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.
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.
apanthropinization n 1880 -1880
withdrawal from human concerns or the human world
His life as a hermit in the woods was characterized by apanthropinization.
aquabib n 1731 -1883
water-drinker
I was never much of an aquabib, and always preferred harder libations.
artigrapher n 1753 -1753
writer or composer of a grammar; a grammarian
Today's prescriptivists are no better than the artigraphers of the Renaissance.
boscaresque adj 1734 -1734
picturesque; scenically wooded
Despite northern England's industrial pollution, parts of it remain boscaresque.
crocitation n 1623 -1656
croaking; cawing
The crocitation of the gulls meant that I got no sleep last night.
dodrantal adj 1656 -1883
of nine inches in length
The male stripper's dodrantal instrument impressed the ladies greatly.
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.
fabrefaction n 1652 -1678
act of fashioning or making a work of art
The sculptor felt that fabrefaction was more important than the end result.
latibule n 1623 -1691
hiding place
The girl emerged triumphantly from her latibule, only to find her friends had already left.
lignatile adj 1855 -1855
living or growing on wood
She collected lignatile mushrooms on her hike, confident in her identifications.
magastromancy n 1652 -1652
magical astrology
Her reliance on magastromancy to decide the students' grades got her in trouble.
murklins adv 1568 -1674
in the dark
She stumbled murklins about the house until she found the light switch.
nepheliad n 1818 -1821
cloud-nymph
Like a nepheliad, the skydiver dove gracefully through the clouds.
nerterology n 1800 -1800
learning relating to the dead or the underworld
Her inquiries into nerterology were inspired by a youthful visit to a medieval crypt.
quaeritate v 1657 -1657
to question; to inquire
If I might quaeritate, why are we headed in the wrong direction on the trail?
scaevity n 1623 -1658
unluckiness; left-handedness
She attributed her failure to evil forces, but her family felt it was a matter of scaevity.
scelidate adj 1877 -1877
having legs; legged
The legless dragon of Eastern myth contrasts with its scelidate Western counterpart.
senticous adj 1657 -1657
prickly; thorny
He pricked himself on a senticous bush as he searched about for his golf ball.
siagonology n 1895 -1895
study of jaw-bones
Reliance on siagonology alone led to the proliferation of the Piltdown Man hoax.
sparsile adj 1891 -1891
of a star, not included in any constellation
The prevalence of sparsile stars today reflects technical advances in telescopy.
stagma n 1681 -1820
any distilled liquor
I will touch neither wine nor stagma, though I do occasionally partake of ale.
supellectile adj 1615 -1843
of the nature of furniture
Our apartment is full of knick-knacks, but is lacking in supellectile necessities.
thural adj 1624 -1714
of or pertaining to incense
The mysteries of the ancient order involved the burning of thural herbs.
vampirarchy n 1823 -1823
set of rulers comparable to vampires
Some believe that we are secretly ruled by the Illuminati or a similar vampirarchy.
venialia n 1654 -1654
minor sins or offences
Though he had done nothing heinous, all of his friends had been victims of his venialia.
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