User:Fawknerfawk/collected English quotes

Peipinger

• [1934 October 27, “untitled”, in The Yenching News, Yenching University, Peiping, China, page 2, column 3:

  It comes into line with Nankinger, / T'ienchiner, Liaoninger, / Ch'ungkinger, Paotinger, / And last but not least with Peipinger.]

• 1948 December 27, “CHINA: One-Way Street”, in Time‎^[1]:

  Peipingers looked on all this activity as a rude intrusion on the quiet culture of their ancient capital.

• 1949 September 15, “Reds Can't Persuade Residents of Peiping To Eat Fewer Noodles”, in Evening Star, Washington, D.C., page C-8:

  However, the noodle-loving Peipingers have shown determined resistance.

• 1997, William A. Lyell, transl., chapter 2, in Shanghai Express, University of Hawaii Press, translation of 平滬通車 [The Opening of Peiping-Shanghai Railway] by Zhang Henshui, →ISBN, page 34:

  But you're a Peipinger born and bred. Do you think you'll be able to get used to Shanghai?

locute (v.1)

(intransitive or transitive, rare) To speak; to say; to utter.

• 1983, Mary Jane West-Eberhard, “Review: Current Problems in Sociobiology: An Adaptationist Review”, in Evolution‎^[2], volume 37, pages 1325-1326:

  […] and P. Bateson ("Behavioural development and evolutionary processes") pointedly locutes what R. Dawkins ("Replicators and vehicles") only circumlocutes—that he (Dawkins) has wisely changed his language to clarify the fact that the direct action of selection is on phenotypes, not genes.

• 2014, J. Robert Lennon, “Five Stories”, in Diagram 14.6‎^[3], retrieved 1 May 2023:

  "God's a pervert […] " He locutes with double rows of gold teeth, in the bland guise of an argument.

aurigal

• 1830, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Paul Clifford, page 266:

  […] and having a milder master than most of his comrades, the fear of displeasure was less strong in his aurigal bosom than the love of companionship […]

• 1857, Notes and Queries, Series 2, Vol. 4‎^[4], London: Bell & Daldy, page 205:

  I cannot help thinking that some incipient Jehu […] must have adopted the term furnished by Ainsworth to his new aurigal arrangement.

• 2017, Leonardo de Arrizabalaga y Prado, “Opening Address to the Varian Symposium”, in Leonardo de Arrizabalaga y Prado, editor, Varian Studies Volume Three: A Varian Symposium, →ISBN, page 12:

  No evidence exists of his [Elagabalus's] alleged sexual versatility, of his averred convivial extravagance, of his famed aurigal or saltatory prowess, or of his reportedly wicked sense of humour.

• 2019, Paul W. Kroll, “Lexical Landscapes and Textual Mountains in the High T’ang”, in Paul W. Kroll, editor, Critical Readings on Tang China, Vol. 3, Brill, →ISBN, page 1037:

  To return to Li Po and round out his views in poetry of the Lu Shan waterfall, we need only refer first to a couplet in his “Lu Mountain Ballad, Sent to ‘Emptyboat’ Lu, Aurigal Attendant,” so ably discussed by Elling Eide.

amplection, amplexion

1. (archaic, rare) An embrace.
   • 1474, William Caxton, edited by Jenny Adams, The Game and Playe of the Chesse‎^[5], Medieval Institute Publications, published 2009:

     And she shold sitte on the lift side of the kyng, for the amplexions and enbrasynges of her husbond, like as it is sayd in Scripture in the Canticles: “Her lifte arme shal be under my heed, and her right arme shal beclyppe and enbrace me."

   • a. 1636, Thomas Westcote, A view of Devonshire in MDCXXX, published 1845, page 310:

     Here let us cross the river Taw to Instow, on the left hand, which some call Yonestow, stands as a witness to the marriage of Taw and Torridge, which with their close amplections have demi-insulated this parish.

   • 1665, Robert Sprackling, Medela ignorantiae, page 81:

     Yet such are the Authors whom M.N. followeth and adoreth, witness his wise amplexion of Helmont's Archoeus […] .

   • 1927, Edward Powys Mathers, transl., The lessons of a bawd, translation of the Kuṭṭanīmata of Dāmodaragupta, page 70:

     The amplection of the ruddy goose, the swan’s accolade, mongoose embrace, and the interlacing of pigeons .... she has all these gracious gestures at command.

2. (biology, dated, uncommon) A form of pseudocopulation, found chiefly in amphibians and horseshoe crabs, in which a male grasps a female with his front legs; amplexus.
   • 1927, Tracy Storer, A Synopsis of the Amphibia of California, University Of California Press, page 177:

     The mating amplexion in this species is axillary, as described for other species of the Bufonidae.

   • 1961, J Laurens Barnard, “Amphipoda”, in Peter Gray, editor, The Encyclopedia of the Biological Sciences, Reinhold Pub. Corp, page 28:

     The first two pairs of legs are chelate or sub- chelate, better developed in males and useful for prehension primarily in copulatory amplexion.

   • 1988, C. Lavett Smith, editor, Fisheries Research in the Hudson River, State University of New York Press, →ISBN, page 262:

     The most commonly observed amplection in the laboratory is one in which the left second gnathopod is reversed and hooked under the posterior portion of the fifth peraeon segment of the female.

latibulize

• 1894 October 27, Jas. W. Coulter, “An Open Letter”, in The Bessemer Indicator., Bessemer, Colorado, page 1, column 7:

  Now, sir, two courses are open to you: Without impropriety you might latibulize.

• 1896 October 28, “An Open Letter”, in The Lambertville Record., quoting Richard Stockton, Lambertville, New Jersey, page 3, column 6:

  […] and we can, with all dignity and politeness, inform them that their services are not required, and that they may, as far as we are concerned, latibulize in the "sound money" party.

• 1908, Anson D. Eby, Showers of blessing‎^[6], Lancaster, Pennsylvania, page 102:

  O, why, like the reptile, did his sorrow not latibulize?

• 1915 February 19, “Kidd's Store”, in The Interior Journal, Stanford, Kentucky, page 1, column 2:

  Grippe got a grip on Col. John Stapp which kept him latibulizing till the ground-hog heralded close of winter, and bluebirds and robins have begun rehearsing their spring symphonies.

latibulate

• 1874 November 16, The Wheeling Daily Register, Wheeling, West Virginia, page 2, column 1:

  He is probably after the manner of his prototype Kellogg, "latibulating" in some secure position, in breathless expectancy that His Excellency, will again uphold usurpation […] .

Sillicus

• 1890, The Harvard Lampoon, Vol. 21‎^[7], page 39:

  No, Sillicus, farmers do not include chickens when speaking of their crops, or of their coups.

• 1896, The Outlook, Vol. 53‎^[8], page 1025:

  Hoax—Does Sillicus know anything about music?
  Joax—No; he doesn't know the difference between a string orchestra and a rubber band.

• 1906, Thomas A. Brown, Thomas Joseph Carey, The New Pun Book‎^[9]:

  Sillicus—Do you think we shall know each other in the hereafter?
  Cynicus—I hope so. Few of us really know each other here.

• 1912, Life, Vol. 60‎^[10], page 2044:

  Sillicus: There is honor among thieves.
  Cynicus: Nonsense! Thieves are just as bad as other people.

earlier general use?

• 1887, The Chronicle, Vol. 19‎^[11], page 311:

  The Sillicus of Mr. Alexander was excellent, his make-up carrying the audience back in imagination to the days when Pan piped upon the hills  […].

tridentiferous

1834, Edward Moor, “Fragments—Fourth”, in Oriental fragments, page 462:

[…] where the tridented Rhadamanthus—(Yama with Brahams, also tridentiferous?) with his three-headed dog Cerberus […] receives them into those unsunned dominions.

1912, Prospero, Caliban, “The Thirteenth Papyrus”, in The Weird of the Wanderer, page 128:

And my sea-birds made a great confusion in the awful calm, filling it with flashing pinions and plaintive whimperings, and settling into the shape of a dome all formed of beating wings, in which I on my ship and the tridentiferous god of the sea were enclosed, face to face.

assurgent (n.)

1791, Erasmus Darwin, “Loves of the Plants”, in The Botanic Garden, London, published 1824, page 183:

Such the command, as fabling bards recite, / When Orpheus charm’d the grisly king of night; / Sooth’d the pale phantoms with his plaintive lay, / And led the fair assurgent into day.

1881, Robert Bolton, Cornelius Winter Bolton, Oliver R. Willis, “The Town of New Castle”, in The history of the several towns, manors, and patents of the County of Westchester, New York, page 569:

[…] the lands and premises aforesaid shall with all convenient expedition be set out and divided equally into ten several distinct parts,” &c., and cause devises, conveyances and assurgents in the law whatsoever for the better, more sure, perfect and absolute settling of said land and premises […]

2021, Gino Zaccaria, The Enigma of Art: On the Provenance of Artistic Creation, Brill, →ISBN, page 295:

Every assurgent is self-clearing: in assurgency, every assurgent disconceals itself as already constituted in itself and for itself.

Not so sure about the last one; assurgency seems to be used (coined) in this book specifically as a rendering of Ancient Greek φύσις.

Assurgents has two additional hits on Google Scholar [12] [13]; in the first one it seems to be used as "one who raises" ("Gain for decreased risk was achieved by educating people about risk reduction and price assurgents […] "), and in the second it is used in a specified botanical sense ("Conidiophores arising in fascicles of up to 20 assurgents, straight to slightly curved, aseptate to septate, unbranched […] ").

fetiferous

1654, John Webster, Academiarum examen, London, page 27:

[…] all the treasury of those ideal signatures, which […] became existent in the matrix or womb of that generative and faetiferous word, from whence sprung up the wonderful, numerous and various seminal natures […]

1831, George Don, A General History of the Dichlamydeous Plants, London, page 593:

Fruit somewhat globose, usually fetiferous, with a sweet pulp.

1922, Clifford Bax, (poem title not given), a. 1922, quoted in Arthur Melville Clark, The Realistic Revolt of Modern Poetry, London, page 66:

Fetiferous of gems which sparkle more / Than fairy lights in eye of queen […]

1930, J. Fullerton Gressitt, transl., Love—The Law Of Life, translation of 愛の科学 by Toyohiko Kagawa, page 31:

The kangaroo is fetiferous, but has no placenta.

2014, James Maffie, Aztec Philosophy: Understanding A World In Motion, University Press of Colorado, →ISBN, page 452:

Nepantla is indeed gestational and fetiferous, but not of some postliminal existence, for there is no postliminal existence available.

transregionate (v.)

see WT:RFVE#transregionate.

• 1885 June 18, “Drops from the Basket”, in Iron County Register, Iron County, Missouri, page 1:

  […] their whole manner one of philosophical bearing, and which might have led a stranger to think he had been transregionated, and was an inhabitant of Greece during the sixth century before Christ, and an associate of the Seven Wise Men of that period.

• [1910 May 6, “Astonishing English Dictionary”, in Daily Kennebec Journal, Augusta, Maine, page 8:

  "Epiphenomenon," "transregionate"—who would use these lumbering locutions to describe a walk in the country, though one transregionated among never so many superimposed phenomena of nature.]

• 1919, Carleton W. Stanley, “Self Catechism”, in Sir Andrew Macphail, editor, The University Magazine, Vol. XVIII, page 39:

  Both in Ontario and in the Lower Provinces it happened early in our history, that a clique of transregionated snobs attempted to appropriate the colleges and schools to their own political and social behoof […]

abannition

see WT:RFVE#abannition.

• 1872, J. S*****R, Ridiculous Fancies, London, page 26:

  Apollo of Delphi. I understand that Bcla signifies a place of Bedworfy, Colligation, Life-time, Abannition.

• [1882 November 18, “Unknown English”, in Saturday Review, Vol. LIV, London, page 664:

  When one looks over such a list of words as this, it is impossible not to sympathize with the harmless foreigner who, as Mr. Cory says, is "not a Christian nor even a European," and who tries to write our noble language by aid of the dictionary. "I made my abaisance to him, but setting his abacot sternly on his head, he decreed my abannition, and refused even to comperendinate it until the conclusion of the affair we had conjobbled."]

absentaneous

• 2003 [1942], James Branch Cabell, The First Gentleman of America: A Comedy of Conquest, Wildside Press, →ISBN, page 165:

  The unfortunate French captain—who by this time retained not even his nightshirt—was hiding in this forest, breast-deep in a creek, along with three other Protestants whose apparel was no less absentaneous.

• 1988, The Industrial Law Journal, Vol. 17, page 254:

  The absentaneous nature of the job tended to mitigate expectations of single site employment.

• 2020, Korhan Cengiz et al., “Recent Emerging Technologies for Intelligent Learning and Analytics in Big Data”, in Multimedia Technologies in the Internet of Things Environment, →ISBN, page 78:

  Owing to the several springs of Big Data, analytical researchers face other issues such as data which contains absentaneous inscriptions and noisy labels.

• 2020, Mustafa Atilla Arıcıoğlu, Büşra Yiğitol, “Strategic Management in SMEs in Industry 4.0”, in Challenges and Opportunities for SMEs in Industry 4.0, →ISBN, page 206:

  […] Galbraith thinks that making human beings ordinary and absentaneous in the development of the industry is as^[sic] "the age of doubt".

obstrusive (as syn. of obstruse)

• 1655, Thomas Stanley, “Anaxagoras”, in The history of philosophy, London:

  Pericles Son of Xantippus being instructed by Anaxagoras, could easily reduce the exercise of his mind from secret obstrusive things to publick popular causes.

• 2012 [1967], Mario Bunge, Scientific Research II: The Search for Truth, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, →ISBN, 9.2.9, page 17:

  If so, how is it possible for a teleological question to elicit fruitful research and for the teleological answers to the same question to be unenlightening and even obstrusive?

• 1981, Marcelo Dascal, “Strategies of Understanding”, in Meaning and Understanding, Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 343:

  Classification may thus become an obstacle rather than an aid to understanding. At best, it is but one of the strategies of understanding which, as the other ones, must be abandoned as soon as it becomes obstrusive.

obstruse

• 1775, “The Tutor”, in A Present for a Son, London, page 82:

  And what great advances and mighty progress are daily made in finding out obstruse secrets […]

• 1877, S. S. Saul, The English Language: Suggestions for Its Correct and Fluent Use Without Technical Grammar, San Leandro, California, page 8:

  It is very clear that some readily understood method of acquiring the ability to use the mother tongue correctly, to supplant the present obstruse, hard to understand method, is eagerly sought by many […]

• 1992 [1950], Martin Luther King Jr., “The Chief Characteristics and Doctrines of Mahayana Buddhism”, in The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Vol. I, University of California Press, page 326:

  It has its obstruse philosophical appeal for the thinker, as was noticed in its metaphysical system […]

acroamatic (of or pertaining to hearing)

• 1632, Thomas Randolph, The Jealous Lovers, Cambridge, page 59:

  Prate they not cataracts of insensible noise, / That with obstreperous cadence cracks the organs / Acroamatick, till the deaf auditor / Admires the words he heares not?

• 1922, F. Max Müller, transl., Critique of Pure Reason, translation of Kritik der reinen Vernunft by Immanuel Kant, page 590:

  I should prefer, therefore, to call the former acroamatic, or audible (discursive) proofs, because they can be carried out by words only (the object in thought), rather than demonstrations, which, as the very term implies, depend on the intuition of the object.

• 2009, Jürgen Trabant, “Herder and Language”, in Hans Adler, Wulf Köpke, editors, A Companion to the Works of Johann Gottfried Herder, Camden House, →ISBN, page 129:

  The idea that the first thought, as an internal event, is always also dialogical, that is, possesses a communicative quality in itself, is connected to its acroamatic origin.

reflorescent

1. (rare) That flowers again.
   • [1872 February 15, “Roses and Their Nomenclature”, in The Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener and Country Gentlemen, page 150:

     The nearest approach to Remontant as used for Roses, would be, perhaps, "Reflorescent" or "Ever-bloom".]

   • 1905, Randolph Bedford, The Snare of Strength, London: William Heinemann, page 340:

     The half darkness became dissilient; the first beam of sunlight showed to Gifford and Stralie, growing out of the lime-crop that had shattered him, the reflorescent cotton-trees, whose blood the sudden breaking of the drought had startled into two blowths in the one year.

   • 1946, Stephen Spender, transl., “Paris”, in Hannah Josephson and Malcolm Cowley, editors, Aragon: Poet of Resurgent France, translation of original by Louis Aragon, page 82:

     In August most sweet reflorescent of rose trees / Folk of everywhere the blood of Paris.

   • 2013, Robert Hollander, “Dante's Cato Again”, in Elena Lombardi, Maggie Kilgour, editors, Dantean Dialogues: Engaging with the Legacy of Amilcare Iannucci, University of Toronto Press, →ISBN, page 112:

     K. Marti […] suggests that Dante may have also been thinking of the iuncus in Isaiah 35:7, as well as the reflorescent tree in Job 14:7.

2. (figurative, rare) That flourishes again; resurgent, revived.
   • 1897 October, H. B. Mackey, “St. Francis de Sales as a Preacher”, in The Dublin Review, volume 121, page 398:

     The absence of suitable means of expression in the vernacular for the rich dogmatic and ascetic teaching of a former age had led men to apply to this divine matter the classic forms so exuberantly reflorescent in the sixteenth century.

   • 1957, Vladimir Kean, transl., Doctor Pascal, London: Elek Books, translation of Le Docteur Pascal by Émile Zola, page 164:

     She, in the relative shade of her parasol, was revelling in this bath of light, like a plant adapted to a southern exposure; whilst he, reflorescent, felt the burning sap of the soil rise up through his limbs in a flood of exultant virility.

   • 1980, Grace M. Mayer, Once upon a City, New York: Octagon Books, →ISBN, page 289:

     Out of the “primitive life” of this mining camp and from the fecund genius of Charles F. McKim and William S. Richardson sprang the inspired vastness of a McKim, Mead & White coup de maître, its interior reflorescent of the Baths of Caracalla.

   • 1983 January, Dennis Biggins, The Modern Language Review, volume 78, number 1, Modern Humanities Research Association, page 175:

     Lawler's play was greeted (with excessive optimism) as the seed of a reflorescent native drama that would bear rich and truly Australian fruits.

forelast

• 1633, Charles Butler, The English Grammar, Oxford, page 57, spelling modernized:

  Certain disyllables, being both Nouns and Verbs, are distinguished by the Accent: the Verb having it in the last, and the Noun in the fore-last […]

• 1909, Oscar George Theodore Sonneck, compiler, Report on the "Star-Spangled Banner", "Hail Columbia", "America", "Yankee Doodle", Washington: Government Printing Office, page 73:

  The only difference between the 12 song books selected, which is at all worth mentioning, is that Aiken, Gantvoort, Jepson, Ripley, Zeiner have in the forelast bar—[sheet music] whereas […]

• 2012 [1973], J.M.R. Detry, Exercise Testing and Training in Coronary Heart Disease, Springer Netherlands, →ISBN, page 44:

  [T]he ${\dot {V}}_{O_{2}}$ increased continuously until the end of the exercise test and the values collected during the forelast minute are 95% of the maximal values during the last minute of the text.

• 2012 [1992], Konrad Jacobs, Discrete Stochastics, Springer Basel AG, →ISBN, page 36:

  The second statement is a special case of the forelast, and the forelast one follows from the last, whose proof is obvious […]

• 2003 [2002], Joseph O'Connor, Star of the Sea, Orlando: Harcourt, →ISBN, page 270:

  when the blight came on the crop the summer forelast he would not help us.

calamiferous

• 1879 August 14, Litchfield Enquirer, Litchfield, Connecticut, page 3:

  The thrifty farmer now puts on his rubber boots, and mows over his calamiferous grounds.

• 1899, George Clarke Musgrave, Under Three Flags in Cuba, Boston, page 202:

  It began to rain; we had lost our trail, but we plunged forward through the calamiferous swamps and dense bush, seeking a place to camp.

• 2001, W. D. Jackson & R. J. E. Wiltshire, “Historical taxonomy and a resolution of the Stylidium graminifolium complex (Stylidiaceae) in Tasmania”, in Australian Systematic Botany, volume 14, number 6, →DOI, page 954:

  Scape 200–300 mm high, 1.0–1.5 mm in diameter at the base, cylindrical, calamiferous, walls about 0.2 mm thick, densely thickened internally and externally with fibrous tissue, glabrous at the base but becoming increasingly pilose in the upper half with stalked, multicellular hairs with globular terminal glands dark red, exuding a sticky mucilage.

vindemial

• 1819 May 1, Hans Busk, The Dessert, A Poem, quoted in The Literary Journal, volume 2, number 58, London, page 257:

  Yes, come, Lyæns, leave thy lucid rills, / Thy ivy borders and vindemial hills

• 1830, T. W. C. Edwards, transl., “Odes LII. On Vintage”, in The odes of Anacreon, London, page 133:

  […] having cast it into the wine-press, only males tread the grape, releasing the wine, loudly applauding the God with vindemial hymns, […]

• 1836, Frederic Mansel Reynolds, The Parricide: A Domestic Romance, volume 2, London: Thomas Hookham, page 182:

  He was plain, and honest; entirely engrossed by his predial, and vindemial occupations, and, though wealthy, without any pretension to be considered superior to his condition.

• 1960, Bernard Kuefler, The dialogue form of the" Octavius" of Minucius Felix: Its value and originality, Master's thesis, Ottawa, Canada, page 74:

  When the three friends depart for Ostia during the vindemial holidays he indirectly shows that they fulfill their jobs seriously […]

advesperation

• 1813, John Poole, Othello–Travestie, London, page 65:

  Indeed, throughout several scenes, these familiar Hibernicisms prevail, originating in our Author's correspondence with his friend, then in his compositional advesperation.

• 1826 January 17, Edward Lear, To Ann Lear:

  And towards thy life’s advesperation, / When most are prone to [  ] / Their feeble limbs to desiccation, […]

• 1845, Catherine Gore, Agathonia, New York: E. Ferrett & Co., page 37:

  […] before the advesperation of day, as if obeying an ungovernable impulse, Velid drew breath and bridle-reign at the Northern issue of the valley.

• 1850, Joses Badcock, “Botany”, in Poems, volume 1, page 57:

  Lost in advesperations of the night, / It sighs to lose its charm—its chief delight.

favillous

• 1818 June, “A Description of the Hot Springs, near the river Washitaw, and of the Physical Geography of the adjacent country”, in The American Monthly Magazine and Critical Review, volume 3, number 2, page 86:

  The rocks and stones generally upon the hills, are extremely ragged and favillous, vast bodies of them, in many instances, having the appearance of being composed entirely of the calcarious matter once held in solution by the hot water of the springs.

• 1902 May 12, “Hundreds Dead in St. Vincent”, in The New York Times, volume LI, number 16332, New York, page 1:

  The great noises, united in one continuous roar all the evening and through the night to Thursday morning, with the black rain, falling dust, and favillous scoriae, and with the midnight darkness all Wednesday, created feelings of fear and anxious suspense.

arteriac

• 1906, John Isaac Beare, Greek Theories of Elementary Cognition from Alcmaeon to Aristotle, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 260:

  On the whole it appears that Diogenes possessed in a marked degree a perception […] of the necessity for a central organizing faculty, whether of sense or intelligence, on which consciousness and memory depend; and that he regarded this as seated chiefly in the air in the region of the heart—whether in the lungs or, as the compiler of the Placita tells us, in ‘the arteriac cavity’ of the heart.

• 1910, Wyndham Martyn, The Man Outside, Toronto: William Briggs, page 242:

  Even the Medical Record made him the subject of an enthralling editorial on the prevalence of arteriac sclerosis among Wall Street men […]

• 1981 December, Study and Design of High G Augmentation Devices for Flight Simulators, Operations Training Division, Air Force Human Resources Laboratory, Williams Air Force Base, Arizona 85224, page B-155:

  Stretch receptors, baroreceptors or pressorecptors, monitor the arteriac pressure and play a feedback role to this control loop called "Marey's Law"

gestatory (capable of being worn)

• 1684, Thomas Browne, “Of Garlands and Coronary Plants”, in Miscellany Tracts:

  The Crowns and Garlands of the Ancients were either Gestatory, such as they wore about their Heads or Necks; Portatory, such as they carried at solemn Festivals; Pensile or Suspensory, such as they hanged about the Posts of their Houses in honour of their Gods, as of Jupiter Thyræus or Limeneus; or else they were Depository, such as they laid upon the Graves and Monuments of the dead.

• 1882 may, Rev. Wladislaw Somerville Lach-Szyrma, “May Day”, in The Antiquary, volume 5, London, page 187:

  Garlands, it is needless to say, played an important part in the festivals of antiquity, gestatory garlands worn round the neck (like those just mentioned), postilory for feasts, pensile hung on the posts of the doors.

• 1843, Albert Way, editor, Promptorium parvulorum sive clericorum, London, page 157:

  In its secondary sense feretrum signified a portable shrine, containing the relics of saints, and carried in processions on a frame similar to the ordinary bier; and also stationary shrines of similar fashion, but which it was not customary to display as gestatory ornaments, such as those of St. Cuthbert at Durham, or St. Thomas of Hereford, in the cathedral there.

vitalic (two senses)

• 1848, Edgar Allan Poe, Eureka: A Prose Poem:

  Is it impossible that the successive geological revolutions which have attended, at least, if not immediately caused, these successive elevations of vitalic character […] have themselves been produced by the successive planetary discharges from the Sun—in other words, by the successive variations in the solar influence on the Earth?

• 1868, Andrew Jackson Davis, The Great Harmonia, volume 5, New York, page 395:

  The foundation of this argument is, that the human soul is the focalized, concentrated extract or epitome of all the forces and vitalic laws which fill, inspire, and actuate the immeasurable empire of Nature and God.

• 1931 January, Frank Belknap Long, Jr., “The Horror from the Hills”, in Weird Tales, volume 17, number 1, Indianapolis, Indiana: Popular Fiction Publishing Company, page 42:

  Did not Cuvier believe that there had been not one but an infinite number of 'creations’, and that as our earth cooled after its departure from the sun a succession of vitalic phenomena appeared on its surface?

• 1924 February, Francis Collins Miller, “Irrepressible Appreciations of a Good Book”, in The Notre Dame Scholastic, volume 57, number 6, Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame, page 56:

  He did not attempt to be sophistical; he “varied” his reading, in the sense that all literature should be varied, between the so-called “classics”—of stock—and the vitalic literature that breathes of onflowing life.

• 1935 January, Mary Watkins Reeves, “Subject: Frances Langford; Object: Matrimony”, in Radio Mirror, volume 3, number 3, New York: Macfadden Publications, Inc., page 66:

  Such a child! you'd think first thing, noting her vitalic freshness, her little-girl lack of affectation.

• 1961, Irving Stone, The Agony And The Ecstasy, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., page 137:

  They were impressed with the projecting power of the three main figures, bursting with tension, one of the most vitalic low reliefs they had seen.

cecutiency

• 1827, M. Samuels, Memoirs of Moses Mendelsohn^[sic], 2 edition, London: Longman and Co., page 20:

  [H]e persevered steadily and unobtrusively in his philanthropic designs, and, at the same time, pursued his scientific and philosophical labours with redoubled energy, to enable him to check, if possible, the national cecutiency.

• 1964, Reverend Thomas J. Carroll, Impaired Vision and Blindness: The Prevention of Disability, Social Isolation, and Untimely Death, Cleveland, Ohio, pages 33–34:

  [I]t is important in considering cecutiency to include those whose better eye is completely normal if the individual's visual capacity is limited because of problems in the other eye.

• 2000 [1981], Walter C. Stolov, Michael R. Clowers, editors, Handbook of Severe Disability: A Text for Rehabilitation Counselors, Other Vocational Practitioners, and Allied Health Professionals, U.S. Department of Education; Rehabilitation Services Administration, →ISBN, page 385, DIANE Publishing:

  In addition, cecutiency is often accompanied by uncertainty about the future stability, improvement, or progression of the visual impairment.