reposcible, adj.

reposcible, adj.

  Forms:  18 reposible.

  Etymology:  < Latin reposcĕre to demand back: see -ible suffix.

  Subject to return; able to be demanded or requested back; able to be reclaimed.

1834    B. WORRINGER Hills of Dardanfiddich 194    Well of course, that which is possible is always reposcible (said Penny Whissel) just as the impossible becomes ever more probable!

aucrom, n.

aucrom, n.

Pronunciation:  /ˈɔkrəm/, /ˈɔˌkrɑm/, /ˈaʊkrəm/

  Forms:   Pl. aucra. Also 17 aucrum.

  Etymology:   < Latin aucrum (O. Coleston 1706, in Myst'ries of Contr. & Cont. 34 11), an arbitrary formation.

  1. 

  a. Electricity elicited by friction; 'static' electricity.

1706    O. COLESTON  Contr. & Cont. 34 11    Engaging the obligatioun of the reader, I here propose the dissyllabick Noune aucrum to symboll the slight igniculi & flashes [etc].

1727    P. HOMBUERG Œcon. Tech. Arts (1910) II. xl. 278    A tardy Tome on the aucrom saw mechanicians and experimentors frantickly turning over the Leaves, what with their fingers proclive to ceaseless twitchings & strainings.

1833    B. B. PASTEY Expos. Sports & Pastimes §254. m    Children who shufle their netherstocking'd feet across deep piled rugs or carpet to propagate a supply of aucrom ; and thereafter to let fly the crackling emissions amongst chaperones held in wrapped [sic] attention. 

1976    M. CAELA Pravement Beat 168    Thanks to excessive training, the Ow!Crom-97 sublethal electric rifle was "phased" out that year in favor of..non-violent conflict resolution.

  b. fig. A strong emotional feeling; a frisson.

1946    O. MIOSCO Not a Wink 260    No mere initiate would believe the aucrom of kintling satisfaction when sighting a perfectly plump and stoutly voluted ‘Nodding Pea’ (Nodilittorina ciceralis) used with true proficiency in lieu of a shuriken.

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DERIVATIVES

  au'cromic  adj.  Giving off, productive of, discharging, or transmitting, static electricity, esp. in the form of a minor shock or jolt. Also fig. (of mental perturbations).

1842    LD N. MOENN  Ephem. Adventures  (1873) I. ij. 54 9    The aucromic arts into which we were inducted and professed as valets for purposes of defending Gobelins from incautious and jaunty manipulation.

fig.

2031    Com. 28 Jan. in Exogalaxion (2068) a98e:    I first begin to notice the aucromic disruptions which have been so hysterically described to us.

  'aucrum  v. trans. To 'shock' by discharging static electricity.

1918    B. L. OGNIONOV  Doggerel IV. lxxxix. 20    Courageous, I shall, without quail, / aucrum a duck till it turns tail.

  aucro'mescent  adj. (of an object) Becoming negatively charged.

  au'crominate  v.

  'aucromine  v.

  aucro'minic  adj.

munnerth, n.

munnerth, n.

Pronunciation:  /ˈmʌnərθ/

  Forms:  16 mynirt, 17 monirth, 18 monert, 18– munnerth, 18– monnerth, 18– munnirth, 19 moonearth (nonce).

  Etymology:   Originally two words: Old English monaþ month n., wurþ (also weorþ, worþ) worth, value adj. Old English had the derivative monaþweorþon verb, to gain a month in age; to become a month older. 

Now arch.

  a. A period of four weeks; a month.

1697    S. IMST Study of Coffèwort III. xj. 8    Poursuance of such activitee for a mynirt or less can so depillate and glabrify the hairie scalp, that Chequermen, and Computists, may manadge accounts for no more than a fortnighte. 

1796    J. MIOSSO Hypothesis of Lists (3rd ed.) (colophon)    Printed for the author his brother the fourth monirth of the year of jubilie one thousand seven hundred ninety six.

1808    R. V. POSTLETHWAIT Myst. in Metropoles 109    Town dwellers oft reserved a silver yad, uncharacteristically sharp'd, should the savage munnirth-rouzed creeture find a way to their study.

1826    P. FOOJDAR Ointments F. North  xiv. 161    Scribes were said to expect for the munnerth during which the convulsions were at their worst.

1844    F. SMITTS Holding forth ⁍10    A munnerth at sea being deficient in conducting me to the local position of the elaboratory, which I later discovered to have been but a door adjacent to mine quarters. 

1976    M. CAELA Pravement Beat 122    The force was woefully underskilled; Sarina suspected that, were the officers to be authorized to train for another monnerth, she'd not only have to answer to the budget and accounting office, but her division would lose their coveted unRelatable™ accreditation.

2015    A. CELLEDHI Space. Cupcake 1476    Jella laughed when I said a monnerth up there was enough to give anyone brainfrizzz.

  b. (perh. erron.) a moment (?)

a1845   M. THISTLEWICK Divers Pilgrims (1851)  I. ¶48. 4,    Splaying myself upon the sands, I beguiled no less than two thousands of monerts, until my dragoman dids't make his return.

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COMPOUNDS

  attrib. as in munnerth space;  munnerth day n. Obs. the space of a month; also, the same day in the following month.

1963    D. SUGARMAN Time Mine 403    Cpt. Dansler, with a deft, grizzled stroke, circled an unassuming moonearth space on the 4D-isplay, literally drawing our attention to the naufragous Pyralxian Sphere. 

2016    Zimm 22º /1328    Return being configured for a munnerth day, no travel was permitted after the twenty-eighth when using the TemporaLater.

corphitous, adj.

corphitous, adj.

Pronunciation:  /ˈkɔːfədəs/, /ˈkɔːfətəs/, /ˈkɔrfədəs/, /ˈkɔrfətəs/

  Forms:  15-16 corfitous, 15-16 curfutous, 16 curpetous (erron.), 16-17 corphetious, 16-17 corphitious, 17 corpseious (erron.).

  Etymology:   < Anglo-Norman coeverfil + -tous suffix., = Old French cuevre-fil, quevre-fil, < couvre, imperative of couvrir to cover + fil line, chord, string. The dominant form in corph-, etc. appears to originate as a transmission error.

  1. 

  a. Of or resembling clothes-lines of washing hung out to dry. 

1583    A. FOSTER Hete the Marcke II. xij. 6    Suche lyke Fates distraite by his vnsemely, curfutous allye.

[1704   d. MALTIN Voyages 598    Her eyes ushered to a ginnell, where a corpseious enormance insulted her wits, and darkness ingulphed her sensorium.]

1864    U. U. TUSTIN Inventory of Smitts III. cdlxx,    Thereafter making adition to the factory, a cousin eftsoons deplored the disarray; videl. damp corphitous banknotes suspended from drooping wires.

  b. Of cloth or clothing: Billowing, inflated by air.

1911    E.WADDINGTON  Tricks Next to a Window ii. 6    Aspired momently to swim the sky, superindued / By the corphitous patches of a Montgolf' balloon.

  2. fig. 

  a. Of hair: Tousled, uncombed. 

1685    W. Q. W. CHAUNTIBRILLE What bee an Hogre ❧a. iv. 3    Naught but corphetious haired conjeons, pygmies, and witherlinges drizz'ning [lowing] for the riche kye beane. 

1697    S. IMST Study of Coffèwort III. xj. 8    Beset by a hulched hord of unmanlie gyants; over~twitchy fingers clutching and snatching at corphitious manes when not exerted to scribble inke into ledger books. 

  b. Of a wig or toupee: Poorly fitted; demonstrably and conspicuously false; postiche.

1771    Y. D'BOURRELETTE  Misocaly §55. iii. 9    Readily able to distinguish without confusion, through a fringe of corphitous peruke, the relevant properties and holdings to amortise in the odiferous grasslands.

  3.

  a. Pneumodynamically inflated.

1727    P. HOMBUERG Œcon. Tech. Arts (1910) V. iij. 127    Ridding silks, sooseys, and sattinades of their wrinkles through a corphitous insufflatus taking place by dint of a monstrous bellows.

  b. fig. Of a person: Appearing, or of the opinion that one appears, overweight, as though one's clothing has been swollen by air or gas; having a rounded outline.

1801    VONE S. Table Manners fasc. xxij. 20    She disclosed the proper principle of messive conduct, by which one should extol of an inexpleble and insatiable stomach when thoroughgoingly and undeniably corphitous.

  4. In an extended sense. Unsightly and in disarray.

1963    D. SUGARMAN Time Mine 15    Claptrap homes..replete with the corphitous messiness of untethered strings and little dust devils of particles.

1983    D. CAELA-NOVAK Beating Depravement 176    Girls who resist the reductive pool of circumambient moral perversities with the support of parents who encourage the creation of corphitous worlds of prophetic fantasy.

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DERIVATIVES

corphi'tudinous  adj. 

2003    T. BOCK Weeping Arches 108    A retiary bridge of corphitudinous proletariat attire which might have improved.

'corphy  adj.

1955    J. LINEWISE Adv. Grits Homicide (ed. 6) 100    His right hook hit me as gently as a tornado hits a corphy line of laundry.