Thomas More’s Contribution to the English Language
by David Carter
Saint Thomas More (1478–1535), lord chancellor, humanist, and martyr was a prolific author and great scholar in his time. More is the 96th most frequently quoted source in the Oxford English Dictionary, with a total of 3328 quotations (about 0.1% of all OED quotations). There are 410 words which are first found in STM’s writings. Whether he brought these words into the English language requires further investigation; however, one thing is clear: More’s contribution to English was significant.
Summary of Works
| Name | Total Quotations | Percentage of quotations | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Confut. Tyndale | 580 | 17.0% |
| 2. | Dialogue Heresyes | 532 | 16.0% |
| 3. | Hist. Richard III | 408 | 12.0% |
| 4. | Dialoge of Comfort | 330 | 10.0% |
| 5. | Treat. Passion | 202 | 6.0% |
| 6. | Debellacyon Salem & Bizance | 182 | 5.0% |
| 7. | Apol. | 162 | 5.0% |
| 8. | Answere Poysened Bk. | 148 | 4.0% |
| 9. | Supplyc. Soulys | 132 | 4.0% |
| 10. | Lyfe J. Picus | 105 | 3.0% |
Quotations providing first evidence of a word
| Lemma | Definition | Work-Title | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| abjured | That has abjured or renounced heresy, a religion, etc. Now hist. | Apol. | 1533 |
| abolition | The action or process of abolishing something; the fact of being abolished or done… | Supplyc. Soulys | 1529 |
| accelerate | To hasten the occurrence of (an event); to bring (an occurrence) nearer in time… | Treat. Quatuor Nouissimis | 1522 |
| accoupling | The act of joining two persons or things into a couple or pair, or together… | Hist. Richard III | 1534 |
| accumulate | Heaped up, accumulated; increased by accumulation. In early use chiefly as past participle. | Let. to Henry VIII | 1533 |
| addict | trans. Roman Law. To deliver or hand over formally (a person or thing) in accordance… | Treat. Passion | 1534 |
| a door | At the door; of the door. Only with preceding adverb, as in a door, out a door, etc. Cf. adoors… | 2nd Pt. Confut. Tyndals Answere | 1533 |
| adspiration | The infusion or effusion of grace (by God, Christ, etc.). Obs. rare. | Confut. Tyndales Answere | 1532 |
| afflicted | Grievously distressed, tormented; troubled; oppressed, downtrodden. Also: suggestive of or characterized by affliction. | Treat. Passion | 1534 |
| a-good | Vigorously, thoroughly, heartily; a good deal. | Mery Gest | 1516 |
| all round | Everywhere around, completely around; in all respects; for all concerned, so as to include everyone. | Wks. | 1534 |
| aloof | Naut. To the windward side; towards the direction from which the wind blows; (in later use) esp.… | Confut. Barnes | 1534 |
| alternate | Of two (occas. more) different or distinct kinds of things: occurring one after the other; alternating. | Hist. Richard III | 1534 |
| ambiguous | Doubtful, questionable; indistinct, obscure, not clearly defined. | Dialogue Heresyes | 1528 |
| Anabaptist | Church Hist. Name of a sect which arose in Germany in 1521. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| answerless | That is, or contains, no answer. | Debellacyon Salem & Bizance | 1533 |
| anticipate | trans. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| antidicomarian | = antidicomarianite n. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| anxiety | The quality or state of being anxious; uneasiness or trouble of mind about some uncertain event; solicitude, concern. | Treat. Quatuor Nouissimis | 1522 |
| apish | Ape-like in manner; befitting an ape; fantastically foolish, affected, silly, trifling. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| apishness | The quality of being apish; silly or ridiculous imitation, silliness of behaviour. | Confutation Barnes | 1533 |
| apology | The pleading off from a charge or imputation, whether expressed, implied, or only… | 1533 | |
| apostatical | Of the nature of apostates or apostasy; heretical. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| apostrophe | Rhetoric. A figure of speech, by which a speaker or writer suddenly stops in his… | Apol. | 1533 |
| appeased | Pacified, quieted, satisfied. | Confut. Tyndales Answere | 1532 |
| appeaser | One who, or that which, appeases; a pacifier or satisfier. | Apol. | 1533 |
| appeasing | The action of pacifying or calming; pacification. | Treat. Quatuor Nouissimis | 1522 |
| arch-heretic | A chief heretic; a first heretic; a founder or leader of heresy. | Dialogue Heresyes | 1528 |
| Arian | An adherent of the doctrines of Arius. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| arraigning | The action of the verb arraign v.; arraignment. | Debellacyon Salem & Bizance | 1533 |
| arrogancy | The quality or state of being arrogant. | Supplyc. Soulys | 1529 |
| assertation | Affirmation, assertion. | Wks. | 1534 |
| ass-headed | Stupid. | Confut. Barnes | 1532 |
| atonement | Restoration of friendly relations between persons who have been at variance; reconciliation. Obs. | Hist. Edward V | 1513 |
| atrocity | Savage enormity, horrible or heinous wickedness. | Treat. Passion | 1534 |
| autodidact | A self-taught person. | Treat. Passion | 1534 |
| babblery | = babble n. 1. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| babish | Characteristic of or befitting a baby; having features associated with a baby; baby-like. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| banker | orig. A money-changer; then, one who dealt in bills of exchange, giving drafts and making remittances. Obs. | Treat. Passion | 1534 |
| bankrupt | popularly. One who has brought himself into debt by reckless expenditure or riotous… | Apol. | 1533 |
| bashaw | The earlier form of the Turkish title pasha n. | Dialoge of Comfort | 1534 |
| begrace | To address as ‘your grace’. | Treat. Quatuor Nouissimis | 1522 |
| being | Immediately introducing a clause. | Dialogue Heresyes | 1528 |
| bemire | trans. To cover or befoul with mire. | Let. Impugnynge J. Fryth | 1532 |
| bereaving | The action of bereave v. in various senses. Now only gerundial. | Dialoge of Comfort | 1529 |
| bibble-babble | Idle or empty talk; prating. (Very common in 16th c.) | Confut. Barnes | 1532 |
| bitchery | Lewdness, harlotry. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| blandiment | By-form of blandishment n. | Lyfe J. Picus | 1510 |
| bony | Of, pertaining to, of the nature of bone or bones; consisting or made of bones. | Wks. | 1534 |
| bride-bed | The nuptial couch, the marriage bed. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| Bridgetin | A member of a religious order founded by St. Bridget in the 14th century. Also attrib. and as adj. | Answere Poysened Bk. | 1533 |
| broilery | Dissension; strife; disturbance, disorder. | Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. | 1521 |
| bull | To make a fool of, to mock; to cheat (out of). | Confut. Barnes | 1532 |
| bulling | ? Fraudulent scheming. | Confut. Barnes | 1532 |
| bumble | trans. To bungle over; to do in a bungling manner. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| bumbling | Blundering. | Answere Poysened Bk. | 1533 |
| bungler | One who bungles; a clumsy unskilful worker. | Answere Poysened Bk. | 1533 |
| burdenous | lit. Heavy, ponderous. | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| buskle | intr. To set out, to go (esp. hastily or promptly); to take hastily to something. | Wks. | 1534 |
| buttoned | Having buttons, adorned with buttons; usually with defining words, as silver-buttoned, eight-buttoned. | Treat. Passion | 1534 |
| canonically | In a canonical manner (see the adj.). | Supplyc. Soulys | 1529 |
| caritably | = charitably adv. | Debellacyon Salem & Bizance | 1533 |
| carrion crow | A species of Crow (Corvus Corone) smaller and more common than the Raven, and rather… | Dialogue Heresyes | 1528 |
| celebration | The observing of a feast, day, or special season; the honouring or recognizing of an… | Supplyc. Soulys | 1529 |
| Celestian | = Celestine n. a. | Confut. Barnes | 1532 |
| Charterhouse | A Carthusian monastery. arch. | Treat. Passion | 1534 |
| chat | Chatter; idle or frivolous talk; prating, prattle, small talk. Obs. | Let. Impugnynge J. Fryth | 1530 |
| chop-logic | Sophistical or contentious argument. | Apol. | 1533 |
| chote | = I wot. (see I pron.) | Dyaloge Dyuers Maters | 1529 |
| circumscribe | To mark out or lay down the limits of; to enclose within limits, limit, bound… | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| circumvention | The action of circumventing; overreaching, outwitting, or getting the better of any one by craft or artifice. | Treat. Passion | 1534 |
| clerkliness | Clerkly quality; scholarliness; learning. | Answere Poysened Bk. | 1533 |
| cock-a-hoop | Phrase. to set (the) cock on (the) hoop, cock a hoop: app. to turn on the tap and let… | Dialoge of Comfort | 1529 |
| cohabit | To live together as husband and wife: often said distinctively of persons not legally married. | Fisher’s Wks. | 1530 |
| cole-prophet | One who pretends, by magic or occult means, to predict the future, tell fortunes, etc.;… | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| collar | trans. To seize or take hold of (a person) by the collar; more loosely: To… | Dialoge of Comfort | 1534 |
| combustible | Capable of being burnt or consumed by fire, fit for burning, burnable. | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| comprehensible | That may be comprised or contained. | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| comprynable | probably error for compynable, cum-, or other variant of companable adj. | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| compurgator | In Canon Law, Applied to witnesses who either swore to the credibility of the accused… | Debellacyon Salem & Bizance | 1533 |
| concomitance | The fact of being concomitant, or of accompanying each other; subsistence together; co-existence. | Treat. Passion | 1534 |
| confute | To prove (an argument or opinion) to be false, invalid, or defective; to disprove, refute. | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| connotation | The signifying in addition; inclusion of something in the meaning of a word besides what it primarily denotes; implication. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| consecution | Proceeding in argument from one proposition to another which follows from it; logical sequence; inference; a train of reasoning. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| consonantly | In consonance, agreement, accord, or harmony; agreeably, harmoniously, consistently. Const. to, with. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| continently | Continuously, without interruption; cf. continent adj. 7b. Obs. rare. | Dialoge of Comfort | 1529 |
| conventing | Summoning. | Apol. | 1533 |
| co-operant | A co-operating agent or factor. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| corroboration | of qualities, attributes, faculties, etc.). Obs. | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| craftsmaster | orig. With possessive: his craft’s master: i.e. master of his craft. Obs. | Hist. Richard III | 1534 |
| credit | Favourable estimation, good name or standing, honour; an instance of this. | Dyaloge Dyuers Maters | 1529 |
| damnability | Quality of being damnable; liability to damnation. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| daughterly | Pertaining to or characteristic of a daughter; such as becomes a daughter; filial. | Wks. | 1534 |
| dazing | The action of the verb daze v.; benumbing, stupefaction, as a condition or influence. | Treat. Quatuor Nouissimis | 1522 |
| definitively | metaphor. So as to have a definite position, but not take up space: see definitive adj. 3. Obs. | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| degradation | Deposition from some rank, office, or position of honour as an act of punishment; esp.… | Wks. | 1534 |
| dehortation | The action of dehorting from a course; earnest dissuasion. | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| deliberately | With careful consideration; not hastily or rashly; of set purpose. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| demurrer | A pause, stand-still; a state of hesitation or irresolution; = demur n. 2. Obs. | Debellacyon Salem & Bizance | 1533 |
| dependence | Connection of successively dependent parts; logical sequence. Obs. (or merged in prec.). | Wks. | 1534 |
| descant | intr. To make remarks, comments, or observations; to comment (on, upon, †of a text, theme, etc.). | Lyfe J. Picus | 1510 |
| detaining | The action of the verb detain v.; detention, withholding, †seizure, etc. (Now usually gerundial.) | Wks. | 1534 |
| Deuteronomical | = Deuteronomic adj. | Let. to T. Cromwell | 1533 |
| dilating | The action of the verb dilate v., in various senses; enlargement, expansion. | Dialoge of Comfort | 1529 |
| diminishing | The action of the verb diminish v.; lessening, diminution. | Hist. Richard III | 1534 |
| disfashion | trans. To mar or undo the fashion or shape of, to disfigure. (See fashion v.) | Wks. | 1534 |
| dismayed | Overwhelmed with fear, etc.; appalled. | Hist. Richard III | 1534 |
| dispensable | Capable of being permitted in special circumstances, though against the canons; capable… | Let. to T. Cromwell | 1533 |
| dispeopling | Depopulation; extermination of people. | Supplyc. Soulys | 1529 |
| dispicion | Discussion, disputation. | Lyfe J. Picus | 1510 |
| disreverence | trans. The opposite of to reverence; to treat with irreverence; to deprive of reverence. | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| dissimilitude | The condition or quality of being unlike; unlikeness, difference, dissimilarity; diversity. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| dissipate | To dispel by dispersion or minute diffusion (mist, clouds, etc.); to cause to… | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| dissoluble | Capable of being separated into elements or atoms; decomposable, disintegrable; capable… | Treat. Passion | 1534 |
| dissuade | trans. To give advice against (a thing); to represent as unadvisable or undesirable. ? Obs. | Hist. Richard III | 1534 |
| divinatrice | That divines, divining. | Ruful Lament. | 1534 |
| dogleech | An ignorant or underqualified medical practitioner; a quack. | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| dough-baken | = dough-baked adj. | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| elumine | = illuminate v. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| entertainer | One who or that which furnishes amusement; one who gives a public ‘entertainment’. | Treat. Passion | 1534 |
| estrait | trans. To enclose within narrow bounds, to restrict. | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| Eucharistical | = Eucharistic adj. 1. | Treat. Passion | 1534 |
| evangelically | According to the principles of those called Evangelicals. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| exact | Of actions, processes, investigations, knowledge, etc.: Accurate in detail, strict, rigorous. | Apol. | 1533 |
| exact | trans. To demand and enforce the payment of (fees, money, taxes, tolls, penalties, etc.); to extort. Const. from, of, †on, †upon. | Supplyc. Soulys | 1529 |
| exaggerate | trans. To heap or pile up, accumulate: said with reference to both material and… | Apol. | 1533 |
| exasperate | To irritate (a person); to provoke to anger; to enrage, incense. Const. to, also to with inf. | Let. | 1534 |
| expection | = expectation n. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| explain | To unfold (a matter); to give details of, enter into details respecting. Occas. with indirect question as obj. Also absol. | Hist. Richard III | 1534 |
| extenuate | To estimate or state at a low figure; to disparage the magnitude or importance of; to underrate, make light of. Somewhat arch. | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| extraduction | Mil. The bringing a line of musketeers to the front from the rear of a body of pikemen. | Debellacyon Salem & Bizance | 1533 |
| factious | Of actions, utterances, etc.: Pertaining to or proceeding from faction; characterized by party spirit. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| fair dealer | A person who acts in a just and honest manner, esp. in business dealings; a person who treats others fairly. | Dyaloge Dyuers Maters | 1529 |
| falsesome | Deceitful, untrue. | Debellacyon Salem & Bizance | 1533 |
| falsifier | One who falsifies. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| farcing | concr. Stuffing, forcemeat. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| far-fet | = far-fetched adj. 2. | Answere Poysened Bk. | 1533 |
| fiendish | Resembling, or characteristic of, a fiend; superhumanly cruel and malignant. Also as adv., excessively, horribly. | Dialoge of Comfort | 1529 |
| fisting | That fists: applied as a contemptuous epithet. fisting cur, fisting dog, fisting hound: a small pet dog (cf. foisting hound). | Dialoge of Comfort | 1529 |
| fitters | With pl. concord. Fragments, pieces, atoms. In various obvious phrases, as to tear to fitters… | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| fleck | Used in proverbial phrase fleck and his make, a contemptuous designation for a man and his paramour. | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| fleering | The action of fleer v. | Debellacyon Salem & Bizance | 1533 |
| fobby | ? = foggy adj. | Wks. | 1534 |
| folio | A leaf of paper, parchment, etc. (either loose as one of a series, or in a bound volume) which is numbered only on the front. | Debellacyon Salem & Bizance | 1533 |
| forceless | Without force; devoid of force. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| foremind | trans. To contemplate or intend beforehand. | Hist. Richard III | 1534 |
| foreseen | That is seen beforehand; also, †known beforehand by sight to. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| forewalker | = forerunner n. | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| forthcoming | A coming forth; esp. †appearance in court. | Apol. | 1533 |
| fortune | Mayhap, haply, perchance. | Hist. Richard III | 1534 |
| framp | intr. Perh.: To revel, indulge greedily. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| frapart | Only in friar frapart. | Mery Gest | 1516 |
| friar | intr. To act as a friar, play the friar. | Mery Gest | 1516 |
| fumbling | fig. That does something clumsily or awkwardly; also, hesitating in speech, mumbling. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| fuming | The action of fume v. in various senses. | Dialoge of Comfort | 1529 |
| function | The kind of action proper to a person as belonging to a particular class, esp. to the… | Confutation Barnes | 1533 |
| game-player | An actor or other stage performer. Also occas.: an athlete. Obs. | 2nd Pt. Confut. Tyndals Answere | 1533 |
| gaud | intr. To make merry; to sport, jest; to scoff (at). | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| glade | fig. ? A gleam of hope. Obs. | Treat. Quatuor Nouissimis | 1522 |
| golofer | ? A glutton. Also blood-golofer. | Supplyc. Soulys | 1529 |
| grass widow | An unmarried woman who has cohabited with one or more men; a discarded mistress. ? Obs. | Dyaloge Dyuers Maters | 1529 |
| grate | trans. To confine within ‘grates’ or bars. | Dyaloge Dyuers Maters | 1529 |
| hammer-head | A head, likened to a hammer; a blockhead. (Cf. beetle-head n.) Obs. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| hance | The lintel of a door or window. Obs. | Treat. Passion | 1534 |
| hard-favoured | Having a hard or unpleasing ‘favour’, appearance, or look; ill-favoured, ugly. | Hist. Richard III | 1534 |
| heretical | Of or pertaining to heresy or heretics; of the nature of heresy. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| himp | intr. To limp, to hobble. | Confutation Barnes | 1533 |
| historically | In a historical manner; in relation or with reference to history. | 2nd Pt. Confut. Tyndals Answere | 1533 |
| Huskin | A Hussite. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| Hussite | A follower of John Huss, the Bohemian religious reformer of the 15th century. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| hyperbole | With a and pl., an instance of this figure. | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| illation | The action of inferring or drawing a conclusion from premisses; hence, that which is… | Debellacyon Salem & Bizance | 1533 |
| imitate | trans. To do or try to do after the manner of; to follow the example of; to copy in action. | Treat. Passion | 1534 |
| immediate | (In some cases perh. Latin immediate, as formerly in French and Italian.) Immediately. Obs. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| immedicable | transf. and fig. | Answere Poysened Bk. | 1533 |
| immolate | Sacrificed, immolated. | Treat. Passion | 1534 |
| immolation | The action of immolating or offering in sacrifice; sacrificial slaughter of a victim; sacrifice. | Treat. Passion | 1534 |
| impenitent | Not penitent or repentant; having no contrition or sorrow for sin; unrepentant, obdurate. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| implacable | That cannot be appeased; irreconcileable; inexorable: of persons, feelings, etc. | Treat. Quatuor Nouissimis | 1522 |
| implied | Contained or stated by implication; involved in what is expressed; necessarily intended… | Dialoge of Comfort | 1529 |
| importable | That may be imported from abroad. | Debellacyon Salem & Bizance | 1533 |
| impunity | Exemption from punishment or penalty. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| incessant | That does not cease; unceasing, ceaseless, continual, either in duration or repetition. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| incestuous | Of the nature of or involving incest. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| incidently | In an incident manner; by the way, casually; incidentally. | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| incogitable | Unthinkable, inconceivable. | Treat. Quatuor Nouissimis | 1522 |
| incorporeal | Having no bodily or material structure; not composed of matter; immaterial. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| incorrupted | Uncorrupted in morals, virtue, chastity, devotion to duty, etc.; = incorrupt adj. 3. | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| increasable | Capable of being increased; susceptible of increase. | Treat. Passion | 1534 |
| incurably | In an incurable manner or condition; to an incurable degree. | Supplyc. Soulys | 1529 |
| indefensible | Incapable of being defended in argument, maintained, or vindicated; unjustifiable, inexcusable. | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| indelible | of a stain on character or reputation, infamy, disgrace, etc. | Supplyc. Soulys | 1529 |
| indifferency | Absence of bias, prejudice, or favour for one side rather than another; impartiality, equity, fairness. Now rare. | Dialoge of Comfort | 1534 |
| inemendable | Incapable of being emended; incurable. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| infamation | The action of holding up to infamy; the spreading of an ill report; defamation. | Apol. | 1533 |
| infatigable | Incapable of being wearied; untiring, indefatigable adj. | Lyfe J. Picus | 1510 |
| inflexibly | In an inflexible manner; rigidly, firmly, obstinately; unalterably. | Dialoge of Comfort | 1534 |
| infliction | The action of inflicting (pain, punishment, annoyance, etc.); in quot. 1616, the fact of being inflicted. | Dialoge of Comfort | 1534 |
| inheritant | = inheritor n. | Wks. | 1534 |
| insectation | Railing, calumniation. | Let. | 1534 |
| insensibility | Incapability, or deprivation, of (physical) feeling or sensation; unconsciousness; a swoon. | Lyfe J. Picus | 1510 |
| insert | trans. To set, put, or place in; to push or thrust in; to fix or fix in; to introduce… | Supplyc. Soulys | 1529 |
| insimulate | trans. To charge, accuse. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| insinuate | Insinuated. (Const. as pa. pple. or adj.) | Treat. Passion | 1534 |
| insinuate | To introduce, convey, or impart to the mind indirectly, covertly, or privily; to infuse or instil subtly or imperceptibly. | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| instruct | Instruction. | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| intender | One who intends or purposes. | Hist. Richard III | 1534 |
| interlacing | The action of the verb interlace v.; interlacement, intermingling. | Confut. Barnes | 1532 |
| interpause | intr. To pause in the midst of something. | Dialoge of Comfort | 1534 |
| interrogatory | An interrogation, a question; spec. in Law: A question formally put, or drawn up in writing… | Apol. | 1533 |
| interrupting | The action of the verb interrupt v.; interruption. (Now only as gerund.) | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| invert | To reverse in regard to position, order, or sequence; to turn in an opposite direction. | Debellacyon Salem & Bizance | 1533 |
| invite | Of a thing: To present inducements to (a person) to do something or proceed to a place or action. | Debellacyon Salem & Bizance | 1533 |
| irrefragable | That cannot be refuted or disproved; incontrovertible, incontestable… | Debellacyon Salem & Bizance | 1533 |
| janizary | One of a former body of Turkish infantry, constituting the Sultan’s guard and the main part… | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| jolt head | prop. jolt head n. /’d???lt’h?d/ A large, clumsy, or heavy head; a stupid head. Obs. | Debellacyon Salem & Bizance | 1533 |
| jowl | A bump; a blow, esp. on the head; a knock, a stroke. | Mery Gest | 1516 |
| Judaical | = Judaic adj. | Confut. Tyndales Answere | 1532 |
| key-cold | Extremely cold; devoid of heat (sometimes with connotations of death). Cf. stone-cold adj.… | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| Kit | Abbreviated pet form of the name Catherine or Kate (cf. kitty n.), used esp. in the obs. phr. Kit has lost her key. | Apol. | 1533 |
| leastwise | As one word = ‘at least’. Somewhat rare. | Dialoge of Comfort | 1534 |
| lightsomely | Clearly, lucidly, manifestly. | Lyfe J. Picus | 1510 |
| liker | One who likes. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| lustre | The quality or condition of shining by reflected light; sheen, refulgence; gloss. | Treat. Quatuor Nouissimis | 1522 |
| Mahometan | = Mohammedan n. | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| makebate | A person who or (occas.) thing which creates contention or discord; a fomenter of strife. Now arch. | Supplyc. Soulys | 1529 |
| martial law | Originally: measures taken within a country for the defeat of rebels or invaders… | Debellacyon Salem & Bizance | 1533 |
| masquer | A person who takes part in a masquerade or masque; a person in masquerade, a masquerader. Also fig. | Answere Poysened Bk. | 1533 |
| mayhem | trans. To inflict mayhem or physical injury on (a person); to maim. Also fig. | 2nd Pt. Confut. Tyndals Answere | 1533 |
| mendable | Able to be mended; capable of improvement. | Apol. | 1533 |
| mesh | trans. To entangle as if in a net; to involve inextricably. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| minatory | Expressing, uttering, or conveying a threat; (also) of the nature of a threat or menace; threatening, menacing. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| mincing | The action of extenuating, minimizing, palliating, or glossing over a matter; the… | Debellacyon Salem & Bizance | 1533 |
| mingling | The action of mingle v. (in various senses); an instance of this, a mixture. | Hist. Richard III | 1534 |
| minishment | The action or process of making or becoming less; diminution. | Debellacyon Salem & Bizance | 1533 |
| misaffectionate | Ill-disposed. | Let. to T. Cromwell | 1533 |
| misbestow | trans. To bestow wrongly or improperly. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| miscasting | The action or process of mislaying something. Obs. | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| misconstruction | The action or an act of misconstruing words or actions; misinterpretation. | Hist. Richard III | 1534 |
| misconstruing | Misinterpretation; misunderstanding. | Hist. Richard III | 1534 |
| misframing | The action or process of shaping or framing something badly or incorrectly. | Apol. | 1533 |
| misgive | trans. Of a person’s heart, mind: to incline (the person) to doubt or apprehension, to… | Hist. Richard III | 1534 |
| misguess | intr. To guess wrongly. | Debellacyon Salem & Bizance | 1533 |
| misoccupy | trans. To occupy or employ wrongly. | Treat. Passion | 1534 |
| misordered | Badly behaved, disorderly; ill-conducted. Obs. | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| misrehearse | trans. To misquote, misrecite. Also intr. | Debellacyon Salem & Bizance | 1533 |
| misremember | trans. To remember wrongly or imperfectly; to have an imperfect recollection of. Also (Sc. and Irish English): to forget. | Answere Poysened Bk. | 1533 |
| mistetch | trans. To teach bad habits to; to train badly. | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| mistranslate | trans. To translate incorrectly. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| mistrustful | Full of or marked by mistrust; lacking in trust or confidence; distrustful or suspicious (of something or someone). | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| misunderstander | A person who misunderstands. | Supplyc. Soulys | 1529 |
| monopoly | The exclusive possession or control of the trade in a commodity, product, or… | Treat. Passion | 1534 |
| monosyllable | A word consisting of only one syllable. | Debellacyon Salem & Bizance | 1533 |
| mootable | Capable of being mooted; open to discussion, debatable. Also: of or relating to a moot court. | Debellacyon Salem & Bizance | 1533 |
| mutilate | trans. To render (a thing, esp. a book or other document) imperfect by cutting out or… | Treat. Passion | 1534 |
| mutton-monger | A man who is sexually promiscuous or who has dealings with prostitutes. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| necessitate | Necessitated; obliged. Chiefly as pa. pple. | 2nd Pt. Confut. Tyndals Answere | 1533 |
| newfangly | In a newfangled manner. | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| nidiot | An idiot, a fool. | 2nd Pt. Confut. Tyndals Answere | 1533 |
| night school | A group meeting for instruction or discussion at night. Obs. rare. | Dyaloge Dyuers Maters | 1529 |
| obstruction | The action or an act of blocking or rendering impassable an opening, passage… | Apologye | 1533 |
| old order | Usu. with the. An old or outmoded method or system of doing things; spec. an old… | Debellacyon Salem & Bizance | 1533 |
| opinatively | = opinionatively adv. 2. | Apol. | 1533 |
| overburden | trans. To put too great a physical burden or weight upon; to burden too much; to… | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| over-familiar | Too familiar, too well known; too well acquainted with. Also: inappropriately or unduly intimate or informal. | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| overliberal | Excessively liberal. | Hist. Richard III | 1534 |
| oversearch | trans. To search all over or through; to examine thoroughly. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| overwalk | trans. poet. To walk over; to traverse by walking. Obs. | Confutation Barnes | 1533 |
| pacifier | A person who or thing which pacifies someone or something. | Apologye | 1533 |
| packstaff | A staff on which a pedlar supports his or her pack when resting. | Confutacion Tyndales Aunswere | 1534 |
| paradox | A statement or tenet contrary to received opinion or belief, esp. one that is difficult to believe. Obs. | 2nd Pt. Confut. Tyndals Answere | 1533 |
| passioned | Affected with or marked by passion; dominated by passion or strong feeling; impassioned. Cf. passionate adj. 3c. | XII Propertees | 1525 |
| pat | To hit or strike (a person or thing) with a flat or blunt implement or with the hand. Obs. (in later use Brit. regional). | 2nd Pt. Confut. Tyndals Answere | 1533 |
| peccadilian | = peccadillo n. | Supplyc. Soulys | 1529 |
| peddling | Of a person: following the occupation of a pedlar; travelling around with small goods… | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| periphrasis | Chiefly Rhetoric. A figure of speech in which a meaning is expressed by several words… | Apol. | 1533 |
| perniciously | In a pernicious manner; harmfully; insidiously; wickedly. | Answere Poysened Bk. | 1533 |
| pilfer | To steal (property), esp. in small quantities; to filch. Also fig. | Confut. Tyndales Answere | 1532 |
| pine bank | The rack as an instrument of torture; = rack n. 2b. | Dialoge of Comfort | 1534 |
| pit-a-pat | With a series of rapidly alternating or repeated light sounds, as of a quick… | Treat. Last Thynges | 1534 |
| playfellow | A playmate. | Hist. Richard III | 1534 |
| political | Of, belonging to, or concerned with the form, organization, and administration of a… | Dyaloge Dyuers Maters | 1529 |
| popess | A female pope; (also occas.) the wife of a pope. Also in extended use. | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| pot | A grimace. Also in to make a pot at: to pull a face at. In quot. 1553: a popping sound… | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| pot | trans. To deride, mock. rare. | Confut. Tyndales Answere | 1532 |
| pot-headed | Stupid; thickheaded. | Apol. | 1533 |
| precide | trans. To cut off; (fig.) to excommunicate. | Dyaloge Dyuers Maters | 1529 |
| precision | Chiefly Philos. The action or an act of separating or cutting off, esp. the mental… | Dyaloge Dyuers Maters | 1529 |
| pretending | The action of pretend v.; pretence; esp. the making of a false profession or show; an instance of this. | Debellacyon Salem & Bizance | 1533 |
| pretext | A reason put forward to conceal one’s real purpose or object; a pretended motivation for… | Hist. Richard III | 1534 |
| priapist | A lascivious person (typically a man); a lecher. Also (implied in quot. 1897): †a worshipper of Priapus (obs. rare). | Confut. Tyndales Answere | 1532 |
| puling | The action of pule v.; whining, plaintive piping or crying; a complaint. | Treat. Last Thynges | 1534 |
| puling | Chiefly depreciative. Crying querulously or weakly, as a child; whining, feebly wailing. | Supplyc. Soulys | 1529 |
| pulpit | trans. To provide with a pulpit, or place in the pulpit. Now rare. | Dyaloge Dyuers Maters | 1529 |
| purse ring | A ring, or one of two sliding rings, with which a purse may be closed. Now rare. | Dialoge of Comfort | 1534 |
| purvey | An arrangement, a provision. Obs. rare. | How Sergeaunt wolde Lerne | 1534 |
| quaffing | The action of quaff v.; copious drinking (usually of alcohol); an instance of this. | 2nd Pt. Confut. Tyndals Answere | 1533 |
| quaternity | A group or set of four persons or things; esp. a group of four persons or aspects… | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| quip | Originally: a sharp, sarcastic, or cutting remark, esp. one cleverly or wittily… | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| reanswer | To answer; to give answer to. Obs. | Let. | 1523 |
| refrigerate | Chiefly Med. To cool (the body or a part of the body); to reduce (bodily heat or fever). Occasionally also intr. Now rare. | Dialoge of Comfort | 1534 |
| reprobate | Theol. A person who has been rejected by God, an unredeemed sinner; spec. a person who… | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| re-prove | trans. To prove again (in various senses). | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| requit | trans. To repay, requite. | Confut. Tyndales Answere | 1532 |
| residuation | Probably an editorial misreading of recidivation n. (independently in two separate… | Dialoge of Comfort | 1534 |
| resiluation | Recurrence of a disease; relapse. | Grafton’s Contn. Harding | 1513 |
| resorter | A frequenter or visitor (to a place or person). Now rare except as merged with sense 3a. | Apol. | 1533 |
| resuscitate | To restore (a person) to life after death; to restore spiritual life to. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| revealed | That has been revealed; brought to light; disclosed, divulged, made known, esp. by divine or supernatural means. | 2nd Pt. Confut. Tyndals Answere | 1533 |
| revince | trans. To refute, disprove. | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| rhymeless | Without rhyme; unrhymed. | Confut. Barnes | 1532 |
| ribaldiously | In a ribald manner. Cf. ribaldious adj. | Let. Impugnynge J. Fryth | 1530 |
| ruffle | Riotous disturbance, tumult; contention, dispute. | Confut. Tyndales Answere | 1532 |
| sacre | Sacred. | Hist. Richard III | 1534 |
| saintish | Saint-like. (Chiefly contemptuous.) | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| saintly | Holily. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| Samaritanish | Belonging to Samaria; Samaritan. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| sauce malapert | Impertinence, insolence. | Supplyc. Soulys | 1529 |
| scald | Affected with the ‘scall’; scabby. | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| scriptured | Learned or versed in the Scriptures; well acquainted with Holy Scripture. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| scripturely | Scripturally. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| scud | intr. To run or move briskly or hurriedly; to dart nimbly from place to place. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| sheepishly | In a sheepish manner; †like sheep; †meekly, timorously, or submissively to an… | Dialogue Heresyes | 1528 |
| shuffle | to shuffle up: to get or put together hastily or in a perfunctory manner; to patch up. Obs. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| sightly | Visible; conspicuous. Obs. | Confut. Barnes | 1532 |
| signifier | A person who or thing which signifies or indicates something. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| slugging | The fact or practice of playing the sluggard. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| snakish | Of or pertaining to a snake; snake-like, snaky. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| solidity | The quality of being solid or substantial, in various figurative or transferred senses. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| sopping | The action of the vb. in various senses; a thorough soaking or wetting. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| sorority | A body or company of women united for some common object, esp. for devotional purposes; †U.S.… | Confut. Barnes | 1532 |
| souterly | Resembling a souter; of a common or vulgar type. | Treat. Passion | 1534 |
| spiring | A breathing; a blowing. | Answere Poysened Bk. | 1533 |
| spitefully | In a spiteful manner; with spite. | Confut. Tyndales Answere | 1532 |
| spurn-point | An old game, perh. of the nature of hop-scotch. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| stage play | A dramatic performance; also, a dramatic composition adapted for representation on the stage. (Cf. play n. 17.) | Hist. Richard III | 1534 |
| stewed | Belonging to the stews. stewed whore, stewed strumpet: vaguely used as opprobrious epithets imputing unchastity. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| stop-gap | An argument in defence of some point attacked. Obs. | Debellacyon Salem & Bizance | 1533 |
| subornation | Chiefly Law. The action of procuring a person, esp. a witness, to give false evidence; an instance of this. | Dialogue Heresyes | 1528 |
| summarily | In a summary or compendious manner; chiefly of statement, in few words, compendiously, briefly. | Dialogue Heresyes | 1528 |
| surreptitious | Characterized by or of the nature of ‘surreption’; stealthily suggested to or introduced into the mind. | Treat. Passion | 1534 |
| swaddling | The action of swaddle v.; wrapping in swaddling-clothes; swathing, bandaging. | Treat. Quatuor Nouissimis | 1522 |
| Talmud | In the wide sense, The body of Jewish civil and ceremonial traditionary law, consisting… | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| temerarious | Characterized by temerity; unreasonably adventurous; reckless, heedless, rash. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| timbrel | A musical instrument of percussion; a tambourine or the like that could be held up in the hand. | Dialoge of Comfort | 1534 |
| tolter | intr. To move unsteadily; to flounder; to turn or toss about; to hobble; to jolt along. | Supplyc. Soulys | 1529 |
| tongue-tied | fig. Restrained or debarred from speaking or free expression from any cause… | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| tottering | That totters, in various senses of the verb. | Dialoge of Comfort | 1534 |
| trialogue | A dialogue or colloquy between three persons. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| trip-and-go | The action of tripping and going; one who trips and goes, or who uses this expression. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| truanting | The action of the verb truant v.; an instance of this. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| unacquainted | Of persons: Not personally known (to one). Obs. (Cf. 4.) | Supplyc. Soulys | 1529 |
| unbestowed | (un- prefix 8.) | Dialoge of Comfort | 1534 |
| unchosen | (un- prefix 8b.) | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| uncogitable | (un- prefix 7b 5b.) | Supplyc. Soulys | 1529 |
| unconsecrate | = unconsecrated adj. | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| uncontrolled | Not checked by comparison with facts; untested as to accuracy. Obs. | Supplyc. Soulys | 1529 |
| undecayable | (un- prefix 7b.) | Treat. Passion | 1534 |
| undeceivable | Incapable of deceiving; undeceptive; certain, sure. Obs. | Dialoge of Comfort | 1534 |
| undefensible | = indefensible adj. 2. | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| undelible | = indelible adj. | Treat. Passion | 1534 |
| under-gaoler | (under- prefix 3a(a).) | Dialoge of Comfort | 1534 |
| underpin | fig. To support, corroborate. | Treat. Quatuor Nouissimis | 1522 |
| underprop | In fig. context. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| underpropper | One who or that which supports or sustains. †Also spec. (see supportasse n.). | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| undiscerned | (un- prefix 8 5b.) | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| unexplicable | = inexplicable adj. 2. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| unfallible | = infallible adj. (Common 1530 – 1620.) | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| unfriended | Not provided with friends; friendless. | Hist. Richard III | 1534 |
| unholiness | The quality of being unholy; lack of holiness or sanctity. | Treat. Passion | 1534 |
| unhouseled | Not having had the Eucharist administered. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| unjustice | = injustice n. Obs. exc. Sc. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| unlaugh | (un- prefix 3.) | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| unlearnedly | (un- prefix 11; cf. unlearned adj.) | Confut. Barnes | 1532 |
| unloving | (un- prefix 10 5d.) | Supplyc. Soulys | 1529 |
| unminished | (un- prefix 8.) | Answere Poysened Bk. | 1533 |
| unministered | Not administered (to a person). | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| unpersuaded | (un- prefix 8.) | Dialoge of Comfort | 1534 |
| unprinted | (un- prefix 8.) | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| unprobable | Improbable, unlikely. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| unprocured | (un- prefix 8.) | Dialoge of Comfort | 1534 |
| unransacked | (un- prefix 8. Cf. ON. úrannsakaðr, Middle Swedish oransakadher.) | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| unread | (un- prefix 3.) | Debellacyon Salem & Bizance | 1533 |
| unrevealed | (un- prefix 8 5b.) | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| unseparably | (un- prefix 11 5b.) | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| unsoiled | Unsolved, unanswered. | Answere Poysened Bk. | 1533 |
| unsorted | Not arranged or put in order. | Apol. | 1533 |
| unsuspected | Without being suspected. | Let. Impugnynge J. Fryth | 1530 |
| unsworn | Of persons: Not subjected to, or bound by, an oath. | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| untoothed | Not having, deprived of, teeth. | Hist. Richard III | 1534 |
| unwomanly | Not befitting or characteristic of a woman; inappropriate to womanly character. | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| vehemence | Great or excessive ardour, eagerness, or fervour of personal feeling or action; passionate force, violence, or excitement. | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| vernal | vernal equinox (or †equinoctial): see equinox n. 1 2. | Treat. Passion | 1534 |
| vie | In card-playing: A challenge, venture, or bid; a sum ventured or staked on one’s cards.… | Debellacyon Salem & Bizance | 1533 |
| vitiate | trans. To render incomplete, imperfect, or faulty; to impair or spoil. | Treat. Passion | 1534 |
| vocabulary | A collection or list of words with brief explanations of their meanings; now esp. a list… | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| volupteous | Voluptuous. | Hist. Richard III | 1534 |
| vow-breaker | One who breaks his or her vow. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| vowed | Bound by religious vows. Obs. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| warmly | Fervently, earnestly. | Supplyc. Soulys | 1529 |
| welfare | The optative phrase well fare (you, it, etc.), used either as a genuine expression of… | Dialoge of Comfort | 1534 |
| well-continued | Diligently carried on or maintained. | Dialoge of Comfort | 1534 |
| well-favouredly | Beautifully, handsomely; attractively, gracefully. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| well-minded | Having, or actuated by, a good disposition or intention; right-minded, loyal; †generously or favourably disposed, benevolent. | Treat. Quatuor Nouissimis | 1522 |
| well-spent | Of time, life: Passed profitably and virtuously. | Dialoge of Comfort | 1534 |
| whimpering | The action of the verb whimper v. | Treat. Quatuor Nouissimis | 1522 |
| winer | A vintner. ? Obs. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| witherling | A withered branch; a shrivelled or stunted person. | Dialogue Heresyes | 1528 |
| youngly | In the manner of a young person; youthfully, immaturely. | Let. Impugnynge J. Fryth | 1530 |
| Zwinglian | A follower of Ulrich Zwingli (1484 – 1531), the Swiss religious reformer. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
Quotations providing first particular meaning of a word
| Richard III | 1534 | ||
| godly | Of persons; also absol. as pl. the godly. | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| golden mediocrity | = golden mean at 5c(a). Obs. | Lyfe J. Picus | 1510 |
| golofer | ? A glutton. Also blood-golofer. | Supplyc. Soulys | 1529 |
| gosling | The figure of a gosling. | Wks. | 1534 |
| grace | Appropriateness of behaviour (in a particular situation); seemliness, becomingness.… | Treat. Quatuor Nouissimis | 1522 |
| grass widow | An unmarried woman who has cohabited with one or more men; a discarded mistress. ? Obs. | Dyaloge Dyuers Maters | 1529 |
| gross | Wanting in clearness or definiteness; rough, approximate, general, indefinite. Of an instrument: Wanting in delicacy. Obs. | Treat. Passion | 1534 |
| guardian | spec. in Law. A person who has, or is by law entitled to, the custody of the person or… | Hist. Richard III | 1534 |
| guess | with simple obj. | Hist. Richard III | 1534 |
| gun-shot | The range of a gun or cannon; the distance to which a shot can be effectively thrown from… | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| handicraft | Skilled manual labour; skill or expertise in making things by hand; craftsmanship. Also in extended use. Cf. handcraft n. | Dialoge of Comfort | 1534 |
| handmaid | fig. An abstract or immaterial thing considered as auxiliary to another in a subordinate capacity; an adjunct. | Answere Poysened Bk. | 1533 |
| hard | Having the aspect, sound, etc., of what is physically hard (sense A. 1); harsh or… | Hist. Richard III | 1534 |
| hare | The male or buck hare is sometimes called Jack hare. During March (the breeding season)… | Supplyc. Soulys | 1529 |
| harmless | Doing or causing no harm; not injurious or hurtful; inoffensive, innocuous. | Answere Poysened Bk. | 1533 |
| in haste | (in sense 3) With quickness of action due to being pressed for time; with speed, speedily. | Hist. Richard III | 1534 |
| hemp | In allusion to a rope for hanging. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| heretical | Of or pertaining to heresy or heretics; of the nature of heresy. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| home | To the very heart or root of a matter; so as to affect intimately or personally; fully, directly, effectively. See also 2. | Confut. Tyndales Answere | 1532 |
| hyperbole | With a and pl., an instance of this figure. | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| ill-featured | Hist. Richard III | 1534 | |
| imbrue | To stain, dye (one’s hand, sword, etc.) in or with (blood, slaughter, etc.). | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| immediate | Of a relation or action between two things: Acting or existing without any intervening… | Apol. | 1533 |
| immedicable | transf. and fig. | Answere Poysened Bk. | 1533 |
| impatient | With of: Unable or unwilling to endure or put up with; intolerant of. | Hist. Richard III | 1534 |
| import | To convey in its meaning; to bear the meaning of; to imply, signify, denote, mean. | Debellacyon Salem & Bizance | 1533 |
| importunate | Inopportune, unseasonable, untimely; = importune adj. 1. Obs. | Supplyc. Soulys | 1529 |
| importunately | Inopportunely, untimely, unseasonably. Obs. | Supplyc. Soulys | 1529 |
| incessant | That does not cease; unceasing, ceaseless, continual, either in duration or repetition. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| incestuous | Of the nature of or involving incest. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| inclusive | An inclusive proposition or particle. Cf. exclusive n. 1. | Debellacyon Salem & Bizance | 1533 |
| incogitable | Unthinkable, inconceivable. | Treat. Quatuor Nouissimis | 1522 |
| inconstance | Inconsistency: = inconstancy n. 3. | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| incorporeal | Having no bodily or material structure; not composed of matter; immaterial. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| incorrupted | Uncorrupted in morals, virtue, chastity, devotion to duty, etc.; = incorrupt adj. 3. | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| indelible | of a mark, stamp, or character impressed upon anything; spec. of the spiritual… | Confut. Barnes | 1532 |
| indifferent | Having a neutral relation to (two or more things); impartially pertinent or applicable. Obs. | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| induce | To introduce, bring in, present (a person). | Dialoge of Comfort | 1534 |
| infamous | of persons, their attributes, etc. | Debellacyon Salem & Bizance | 1533 |
| infatigable | Incapable of being wearied; untiring, indefatigable adj. | Lyfe J. Picus | 1510 |
| infection | Communication of bad or harmful beliefs or opinions; corruption of faith or loyalty by heretical or seditious principles. | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| infer | To lead to (something) as a conclusion; to involve as a consequence; to imply. (Said of a… | Let. Impugnynge J. Fryth | 1530 |
| infidel | From a non-Christian (esp. Jewish or Muslim) point of view: = Gentile, Giaour, etc. | Dialoge of Comfort | 1534 |
| inflexibly | In an inflexible manner; rigidly, firmly, obstinately; unalterably. | Dialoge of Comfort | 1534 |
| infounding | infusion. | Confut. Tyndales Answere | 1532 |
| inheritant | = inheritor n. | Wks. | 1534 |
| insectation | Railing, calumniation. | Let. | 1534 |
| insert | trans. To set, put, or place in; to push or thrust in; to fix or fix in; to introduce… | Supplyc. Soulys | 1529 |
| insimulate | trans. To charge, accuse. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| insinuate | Insinuated. (Const. as pa. pple. or adj.) | Treat. Passion | 1534 |
| insinuation | The suggestion or hinting of anything indirectly, covertly, or by allusion or… | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| instruct | Instruction. | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| integrity | The condition of having no part or element taken away or wanting; undivided or… | Answere Poysened Bk. | 1533 |
| intender | One who intends or purposes. | Hist. Richard III | 1534 |
| interlace | To interweave one thing or set of things into another; to introduce as by interweaving… | Confut. Barnes | 1532 |
| interpause | intr. To pause in the midst of something. | Dialoge of Comfort | 1534 |
| interrogatory | An interrogation, a question; spec. in Law: A question formally put, or drawn up in writing… | Apol. | 1533 |
| inveigh | intr. To give vent to violent denunciation, reproach, or censure; to rail loudly. Const. against… | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| inward | Existing in or pertaining to the country or place itself; domestic, intestine. Obs. or arch. | Hist. Richard III | 1534 |
| irk | Of a thing: To affect with weariness, dislike, or disgust; to weary, tire; to trouble; to disgust, to ‘bore’. Also absol. arch. | Hist. Richard III | 1534 |
| iterate | as pa. pple.: see iterate v. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| jester | One who jests, or speaks or acts in jest; a person given to uttering jests or witticisms; a joker. | Lyfe J. Picus | 1510 |
| jolly | ironically. (Cf. ‘pretty’, ‘fine’, Sc. ‘bonny’.) | Treat. Passion | 1534 |
| jolt head | prop. jolt head n. /’d???lt’h?d/ A large, clumsy, or heavy head; a stupid head. Obs. | Debellacyon Salem & Bizance | 1533 |
| Judaical | = Judaic adj. | Confut. Tyndales Answere | 1532 |
| key-cold | Extremely cold; devoid of heat (sometimes with connotations of death). Cf. stone-cold adj.… | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| Lady Luck | = fortune n. 1a (cf. Dame Fortune at dame n. 6a). | Dauy the Dycer | 1534 |
| languish | Of an activity or emotion: to grow slack, lose vigour or intensity. Also of light, colour, sound, etc.: †to become faint (obs.). | Lyfe J. Picus | 1510 |
| lash | To lavish, squander. Chiefly with out. Obs. | Hist. Richard III | 1534 |
| lash | To pour out or forth impetuously (words, etc.). | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| lawyer | A lawmaker. Obs. | Treat. Passion | 1534 |
| laywoman | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 | |
| leastwise | As one word = ‘at least’. Somewhat rare. | Dialoge of Comfort | 1534 |
| legal | Of or pertaining to law; falling within the province of law. | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| leving | believing. | Confut. Tyndale | 1533 |
| liberty | Speech or action going beyond the bounds of propriety or custom; presumptuous behaviour; licence. Now rare. | Dyaloge Dyuers Maters | 1529 |
| like | With direct obj. and inf. or complementary pa. pple. or adj., or (now rarely) a clause introduced by that. | Treat. Passion | 1534 |
| liker | One who likes. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| lineament | In narrower sense, a portion of the face viewed with respect to its outline; a feature. | Hist. Richard III | 1534 |
| linger | To keep waiting, put off (a person). Also with off. Obs. | Let. | 1534 |
| lukewarm | Of persons, their actions, attributes, etc.: Having little warmth or depth of… | Treat. Quatuor Nouissimis | 1522 |
| lustly | Lustily, vigorously. | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| Mahometan | = Mohammedan n. | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| to make for —— | intr. To pretend, assert. Obs. | Treat. Quatuor Nouissimis | 1522 |
| malign | trans. To regard with hatred or bitter dislike. Also: to resent, take amiss. Obs. | Hist. Richard III | 1534 |
| mammering | A state of doubt, hesitation, or perplexity; chiefly in in a mammering. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| mangle | To make (words) almost unrecognizable by mispronunciation; to spoil, corrupt, misrepresent… | Confut. Tyndale | 1533 |
| mark | trans. (in pass.). Of a feature, etc.: to be (more or less) strikingly noticeable.… | Debellacyon Salem & Bizance | 1533 |
| marrowbone | A type of children’s game (perh. involving the striking of two bones together to make music; cf. sense 1c). Obs. | 2nd Pt. Confut. Tyndals Answere | 1533 |
| martial law | Originally: measures taken within a country for the defeat of rebels or invaders… | Debellacyon Salem & Bizance | 1533 |
| Marymass | A mass in honour of the Virgin Mary. by the Mary mass: used in the 16th cent. to express asseveration. Now hist. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| masque | An entertainment in which masked participants dance; a masquerade, a masked ball. Also fig. Now rare. | Answere Poysened Bk. | 1533 |
| masquer | A person who takes part in a masquerade or masque; a person in masquerade, a masquerader. Also fig. | Answere Poysened Bk. | 1533 |
| neither mass nor matins | neither mass nor matins: nothing of very serious import. Obs. | Dialogue Heresyes | 1528 |
| the matter | Something contemplated, intended, or desired. Esp. in to the matter: to the… | Treat. Passion | 1534 |
| may | In clauses (introduced by that, lest) depending on fear (verb or noun), afraid, and the like. | Wks. | 1513 |
| mayhem | trans. To inflict mayhem or physical injury on (a person); to maim. Also fig. | 2nd Pt. Confut. Tyndals Answere | 1533 |
| mean | trans. To intend (a remark, allusion, etc.) to have a particular reference. With †at, †by, for… | Hist. Edward V | 1513 |
| measuring | Dimension, magnitude. Obs. | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| mediocrity | More generally: the quality or condition of being intermediate between two… | Lyfe J. Picus | 1510 |
| to meet with | intr. To oppose, contend with (an error, objection, or malpractice), take precautions… | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| mention-making | the action or an act of mentioning something. | Treat. Passion | 1534 |
| mercenary | Of conduct, a course of action, etc., or its motivation: characterized by self-interest… | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| to mince the matter | trans. to mince the matter: to extenuate or make light of the particular matter in… | Debellacyon Salem & Bizance | 1533 |
| mincing | The action of extenuating, minimizing, palliating, or glossing over a matter; the… | Debellacyon Salem & Bizance | 1533 |
| minded | Habitually thinking, inclined to think, or capable of thinking in a specified manner. | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| mingling | The action of mingle v. (in various senses); an instance of this, a mixture. | Hist. Richard III | 1534 |
| minority | The condition or fact of being smaller, inferior, or subordinate in relation to something else; an instance of this. Obs. | Answere Poysened Bk. | 1533 |
| misbestow | trans. To bestow wrongly or improperly. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| miscasting | The action or process of mislaying something. Obs. | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| misconstruing | Misinterpretation; misunderstanding. | Hist. Richard III | 1534 |
| misframing | The action or process of shaping or framing something badly or incorrectly. | Apol. | 1533 |
| mismark | trans. To mark incorrectly or wrongly. Freq. in pass. | Answere Poysened Bk. | 1533 |
| misremember | trans. To remember wrongly or imperfectly; to have an imperfect recollection of. Also (Sc. and Irish English): to forget. | Answere Poysened Bk. | 1533 |
| misreport | trans. To speak ill of; to slander. Obs. | Dialoge of Comfort | 1529 |
| mistetch | trans. To teach bad habits to; to train badly. | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| mistrustful | Full of or marked by mistrust; lacking in trust or confidence; distrustful or suspicious (of something or someone). | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| monopoly | The exclusive possession or control of the trade in a commodity, product, or… | Treat. Passion | 1534 |
| monstrously | In the manner or form of a monster; (of an animal) with congenital malformation. Also in extended use. | Confut. Barnes | 1532 |
| mortality | Theol. The quality in a sin of being mortal. Obs. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| mystery | Something known only to a particular person; a personal secret. Obs. | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| mystical | Spiritually allegorical or symbolic. | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| necessity | The constraining power of something. Obs. | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| neglect | trans. To disregard; to pay little or no respect or attention to; to slight, leave unnoticed. | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| neither..nor | With two singular subjects and plural verb or anaphoric plural pronoun. | Works | 1513 |
| nephew | In extended use: a prodigal. Obs. rare. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| note | An explanatory or critical annotation or comment appended to a passage in a book, manuscript, etc. | Confut. Tyndales Answere | 1532 |
| occurrent | A thing that occurs, happens, or takes place (formerly sometimes in an adverse way); an… | Let. | 1523 |
| order | Of God or a god: to regulate or determine (occurrences, events, etc.); to ordain. Now arch. and poet. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| order | trans. To take a certain course with (a person or thing); to treat, deal with, or manage in a specified manner. Obs. | Hist. Richard III | 1534 |
| overseen | That has looked into or studied a subject; expert, versed, or skilled to a specified extent in… | Answere Poysened Bk. | 1533 |
| as like as an apple to an oyster | as like as an apple to an oyster and variants: totally different. Obs. | 2nd Pt. Confut. Tyndals Answere | 1533 |
| pacifier | A person who or thing which pacifies someone or something. | Apologye | 1533 |
| packstaff | A staff on which a pedlar supports his or her pack when resting. | Confutacion Tyndales Aunswere | 1534 |
| pallet chamber | Hist. Richard III | 1534 | |
| to part a fray | to part a fight (also †fray): to put an end to a fight by separating the combatants. Cf. sense 4a. Now rare. | Apologye | 1533 |
| paschal | The Passover celebration. Also: Passover supper; Passover lamb. Obs. | Treat. Passion | 1534 |
| passioned | Affected with or marked by passion; dominated by passion or strong feeling; impassioned. Cf. passionate adj. 3c. | XII Propertees | 1525 |
| patch | To repair, fix, or make whole, esp. hastily or in a clumsy or makeshift manner; spec. to give medical treatment to. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| peccadilian | = peccadillo n. | Supplyc. Soulys | 1529 |
| peddling | Of a person: following the occupation of a pedlar; travelling around with small goods… | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| pedigree | A long series or list of people; a succession, a line. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| a penny for your thoughts | a penny for your thoughts: an invitation to a person lost in thought to share his or her preoccupation. Hence penny for them. | Treat. Last Thynges | 1534 |
| peremptory | Of a statement, conclusion, etc.: incontrovertible; decisive, final. Obs. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| perhaps | An instance of ‘perhaps’ used to qualify a statement; an expression of possibility… | Dialoge of Comfort | 1534 |
| peruse | To go through (a series) by name; to name or recount in order. Obs. rare. | Dialoge of Comfort | 1534 |
| piece | A (usually short) literary composition; an article for a newspaper, journal, or similar publication. | Debellacyon Salem & Bizance | 1533 |
| place | A step or point in an order of progression or consideration. Freq. preceded by in with… | Debellacyon Salem & Bizance | 1533 |
| to hold place | to hold place: to stand one’s ground; to prevail, to hold sway; to have influence or… | Hist. Richard III | 1534 |
| plant | trans. To establish (a principle, doctrine, practice, etc.); to cause to be accepted. | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| playfellow | A playmate. | Hist. Richard III | 1534 |
| plight | A state of mind (esp. to do something); a mood or demeanour. Obs. | Hist. Richard III | 1534 |
| poisoned | fig. and in figurative contexts. See also poisoned chalice n. at Special uses. | Supplyc. Soulys | 1529 |
| politic | A temporizer, esp. in matters of religion; a worldly-wise person. Obs. | Debellacyon Salem & Bizance | 1533 |
| popess | A female pope; (also occas.) the wife of a pope. Also in extended use. | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| pot | A grimace. Also in to make a pot at: to pull a face at. In quot. 1553: a popping sound… | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| pot | trans. To deride, mock. rare. | Confut. Tyndales Answere | 1532 |
| pothecary | General attrib. | Answere Poysened Bk. | 1533 |
| prattle | To talk in a foolish, childish, or inconsequential way; to chatter at length, esp. about unimportant matters. Now freq. with on. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| predestinate | Chiefly Theol. A person predestined to salvation or eternal life; one of God’s elect.… | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| pretext | A reason put forward to conceal one’s real purpose or object; a pretended motivation for… | Hist. Richard III | 1534 |
| prettily | Considerably, very; quite, rather; fairly, moderately. Cf. pretty adv. 1a. Now rare. | Answere Poysened Bk. | 1533 |
| pretty | ironic. Awkward, difficult, deplorable, unwelcome, etc. Cf. fine adj. 12c. | Answere Poysened Bk. | 1533 |
| procuring | The action of obtaining something; acquisition. Cf. procurement n. 2a. | Confut. Tyndales Answere | 1532 |
| puling | Chiefly depreciative. Crying querulously or weakly, as a child; whining, feebly wailing. | Supplyc. Soulys | 1529 |
| purblind | fig. Having imperfect perception or discernment; lacking in or incapable of understanding or foresight; dim-witted; stupid. | Answere Poysened Bk. | 1533 |
| push | intr. Of an ox, cow, etc.: to thrust or butt with the head or horns. Also trans.: to… | 2nd Pt. Confut. Tyndals Answere | 1533 |
| quaffing | The action of quaff v.; copious drinking (usually of alcohol); an instance of this. | 2nd Pt. Confut. Tyndals Answere | 1533 |
| quaternity | A group or set of four persons or things; esp. a group of four persons or aspects… | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| in question | In dispute, in contention; in a doubtful or undecided state. | Dialogue Heresyes | 1528 |
| questionless | Not admitting of question; unquestionable, indubitable. Now rare. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| quip | Originally: a sharp, sarcastic, or cutting remark, esp. one cleverly or wittily… | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| to read through | trans. To peruse from beginning to end. | Apol. | 1533 |
| rebuke | trans. To put to shame, bring into contempt. Obs. rare. | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| reckon | With infinitive. To consider or believe (a person or thing) to do something. | Hist. Richard III | 1534 |
| reducible | That may be referred or assigned to some other thing, or to a place or person. Obs. | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| reel | intr. To walk with a swaying movement of the body and unsteady steps; to move in an… | Supplyc. Soulys | 1529 |
| regendered | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 | |
| reject | To repel, rebuff, snub (a person); to refuse to accept, listen to, or admit; (also) to turn down for employment. | Supplyc. Soulys | 1529 |
| repress | To suppress, stamp out (a practice, idea, etc., perceived as a threat to an authority). | Confut. Tyndales Answere | 1532 |
| reprobate | Theol. A person who has been rejected by God, an unredeemed sinner; spec. a person who… | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| requit | trans. To repay, requite. | Confut. Tyndales Answere | 1532 |
| requite | To retaliate for, avenge (a wrong, injury, etc.). Also intr. | Dyaloge Dyuers Maters | 1529 |
| resemble | To compare (two or more things) with each other. Also with together. Obs. | Debellacyon Salem & Bizance | 1533 |
| resiluation | Recurrence of a disease; relapse. | Grafton’s Contn. Harding | 1513 |
| resuscitate | To restore (a person) to life after death; to restore spiritual life to. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| resuscitate | trans. To revive, renew, or restore vigour to; to breathe new life into. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| revealed | That has been revealed; brought to light; disclosed, divulged, made known, esp. by divine or supernatural means. | 2nd Pt. Confut. Tyndals Answere | 1533 |
| revince | trans. To refute, disprove. | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| rhyme | To brave (a matter) out in rhyming terms. Obs. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| ribaldiously | In a ribald manner. Cf. ribaldious adj. | Let. Impugnynge J. Fryth | 1530 |
| to ride out | fig. and in figurative contexts. To survive (pressure, etc.); to endure successfully, to… | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| at rover | Without fixed route or destination; with no settled abode; to walk at rovers: to have no settled abode. Obs. | Dialogue Heresyes | 1528 |
| ruffle | A disturbed state (of the mind); disturbance, perturbation; excitement. | Dialoge of Comfort | 1534 |
| running | The flow of language, esp. verse; an instance of this. Cf. run n. 27a. | 2nd Pt. Confut. Tyndals Answere | 1533 |
| saintish | Saint-like. (Chiefly contemptuous.) | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| Samaritanish | Belonging to Samaria; Samaritan. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| sauce malapert | Impertinence, insolence. | Supplyc. Soulys | 1529 |
| scald | Affected with the ‘scall’; scabby. | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| scale | intr. To come off (or away) in scales, flakes, or thin pieces; to flake or peel off. Also, of skin eruptions: To shed scales. | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| Scottish | Characteristic of Scotland or its people; having characteristics or qualities attributed to people or things from Scotland. | Confut. Barnes | 1532 |
| sequester | With religious signification: To set apart, consecrate to a particular service, to ‘separate’. Obs. | Answere Poysened Bk. | 1533 |
| serious | Of behaviour, thought, etc.: characteristic of such a person; grave, solemn, earnest; deep, not light or superficial. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| set | = to set (a-)going at 114c. | Wks. | 1500 |
| to set forth | To further the progress or advancement of; to promote, advance. Obs. | Dialogue Heresyes | 1528 |
| sheepishly | In a sheepish manner; †like sheep; †meekly, timorously, or submissively to an… | Dialogue Heresyes | 1528 |
| to shuffle up | to shuffle up: to get or put together hastily or in a perfunctory manner; to patch up. Obs. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| signifier | A person who or thing which signifies or indicates something. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| signify | trans. To hint at. Obs. rare. | Hist. Richard III | 1534 |
| sinisterly | In an unfavourable sense; with a bias towards the worst view. Obs. | Supplyc. Soulys | 1529 |
| sinisterly | In a wrongful or wicked manner. Obs. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| slugging | The fact or practice of playing the sluggard. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| society | The fact or condition of participating in some action, event, etc.; participation. Also with of. Obs. | Treat. Passion | 1534 |
| sort | Const. of (persons or things). Obs. | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| sort | With out. To take out, remove, or separate (certain sorts from others). | Dialoge of Comfort | 1534 |
| souse | With up: ? To bring to extremities. Obs. | Dialoge of Comfort | 1534 |
| souterly | Resembling a souter; of a common or vulgar type. | Treat. Passion | 1534 |
| spend | Const. with adverbs, as away, out, up, in various senses. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| spet | trans. Also const. in, out, up. Freq. fig. | Confut. Barnes | 1532 |
| spice | fig. To season, to affect the character or quality of, by means of some addition… | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| spiritual | A spiritual or spiritually-minded person. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| spotted | Disfigured or stained with spots. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| spotted | fig. Morally stained or blemished. | Treat. Quatuor Nouissimis | 1522 |
| squat | Similarly with down. (Cf. 6b.) | Wks. | 1534 |
| stage play | A dramatic performance; also, a dramatic composition adapted for representation on the stage. (Cf. play n. 17.) | Hist. Richard III | 1534 |
| stagger | To begin to doubt or waver in an argument, opinion, or purpose; to become less… | Answere Poysened Bk. | 1533 |
| standard | fig. | Confut. Tyndales Answere | 1532 |
| stay | To refrain from. Obs. | Apologye | 1533 |
| stewed | Belonging to the stews. stewed whore, stewed strumpet: vaguely used as opprobrious epithets imputing unchastity. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| stocking | Detention in the stocks. | Dialoge of Comfort | 1534 |
| straining | An urging or pressing too far, laying undue stress upon; wresting or distortion of meaning, forced construction or interpretion. | Dialogue Heresyes | 1528 |
| strait | To restrict in freedom of action. | Apologye | 1533 |
| strait | To limit in amount or degree; also, to impute limitation to. | Answere Poysened Bk. | 1533 |
| strange | adverbially (now rare), as strange-achieved, strange-composed, strange-digested, strange-moulded, etc. | Dialoge of Comfort | 1534 |
| strangely | In a way that is unusual or exceptional; in an unusual sense. Obs. (Merged in sense 5.) | Confutation Barnes | 1533 |
| stretch-hemp | = stretch-halter n. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| stretcher | An instrument or appliance for expanding material, making it taut, removing its wrinkles, and the like. | Confut. Barnes | 1532 |
| suffrage | orig. A vote given by a member of a body, state, or society, in assent to a proposition… | Dialoge of Comfort | 1534 |
| suffrage | An object, as a pebble, a marked paper, or the like, used to indicate a vote given. rare. | Dialoge of Comfort | 1534 |
| supersubstantial | Christian Church. Above or transcending material substance; spiritual. Chiefly of the Eucharistic bread. | Treat. Passion | 1534 |
| tale | In phrases, as a Canterbury Tale, old wives’ tales, pipers’ tales, travellers’ tales, a tale of… | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| temerarious | Characterized by temerity; unreasonably adventurous; reckless, heedless, rash. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| three | Used vaguely for a small or trifling number; a few. So three or four. Cf. Two or three. | Dialoge of Comfort | 1534 |
| train | With descriptive adjective, as good, fair, etc. Now somewhat arch. | Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. | 1524 |
| trialogue | A dialogue or colloquy between three persons. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| trim-tram | An absurd or silly device or practice; an absurdity; a piece of nonsense. Obs. | Answere Poysened Bk. | 1533 |
| trip-and-go | The action of tripping and going; one who trips and goes, or who uses this expression. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| unchosen | (un- prefix 8b.) | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| uncommanded | Not ordered to do something. | Dialoge of Comfort | 1534 |
| uncontrolled | In predicative use. | Hist. Richard III | 1534 |
| uncontrolled | Not called in question; not gainsaid or disproved; undisputed. Obs. | Dialoge of Comfort | 1534 |
| undeceivable | Incapable of deceiving; undeceptive; certain, sure. Obs. | Dialoge of Comfort | 1534 |
| under-gaoler | (under- prefix 3a(a).) | Dialoge of Comfort | 1534 |
| underpin | fig. To support, corroborate. | Treat. Quatuor Nouissimis | 1522 |
| underpropper | One who or that which supports or sustains. †Also spec. (see supportasse n.). | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| undistinct | = indistinct adj. 1. Obs. | Treat. Passion | 1534 |
| unexplicable | = inexplicable adj. 2. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| unholiness | The quality of being unholy; lack of holiness or sanctity. | Treat. Passion | 1534 |
| unmarked | Unnoticed, unobserved. | Debellacyon Salem & Bizance | 1533 |
| unmeetly | = unmeet adj. 4. | Treat. Passion | 1534 |
| unprayed | Not prayed for; without being prayed for. | Apol. | 1533 |
| unprobable | Improbable, unlikely. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| unprocured | (un- prefix 8.) | Dialoge of Comfort | 1534 |
| unransacked | (un- prefix 8. Cf. ON. úrannsakaðr, Middle Swedish oransakadher.) | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| unread | (un- prefix 3.) | Debellacyon Salem & Bizance | 1533 |
| unrevealed | (un- prefix 8 5b.) | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| urchin | A girl or young woman, esp. of an ill-tempered or roguish disposition. Obs. | Dialoge of Comfort | 1534 |
| valuation | The action or an act of estimating or fixing the monetary value of something, esp. when carried out by a professional valuator. | Supplyc. Soulys | 1529 |
| vantage | An additional amount or sum. for or to the vantage, in addition. vantage of bread (see quot. 1611). Obs. | Supplyc. Soulys | 1529 |
| vehemently | Used with reference to suspicion: cf. vehement adj. 5a. | Debellacyon Salem & Bizance | 1533 |
| vengeable | As an intensive: Very great, severe, strong, intense, etc. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| vie | In card-playing: A challenge, venture, or bid; a sum ventured or staked on one’s cards.… | Debellacyon Salem & Bizance | 1533 |
| vigour | Of words, arguments, etc. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| vitiate | trans. To render incomplete, imperfect, or faulty; to impair or spoil. | Treat. Passion | 1534 |
| vow-breaker | One who breaks his or her vow. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| vowed | Bound by religious vows. Obs. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| vowess | A woman who makes a vow of devotion to a religious life; a nun. | Answere Poysened Bk. | 1533 |
| walk | Followed by a (a prep. 11b) and verbal noun: = go v. 32f. Obs. | Answere Poysened Bk. | 1533 |
| to walk wide in words | to walk wide in words: to argue at cross purposes. Obs. rare. | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| wallet | fig. | Dialogue Heresyes | 1528 |
| wanton | Said of money or wealth, as tempting to extravagance or luxury. Obs. | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| to play the wanton | Phrase. to play the wanton (or †the wantons), to dally, trifle; also, †to behave… | Supplyc. Soulys | 1529 |
| weigh | To amount or be equivalent to. Obs. | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| well-continued | Diligently carried on or maintained. | Dialoge of Comfort | 1534 |
| well-favouredly | Beautifully, handsomely; attractively, gracefully. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| whimpering | The action of the verb whimper v. | Treat. Quatuor Nouissimis | 1522 |
| why | A question beginning with (or consisting of) the word ‘why?’; a question as to the… | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| widowly | pertaining to, characteristic of, or befitting a widow (in quot. 1884, widowed, or having the character of a widow). | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| wive | To furnish with a wife, obtain a wife for; to marry to a wife: chiefly in pa. pple. married (of a man). Obs. or arch. | Hist. Richard III | 1534 |
| workmanship | Action, agency, operation. Obs. | Treat. Passion | 1534 |
| wrest | To turn or deflect (a matter, etc.); to divert to (unto, †into) some different (esp.… | Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. | 1524 |
| wrester | One who wrests, strains, or deflects the meaning or application of words, etc.; a perverter, distorter. | Confut. Tyndale | 1533 |
| to write in the dust | fig. to write in the dust, to write in or on sand, to write in or on water, to write in the wind… | Hist. Edward V | 1513 |
| years and terms | the year-books. | Dialogue Heresyes | 1528 |
| youngly | In the manner of a young person; youthfully, immaturely. | Let. Impugnynge J. Fryth | 1530 |
| Zwinglian | A follower of Ulrich Zwingli (1484 – 1531), the Swiss religious reformer. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
Other quotations
| Lemma | Definition | Work-Title | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| a | After a verb denoting or implying motion and before a verbal noun: to, into (some action). Cf. in prep. 11c, on prep. 23. | Answere Poysened Bk. | 1533 |
| abject | A person cast off or cast out; an outcast, exile; a degraded or downtrodden person. | Dialoge of Comfort | 1529 |
| abomination | A feeling or state of mind of disgust and hatred; detestation, loathing, abhorrence.… | Treat. Quatuor Nouissimis | 1522 |
| abridge | trans. To cut short or reduce (a period of time, as the duration of something); to… | Dialoge of Comfort | 1529 |
| absolutely | In a manner detached from other things; without reference to, consideration of, or… | Confut. Tyndales Answere | 1532 |
| achieve | To carry out successfully, bring to a successful conclusion (an action, enterprise, etc.); to accomplish, bring off. | Hist. Edward V | 1513 |
| acquaintance | As a count noun. | 2nd Pt. Confut. Tyndals Answere | 1533 |
| acquit | trans. To clear of blame or responsibility for, exonerate; spec. to declare not guilty of… | Dyaloge | 1529 |
| acquittal | A judgment or verdict that a person is not guilty of the crime with which they have… | Dyaloge Dyuers Maters | 1529 |
| adherent | A steadfast supporter of a person, party, or cause; a follower, a loyalist. Also with to. rare in later use. | Dyaloge | 1529 |
| adhesion | Steadfast commitment to a person or thing; loyalty, allegiance; fidelity, devotion.… | 2nd Pt. Confut. Tyndals Answere | 1533 |
| adjoin | Without construction. | Supplyc. Soulys | 1529 |
| admit | trans. To accept as true or authoritative; to acknowledge as a fact; to concede. Formerly also †intr. with of (obs.). | 2nd Pt. Confut. Tyndals Answere | 1533 |
| adulterate | To make impure; to corrupt, debase. | 2nd Pt. Confut. Tyndals Answere | 1533 |
| affectionate | Affected or influenced in the mind; disposed, inclined (to). Obs. | 2nd Pt. Confut. Tyndals Answere | 1533 |
| afterhand | Afterwards, subsequently; after the event. Now Sc. and U.S. | Debellacyon Salem & Bizance | 1533 |
| again | Back to or towards the point of starting; all the way back; = back adv. 5. Freq. with… | Hist. Edward V | 1513 |
| againward | On the contrary; on the other hand. | Dialoge of Comfort | 1529 |
| albeit | Without that. | 2nd Pt. Confut. Tyndals Answere | 1533 |
| Alcoran | The sacred book of Islam; = Qur’an n. Usu. with the. Now chiefly hist. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| almose | = alms n. (in various senses). | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| almose | = alms n. (in various senses). | Hist. Richard III | 1534 |
| alms | More generally: praiseworthy or meritorious behaviour; an instance of this; a good or kind… | Dialogue Heresyes | 1528 |
| amender | One who, or that which, amends. Const. usually of. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| amercement | A discretionary penalty or fine; (originally) spec. one imposed on an offender at the… | Hist. Richard III | 1534 |
| antiquity | The quality of being old (in the world’s history) or ancient; long standing, oldness, ancientness. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| apart | of position. | Dialogue Heresyes | 1528 |
| apostle | One who in any way imitates, or may be said to resemble, the Apostles. | Apol. | 1533 |
| appetite | Bent of the mind toward the attainment of an object or purpose; desire, inclination, disposition. | Dialogue Heresyes | 1528 |
| appoint | intr. To determine, resolve, purpose. arch. | Dialoge of Comfort | 1529 |
| approbation | The action of proving true; confirmation, attestation, proof. Obs. | Debellacyon Salem & Bizance | 1533 |
| arche | The ark of the covenant; = ark n. 2. Also transf. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| arise | To rise in rank or eminence. Obs.: see rise v. | Dialoge of Comfort | 1534 |
| article | Each of the members of a small set of words (in English the, a, or an, traditionally… | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| as | In negative and interrogative contexts. Cf. so adv. conj. 21a. | Supplyc. Soulys | 1529 |
| ascribe | trans. To enter (a thing) to in an account, to set it to the credit of; to assign, attribute, impute, refer as due or owing to. | Dialogue Heresyes | 1528 |
| assay | Experiment. put it in assay: make the experiment, try it. Obs. | Treat. Quatuor Nouissimis | 1522 |
| assign | To appoint authoritatively, prescribe (a course of action). Obs. | Answere Poysened Bk. | 1533 |
| assign | To point out exactly, designate, specify. | Debellacyon Salem & Bizance | 1533 |
| at | simply = ‘to.’ Obs. | Dialogue Heresyes | 1528 |
| audible | Perceptible to the ear; capable of being heard. | Dialoge of Comfort | 1529 |
| author | The person on whose authority a statement is made; an authority, an informant. (Usually with poss.… | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| babble | To utter inarticulate or indistinct sounds; to mumble, mutter. Of a baby or young child… | Dialoge of Comfort | 1534 |
| baptism | The action or ceremony of baptizing; immersion of a person in water, or application of… | Dialogue Heresyes | 1528 |
| base | Low in the social scale; not noble, low-born; relating or belonging to the lower social classes. Now chiefly hist. | Treat. Passion | 1534 |
| bead | A small perforated ball or other body, a series of which (formerly called ‘a pair… | Answere Poysened Bk. | 1533 |
| to bear in hand | to bear (an, a, on) in hand: to maintain (a statement); maintain or assert to or… | Dialogue Heresyes | 1528 |
| behead | trans. To deprive (a man or animal) of the head, to decapitate; to kill by cutting off the head. | Hist. Richard III | 1534 |
| behoveful | Useful, of use; advantageous, expedient; needful, necessary, due. | Answere Poysened Bk. | 1533 |
| believe | Theol. Without preposition. To have religious faith. | 2nd Pt. Confut. Tyndals Answere | 1533 |
| bestow | trans. To place, locate; to put in a position or situation, dispose of (in some place). arch. | Dyaloge Dyuers Maters | 1529 |
| betokening | The giving of a sign or token; signification, meaning; emblem, symbol; omen, portent. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| bettering | The action of making better or improving; amelioration, amendment, improvement. | Dialoge of Comfort | 1529 |
| bicched | Precise meaning unknown: in general the sense ‘Cursed, execrable, shrewed,’ suits the context. | Debellacyon Salem & Bizance | 1533 |
| bill | A writing circulated reflecting upon any person; the analogue of the later printed pamphlet or lampoon. Obs. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| boldness | Confidence, assurance, security. upon boldness of: in reliance on, on the security of. Obs. | Hist. Richard III | 1534 |
| boon | transf. The matter prayed for or asked; esp. in to have one’s boon, to grant one his boon.… | Hist. Richard III | 1534 |
| break | trans. To demolish, smash, destroy, ruin; to defeat, foil, frustrate (things… | Hist. Edward V | 1513 |
| bundle | A collection of things bound or otherwise fastened together; a bunch; a package, parcel. | Treat. Passion | 1534 |
| burst | Const. into; also, formerly, with infinitive. Often with out, forth, e.g. †to burst (out, forth)… | Dialogue Heresyes | 1528 |
| busy | Similarly with to do something (formerly also †for, †for to do, something). Now rare. | Answere Poysened Bk. | 1533 |
| butcherly | Like or characteristic of a butcher. Said of persons or their actions. lit. and fig. | Hist. Richard III | 1534 |
| bypath | fig. (Formerly often in a bad sense.) | Dialogue Heresyes | 1528 |
| can | To get to know; to learn, study. Obs. In this sense it was also treated as a weak vb.… | Dialogue Heresyes | 1528 |
| captain | One who stands at the head of others and leads them, or exercises authority over them… | Lyfe J. Picus | 1534 |
| causeless | As adv. or in quasi-adverbial construction. | Debellacyon Salem & Bizance | 1533 |
| church | The whole body of Christians collectively; Christianity. Also called catholic, universal church… | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| clap | A sounding blow or stroke; properly with a flat surface; a slap; in mod. Sc. esp. a pat. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| clutch | The hand, or more commonly in pl. ‘hands in a sense of rapacity and cruelty’ (Johnson).… | Wks. | 1534 |
| cob-nut | A game played by children with nuts. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| colour | To portray in a false light; to put an unfair or untrue interpretation on (words… | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| commissary | Christian Church. An officer exercising spiritual or ecclesiastical jurisdiction… | Apol. | 1533 |
| companion | One who associates with or accompanies another; a mate; a fellow. | Treat. Passion | 1534 |
| comparable | Worthy of comparison; proper, or fit to be compared; to be compared (to). | Lyfe J. Picus | 1510 |
| compass | Circular movement, course, or journey, circuit, round; a roundabout journey, a detour. arch. | Lyfe J. Picus | 1510 |
| compass | with inf. phr. or subord. clause. | Hist. Richard III | 1534 |
| competent | Suitable, fit, appropriate, proper. Obs. in general sense. | Treat. Passion | 1534 |
| compresbyter | A fellow presbyter: cf. co-presbyter n. (in co- prefix). | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| congregation | in sense of the whole body of the faithful, the Church of Christ. | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| conscience | With clear, guilty, etc.: a conscience of the specified kind or in the specified state. | Hist. Richard III | 1534 |
| conscience | Inward knowledge or consciousness of something within or relating to oneself… | Let. to T. Cromwell | 1533 |
| conservation | Preservation of existing conditions, institutions, rights, peace, order, etc. | Debellacyon Salem & Bizance | 1533 |
| constitute | Constituted, appointed, established, etc.; see the verb. | Treat. Passion | 1534 |
| copulation | spec. The union of the sexes in the act of generation. (Now chiefly a term of Zoology.) | Life Henry VIII | 1530 |
| count | The act or way of estimating or regarding; estimate, regard, notice, note; = account n.… | Dialoge of Comfort | 1529 |
| counterfeit | Of writings: Forged, not genuine, spurious. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| cow | pl. | Supplyc. Soulys | 1529 |
| creditor | A person to whom a debt is owing; a person who sells or lends on credit. Correlative to debtor… | Hist. Richard III | 1534 |
| cup-shotten | = cup-shot adj., being the earlier form. | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| cut | = lot n.: in the phrase draw cuts, originally draw (or lay) cut, applied to a ready way… | Apol. | 1533 |
| day | Const. The notion of time how long is expressed by the uninflected word (repr. an… | Hist. Richard III | 1534 |
| dead | Not endowed with life; inanimate. | Treat. Passion | 1534 |
| debt | A liability or obligation to pay or render something; the condition of being under such obligation. | Hist. Richard III | 1534 |
| deducing | deduction. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| demean | trans. To conduct, carry on (a business, action, etc.); to manage, deal with, employ. Obs. | Dialoge of Comfort | 1529 |
| despiteous | orig. = despitous adj.: full of despite, contempt, or ill-will; contemptuous, opprobrious. arch. | Supplyc. Soulys | 1529 |
| despoil | a person. | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| to be determined | to be determined, to have come to a decision or definite resolve (to do something); to… | Hist. Richard III | 1534 |
| devoir | That which one can do, (one’s) utmost or best; endeavour, effort. Chiefly in phr. to do one’s… | Answere Poysened Bk. | 1533 |
| diocesan | One of the clergy or people of a diocese. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| diocese | Ecclesiastical. The sphere of jurisdiction of a bishop; the district under the pastoral care… | Dialogue Heresyes | 1528 |
| discern | trans. To perceive or recognize (a fact, etc.); to comprehend or understand clearly. Freq. with clause as object. | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| discharge | To relieve of a duty, debt, or other obligation; to exempt, release from; spec. to… | Hist. Richard III | 1534 |
| discontinue | trans. To break the continuity of; to interrupt; to sever, divide. Obs. | Dialoge of Comfort | 1529 |
| dispicion | Discussion, disputation. | Answere Poysened Bk. | 1533 |
| disproof | The proving of a thing not to be what is asserted; refutation, confutation; the evidence constituting such refutation. | Answere Poysened Bk. | 1533 |
| distinct | to the senses. | Hist. Richard III | 1534 |
| doctor | One who, by reason of his skill in any branch of knowledge, is competent to teach it… | Lyfe J. Picus | 1510 |
| doublet | attrib. and Comb. (sense 1). | Hist. Richard III | 1534 |
| doubtous | Doubtful; of uncertain existence, meaning, or issue. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| dowsy | Stupid. | Supplyc. Soulys | 1529 |
| dreadful | Full of dread, fear, or awe; fearful, terrified, timid; reverential. Obs. | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| drunk | That has drunk intoxicating liquor to an extent which affects steady… | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| edify | trans. In religious use: To build up (the church, the soul) in faith and holiness… | Dyaloge Dyuers Maters | 1529 |
| efficacy | Power or capacity to produce effects; power to effect the object intended. (Not used… | Confut. Barnes | 1532 |
| employ | To imply, signify. Obs. | Dialoge of Comfort | 1529 |
| Englishly | By means of an English word; in English. Cf. anglice adv. Obs. | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| enhance | To magnify subjectively, make to appear greater; to heighten, exaggerate. | Supplyc. Soulys | 1529 |
| ensearch | The action of ensearch v.; search. | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| ensearcher | One who searches, pries, or inquires into. | Wks. | 1534 |
| ensuingly | In due order or sequence. | Treat. Passion | 1534 |
| entrike | trans. To entangle (a person), ensnare, beguile. | Debellacyon Salem & Bizance | 1533 |
| evil | Of a workman, work, etc.: unskilful. Obs. | Hist. Richard III | 1534 |
| evil-willed | Answere Poysened Bk. | 1533 | |
| exchequer-chamber | ‘A tribunal of error and appeal’ (Wharton) abolished in 1875 by the Judicature… | Dialogue Heresyes | 1528 |
| exclamation | The action of exclaiming or crying out; the loud articulate expression of pain… | Apol. | 1533 |
| exhibit | trans. To offer, present (sacrifice, etc.); to administer (an oath). Obs. | Confut. Barnes | 1532 |
| ex officio | In discharge of one’s duty, in virtue of one’s office; spec. designating a particular type… | Apol. | 1533 |
| expel | With obj. a person, etc.: To eject, dislodge by force from a position; to banish from, compel to quit, a place or country. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| explanation | The action or process of explaining; an instance of the same. in explanation of: for the… | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| exposition | The action of putting, or the condition of being put, out of a place; expulsion. Cf. expose v. 1. Obs. rare. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| faith | A system of religious belief, e.g. the Christian, Jewish, Muslim, etc., faith. Also, confession… | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| fallible | Of rules, opinions, arguments, etc.: Liable to be erroneous, unreliable. | Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. | 1534 |
| familiar | Of, belonging to, or relating to one’s household or family (in early use freq. of an… | Treat. Passion | 1534 |
| fantastical | = fantastic adj. 1. Obs. | Dialoge of Comfort | 1529 |
| fast | In immaterial sense; esp. Of a person, his attributes, feelings, etc.: Not easily… | Hist. Richard III | 1534 |
| to fasten on | to seize on, lay hold of; to single out for attack or censure; to avail oneself eagerly of (a pretext, etc.). | Hist. Richard III | 1534 |
| fawn | intr. To affect a servile fondness; to court favour or notice by an abject demeanour. Const. on… | Lyfe J. Picus | 1510 |
| feared | Affected with fear, frightened, afraid; timid. Const. of, for, indicating either the cause… | Treat. Passion | 1534 |
| featly | Cleverly, deftly, skilfully. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| feebleness | The state or quality of being feeble (in the various senses of the adj.); an instance of this. | Debellacyon Salem & Bizance | 1533 |
| fern | Of time: Former, ancient, of old. | Supplyc. Soulys | 1529 |
| fernyear | A past year. | Supplyc. Soulys | 1529 |
| fervour | Glowing condition, intense heat. | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| filial | Of sentiments, duty, etc.: Due from a child to a parent. filial fear n. see fear n. 3d. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| fleck | Used in proverbial phrase fleck and his make, a contemptuous designation for a man and his paramour. | Confut. Barnes | 1532 |
| flit | intr. To shift one’s position, either in a material or immaterial sense; to be gone… | Dialoge of Comfort | 1529 |
| foam | trans. To send forth or emit in or like foam; to pour out with rage and violence. Chiefly fig. | Wks. | 1534 |
| to fode forth | To waste (time), delay or postpone (a matter) by evasive excuses. Also absol. | Dialoge of Comfort | 1529 |
| forlaboured | Lyfe J. Picus | 1510 | |
| forbearing | The action of forbear v. | Apologye | 1533 |
| forbid | In deprecatory phr. God, Heaven, the Lord forbid, usually with a clause or sentence… | Hist. Richard III | 1534 |
| force | intr. To trouble oneself, be concerned, care. Const. for, of, rarely on. Obs. | Hist. Richard III | 1534 |
| forswear | To deny or repudiate on oath or with strong asseveration. †Also with inf. or sentence as obj. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| fortify | To confirm, corroborate, add support to (a statement, etc.). to fortify oneself: to… | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| foul | Grossly offensive to the senses, physically loathsome; primarily with reference to the… | Wks. | 1534 |
| foul | Disgraceful, ignominious, shameful. Cf. A. 7. | Dialoge of Comfort | 1529 |
| free will | Spontaneous or unconstrained will; unforced choice; (also) inclination to act… | Lyfe J. Picus | 1510 |
| frenzy | fig. Agitation or disorder of the mind likened to madness; a state of delirious… | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| frush | with adv. or adv. phr. Obs. | Treat. Passion | 1534 |
| full | With vbs. or pples.: Fully, completely, entirely, quite, thoroughly. Obs. | Dialoge of Comfort | 1529 |
| funeral | Of or pertaining to the ceremonial burial (or cremation) of the dead; used… | Supplyc. Soulys | 1529 |
| game | Amusement, sport, fun; pleasure, enjoyment. In later use only with modifying… | Dyaloge Dyuers Maters | 1529 |
| gargoyle-face | attrib., as gargoyle-face, gargoyle-head; gargoyle-faced adj. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| good | Of persons, as a term of indefinite commendation. In early use chiefly implying… | Hist. Richard III | 1534 |
| grace | A person’s lot, destiny, or fate; luck, fortune. Also with modifying word denoting the… | Hist. Richard III | 1534 |
| gravity | of events, facts, conditions. | Debellacyon Salem & Bizance | 1533 |
| great | With the. Most important of its kind; pre-eminent; chief, main. Earliest in Great Day n. 1 (see also sense A. 13d). | Apologye | 1533 |
| green | Of a person: recently recovered from an illness (with of). Of a mother: recently delivered… | Debellacyon Salem & Bizance | 1533 |
| grey | Belonging or relating to an ecclesiastical order distinguished by the grey or brown habit… | Supplyc. Soulys | 1529 |
| grin | fig. or in fig. expressions. | Supplyc. Soulys | 1529 |
| grisp | intr. To grasp, to grope. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| grudge | trans. To trouble or vex mentally: said either of something which grieves the conscience or… | Let. | 1534 |
| gun | A weapon consisting essentially of a metal tube (massive enough to require to be mounted… | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| hair | Used as a type of what is of extremely small magnitude, value, or measure; a jot or… | Dialoge of Comfort | 1529 |
| half | Side; one of the (two) sides (of an object) as a specification of position or direction… | Confut. Barnes | 1532 |
| hance | The lintel of a door or window. Obs. | Treat. Passion | 1534 |
| hance | trans. To raise, lift, elevate, exalt; = enhance v. 1, 2. | Hist. Richard III | 1534 |
| handfast | Promised in marriage by the joining of hands; betrothed. Also: joined in an… | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| haunt | To resort to frequently or habitually; to frequent or be much about (a place). | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| have | To hold, keep up, carry on (some proceeding or performance); to engage in, maintain… | Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. | 1534 |
| hawse | trans. To raise, exalt, hoist. | Hist. Richard III | 1534 |
| hear | trans. To learn or get to know by hearing; to receive or obtain as information; to be told; to be informed of. | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| hearken | trans. To hear with attention, give ear to (a thing); to listen to; to have regard to… | Dialoge of Comfort | 1529 |
| heaviness | Dejectedness of mind; †sadness, grief. | Hist. Richard III | 1534 |
| heinous | Hateful, odious; highly criminal or wicked; infamous, atrocious: chiefly… | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| hell | In the Christian tradition. | Supplyc. Soulys | 1529 |
| helly | Of, resembling, or characteristic of hell; hellish, infernal, devilish. In later use colloq. or poet. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| high mass | mass celebrated with the assistance of a deacon and subdeacon, with incense and music. | Dyalogue | 1529 |
| highly | Solemnly, seriously, earnestly. Obs. | Hist. Richard III | 1534 |
| hindrance | Injury, damage, hurt, disadvantage. Obs. | Dialoge of Comfort | 1529 |
| hold | To keep together, to keep in being, existence, or operation, to carry on; to convoke… | Hist. Edward V | 1534 |
| homily | A religious discourse addressed to a congregation; a sermon; esp. a practical discourse with… | Treat. Passion | 1534 |
| honesty | Honour gained by action or conduct; reputation, credit, good name. Obs. | Hist. Richard III | 1534 |
| honourable | Holding a position of honour; of distinguished rank; noble, illustrious. | Hist. Richard III | 1534 |
| housewife | A (typically married) woman whose main occupation is managing the general running of… | Dialoge of Comfort | 1529 |
| how | A question or query as to the way or manner. hows and whys (quot. 1726), doubts. | Answere Poysened Bk. | 1533 |
| human | Of, relating to, or characteristic of humans as distinguished from God or gods… | Lyfe J. Picus | 1510 |
| husting | plural hustings in same sense as the sing. | Hist. Richard III | 1534 |
| immeasurable | Not measurable; that cannot be measured; immense. | Confut. Tyndale | 1531 |
| impair | trans. To make worse, less valuable, or weaker; to lessen injuriously; to damage, injure. | Debellacyon Salem & Bizance | 1533 |
| importune | Inopportune, untimely; unseasonable, unfit. | Dialoge of Comfort | 1529 |
| imprison | trans. To put into prison, to confine in a prison or other place of confinement; to… | Treat. Quatuor Nouissimis | 1522 |
| impugnation | The action of impugning (an opinion, etc.); calling in question, disputing; impugnment. | Supplyc. Soulys | 1529 |
| incantation | with pl. An instance of this; concr. a magical formula chanted or spoken, or (more widely)… | Let. Impugning J. Fryth | 1534 |
| incessantly | In an incessant manner; without cessation; unceasingly. | Dialoge of Comfort | 1534 |
| induce | Of persons, personal action, influence, etc. | Answere Poysened Bk. | 1533 |
| induce | Of things, circumstances, or considerations. (Also absol., without personal object expressed.) | Hist. Richard III | 1534 |
| inexpugnable | lit. of a fortress, an army, etc. | Answere Poysened Bk. | 1533 |
| infinity | The quality or attribute of being infinite or having no limit; boundlessness, illimitableness (esp. as an attribute of Deity). | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| infix | trans. To fix or fasten (one thing) in (another); to implant or insert firmly. | Answere Poysened Bk. | 1533 |
| ingredience | The ingredients in a medicine, potion, etc., separately or collectively; or the mixture itself, as containing ingredients. Obs. | Answere Poysened Bk. | 1533 |
| inheritable | transf. and fig. Entitled to possess or enjoy something as one’s birthright. Obs. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| inkling | A hint, a slight intimation, or suggestion; usually to give (one) an inkling (of something). | Hist. Richard III | 1534 |
| innocent | Of persons: Doing no evil; free from moral wrong, sin, or guilt (in general);… | Hist. Richard III | 1534 |
| inquisitive | Given to inquiry, questioning, or research; of an inquiring turn of mind; desirous of or… | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| inscription | A brief dedication of a book or work of art to a person (see inscribe v. 2b); the superscription of a letter. | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| instruct | Const. of, to, with, inf., or clause. Obs. | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| instruction | A making known to a person what he is required to do; a direction, an order, a mandate… | Hist. Richard III | 1534 |
| insultation | The action, or an act, of insulting (in sense 1 or 2a of vb.); scornful triumph… | Prayer | 1535 |
| interpreter | An official or professional expounder of laws, texts, mysteries, etc.; a commentator. Obs. | Dialoge of Comfort | 1534 |
| intolerable | mentally or morally. | Hist. Richard III | 1534 |
| it irks me | impers. it irks (me), it wearies, annoys, troubles (me); = Latin piget. Const. inf. or clause; formerly of. arch. | Answere Poysened Bk. | 1533 |
| irony | As a mass noun. The expression of one’s meaning by using language that normally… | Debellacyon Salem & Bizance | 1533 |
| it | Used as anticipatory object when the logical object is a clause. Cf. A. 4. | Debellacyon Salem & Bizance | 1533 |
| itch | An uneasy sensation of irritation in the skin, which is relieved by scratching or rubbing; spec.… | Treat. Quatuor Nouissimis | 1522 |
| jointure | A sole estate limited to the wife, being ‘a competent livelihood of freehold for the wife… | Hist. Richard III | 1534 |
| journey | fig., esp. the ‘pilgrimage’ or passage through life. | Debellacyon Salem & Bizance | 1533 |
| judge | trans. To settle or determine (a matter) by judicial process; to try (a case); to give… | Hist. Richard III | 1534 |
| jumble | intr. To move about in mingled disorder; to flounder about in tumultuous confusion. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| kidney | pl. | Lyfe J. Picus | 1510 |
| kindness | The quality or habit of being kind; kind nature or disposition, or the exhibition of this in action or conduct. | Hist. Richard III | 1534 |
| knot | A bond or obligation; a binding condition; a spell that binds. Obs. | Treat. Passion | 1534 |
| labour | trans. (refl.) To occupy oneself in physical or mental labour. Obs. | Dialoge of Comfort | 1534 |
| labour | intr. To use one’s influence in putting forward a request, obtaining something desired… | Apol. | 1533 |
| lady | Applied to the Virgin Mary, whose authority and pre-eminence are conceived as comparable… | Hist. Richard III | 1534 |
| laugh | intr. With at. To mock, deride; to make fun of. In early use also with †of, †on, †over, †upon. | Hist. Richard III | 1534 |
| lecture | The action of reading aloud. Also, that which is so read, a lection or lesson. arch. | Treat. Passion | 1534 |
| leefulness | lawfulness. | Treat. Passion | 1534 |
| Lenten | Of or relating to Lent, observed or taking place in Lent, as in Lenten day, Lenten discipline… | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| lepry | fig. and in figurative contexts: = leprosy n. 2. | Supplyc. Soulys | 1529 |
| by my life | by (also †for, †of, on) my life and variants. Now somewhat arch. | Mery Gest | 1516 |
| likelihead | Probability. Chiefly in phr. by or of likelihead: probably, in all probability (cf. likelihood n. 2b). | Apologye | 1533 |
| locutory | An apartment in a monastery set apart for conversation, a parlour; occas. a grille at… | Dialoge of Comfort | 1534 |
| Lollard | A name of contempt given in the 14th c. to certain heretics, who were either followers of Wyclif or held opinions similar to his. | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| at long | at long: = ‘at length’; (a) after a long time, in the end; (b) in an extended manner, in many words, fully. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| lorel | A worthless person, rogue, blackguard; = losel n. adj. In 16th c. often opposed to lord. | Treat. Quatuor Nouissimis | 1522 |
| loser | One who loses or suffers loss. | Debellacyon Salem & Bizance | 1533 |
| luskish | Slothful, lazy, sluggish. | 2nd Pt. Confut. Tyndale | 1533 |
| mad | Of an animal: abnormally aggressive; spec. (esp. of a dog) suffering from rabies, rabid. | Supplyc. Soulys | 1529 |
| to be a-making | to be a-making (in same sense). Now chiefly regional. | Hist. Richard III | 1534 |
| making | gen. The way in which a thing is made; style of construction; conformation, form, shape, build. Obs. | Treat. Passion | 1534 |
| Manichee | An adherent of Manichaeism; (more generally) a dualist. | Debellacyon Salem & Bizance | 1533 |
| manifestation | The action of making manifest; †exposition, explanation (obs.); the fact of being… | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| marking | The action of noting something mentally; notice, consideration; watching, observation. Obs. | Answere Poysened Bk. | 1533 |
| marrer | A person who mars something or someone. | Supplyc. Soulys | 1529 |
| marry | trans. (refl.). To enter into matrimony, to take a husband or wife; = sense 1a. Also… | Hist. Richard III | 1534 |
| mashing-fat | (see fat n.). | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| master | A man or (occas.) woman of whom a person is a disciple; the teacher or practitioner… | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| match | trans. To join in marriage, esp. with reference to the suitability or unsuitability of… | Hist. Richard III | 1534 |
| matrimony | The state or condition of being married; the relation between married persons. | Supplyc. Soulys | 1529 |
| maze | A structure designed as a puzzle, consisting of a complicated network of… | Dialoge of Comfort | 1534 |
| me | As object of an impersonal verb, or a verb used impersonally. Now only in set uses and… | Debellacyon Salem & Bizance | 1533 |
| mealtide | = mealtime n. Also: a meal, food comprising a meal. | Dialoge of Comfort | 1534 |
| medicine | A remedy (as in spiritual, psychological, or social matters), (now) esp. one which is necessary but disagreeable or unwelcome. | Treat. Quatuor Nouissimis | 1522 |
| meinie | A crowd of people; (depreciative) a rabble. Also: the populace, the masses. Now Sc. | Answere Poysened Bk. | 1533 |
| menace | To hold out as a punishment, penalty, or danger; to threaten to inflict. Obs. | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| merchant | A person whose occupation is the purchase and sale of goods or commodities for… | Hist. Richard III | 1534 |
| metamorphosis | The action or process of changing in form, shape, or substance; esp. transformation by supernatural means. | Debellacyon Salem & Bizance | 1533 |
| midday devil | used as a translation of the Vulgate daemonium meridianum (Ps. 90[91]:6), for which the… | Dialoge of Comfort | 1534 |
| to be of mind | to be of (also in) (a) mind (now usually to be of a mind): to be disposed or minded… | Hist. Richard III | 1534 |
| minding | The action of remembering, regarding, paying attention to, or caring for; an instance of this; a memory. Now regional. | Dialoge of Comfort | 1534 |
| minishing | The action of minish v. (in various senses). | Rich. III | 1513 |
| ministration | The action of administering the sacraments. | Debellacyon Salem & Bizance | 1533 |
| miracle | Miraculous agency. by miracle: amazingly, wondrously. Now chiefly poet. | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| misbelief | Erroneous or unorthodox religious belief; (an instance of) heresy or false religion; paganism. | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| mishap | Of an event or impers.: to happen unfortunately; to occur by misfortune, to… | Apologye | 1533 |
| misjudge | trans. To judge or assess wrongly; to have or form a wrong opinion of. | Debellacyon Salem & Bizance | 1533 |
| mistaking | The action of mistake v.; misunderstanding, misconception; †wrongdoing (obs.); an instance of this. | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| mistress | Used vocatively as a title of respect; ‘Madam’, ‘Ma’am’. Now chiefly arch. and Caribbean. | Dialoge of Comfort | 1529 |
| misunderstand | To fail to understand rightly; to take (words, a statement, action, etc.) in a wrong… | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| money | Means of payment considered as representing value or purchasing power; the power of… | Supplyc. Soulys | 1529 |
| mortise | trans. To alienate in mortmain; = amortize v. 1. | Debellacyon Salem & Bizance | 1533 |
| mouth | The mouth considered as the instrument of speech or the voice. Now chiefly in phrases: see 1. | Hist. Richard III | 1534 |
| to speak mouth to mouth | to speak mouth to (also with) mouth and variants: to talk personally, face to face. Obs. | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| mowing | The action of grimacing or making faces; an instance of this. Later usually in collocation with mopping. | Confut. Tyndales Answere | 1532 |
| muchwhat | Pretty much, pretty well; greatly, to a considerable degree; nearly, almost. | Hist. Richard III | 1534 |
| mum | An inarticulate sound made with closed lips, usually as an indication of inability… | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| murmur | An instance of murmuring; an expression of discontent in subdued voices, esp. on the part of a crowd. Chiefly in pl. | Hist. Richard III | 1534 |
| mustard | Powder made from the crushed seeds of certain plants of the family Brassicaceae (Cruciferae)… | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| mystical | Having a spiritual character or significance by virtue of a connection or union with God which transcends human understanding. | Supplyc. Soulys | 1529 |
| nameless | Not having a distinguished or famous name; devoid of fame, left in obscurity, inglorious. | Hist. Richard III | 1534 |
| ne | In conditional clauses. ne were: were it not; ne had..been: had it not been (for). Also with omission of verb. | 2nd Pt. Confut. Tyndals Answere | 1533 |
| neediness | The state or condition of being needy; poverty, want, indigence. Freq. with reference to spiritual or emotional needs. | Dialoge of Comfort | 1529 |
| needs | In proverbial phrases. needs must that needs shall: see shall v. 27c. †needs must he go whom the… | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| nose | A socket on a candlestick, into which a candle is inserted. Obs. | Dialoge of Comfort | 1534 |
| noughty | Of behaviour, an action, etc.: bad, immoral, wicked. Cf. naughty adj. 3a. Obs. | Debellacyon Salem & Bizance | 1533 |
| nourish | To promote or foster (a feeling, habit, condition, state of things, etc.) in or among persons. | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| noyous | Causing annoyance; vexatious, troublesome; (also) †causing harm or injury (obs.). | Apologye | 1533 |
| oblation | Christian Church. The action of offering or presenting the elements of bread and wine to… | Supplyc. Soulys | 1529 |
| ostentation | The action or an act of showing, exhibiting, or displaying something… | Dialoge of Comfort | 1534 |
| ourself | Used instead of the subjective pronoun we. As simple subject or predicate, as part of… | Dialoge of Comfort | 1529 |
| oversee | trans. (refl.). To fail to perceive what is fitting or right for one to do; to forget… | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| partner | A person who takes part with another or others in doing something; an associate, companion, or accomplice; †a participant (obs.). | Hist. Richard III | 1534 |
| paunch | The stomach of a person or of an animal. | Treat. Last Thynges | 1534 |
| peaceable | Characterized by peace; free from disturbance; quiet, tranquil; = peaceful adj. 2. | Treat. Last Thynges | 1534 |
| pease | As a type of something of very small value or importance. Freq. in not to be worth a pease and variants. Obs. | Dialoge of Comfort | 1534 |
| peevish | Hateful, distasteful, horrid. Obs. | Dialoge of Comfort | 1534 |
| peise | The quality of being heavy; heaviness, weight. Also: the weightiness of a thing. Obs. | Dialoge of Comfort | 1534 |
| Pelagian | A believer in the doctrines of Pelagius or his followers, esp. in the denial of… | Confut. Barnes | 1532 |
| penance | The performance of some act of self-mortification or the undergoing of some penalty… | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| perplexity | An instance of this state or condition; a state of doubt or uncertainty. Usu. in pl. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| persevere | trans. To maintain or support continuously; to cause to continue; to keep constant, preserve. Obs. | Dialoge of Comfort | 1534 |
| persuade | To induce to believe or accept a statement, doctrine, etc.; to convince that or of;… | Hist. Richard III | 1534 |
| pew-fellow | A person who has a seat in the same pew as another (usually specified)… | Debellacyon Salem & Bizance | 1533 |
| pike | A long-bodied, predatory freshwater fish, Esox lucius (family Esocidae), occurring in… | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| pity | trans. To feel pity for; to be sorry for. | Supplyc. Soulys | 1529 |
| plain | Of something spoken or expressed: free from ambiguity, evasion, or… | Hist. Richard III | 1534 |
| polluting | The action of pollute v.; an instance of this; (originally) spec. †desecration (obs.). | 2nd Pt. Confut. Tyndals Answere | 1533 |
| prayer | A solemn request to God, a god, or other object of worship; a supplication or thanksgiving addressed to God or a god. | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| preaching | The action of preach v. (in various senses); the action or practice of delivering a… | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| Prester John | (The name of) an oriental Christian king of medieval legend, originally believed to rule… | Confut. Tyndales Answere | 1532 |
| presumption | The action of taking for granted or presuming something; assumption, expectation… | Debellacyon Salem & Bizance | 1533 |
| preter | Grammar. Expressing past action or state; = preterite adj. 2. Chiefly in preter tense (freq. written as one word in early use). | Treat. Passion | 1534 |
| prim | An attractive woman, esp. a young one; (in early use also) a lover, a paramour. | 2nd Pt. Confut. Tyndals Answere | 1533 |
| printer | A person or establishment whose business is the printing of books, pamphlets, or the… | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| process | A narration, a narrative; an account; a story; a play; a discourse or treatise of any… | Apologye | 1533 |
| production | The action or an act of producing, making, or causing anything; generation… | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| proffer | A show of intention to do something; a precursory, suggestive, or threatening act.… | Confut. Tyndales Answere | 1532 |
| proud | With of (a personal quality, thing, etc., which is the reason for or source of pride). Cf. sense A. 3. | Lyfe J. Picus | 1510 |
| proud | Proudly, in a proud manner; with pride. Now chiefly in phrases and compounds (see 2 and to do a… | Treat. Passion | 1534 |
| pucelle | gen. Any girl; a maid. Obs. (arch. in later use). | Dialoge of Comfort | 1534 |
| purpensed | That has been resolved or deliberated upon beforehand; premeditated, planned.… | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| put | trans. To place or repose (trust, faith, confidence, etc.) in a person or thing. Formerly also with †to. | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| quick | Of the flesh or a part of the body: living; †capable of movement (obs.); capable… | Dialogue Heresyes | 1528 |
| ransack | To examine thoroughly; to question, scrutinize closely; to investigate in detail.… | Apol. | 1533 |
| rate | With a person as object. | Dialoge of Comfort | 1534 |
| rateably | In a rateable manner; proportionately. | Treat. Passion | 1534 |
| recapitle | trans. To recapitulate. | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| receiver | A person who knowingly buys or deals in stolen goods. Formerly also: †a person who… | Debellacyon Salem & Bizance | 1533 |
| recidivation | Med. Recurrence (of a disease, symptom, or condition); relapse; an instance of this. Now rare. | Hist. Richard III | 1534 |
| recourse | An act or the action of resorting or turning to (also †unto) a person or thing for help, advice, protection, etc. | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| recreation | The action or fact of refreshing or entertaining oneself through a pleasurable… | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| reduce | spec. To lead or bring back (a person) from error, sin, immorality, etc.; to restore to the truth or the right faith. Obs. | 2nd Pt. Confut. Tyndals Answere | 1533 |
| reject | To throw or cast back. Also: to repel, repulse (an assailant). Obs. | Confut. Tyndales Answere | 1532 |
| relic | A surviving trace of some practice, fact, idea, quality, etc. In early use usu. in pl.; now usu. in sing. | 2nd Pt. Confut. Tyndals Answere | 1533 |
| reproach | With possessive adjective. A person’s shame or disgrace. In later use chiefly poet. Now rare. | Hist. Richard III | 1534 |
| requisite | Required by circumstances or regulations; appropriate; necessary for a purpose, indispensable. Cf. prerequisite adj. | Treat. Last Thynges | 1534 |
| resembling | The action of resemble v.; an instance of this; (also) a likeness; an imitation. | Debellacyon Salem & Bizance | 1533 |
| reserve | To keep in one’s possession, to retain; to preserve (an object). Now rare. | Apol. | 1533 |
| resist | With a moral or psychological influence (as temptation, desire, etc.) or suggestion as object. | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| resort | People forming a crowd or throng. Obs. | Hist. Richard III | 1534 |
| reverent | = reverend adj. 1. Now rare. | Apologye | 1533 |
| in rhyme | in (also †on) rhyme: in verse, esp. rhyming verse. | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| rife | With singular nouns: abundant, plentiful, ample. Now rare. | Treat. Last Thynges | 1534 |
| rife | Of speech, words, etc.: commonly or frequently employed or heard; esp. in rife in one’s mouth and variants. Obs. | Dialoge of Comfort | 1534 |
| right | Of a material, substance, or fabric: genuine; not counterfeit or spurious. Also used… | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| right | Designating that side of the human body which contains the hand which is naturally favoured… | Hist. Richard III | 1534 |
| ripe | Of a person: fully developed in body or mind; mature, fully grown; (also) †marriageable (obs.). Cf. sense A. 8a. | Hist. Richard III | 1534 |
| rivelled | Of the skin, face, etc.: wrinkled; full of wrinkles or small folds. Also fig. | Hist. Richard III | 1534 |
| Rochelle wine | In full Rochelle wine. Wine, esp. white wine, produced in the Poitou region of western… | Answere Poysened Bk. | 1533 |
| rochet | Christian Church. An ecclesiastical vestment similar to a surplice, typically of white linen and chiefly worn by a bishop. | Confut. Barnes | 1532 |
| room | A place or seat occupied by or assigned to a person or thing. Also in extended use. Obs. | Hist. Richard III | 1534 |
| by row | by row: in order, one after another. Obs. | Debellacyon Salem & Bizance | 1533 |
| ruffle | intr. To make a great show or commotion; to behave proudly or arrogantly; to brag, swagger. Obs. (arch. in later use). | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| ruffling | Of conduct, speech, etc.: characterized by ruffling (in various senses: see ruffle v.); spec. swaggering, arrogant. Obs. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| rumble | Tumult, uproar; a commotion. Obs. | Apol. | 1533 |
| sacrament | spec. (with the). The Lord’s Supper, Eucharist or Holy Communion. Often called the sacrament of the… | Treat. Passion | 1534 |
| saint | Prefixed to the name of a canonized person (see B. 2), also to the names of the… | Lyfe J. Picus | 1510 |
| satisfy | intr. To make satisfaction, full payment, reparation, or atonement. Const. for, to (a… | Supplyc. Soulys | 1529 |
| to hold schools | to hold (also keep) schools: to engage in academic disputation or discussion. Obs. | Debellacyon Salem & Bizance | 1533 |
| science | The state or fact of knowing; knowledge or cognizance of something specified or implied… | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| sconce | A lantern or candlestick with a screen to protect the light from the wind, and a handle to… | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| scrape | spec. To erase (writing, etc.) with a knife. Chiefly with advs. out, away, off, and const. out of. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| scrupulous | Troubled with doubts or scruples of conscience; over-nice or meticulous in matters of… | Hist. Richard III | 1534 |
| scutcheon | = escutcheon n. 1. Formerly often scutcheon of arms. | Supplyc. Soulys | 1529 |
| sedition | Violent party strife; an instance of this, esp. a factious contest attended with rioting and disorder. Obs. | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| seely | Often of the soul, as in danger of divine judgement. | Supplyc. Soulys | 1529 |
| seemly | Of a person, his figure, etc.: Of a pleasing or goodly appearance, fair, well-formed, handsome, ‘proper’. Obs. exc. dial. | Lyfe J. Picus | 1510 |
| self | following the n. (immediately or with interposed words). | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| sensible | Perceptible by the senses. (In Philos., opposed to intelligible adj. 2: in this use now rare.). | Treat. Passion | 1534 |
| serve | Of one’s courage, conscience, inclination, etc.: To prompt, encourage (one), to do… | Dialoge of Comfort | 1534 |
| serviceable | Ready to do service; prepared to minister, willing to be of service; active or diligent in service. Now rare. | Lyfe J. Picus | 1534 |
| shale | A shell, husk, esp. the shell or outer covering of a nut, which encloses the kernel; also the pod of peas or beans, etc. Obs. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| shall | Where should has notional force = ‘were obliged to’, ‘must’, ‘were about to’. Often with ellipsis of if after as. Obs. | Four Cent. Eng. Lett. | 1529 |
| shall | In questions introduced by why (or equivalent word), implying the speaker’s inability… | Dyaloge Dyuers Maters | 1529 |
| shout | A loud, vehement cry expressing joy, grief or pain, fear, triumph, warning, encouragement… | Hist. Richard III | 1534 |
| shower | Something which shows; an indicator; an indicative symptom (of a disease). Obs. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| shrink | To move backward, retire, or retreat into a cavity, shelter, or place of refuge; to draw… | Hist. Richard III | 1534 |
| sib | transf. or fig. Closely related, allied, akin, or similar, to some other thing. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| sigh | intr. To emit, give, or heave a sigh. | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| sinless | Free from, devoid of, without sin. Also const. of. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| skulk | To hide or conceal oneself, to keep out of sight, to avoid observation, esp. with… | Debellacyon Salem & Bizance | 1533 |
| slackly | Not tightly or firmly; loosely. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| soldan | The supreme ruler of one or other of the great Muslim powers or countries of the Middle Ages; spec. the Sultan of Egypt. | Hist. Richard III | 1534 |
| sophister | = sophist n. 3. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| sophistication | The use or employment of sophistry; the process of investing with specious fallacies… | Let. Impugnynge J. Fryth | 1530 |
| sore | With severity or strictness; severely. | Answere Poysened Bk. | 1533 |
| sow-drunk | (see sense 3c). | Treat. Quatuor Nouissimis | 1522 |
| space | Without complement. Obs. | Lyfe J. Picus | 1510 |
| spill | To waste by scattering, squandering, or misusing; to employ or expend wastefully. Obs. | Debellacyon Salem & Bizance | 1533 |
| spiritualty | The body of spiritual or ecclesiastical persons; the spiritual estate of the realm; the clergy; = spirituality n. 1. | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| stacker | To waver, to hesitate mentally in a state of indecision. Obs. | Apologye | 1533 |
| stint | A measure, rate, gauge of amount, price, size, etc. fixed by authority. Chiefly in… | Dialoge of Comfort | 1534 |
| stint | A measure, rate, gauge of amount, price, size, etc. fixed by authority. Chiefly in… | Treat. Passion | 1534 |
| stir up | To rouse from sleep or rest, to wake up. (Cf. 5) Obs. | Answere Poysened Bk. | 1533 |
| stock | trans. To set in the stocks; to punish by confining the feet (occas. the hands) in stocks… | Dialoge of Comfort | 1534 |
| stomach | as the seat of hunger, nausea, discomfort from repletion, etc. to lie (heavy) on one’s stomach… | Treat. Quatuor Nouissimis | 1522 |
| strain | To bridle, control, restrain. Obs. | Answere Poysened Bk. | 1533 |
| strait | Tightly. Obs. exc. dial. | Dialoge of Comfort | 1534 |
| strangury | A disease of the urinary organs characterized by slow and painful emission of urine… | Treat. Quatuor Nouissimis | 1522 |
| stubbornly | In a stubborn manner. | Dialogue Heresyes | 1528 |
| student | A person who is engaged in or addicted to study. Const. of, in, or with defining… | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| studying | The action of the verb study v. | Let. | 1534 |
| substantial | Of a reason, a cause, evidence. | Hist. Richard III | 1534 |
| succeed | trans. To take the place of, as successor in an office or heir to an estate; to… | Hist. Richard III | 1534 |
| in such wise as | in such wise as: in the way that, as. Obs. | Dialoge of Comfort | 1534 |
| sufferance | Const. of (that which is allowed or tolerated), to with inf. | Dialoge of Comfort | 1534 |
| summary | General, not detailed. Obs. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| summer | In general use. (Also personified.) Often in in summer (Old English on sumera, Middle English o, a or in sumere). | Dialogue Heresyes | 1528 |
| sum-total | The aggregate of all the items in an account; the total amount (of things capable of numeration). | Debellacyon Salem & Bizance | 1533 |
| superior | Higher in notional or abstract rank, or in a scale or series; of a higher or better… | Answere Poysened Bk. | 1533 |
| superstitious | Credited with supernatural efficacy; magical. | Confut. Tyndales Answere | 1532 |
| surreption | An unperceived creeping or stealing upon one or into one’s mind (of evil thoughts… | Supplyc. Soulys | 1529 |
| swap | trans. To strike, hit, smite (occas. used of kissing). Also fig. Obs. | Dialoge of Comfort | 1534 |
| syllable | The least portion or detail of speech or writing (or of something expressed or… | Apologye | 1533 |
| synod | Ecclesiastical. An assembly of the clergy of a particular church, nation, province… | Dialogue Heresyes | 1528 |
| tackling | Arms, weapons, instruments; also fig., esp. in phr. to stand or stick to one’s tackling… | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| by tale | by tale: as determined by counting individual objects or articles; by number; as distinguished from by weight, by measure. | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| teem | intr. To bring forth young, bear or produce offspring; to be or become pregnant. Obs. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| tempered | Qualified by an adv. | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| thank | in sing. Obs. | Treat. Passion | 1534 |
| that | In apposition to a following clause introduced by that conj.; chiefly in phr. with… | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| thereabout | About, concerning, or with reference to that matter or business; thereanent. to go or be thereabout… | Treat. Passion | 1534 |
| thing | An actual being or entity as distinguished from a word, symbol, or idea by which it… | Treat. Passion | 1534 |
| thread | Without a, as name of the substance of which the above-mentioned things are composed, or… | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| time | In sing. | Lyfe J. Picus | 1510 |
| time | Indefinite continuous duration regarded as that in which existence, and the sequence… | Supplyc. Soulys | 1529 |
| at times | at times (formerly also at time): at one time and another, at various times; occasionally, on occasion. Also at times and again. | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| time | Chiefly poet. and literary. In the fuller form many a time and oft (also often) (and variants). | Apologye | 1533 |
| tolter | intr. To move unsteadily; to flounder; to turn or toss about; to hobble; to jolt along. | Answere Poysened Bk. | 1533 |
| too | In addition (cf. to adv. 5); furthermore, moreover, besides, also. | Debellacyon Salem & Bizance | 1533 |
| totty | Unsteady, shaky, tottery (physically or mentally); dizzy, dazed; tipsy, fuddled. | Treat. Quatuor Nouissimis | 1522 |
| transmigration | Passage or removal from one place to another, esp. from one country to another. | Dialoge of Comfort | 1534 |
| trifle | Hence, A matter of little value or importance; ‘a thing of no moment’ (Johnson); a trivial, paltry, or insignificant affair. | Hist. Richard III | 1534 |
| turning | fig. Conversion; perversion; desertion to another side (quot. 1665). arch. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| unarrested | Not arrested or apprehended. | Apologye | 1533 |
| unblessed | Not formally blessed or consecrated. | Let. Impugnynge J. Fryth | 1530 |
| uncogitable | (un- prefix 7b 5b.) | Dialoge of Comfort | 1534 |
| uncorrected | Not chastised or punished. | Hist. Richard III | 1534 |
| unculpable | Not culpable or blameworthy; free from fault or blame. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| undertake | To understand. Obs. | Lyfe J. Picus | 1510 |
| undiscreet | Of actions, conduct, etc. | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| unhappy | Causing or involving trouble or mischief; objectionable, evil; naughty. Obs. | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| unright | Not right, just, or equitable; improper, unfair, wrong. Now Sc. or arch. (common in 16th c.). | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| unsitting | Unbecoming, unfitting. (Common 1390 – 1550.) | Apol. | 1533 |
| unspeakable | Incapable of being expressed in words; inexpressible, indescribable, ineffable. | Treat. Passion | 1534 |
| unware | quasi- adv. Without knowing it; in ignorance, innocently. | Apologye | 1533 |
| unware | Unknown (to one). | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| in ure | In or into use, practice, or performance. Often with vbs., as bring, come, have… | Treat. Quatuor Nouissimis | 1522 |
| use | In affirmative contexts. | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| vanquish | fig. To overcome by spiritual power. | Lyfe J. Picus | 1510 |
| vary | To differ in respect of statement; to give a different or divergent account. Obs. | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| villainously | In a villainous manner, in senses of the adj.; atrociously, vilely, detestably. | Apol. | 1533 |
| violent | Of persons: Acting with or using physical force or violence, esp. in order to injure… | Apologye | 1533 |
| void | Empty-handed; destitute. Obs. | Confut. Barnes | 1532 |
| void | To keep clear of, to escape from or evade (something injurious or troublesome); = avoid v. 9. Obs. | Hist. Richard III | 1534 |
| voyage | Used fig. (in senses 1 or 4) to denote the course of human life (or some part of it), or the fate of persons after death. | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| voyager | One who journeys; a traveller by land. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| wail | To grieve bitterly. | Dialoge of Comfort | 1534 |
| walking out | The action of walking outside for recreation or exercise; spec. walking outside with a… | Dialoge of Comfort | 1534 |
| walter | To roll to and fro, move from side to side; to tumble or toss about; to lie sprawling on the ground, in mire, etc. | Supplyc. Soulys | 1529 |
| in the waniand | In the phrase in the waniand, prob. with ellipsis of mone (cf. ‘on wanigendum monan’ Sax. Leechd.… | Supplyc. Soulys | 1529 |
| war | The kind of operations by which the contention of armed forces is carried on; fighting… | Hist. Richard III | 1534 |
| warrantise | gen. The action of warranting, guaranteeing, or giving assurance; the state or fact… | Dialoge of Comfort | 1534 |
| water | fig. (See also 5c.) | Dialoge of Comfort | 1534 |
| way | pl. Habits of life, esp. with regard to moral conduct. | Hist. Richard III | 1534 |
| wealthful | Abounding in wealth; †happy (obs.), rich, prosperous; conducive to wealth. wealthful of, abounding in. | Dialoge of Comfort | 1534 |
| weave | trans. To form or fabricate (a stuff or material) by interlacing yarns or other filaments… | Dyaloge Dyuers Maters | 1529 |
| ween | Const. obj. and compl. (n. or adj.). Obs. | Answere Poysened Bk. | 1533 |
| welkin | The apparent arch or vault of heaven overhead; the sky, the firmament. | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| well(-)set | Skilfully, fittingly, or happily placed, fixed, settled, arranged, or adjusted. | Hist. Richard III | 1534 |
| whether | pron. | Dialogue Heresyes | 1528 |
| wieldy | Capable of easily ‘wielding’ one’s body or limbs, or a weapon, etc.; vigorous, active, agile, nimble. Obs. exc. dial. | Dialogue Heresyes | 1528 |
| wig | A kind of bun or small cake made of fine flour. | Dyaloge Dyuers Maters | 1529 |
| will | trans. with simple obj. (also intr. with well or ill and dat. of person), as… | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| wind | intr. (also †refl., and with it.) To pursue a devious, circuitous, or intricate course… | Dialogue Heresyes | 1528 |
| wisdom | Capacity of judging rightly in matters relating to life and conduct; soundness of judgement… | Edw. V | 1513 |
| wit | with noun clause as obj. (sometimes anticipated by a pronoun (it, this), which in the… | Hist. Richard III | 1534 |
| with | In various preceding senses, followed by object and complement (phr. with prep., pple., adj., adv., or inf. with to). | Dialoge of Comfort | 1534 |
| wonder | in Old English const. genitive of the object of wonder, also with preps., now… | Dialogue Heresyes | 1529 |
| word | With possessive: that which the specified person has said or written. Also with… | Confut. Barnes | 1534 |
| by word of mouth | By means of spoken words, as distinguished from writing or other means of expression or… | Confut. Tyndales Answere | 1532 |
| world | The state of human affairs, the state of things; (hence) season or time as marked by the state of affairs. Obs. | Hist. Richard III | 1534 |
| shame of the world | (chiefly with the) = world’s shame at 2. | Apologye | 1533 |
| wrooting | The action of grubbing or rooting; the result of this, the furrow made by a pig rooting. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| wry | Of persons: To move or go, to swerve or turn, aside, away, or awayward. Also in fig. context. | Dialoge of Comfort | 1534 |
| Wycliffist | = Wycliffite n. ? Obs. | Confut. Tyndale | 1532 |
| yet | In addition, or in continuation; besides, also; further, furthermore, moreover; with a… | Answere Poysened Bk. | 1533 |
| zeal | In a specialized sense: Ardent love or affection; fervent devotion or attachment (to a… | Hist. Richard III | 1534 |