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English Past and Present

INDEX OF WORDS

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Abenteuer 240

Abnormal 72

Abominable 245

Academy 70

Accommodate 107

Acre 193

Adamant 230

Admiralty 107

Advocate 82

Æon 72

Æsthetic 72

Afeard 126

Affluent 104

Afraid 127

Afterthink 120

Alcimus 237

Alcove 16

Amphibious 107

Analogie 56

Ant 253

Antecedents 210

Anthem 245

Antipodes 68

Apotheosis 67

-ard 141

Armbrust 240

Arride 58

Ascertain 186

Ask 126

Astarte 237

Attercop 123

Aurantium 241

Aurichalcum 237

Avunculize 91

Axe 126

Baffle 181

Baker, bakester 157

Banter 106

Barrier 70

Battalion 61

Bawn 123

Benefice, benefit 97

Bitesheep 144

Black art 243

Blackguard 189

Blasphemous 128

Bless 231

Bombast 199

Book 21

Boor 202

Bozra 237

Brangle 177

Bran-new 231

Brat 205

Brazen 164

Breaden 163

Bruin 89

Buffalo 16

Butter 237

Buxom 139

Chagrin 95

Chance-medley 243

Chanticleer 89

Chemist, chemistry 248

Chicken 158

Chouse 91

Chymist, chymistry 248

Clawback 144

Comissatio 237

Commérage 204

Confluent 104

Congregational 79

Contrary 128

Corpse 191

Country dance 242

Court card 239

Coxcomb 229

Cozen 231

Crawfish 252

Creansur 45

Criterion 67

Crone, crony 93

Crucible 245

Crusade 62

Cuirass 246

Currant 239

Cynarctomachy 91

Dahlia 88

Dame 192

Dandylion 243

Dearworth 120

Dedal 86

Dehort 137

Demagogue 55

Denominationalism 79

Depot 69

Diamond 230

Dirge 250

Dissimilation 103

Divest 229

Donat 86

Dorter 20

Dosones 90

Doughty 146

Drachm 193

Dragoman 12

Dub 146

Duke 191

Dumps 147

Dutch 177

Eame 118

Earsport 119

Eaves 159

Educational 79

Effervescence 55

Einseitig 75

Eliakim 237

Ell 251

Emet 253

Emotional 79

Encyclopedia 67

Enfantillage 55

Equivocation 196

Erutar 149

Escobarder 88

-ess 153

Europe 224

Eyebite 120

Fairy 191

Farfalla 15

Fatherland 75

Flitter-mouse 118

Flota 17

Folklore 75

Foolhappy 137

Foolhardy 137

Foolhasty 137

Foollarge 137

Foretalk 120

Fougue 66

Fraischeur 66

Frances 95

Francis 95

Frimm 118

Frivolité 55

Frontispiece 245

Furlong 193

Gainly 136

Gallon 193

Galvanism 88

Garble 199

Geir 118

Gentian 86

Girdle 21

Girfalcon 118

Girl 192

Glassen 163

Gordian 86

Gossip 203

Great 226

Grimsire 119

Grocer 229

Grogram 229

Halfgod 120

Hallow 82

Handbook 75

Hangdog 145

Hector 89

Heft 118

Hermetic 86

Hery 118

Hierosolyma 236

Hipocras 86

Hippodame 64

His 131

Hooker 16

Hoppester 155

Hotspur 119

Hoyden 192

Huck 157

Huckster, huckstress 157

Hurricane 14

Iceberg 73

Icefield 74

Idea 197

Imp 205

Influence 181

International 78

Island 234

Isle 234

Isolated 107

Isothermal 102

Its 130

Jaw 230

Jeopardy 82

Kenilworth 253

Kindly 184

Kirtle 21

Knave 207

Knitster 155

Knot 87

Lambiner 88

Lass 154

Lazar 86

Leer 118

Leghorn 240

Libel 191

Lifeguard 74

Lissome 140

London 227

Lunch, luncheon 129

Malingerer 119

Mammet, mammetry 87

Mandragora 243

Mansarde 89

Matachin 17

Matamoros 143

Mausoleum 86

Meat 191

Meddle, meddlesome 206

Middler 121

Mid-wife 250

Milken 163

Mischievous 128

Miscreant 179

Mithridate 86

Mixen 123

Morris dance 251

Mystery, mystère 237

Myth 72

Nap 147

Necromancy 243

Negus 87

Nemorivagus 77

Neophyte 107

Nesh 118

Niggot 85

Nimm 118

Noonscape 129

Noonshun 129

Normal 72

Nostril 251

Nugget 85

Nuncheon 128

Oblige 69

Obsequies 241

Oculissimus 90

Orange 241

Orichalcum 237

Ornamentation 72

Orrery 87

Orthography 245

Pagan 202

Painful, painfulness 186

Pandar, pandarism 89

Panorama 107

Pasquinade 87

Patch 87

Pate 146

Pease 159

Peck 193

Pester 84

Philauty 105

Photography 72

Physician 101

Pigmy 229

Pinchpenny 144

Pleurisy 244

Plunder 73, 106

Poet 101

Polite 200

Polytheism 107

Porcupine 253

Porpoise 63

Postremissimus 91

Potecary 64

Prævaricator 196

Pragmatical 206

Préliber 56

Preposterous 195

Prestige 68

Prevaricate 196

Privado 16

Prose, proser 206

Punctilio 16

Punto 16

Pyramid 235

Quellio 17

Quinsey 63

Quirpo 16

Quirry 64

Rakehell 145

Rame 241

Rathe, rathest 138

Realmrape 119

Recover 233

Redingote 63

Refuse 241

Regoldar 149

Religion 183

Renegade 254

Renown 103

Resent 233

Reynard 89

Rhyme 245

Riches 159

Rickets 243

Righteousness 137

Rodomontade 89

Rome 227

Rootfast 119

Rosen 162

Ruly 136

Runagate 254

Sag 118

Sardanapalisme 88

Sash 63

Satellites 61

Satire, satirical 250

Satyr, satyric 249, 250

Scent 232

Schimmer 118

Scrip 232

Seamster, seamstress 155, 156

Selfish, selfishness 105

Sentiment 107

Sepoy 240

Serene 135

Shrewd, shrewdness 209

Silhouette 88

Silvern 163

Silvicultrix 77

Siren 247

Skinker 117

Skip 147

Slick 132

Smellfeast 143

Smug 146

Solidarity 70

Songster, songstress 155, 156

Sorcerer 101

Spencer 88

Sperr 118

Spheterize 72

Spinner, spinster 156

Starconner 120

Starvation 80

Starve 192

Stereotype 72

Stonen 163

Suckstone 120

Sudden 220

Suicide 105

Suicism, suist 105

Sündflut 238

Sunstead 120

Swindler 74

Sycophant 208

Tabinet 88

Tapster 157

Tarre 118

Tartar 237

Tartary 238

Tea 227

Theriac 187

Thou 171

Thrasonical 89

Tind 118

Tinnen 163

Tinsel 180

Tinsel-slippered 180

Tontine 88

Topsy-turvy 215

Tosspot 144

Tram 88

Treacle 187

Trigger 73

Trounce 147

Turban 13

Umstroke 120

Uncouth 124

Vancurrier 64

Vicinage 63

Villain 201, 208

Volcano 86

Voltaic 88

Voyage 191

Wanhope 117

Waterfright 120

Watershed 103

Weed 192

Welk 118

Welkin 158

Welsh rabbit 240

Whole 234

Windflower 120

Wiseacre 240

Witch 101

Witticism 106

Witwanton 119

Woburn 220

Woodbine 229

Worship 185

Wörterbuch 111

Yard 193

Youngster 156

Zoology 107

Zoophyte 107

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Notes in this chapter

Note 24 · Somewhat different from this, yet itself also curious, is the passing of an Anglo-Saxon word in two different forms into English, and continNote 12 · And so too in French it is surprising to find of how late introduction are many words, which it seems as if the language could never have doNote 15 · Have we here an explanation of the ‘battalia’ of Jeremy Taylor and others? Did they, without reflecting on the matter, regard ‘battalion’ asNote 20 · It is curious how effectually the nationality of a word may by these slight alterations in spelling be disguised. I have met an excellent FrNote 25 · We may see the same progress in Greek words which were being incorporated in the Latin. Thus Cicero writes ἀντίποδες (Acad. ii, 39, 123), buNote 40 · Holy State, b. 2, c. 6. There was a time when the Latin promised to display, if not an equal, yet not a very inferior, freedom in this formiNote 54 · Preface to Troilus and Cressida. In justice to Dryden, and lest it should be said that he had spoken poetic blasphemy, it ought not to be foNote 61 · Several of these we have in common with the French. Of their own they have ‘sardanapalisme’, any piece of profuse luxury, from Sardanapalus;Note 65 · Persa, iv. 6, 20-23. At the same time these words may be earnest enough; such was the ἐλαχιστότερος of St. Paul (Ephes. iii, 8); just as in Note 88 · A passage from Hacket’s Life of Archbishop Williams, part 2, p. 144, marks the first rise of this word, and the quarter from whence it aroseNote 3 · We must not suppose that this still survives in ‘girfalcon’; which wholly belongs to the Latin element of the language; being the later LatiNote 16 · I cannot doubt that this form which our country people in Hampshire, as in many other parts, always employ, either retains the original pronNote 34 · Many languages have groups of words formed upon the same scheme, although, singularly enough, they are altogether absent from the Anglo-SaxoNote 38 · As not, however, turning on a very coarse matter, and illustrating the subject with infinite wit and humour, I might refer the Spanish scholNote 48 · I have included ‘huckster’, as will be observed, in this list. I certainly cannot produce any passage in which it is employed as the female Note 9 · θηριακή, from θηρίον, a designation given to the viper, see Acts xxviii, 4. ‘Theriac’ is only the more rigid form of the same word, the schoNote 15 · And no less so in French with ‘dame’, by which form not ‘domina’ only, but ‘dominus’, was represented. Thus in early French poetry, “Dame DiNote 30 · Let me illustrate this by further instances in a note. Thus βούτυρον, from which, through the Latin, our ‘butter’ has descended to us, is boNote 31 · We have here, in this bringing of the words by their supposed etymology together, the explanation of the fact that Spenser (Fairy Queen, i, Note 36 · ‘Leghorn’ is sometimes quoted as an example of this; but erroneously; for, as Admiral Smyth has shown (The Mediterranean, p. 409) ‘Livorno’ Note 37 · Exactly the same happens in other languages; thus ‘armbrust’, a crossbow, looks German enough, and yet has nothing to do with ‘arm’ or ‘brusNote 48 · As ‘orthography’ itself means properly “right spelling”, it might be a curious question whether it is permissible to speak of an incorrect oNote 56 · In the reprinting of old books it is often very difficult to determine how far the old shape in which words present themselves should be ret
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