(where there is Latin _order_ as well as diction), it is certain that the terms in question have little or no poetic value, and that simpler words in nearly every case would have produced greater effects. Now and then, as later in the case of Cowper, the pedantry is, we may suppose, deliberately playful, as when he speaks of the cattle that ruminate in the contiguous shade (“Winter,” 86) or indicates a partial thaw by the statement Perhaps the vale relents awhile to the reflected ray. (_Ibid._, 784) The words illustrated above are rarely, of course, Thomson’s own coinage. Many of them (e.g. _detruded_, _hyperborean_, _luculent_, _relucent_, _turgent_) date from the sixteenth century or earlier, though from the earliest references to them given in the “New English Dictionary” it may be assumed that Thomson was not always acquainted with the sources where they are first found, and that to him their “poetic” use is first due. In some cases Milton was doubtless the immediate source from which Thomson took such words, to use them with a characteristic looseness of meaning.[107] It would be too much to say that Thomson’s use of such terms arises merely out of a desire to emulate the “grand style”; it reflects rather his general predilection for florid and luxurious diction. Moreover, it has been noted that an analysis of his latinisms seems to point to a definite scheme of formation. Thus there is a distinct preference for certain groups of formations, such as adjectives in “-ive” (_affective_, _amusive_, _excursive_, etc.), or in “-ous” (_irriguous_, _sequacious_), or Latin participle forms, such as _clamant_, _turgent_, _incult_, etc. In additions Latin words are frequently used in their original sense, common instances being _sordid_, _generous_, _error_, _secure_, _horrid_, _dome_, while his blank verse line was also characterized by the free use of latinized constructions.[108] Thomson’s frequent use of the sandwiched noun, “flowing rapture bright” (“Spring,” 1088), “gelid caverns woodbine-wrought,” (“Summer,” 461), “joyless rains obscure” (“Winter,” 712), often with the second adjective used predicatively or adverbially, High seen the Seasons lead, _in sprightly dance_ _Harmonious knit_, the rosy-fingered hours (“Summer,” 1212) is also worthy of note.