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acrasial adj 1851 -1851

ill-regulated; ill-tempered

The acrasial judge was known for her rants against younger lawyers.

addecimate v 1612 -1755

to tithe

They addecimated regularly but were not otherwise known for their charity.

adimpleate v 1657 -1657

to fill up

The new technique adimpleates the cans with milk through injection.

adnascentia npl 1706 -1731

root-like branches that sprout into the earth from a plant's stem

Every winter, the adnascentia would shift around, destroying the lawn's even texture.

aeipathy n 1847 -1853

continued passion; an unyielding disease

Her aeipathy for stamp collecting bordered at times on the pathological.

affictitious adj 1656 -1656

feigned; counterfeit

The forger was caught despite his masterfully-crafted affictitious signatures.

affuage n 1753 -1847

right to cut wood in a forest for family fire

The family's right of affuage ensured they would have enough wood for winter.

agonarch n 1656 -1656

judge of a contest or activity

Our competition will require six agonarchs to ensure fairness.

agonyclite n 1710 -1710

member of a heretical sect that stood rather than kneeled while praying

Agonyclites must have had hardy feet to endure their services.

airgonaut n 1784 -1784

one who journeys through the air

Balloonists, skydivers and other airgonauts are all a little mad, if you ask me.

alabandical adj 1656 -1775

barbarous; stupefied from drink

His behaviour after the party was positively alabandical.

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albedineity n 1652 -1652

whiteness

The monotonous albedineity of the snow-covered field was blinding.

alogotrophy n 1753 -1853

excessive nutrition of part of body resulting in deformity

Was he born with that huge head, or is it the result of alogotrophy?

amandation n 1656 -1755

act of sending away or dismissing

His rude amandation of his guests earned him a reputation for curtness.

amarulence n 1731 -1755

bitterness; spite

After losing her job to a less qualified man, she was full of amarulence.

amorevolous adj 1670 -1670

affectionate; loving

Our father, though amorevolous, could be a strict taskmaster at times.

antipelargy n 1656 -1731

reciprocal or mutual kindness; love and care of children for their parents

Having never received any antipelargy, they wrote their daughter out of the will.

apanthropinization n 1880 -1880

withdrawal from human concerns or the human world

His life as a hermit in the woods was characterized by apanthropinization.

aporrhoea n 1646 -1880

a bodily emanation; an effluvium

The evening's revelries were followed by an unfortunate episode of aporrhoea.

aquabib n 1731 -1883

water-drinker

I was never much of an aquabib, and always preferred harder libations.

archigrapher n 1656 -1656

principal or head secretary or clerk

The archigrapher efficiently designated transcription duties to her underlings.

archiloquy n 1656- 1656

first part of a speech

We stopped paying attention during his talk due to his monotonous archiloquy.

aretaloger n 1623 -1656

braggart; one who boasts about his own accomplishments

While he seemed nice at first, he turned out to be a loudmouthed aretaloger.

artigrapher n 1753 -1753

writer or composer of a grammar; a grammarian

Today's prescriptivists are no better than the artigraphers of the Renaissance.



ascoliasm n 1706 -1753

boys' game of beating each other with gloves or leather while hopping

If you think bullies are bad today, look at brutal games of the past like ascoliasm.

assectation n 1656 -1656

act of following after something else

She stood in the on-deck circle, her assectation virtually guaranteed.

austerulous adj 1731 -1731

somewhat or slightly harsh

The austerulous monks were rarely lenient with their pupils.

autexousious adj 1678 -1678

exercising or possessing free will

If we are truly autexousious, then why do we so often feel powerless?

auturgy n 1651 -1656

self-action; independent activity

The film director's legendary auturgy frustrated editors and producers alike.

avunculize v 1662 -1662

to act as an uncle; to behave like an uncle

I often avunculize to my younger friends, which no doubt annoys them.

bajulate v 1613 -1662

to bear a heavy burden

Their Sherpa aides were vexed by the demand that they bajulate as well as guide.

bimarian adj 1731 -1731

pertaining to two seas

Some think that America needs to improve its bimarian naval defenses.

binoternary adj 1817 -1817

combining binary and trinary aspects

The dots on the '6' face of a die are arranged in a binoternary fashion.

blateration n 1656 -1864

chatter; babbling

I've had just about enough of your garrulous blateration, you clod!

bonifate adj 1656 -1656

lucky; fortunate

The gambler was too bonifate, and attracted the casino manager's attention.

boreism n 1833 -1839

behaviour of a boring person

The professor, while brilliant, was afflicted by boreism when lecturing.

boscaresque adj 1734 -1734

picturesque; scenically wooded

Despite northern England's industrial pollution, parts of it remain boscaresque.



brabeum n 1675 -1675

reward or prize

Without some brabeum, the students will have no incentive to work harder.

brephophagist n 1731 -1875

one who eats babies

The character Fat Bastard is a disgustingly obese Scottish brephophagist.

brochity n 1623 -1678

projecting or crooked quality of teeth

His parents later regretted that they did not correct his brochity in his youth.

bromography n 1860 -1860

a treatise on food

It's not enough to write a bromography - today's celebrity chefs need to be on

TV!

bubulcitate v 1623 -1678

to act as a cowherd; to cry like a cowherd

When their cat went missing, they were on the street bubulcitating for weeks.

buccellation n 1657 -1731

act of dividing into small morsels

The buccellation and apportionment of their rations was the subject of heated argument.

bumposopher n 1834 -1886

one learned in bumps; a phrenologist

Craniology has progressed greatly since the days of bumposophers.

cacatory adj 1684 -1753

accompanied by loose bowels

For the diners, the effects of the chicken cacciatore, alas, were cacatory.

cacozealous adj 1656 -1696

imitating badly; poorly affected

Her cacozealous attempt at mimicking her boss bordered on being offensive.

cagastric adj 1662 -1753

of diseases, originating under an ill star

We no longer believe in cagastric causes for illness and deformity.

cameranious adj 1791 -1791

of or relating to a chamber

The social gathering benefited from the cozy, cameranious setting.

canitude n 1656 -1742

greyness; hoariness; whiteness

The first snowfall of the year gave the field a pleasant canitude.

caprizant adj 1730 -1736

of the pulse, uneven or irregular

While he hadn't had a full-blown heart attack, his pulse was very caprizant.



casitive adj 1652 -1652

having grammatical cases

The casitive nature of Finnish and Hungarian makes them difficult to learn.

castaldy n 1623 -1800

stewardship

His castaldy over the manor was dependent on his good relations with the lord's sons.

cecograph n 1851 -1874

writing device for the blind

The development of computers has made the cecograph entirely obsolete.

celeberrimous adj 1768 -1768

very or most highly celebrated

Her celeberrimous accomplishments were lauded by her colleagues.

celeripedean adj 1623 -1656

swift-footed

The most celeripedean of the Greek deities was Hermes.

cestuan adj 1711 -1711

of or pertaining to a boxer's gloves or cesti

No cestuan improvements can negate the damage of such blows to the head.

chermadic adj 1842 -1842

of a heavy weight used as a projectile

Wile E. Coyote continues to be crushed by his own chermadic snares.

chronanagram n 1613 -1882

an anagram of a chronogram

Jacobites used chronanagrams to cryptically express support for their cause.

cibosity n 1656 -1656

store of food; plenty of food supplies

The cibosities of those paranoid about Y2K are still rotting in their cellars.

circuland n 1821 -1821

that which is to be circulated

Here we have the circuland, as opposed to our internal earnings report.

circumbilivagination n 1611 -1693

going around in a circular motion; circumambulation

She saw many quaint seaside towns in her circumbilivagination of England.

citharize v 1623 -1692

to play the harp

If you plan to citharize, prepare to build up calluses on your fingers.

cloakatively adv 1674 -1674

superficially

These reforms have only cloakatively made the situation better for the poor.



adj 1834 -1834

causing to become coherent; causing cohesion

Her speech was the coherentific factor behind the jury's consensus verdict.

colaphize v 1450 -1656

to beat or buffet

His lawyer claimed that police had colaphized him, which confused the judge.

commendaces npl 1611 -1658

funeral orations; prayers for the dead

At his funeral, his brother delivered a set of exquisite commendaces.

coquinate v 1656 -1658

to behave as a cook

Martha may seem to be able to coquinate, but her actions are highly scripted.

cosmogyral adj 1808 -1808

whirling round the universe

The great cosmogyral peregrinations of galaxies follow simple physical laws.

crassulent adj 1656 -1656

very fat; grossly obese

While some point to Brando's crassulent state, others focus on his acting.

crebrity n 1656 -1740

frequency; period between two occurrences

Old Faithful is a natural clock, and its invariant crebrity continues to amaze.

crocitation n 1623 -1656

croaking; cawing

The crocitation of the gulls meant that I got no sleep last night.

cynicocratical adj 1881 -1881

pertaining to rule by cynics

When people mistrust government, our leaders become cynicocratical.

deartuate v 1623 -1653

to dismember

He cunningly hoped that if he deartuated the body, he could hide it in the hole.

decutient adj 1656 -1656

shaking down; beating down

Their decutient technique for getting apples from trees annoyed the farmer.

defedate v 1669 -1669

to defile; to pollute

The toxic chemicals continue to defedate our town's water supply.

desarcinate v 1656 -1736

to unload; to unburden

She haughtily ordered her butler to desarcinate her baggage from the car.

devalgate



adj 1851 -1883

bow-legged

The devalgate cowboy watched his old smell-hound crawl between his legs.

dicaearchy n 1656 -1658

just government

While we dream of living in a dicaearchy, in truth, we're governed by dicks.

diffibulate v 1656 -1656

to unbutton; to unbuckle

He found it difficult to diffibulate her blouse using only one hand.

dignorate v 1623 -1656

to mark or brand an animal

He was glad he had dignorated his horse, or else he couldn't have claimed it.

diloricate v 1623 -1656

to rip open a sewn piece of clothing

She deloricated his silk shirts so she could use them as dishrags.

dipsopathy n 1883 -1883

medical treatment involving abstinence from liquids

The new antibiotics he was taking required him to practice strict dipsopathy.

diribitory n 1656 -1656

place where pay is distributed to soldiers

Directly deposited salaries for soldiers obviate the need for diribitories.

divinipotent adj 1656 -1727

having strong divinatory powers

While the TV psychic claims to be divinipotent, he's clearly a charlatan.

dodrantal adj 1656 -1883

of nine inches in length

The male stripper's dodrantal instrument impressed the ladies greatly.

drollic adj 1743 -1743

of or pertaining to puppet shows

Computer graphics are rapidly replacing the drollic puppet-shows of years ago.

dromograph n 1883 -1885

instrument for measuring velocity of blood flow

The dromograph readings from his elderly patient alarmed the doctor.

ducenarious adj 1656 -1656

pertaining to two hundred

The ducenarious diversion of the bicentennial brought the countrymen together.

ebaptization n 1659 -1659

declaring that someone has not been properly baptized

They feared the priest's heterodoxy would lead to charges of ebaptization.

ecstasiate



v 1823 -1957

to go into an ecstasy; to cause to become ecstatic

The arrival of the boy-band ecstasiated the pre-teen throng.

ectylotic adj 1736 -1864

removing warts or calluses

Use this ectylotic bandage on your finger and you'll be cured in a week or two.

egrote v 1721 -1775

to feign an illness

He was a master of egroting in order to find more time to study for tests.

eicastic adj 1669 -1669

imitative

The comedian's wit is limited to his considerable eicastic abilities.

ejurate v 1622 -1800

to renounce; to abjure

I ejurate this entire organization and its principles, which I now see to be

corrupt.

embaphium n 1715 -1884

small vessel for measuring or serving medicine

She employed an embaphium to ensure the correct dose was given.

embolimaeal adj 1677 -1796

intercalary; inserted into the calendar

The addition of embolimaeal days caused calendrical confusion in the past.

epalpebrate adj 1884 -1884

lacking eyebrows

If you don't stop plucking, soon you'll be epalpabrate!

ephydriad n 1823 -1823

water-nymph

The synchronized swimmers were like ephydriads, full of natural grace.

essomenic adj 1771 -1771

showing things as they will be in the future

The essomenic properties of crystal balls are very much in dispute.

eternitarian n 1746 -1746

one who believes in the eternity of the soul

Though she held to no particular faith, she remained a hopeful eternitarian.

eveniency n 1656 -1656

coming to pass

His mother thought that the eveniency of her son's marriage was inevitable.

excutient adj 1730 -1775

shaking off

The excutient dog showered the topless sunbathers, causing them to rise in



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exipotic adj 1823 -1884

purgative; cleansing the body of illness

While the medicine was exipotic to his body, it made a mess of his bathroom.

exlineal adj 1716 -1716

out of the direct line of descent

Her cousins and all the other exlineal relations were cut out of the will.

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