Thursday 10 May 2012

Archaic Words III

The Middle Ages are so over


arrogate to yourself: claim
abrogate all responsibility:
deny, devolve
battle, combat
: fight
beguile: bewitch


embroil
: involve
foodstuffs:
food
garb:
garments


high and mighty
(1548 HALL Chron., Edw. IV 229 Right high and mightie prince, right puyssaunt and noble kyng.)

Iran is sabre-rattling over its nuclear ambitions.
mettle: spirit
ructions
: disputes

sate
(an appetite): satisfy
save, save for, save only for: apart from
scud (clouds across the sky)
scuffle
(and other words for fight like fray, spat, do battle, fracas, skirmish)
sullied: grubby

tantamount to
(means “such amount”. paramount = top amount. Norman French): equivalent to
teeter on the brink
to boot:
as well

wrath (incur the wrath of X): anger

Archaic pairs here.
More archaisms here.
And yet more archaisms here.

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