Acyrologicall An improper speech. Adacted Driven in by force. Blandiloquy Flattering speech. Compaginate To set together that which is broken. Concessation Loytering. Delitigate To scold, or chide vehemently. Depalmate To give one a box on the ear. Esuriate To hunger. Strenuitie Activity. Curiously enough, this author notes some words as those "now out of use, and onely used of some ancient writers," but which we now commonly use. Such are the following:-- Abandon To forsake or cast off. Abate To make lesse, diminish, or take from. [23] A most striking instance of the change of meaning in a word is in the old law-term _let_--"without _let_ or hindrance;" meaning void of all opposition. Hence, "I will _let_ you," meant "I will hinder you;" and not as we should now think, "I will give you free leave." [24] Shakspeare makes "Ancient Pistol" use a new-coined Italian word, when he speaks of being "better accommodated;" to the great delight of Justice Shallow, who exclaims, "It comes from _accommodo_--a good phrase!" And Ben Jonson, in his "Tale of a Tub," ridicules Inigo Jones's love of two words he often used:-- ----If it _conduce_ To the design, whate'er is _feasible_, I can express. [25] The term _pluck_, once only known to the prize-ring, has now got into use in general conversation, and also into literature, as a term indicative of ready courage. [26] Such terms as "_patent_ to the public"--"_normal_ condition"--"_crass_ behaviour," are the inventions of the last few years. [27] Shakspeare has a powerfully-composed line in the speech of the Duke of Burgundy, (_Henry V._ Act v. Sc. 2), when, describing the fields overgrown with weeds, he exclaims-- ----The coulter rusts, That should _deracinate_ such _savagery_. [28] The "Quarterly Review" recently marked the word _liberalise_ in italics as a strange word, undoubtedly not aware of its origin. It has been lately used by Mr. Dugald Stewart, "to _liberalise_ the views."--Dissert. 2nd part, p. 138. THE PHILOSOPHY OF PROVERBS.