The Lost Words

acrasial

ill-regulated; ill-tempered

addecimate

to tithe (pay or give as a tithe). A tithe is one __tenth__ of annual produce or earnings, formerly taken as a tax for the support of the Church and __clergy__.

"he tithes 10 percent of his income to the church"

adimpleate

to fill up

adnascentia

root-like branches that sprout into the earth from a plant's stem

aeipathy

continued passion; an unyielding disease

affictitious

feigned; counterfeit

affuage

right to cut wood in a forest for family fire

agonarch

judge of a contest or activity

agonyclite

member of a heretical sect that stood rather than kneeled while praying

airgonaut

one who journeys through the air

alabandical

barbarous; stupefied from drink

albedineity

whiteness

alogotrophy

excessive nutrition of part of body resulting in deformity

amandation

act of sending away or dismissing

amarulence

bitterness; spite

amorevolous

affectionate; loving

antipelargy

reciprocal or mutual kindness; love and care of children for their parents

apanthropinization

withdrawal from human concerns or the human world

aporrhoea

a bodily emanation; an effluvium

aquabib

water-drinker

archigrapher

principal or head secretary or clerk

archiloquy

first part of a speech

aretaloger

braggart; one who boasts about his own accomplishments

artigrapher

writer or composer of a grammar; a grammarian

ascoliasm

boys' game of beating each other with gloves or leather while hopping

assectation

act of following after something else

austerulous

somewhat or slightly harsh

autexousious

exercising or possessing free will

auturgy

self-action; independent activity

avunculize

to act as an uncle; to behave like an uncle

bajulate

to bear a heavy burden

bimarian

pertaining to two seas

binoternary

combining binary and trinary aspects

blateration

chatter; babbling

bonifate

lucky; fortunate

boreism

behaviour of a boring person

boscaresque

picturesque; scenically wooded

brabeum

reward or prize

brephophagist

one who eats babies

brochity

projecting or crooked quality of teeth

bromography

a treatise on food

bubulcitate

to act as a cowherd; to cry like a cowherd

buccellation

act of dividing into small morsels

bumposopher

one learned in bumps; a phrenologist

cacatory

accompanied by loose bowels

cacozealous

imitating badly; poorly affected

cagastric

(of diseases) originating under an ill star

cameranious

of or relating to a chamber

canitude

greyness; hoariness; whiteness

caprizant

of the pulse, uneven or irregular

casitive

having grammatical cases

castaldy

stewardship

cecograph

writing device for the blind

celeberrimous

very or most highly celebrated

celeripedean

swift-footed

cestuan

of or pertaining to a boxer's gloves or cesti

chermadic

of a heavy weight used as a projectile

chronanagram

an anagram of a chronogram

cibosity

store of food; plenty of food supplies

circuland

that which is to be circulated

circumbilivagination

going around in a circular motion; circumambulation

citharize

to play the harp

cloakatively

superficially

coherentific

causing to become coherent; causing cohesion

colaphize

to beat or buffet

commendaces

funeral orations; prayers for the dead

coquinate

to behave as a cook

cosmogyral

whirling round the universe

crassulent

very fat; grossly obese

crebrity

frequency; period between two occurrences

crocitation

croaking; cawing

cynicocratical

pertaining to rule by cynics

deartuate

to dismember

decutient

shaking down; beating down

defedate

to defile; to pollute

desarcinate

to unload; to unburden

devalgate

bow-legged

dicaearchy

just government

diffibulate

to unbutton; to unbuckle

dignorate

to mark or brand an animal

diloricate

to rip open a sewn piece of clothing

dipsopathy

medical treatment involving abstinence from liquids

diribitory

place where pay is distributed to soldiers.

divinipotent

having strong divinatory powers

dodrantal

of nine inches in length

drollic

of or pertaining to puppet shows

dromograph

instrument for measuring velocity of blood flow

ducenarious

pertaining to two hundred

ebaptization

declaring that someone has not been properly baptized

ecstasiate

to go into an ecstasy; to cause to become ecstatic

ectylotic

removing warts or calluses

egrote

to feign an illness

eicastic

imitative

ejurate

to renounce; to abjure

embaphium

small vessel for measuring or serving medicine

embolimaeal

intercalary; inserted into the calendar

epalpebrate

lacking eyebrows

ephydriad

water-nymph

essomenic

showing things as they will be in the future

eternitarian

one who believes in the eternity of the soul