Pavonian words:
uncommon words in the works of Peacock
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| WORD | MEANING | SOURCE |
| accinge (v.) | gird | C.C., xviii |
| adhibit (v.) | apply, employ | H.H., v |
| adoperation* (n.) | application, use | M. |
| agrestic (adj.) | rural | M.o.E., vi |
| antiperistatical (adj.) | contrary to surroundings, antagonistic | N.A., viii |
| antithalian* (adj.) | non-comic | N.A., iv |
| appetency (n.) | desire, propensity | M.o.E., xi |
| assation (n.) | roasting | H.H., xiii |
| atrabilarious (adj.) | melancholy, ill-tempered | N.A., i |
| autochthonous (adj.) | home-grown, aboriginal | M.o.E., vi |
| compotatory (adj.)* | of drinking together | G.G., |
| conglobated (ppl.) | gathered into a ball | G.G., |
| conterminal (adj.)* | with a common border | C.C., ix |
| contund (v.) | pummel, pound, bruise | C.C., viii |
| digladiation (n.) | argument | C.C., x |
| dyslogistic (adj.) | ill-sounding, opprobrious | C.C., viii |
| eleutherarch (n.) | ruler of secret society | N.A., ii |
| elixion (n.) | boiling | H.H., xiii |
| exanthematous* (adj.) | forming an efflorescence | M., xvi |
| excubant* (n.) | watchful, vigilant | C.C., xviii |
| funipendulous (adj.) | hanging by a cord | M.o.E., vi |
| hepatic (adj.) | liverish | M., xvi |
| hylactic* (adj.) | yelping | G.G., vii |
| hyloist (n.) | believer that matter is God | N.A., vii |
| hypæthric* (adj.) | under the sky, roof-less, outdoors | Rh., I. 2 |
| hyperoxysophistical* (adj.) | overly specious | N.A., viii |
| inficete* (adj.) | unfacetious, not witty | C.C., vi |
| irremissible (adj.)* | unredeemable | N.A., ix |
| jeremitaylorically* (adv.) | gloomily | Cal., ii |
| kakistocracy* (n.) | rule by the worst | M.o.E., vi |
| mastigophoric* (adj.) | whip-wielding | H.H., vi |
| meteoroscopy (n.) | observation of the stars | M.o.E., xiii |
| mirifical (adj.) | wonder causing | M.o.E., xii |
| mystagogue (n.) | teacher of mystical doctrines, hierophant | C.C., ii |
| noometry* (n.) | mind measurement | M., |
| oenogen* gas (adj.) | wine fumes | M., xxxix |
| osseocarnisanguineoviscericartilaginonervomedullary* (adj.) | bodily | H.H., vxi |
| osteosarchaematosplanchnochondroneuromuelous* (adj.) | bodily | H.H., xi |
| pallescence* (adv.) | paleness | M.M., ii |
| pallescent (adj.) | growing pale | N.A., ix |
| paradoxology* (n.) | instruction of paradoxical opinion | N.A., viii |
| peirastically* (adv.) | tentatively | C.C., vii |
| philotheoparoptesism* (n.) | roasting by a slow fire for the love of god | M.M., v |
| phlogistic (adj.) | inflammatory | M., xvi |
| prospiscient* (adj.) | foreseeing, forward-looking | M., xvi |
| regulators (n.) | vigilantes | C.C., xi |
| sempiternal (adj.) | everlasting | Pa. xv. 8 |
| tethrippharmatelasipedioploctypophilous* (adj.) | four-horsed hooves-striking-ground chariot-driving | M., xix |
| titubancy (n.) | tipsiness, unsteadiness | M.o.E., xi |
| titubant* (adj.) | tipsy, reeling | M., |
| unconsentaneous (adj.)* | not suited | N.A., iv |
| vaticinate (v.) | prophesy | C.C., xviii |
| veridicous* (adj.) | truthful | C.C., xviii |
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| Cal. | Calidore | C.C. | Crotchet Castle | G.G. | Gryll Grange | H.H. | Headlong Hall | M. | Melincourt | M.M. | Maid Marian | M.o.E. | The Misfortunes of Elphin | N.A. | Nightmare Abbey | Pa. | "Palmyra" (1st edition) | Rh. | "Rhododaphne" |
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