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estimable
adjective
deserving respect or admiration; worthy of esteem.
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The English adjective estimable comes via French estimable from Latin 补别蝉迟颈尘腻产颈濒颈蝉, a derivative of 补别蝉迟颈尘腻谤别 鈥渢o value, price, estimate the money value of.鈥� The etymology of 补别蝉迟颈尘腻谤别 is unclear, but it may be related to Latin aes (stem aer-) 鈥渃opper, bronze, brass,鈥� from Proto-Indo-European ayes-, ayos- 鈥渕etal, copper,鈥� from which Sanskrit derives 谩测补蝉- 鈥渕etal, iron,鈥� Gothic aiz 鈥渂ronze,鈥� German Erz 鈥渙re鈥� (the Erzgebirge, 鈥淥re Mountain Range,鈥� lies between Saxony, Germany, and Bohemia, Czech Republic), Old English 腻谤 鈥渙re, copper, brass,鈥� and English ore. Estimable entered English in the 15th century.
how is estimable used?
He is the most estimable, the most trustworthy creature in the world, and I will venture to say, there is not a better seaman in all the merchant service.
Nothing is more typical of Armstrong, or more estimable, than his decision not to go into politics; heaven knows what the blandishments, or the invitations, must have been.
lateritious
adjective
of the color of brick; brick-red.
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The very rare adjective lateritious comes from Latin latericius (also lateritius) 鈥渕ade of brick,鈥� a derivative of the noun later 鈥渂rick, tile, block, ingot.鈥� In English lateritious is used in medicine, biology, and geology to describe the color of urine, sediment, or stone. Lateritious entered English in the 17th century.
how is lateritious used?
He scanned the sooted pillars and lateritious stone, and her spark began to fade for him.
The powders made from this bark are at first of a light brown, tinged with a dusky yellow; and the longer they are kept, the more they incline to a cinnamon or lateritious colour, which he believed was the case with the Peruvian bark and powders.
ferly
noun
something unusual, strange, or causing wonder or terror.
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Nowadays ferly is used only in Scottish English as a noun meaning 鈥渁 wonder, a marvel,鈥� and a verb 鈥渢o wonder.鈥� The Old English source is the adjective 蹿牵谤濒墨肠 鈥渟udden,鈥� a derivative of the noun 蹿牵谤 鈥渇ear鈥� (akin to German Gefahr 鈥渄anger鈥� and 驳别蹿盲丑谤濒颈肠丑 鈥渄补苍驳别谤辞耻蝉鈥�).
how is ferly used?
As on a May morning, on Malvern hills, / Me befell a ferly of fairy, methought.
Many a ferly fares to the fair-eyed …