She haughtily ordered her butler to desarcinate her baggage from the car.
|
|
devalgate
|
adj
|
1851
-1883
|
|---|
|
bow-legged
|
| The devalgate cowboy watched his old smell-hound crawl between his legs.
|
|
dicaearchy
|
n
|
1656
-1658
|
|---|
|
just government
|
| While we dream of living in a dicaearchy, in truth, we're governed by dicks.
|
|
diffibulate
|
v
|
1656
-1656
|
|---|
|
to unbutton; to unbuckle
|
| He found it difficult to diffibulate her blouse using only one hand.
|
|
dignorate
|
v
|
1623
-1656
|
|---|
|
to mark or brand an animal
|
| He was glad he had dignorated his horse, or else he couldn't have claimed it.
|
|
diloricate
|
v
|
1623
-1656
|
|---|
|
to rip open a sewn piece of clothing
|
| She diloricated his silk shirts so she could use them as dishrags.
|
|
dipsopathy
|
n
|
1883
-1883
|
|---|
|
medical treatment involving abstinence from liquids
|
| The new antibiotics he was taking required him to practice strict dipsopathy.
|
|
diribitory
|
n
|
1656
-1656
|
|---|
|
place where pay is distributed to soldiers
|
| Directly deposited salaries for soldiers obviate the need for diribitories.
|
|
divinipotent
|
adj
|
1656
-1727
|
|---|
|
having strong divinatory powers
|
| While the TV psychic claims to be divinipotent, he's clearly a charlatan.
|
|
dodrantal
|
adj
|
1656
-1883
|
|---|
|
of nine inches in length
|
| The male stripper's dodrantal instrument impressed the ladies greatly.
|
|
drollic
|
adj
|
1743
-1743
|
|---|
|
of or pertaining to puppet shows
|
| Computer graphics are rapidly replacing the drollic puppet-shows of years ago.
|
|
dromograph
|
n
|
1883
-1885
|
|---|
|
instrument for measuring velocity of blood flow
|
| The dromograph readings from his elderly patient alarmed the doctor.
|
|
ducenarious
|
adj
|
1656
-1656
|
|---|
|
pertaining to two hundred
|
| The ducenarious diversion of the bicentennial brought the countrymen together.
|
|
ebaptization
|
n
|
1659
-1659
|
|---|
|
declaring that someone has not been properly baptized
|
| They feared the priest's heterodoxy would lead to charges of ebaptization.
|
|
ecstasiate
|
v
|
1823
-1957
|
|---|
|
to go into an ecstasy; to cause to become ecstatic
|
| The arrival of the boy-band ecstasiated the pre-teen throng.
|
|
ectylotic
|
adj
|
1736
-1864
|
|---|
|
removing warts or calluses
|
| Use this ectylotic bandage on your finger and you'll be cured in a week or two.
|
|
egrote
|
v
|
1721
-1775
|
|---|
|
to feign an illness
|
| He was a master of egroting in order to find more time to study for tests.
|
|
eicastic
|
adj
|
1669
-1669
|
|---|
|
imitative
|
| The comedian's wit is limited to his considerable eicastic abilities.
|
|
ejurate
|
v
|
1622
-1800
|
|---|
|
to renounce; to abjure
|
| I ejurate this entire organization and its principles, which I now see to be corrupt.
|
|
embaphium
|
n
|
1715
-1884
|
|---|
|
small vessel for measuring or serving medicine
|
| She employed an embaphium to ensure the correct dose was given.
|
|
embolimaeal
|
adj
|
1677
-1796
|
|---|
|
intercalary; inserted into the calendar
|
| The addition of embolimaeal days caused calendrical confusion in the past.
|
|
epalpebrate
|
adj
|
1884
-1884
|
|---|
|
lacking eyebrows
|
| If you don't stop plucking, soon you'll be epalpebrate!
|
|
ephydriad
|
n
|
1823
-1823
|
|---|
|
water-nymph
|
| The synchronized swimmers were like ephydriads, full of natural grace.
|
|
essomenic
|
adj
|
1771
-1771
|
|---|
|
showing things as they will be in the future
|
| The essomenic properties of crystal balls are very much in dispute.
|
|
eternitarian
|
n
|
1746
-1746
|
|---|
|
one who believes in the eternity of the soul
|
| Though she held to no particular faith, she remained a hopeful eternitarian.
|
|
eveniency
|
n
|
1656
-1656
|
|---|
|
coming to pass
|
| His mother thought that the eveniency of her son's marriage was inevitable.
|
|
excutient
|
adj
|
1730
-1775
|
|---|
|
shaking off
|
| The excutient dog showered the topless sunbathers, causing them to rise in alarm.
|
|
exipotic
|
adj
|
1823
-1884
|
|---|
|
purgative; cleansing the body of illness
|
| While the medicine was exipotic to his body, it made a mess of his bathroom.
|
|
exlineal
|
adj
|
1716
-1716
|
|---|
|
out of the direct line of descent
|
| Her cousins and all the other exlineal relations were cut out of the will.
|
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