James Howell
Author and letter writer, c. 1594-1666
Cited as Howell. — 47 quotations
Adjacent
I find that all Europe with her adjacent isles is peopled with Christians.
Amphibolous
Never was there such an amphibolous quarrel -- both parties declaring themselves for the king.
Argentry
Bowls of frosted argentry.
Arrearage
The old arrearages . . . being defrayed.
Arreptitious
Odd, arreptitious, frantic extravagances.
Blacksmith
The blacksmith may forge what he pleases.
Browsing
Browsings for the deer.
Chaperon
His head and face covered with a chaperon, out of which there are but two holes to look through.
Clout
The . . . queen of Spain took off one of her chopines and clouted Olivarez about the noddle with it.
co-optation
The first election and cooptation of a friend.
Colonize
They that would thus colonize the stars with inhabitants.
Commend
Hearty commends and much endeared love to you.
Concinnity
An exact concinnity and eveness of fancy.
Consentaneous
A good law and consentaneous to reason.
Consonant
Consonant words and syllables.
Coördination
In this high court of parliament, there is a rare coordination of power.
Corrigible
He was taken up very short, and adjudged corrigible for such presumptuous language.
Despend
Some noble men in Spain can despend £50,000.
Distaff
Some say the crozier, some say the distaff was too busy.
Excoriation
A pitiful excoriation of the poorer sort.
Exemplarily
She is exemplarily loyal.
Flourish
The Roman monarchy, in her highest flourish, never had the like.
Flutist
Long we fluttered on the wings of doubtful success.
Impeach
A defluxion on my throat impeached my utterance.
Interpel
I am interpelled by many businesses.
Knobby
The informers continued in a knobby kind of obstinacy.
Lowbell
A lowbell hung about a sheep's . . . neck.
Mother
The queen, to have put lady Elizabeth besides the crown, would have mothered another body's child.
Nest
The king of birds nested within his leaves.
Nick
To cut it off in the very nick.
Niding
He is worthy to be called a niding.
Occlusion
Constriction and occlusion of the orifice.
Picture
The young king's picture . . . in virgin wax.
Placard
All placards or edicts are published in his name.
Presidial
There are three presidial castles in this city.
Radiate
Virtues shine more clear In them [kings], and radiate like the sun at noon.
Repullulate
Though tares repullulate, there is wheat still left in the field.
Ruff
His gravity is much lessened since the late proclamation came out against ruffs; . . . they were come to that height of excess herein, that twenty shillings were used to be paid for starching of a ruff.
Rummage
He . . . searcheth his pockets, and taketh his keys, and so rummageth all his closets and trunks.
Short
He was taken up very short, and adjudged corrigible for such presumptuous language.
Stagger
Whosoever will read the story of this war will find himself much staggered.
Symbolize
They both symbolize in this, that they love to look upon themselves through multiplying glasses.
Transmigrate
Their may transmigrate into each other.
Trunk
He shot sugarplums them out of a trunk.
Trunked
Thickset with strong and well-trunked trees.
Turbant
I see the Turk nodding with his turbant.
Weed
He weeded the kingdom of such as were devoted to Elaiana.