/bandy-meaning

/bandy-meaning-etymology

-) Verb.

-) Pronunciation and accent: bændɪ.  

-) Third-person singular simple present: she/he bandies.

-) Preterite tense, preterite participle: bandied.

-) Present participle: bandying.

-) Etymology: of uncertain origin. Maybe from Middle French bander “to be tight, to bandy at tennis”, which is derived from bande “strip”.

-) It is dated from the end of 1500.

-) Transitively: -) 1. To throw, strike or beat (a ball) to and fro, or from one player to another, as in the game of bandy and tennis; this is, to throw or strike it alternately; to throw, or impel by hitting (a ball) to and fro between players.

-) Translation: pelotear con o rebatir (una pelota), in Spanish; ribattere (una palla), in Italian; renvoyer (une balle), in French.

When a nimble runner gets the ball in his cross, he sets off towards the goal with the utmost speed, and is followed by the rest, who endeavor to jostle him and shake it out; but, if hard pressed, he discharges it with a jerk, to be forwarded by his own party, or bandied back by their opponents…

J. Franklin… Narrative… 1824

… a certain game of ball had been known, the playing of which consists in this –that two or more persons […] with bats, battledores, or racquets, bandied a ball from one to the other.

American lawn tennis, vol. 1… 1931

… the player had to bandy the ball to and fro… 

H. Gillmeister… Tennis… 1939

-) Absolutely: to bandy a ball at tennis.

-) 2. (Less properly) to toss (anything, someone) to and fro, or from one person to another, as if it were a ball.

Some […] were bandied to and fro by the jerks and rolls of the ship, without exerting any efforts to help themselves. 

R. Kerr… Voyages and Travels… 1816

… you don't know what it is to get back home, after having been bandied from one hotel to another hotel, and from one lodging-house to another lodging-house.

W. Black… Macleod of Dare… 1878

-) With the adverb “about”, to strengthen the connotation of toss:

Tom Paine was so wicked that he could not be buried; his bones were thrown into a box which was bandied about the world till it came to a button-manufacturer; and now Paine is travelling round the world in the form of buttons!

T. Paine… The Writings… 1776

Do you suppose it is none to have me bandied about from bidder to bidder, and offered for sale to a gentleman who will not buy me?

W. Thackeray… The Newcomes 1854

The scrip was bandied about, no one caring for it…

A. Adams… Reed… 1907

-) 3. Metaphor: to cause (a theme, name, subject, etc.) to be mentioned, or (something) to be named repeatedly and alternately, from one person to another, as if it were a ball.

… conjectures as to where she would live, and how she would live, and, above all, whom she would marry, were bandied about from one to the other.

The New Monthly Magazine 1814-1884

… the name of this lovely and modest girl was bandied about from one to another.

H. Jones… The gipsy mother… 1833

The awkwardness of the Delaware in his new attire caused his friend to smile more than once that day; but he carefully abstained from the use of any of those jokes which would have been bandied among white men on such an occasion…

J. Cooper… The Deerslayer… 1841

His name was bandied from mouth to mouth, and a thousand efforts were made to find out who and what he was.

A. Doyle… The Doings… 1892

-) 3. Metaphor: to do, commit, perform (something) in reciprocity with some one else.

-) Synonyms: reciprocate, exchange.

I have not come to bandy pleasant speeches, or hollow professions.

Dickens… Barnaby Rudge… 1841

The trembling sentinel now looked insolently in his face; the cowering legionary, with whom "to hear was to obey," now mused or even bandied words upon his orders.

T. de Quincey… The Caesars… 1851

-) With the preposition “with” + a noun or a pronoun designative of the reciprocator:

… I came not hither to bandy reproaches with you.

Scott… Ivanhoe… 1819

-) 4. Obsolete meaning: to band; to cause (some one) to league.

-) Intransitive: -) 1. (Of a ball bandied) to bound; to be bandied; to bound like a tennis ball.

-) 2. Archaic meaning: to band; to league; to ally oneself with some one else.

-) Synonyms: to confederate, alliance.

All the nobility of England bandied into parties, and adhered either to the one duke or the other.

D. Hume… The History of England… 1754

While they staid at Barbadoes it was plainly discovered that not only the inhabitants there were against the general design, but that the seamen bandied against the land-men.

R. Venables… The experienced angler… 1825

-) 3. Obsolete meaning: to antagonize; to be an oppose.

-) Synonyms: contend, strive.

… he was neither bandied against, or censured in the more private and seditious cabals, nor was his master publicly addressed to for his removal.

E. Lodge… Portraits… 1824

-) Words derived from rhe verb “bandy”: rebandy, bandy (noun), bandying, maybe bandy (adj.)

 

 

/attire-meaning

/attire-meaning-etymology-synonyms

-) Verb.

-) Pronunciation and accent: ətaɪə(r)

-) Third-person singular simple present: attires.

-) Preterite tense, preterite participle: attired. 

-) Present participle: attiring.

-) Etymology: from Old French atirier “to arrange, array, dress”, which is from tire, an obsolete French word for “row”, “rank”. The English noun TIER “rank, row” is also from this obsolete French tire.

-) It is dated from the end of 1200.

-) Transitively: to adorn (a person) with a attire, dress, or apparel; to take on (something intended more for the sake of flaunting it, or of complying with some requirement, than of protecting the body).

-) Translation: vestire, in Italian; vestir, in Spanish; habiller, vêtir, in French.

-) Synonyms for “attire”: to array, clothe, garment, robe.

-) Antonyms of “attire”: undress, disrobe, unclothe, strip, bare, denude, divest, nude.

They attired me for the coffin - three or four dark figures which flitted busily to and fro. As these crossed the direct line of my vision, they affected me as forms; but upon passing to my side, their images impressed me with the idea of shrieks, groans, and other dismal expressions of terror, of horror, or of wo.

Poe… The Colloquy… 1841

-) Chiefly in the passive or in the reflexive:

[Julia] received a message from the marquis to attend him instantly. She obeyed, and he bade her prepare to receive the duke, who that morning purposed to visit the castle. He commanded her to attire herself richly, and to welcome him with smiles.

A. Radcliffe... A Sicilian Romance… 1790

A young lady sat in one of the boxes; she was elegantly attired, and seemed to occupy the united attentions of many Frenchmen.

C. Marryat… Frank Mildmay… 1829

From his chain, hung a scutcheon; with metal and color, resplendent upon his breast, of the ancient arms of Islington. One so attired could be no mean person.

W. Gardiner… Music of Nature… 1832

She then hastily attired herself for walking, and leaving word that she should return within a couple of hours, hurried away towards her uncle's house.

Dickens… Nicholas… 1839

… travel-stained though he was, he was well and even richly attired, and without being overdressed, looked a gallant gentleman.

Dickens… Barnaby Rudge… 1841

The Captain being at length attired to his own complete satisfaction, and having glanced at himself from head to foot in a shaving-glass which he removed from a nail for that purpose, took up his knotted stick, and said he was ready.

Dickens… Dombey and So… 1848

They were probably attired like Robin Hood's men, to whom, indeed, they are compared in the course of the play.

Wilde… The Truth of Masks… 1886

-) With the preposition “in” or “with” + the word denotative of the attire:

[The person] was long- visaged, and pale, with a red beard of above a fortnight's growth. He was attired in a brownish-black coat, which would have shewed more holes than it did, had not the linen, which appeared through it, been entirely of the same colour with the cloth.

H. Fielding… Amelia… 1751

Mr Vanslyperken, attired in his full uniform, ordered his boat to be manned and pulled on board.

Marryat… Frank Mildmay… 1829

In an absolute phrenzy of wrath, I turned at once upon him who had thus interrupted me, and seized him violently by tile collar. He was attired, as I had expected, in a costume altogether similar to my own; wearing a Spanish cloak of blue velvet, begirt about the waist with a crimson belt sustaining a rapier. A mask of black silk entirely covered his face.

Poe… William… 1839

He was attired, under his greatcoat, in a full suit of black

Dickens… Barnaby… 1841

From the same repository she brought forth a night-jacket, in which she also attired herself.

Dickens… Martin… 1844

Girls of Basutoland, South Africa, are expected to attire themselves with rings of braided grass and cowhide, and white clay rubbed on their bodies and legs. These young girls are first instructed for a period of some weeks in the details of sexual intercourse.

F. Martinson… Infant and Child Sexuality… 1994

-) Words derived from the verb “attire”: attire (noun), attired, attiring.

 

 

/astir-meaning

/astir-meaning-etymology

-) Adjective.

-) Pronunciation and accent: əstɜː(r). 

-) Etymology: it is analysed into “a” (prep.) + “stir” (noun).

-) It is dated from 1800.

-) Meaning: -) 1. Stirring; in a state of manifest activity.

-) Found mainly in old-fashioned literature.

-) Synonyms: active, moving.

-) Antonyms: quiet, resting, motionless.

-) Translation: actif, in French; activo, in Spanish; attivo, in Italian.

All was astir in an instant. Robin Hood and his merry men, with the morris-dancers, rushed out of their bowers, and the whole churchyard was in agitation.

W. Ainsworth… The Lancashire Witches 1848

In the camp all was quiet—indeed, a stillness unusual and portentous seemed resting upon it. No sports were in progress, no one was astir.

J. Orton… Camp Fires… 1855

He rose, took his shoes in his hand, turned the key in the door with great caution, and crept downstairs. Nothing was astir there but the smell of coffee, wine, tobacco, and syrups.

Dickens… Little Dorrit… 1857

Virginia, Maryland, and the Carolinas were astir with warlike preparations.

W. Hunt… History of England… 1905

-) 2. In particular: (of someone after his night rest) out of bed, up.

-) Found mainly in old-fashioned literature.

-) Antonyms: abed, asleep.

… by daylight we were astir, and preparing for our expedition.

W. Thomes… The gold hunters’ adventures… 1890

Alan was astir early next morning. He made his toilet with unusual thought and care for his personal appearance.

E. Cox… Out of the Silence… 1919

 

/anorgasmic-meaning

/anorgasmic-meaning-etymology

-) Adjective.

-) Accent: anorgasmic.

-) Etymology: from the word “anorgasmia”, which is analysed in an- (privative prefix) + “orgasm” and -ia (suffix). It is identical with Spanish anorgasmico, Italian anorgasmico and French anorgasmique.

-) It is dated from 1900.  

-) 1. (Of a person) who does not orgasm for any cause (for sickness, dysfunction, inability, inhibition, bigotry, etc.)

-) Antonym: orgasmic.

… some women are totally anorgasmic; others are orgasmic during copulation, and others show frequent copulatory orgasm.

P. Slater… Stress… 1998

I was asexual and anorgasmic until I was thirty-two years old. Then I discovered my sexuality, my identity as an intersexed person, and I learned how to become orgasmic.

S. Preves… Intersex… 2003

-) 2. (Of a thing) characterized by anorgasmia.

-) Antonym: orgasmic.

Ejaculation is taken as external proof that a man has experienced an orgasm, despite evidence that men can ejaculate without orgasm, technically known as anorgasmic ejaculation.

L. Moore… Sperm Counts… 2007

-) English words derived from orgasm: orgasmic, orgastic, anorgasmia, orgasm (verb), orgasmically.

 

 

/appliance-meaning

/appliance-meaning-etymology

-) Noun.

-) Pronunciation and accent: əplaɪəns.

-) Plural: appliances.

-) Etymology: from the verb “apply” + -ANCE. The Latin plicare is the ulterior etymology of the verb “apply”.

-) It is dated from the end of 1500.

-) 1. Action of applying; the action of placing in contact or proximity; application.

-) Translation: aplicación, in Spanish; application, in French; applicazione, in Italian.

 [I] demonstrated to my own satisfaction, what has since been frequently observed and publicly asserted, that the vapour of chloroform mixed with atmospheric air is a supporter of respiration. The end is attained by the appliance of the sponge a little distance from the nostrils.

The Veterinarian

… to spur on a horse by the heels, to excite his action by the appliance of the heels, spurs.

J. Ker… Our popular phrases… 1840

It would seem as if he had consoled himself by frequent appliances to the bottle.

R. Stevenson and L. Osbourne… The Wrong Box… 1889

-) 2. Metaphor: action of using something incorporeal, as if by getting a contact or approximation between it and an end (purpose, appropriation, etc.)

Before proceeding further I shall describe the apparatus, its appliance, and the advantages to be derived from its use.

London medical gazette, volume 22… 1838

Few subjects are more interesting than the discovery in the materials which surround us of a force, hitherto unknown, its transfer from natural sources, and its appliance to machinery, its introduction as a new and precious tool into the great workshop of the world.

S. Hole… A little tour in America… 1895

-) 3. A thing, corporeal or incorporeal, used as a means for someone to do something.

-) Synonyms: apparatus, device, adminicle.

-) Translation: adminículo, aparato, in Spanish; adminicule, in French; apparecchio, in Italian.

The prince had provided all the appliances of pleasure. There were buffoons, there were improvisatori, there were ballet-dancers, there were musicians, […] there was wine.

Poe… The Masque… 1842

Within the tower there are beautifully finished rooms-two tiny tea-rooms and a dressing-room, and also a real effective kitchen, with all necessary appliances for a repast or a pic-nic.

B. Silliman… A Visit to Europe… 1853

In the great towns in our country immense stores of books are provided for us, with librarians to class them, kind attendants to wait upon us, and comfortable appliances for study.

W. Thackeray… The Newcomes… 1854

Omnibuses convey you, if you please, from a convenient part of the town to the beach and back again; you have a clean and comfortable bathing-machine, dress, linen, and all appliances…

Dickens… Reprinted Pieces… 1867

… another and more advanced stage in my course of instruction; in which the main object was no longer the aids and appliances of thought, but the thoughts themselves.

J. Mill… Autobiography… 1873

We have no appliances here for the education of an actress.

W. Black… Macleod of Dare… 1883

… he spends his whole small income upon chemical and electrical appliances.

A. Doyle… The Doings… 1891

Bill has now brought me some new appliances, as I've also learned to masturbate satisfactorily. He brought me, for instance, a very sophisticated dildo with a rubber bulb, which one fills with warm soapy liquid. 

N. Friday… Forbidden Flowers… 1975

… a variety of toilet appliances.

W. Howells… Their Silver Wedding… 1899

-) Words derived from Latin plicare: ply (noun, verb), plying, accomplice, accompliceship, complice, complicitous, complicity, complexion (noun, verb), complexioning, complex (noun, verb, adj.), complexing, complexify, complexification, complexifying, complexified, complexional, complexionally, complexioned, complexionless, complexity, complexly, complexness, uncomplex, uncomplicated, complicate, complicated, complicatedly, complicatedness, complication, complicity, complicacy, deploy (noun, verb), deployed, deploying, deployment, display (noun, verb), displayable, displayed, displayer, displaying, displayment, undisplayed, employ (noun, verb), employability, employable, employed, employee, employer, employing, employment, unemployed, unemployment, unemployable, unemployability, unemploy, disemploy, disemployed, disemployment, re-employ, re-employment, explicate, explicated, explicating, explication, explicative, explicatively, explicatory, unexplicated, inexplicable, inexplicableness, inexplicability, inexplicably, explicit, unexplicit, unexplicitly, inexplicit, inexplicitly, inexplicitness, exploit (noun, verb), exploited, exploiting, exploitability, exploitable, exploitage, exploitation, exploitative, exploitee, exploiter (noun, verb), exploiterer, exploiting, exploitive, exploiture, unexploited, implicate (adj. verb), implication, implicational, implicationally, implicative, implicatively, implicativeness, implicit, implicitly, implicitness, implied, impliedly, unimplicated, imply, implyment, perplex, perplexing, perplexable, perplexed, perplexedly, perplexedness, perplexer, perplexing, perplexingly, perplexity, perplexment, unperplex (verb), unperplexed, plait (noun, verb), plaited, plaiter, plaiting, plaitless, plash (verb), plasher, plashing, plashment, pleach (noun, verb), pleaching, pleached, pleacher, pliant, pliantly, pliantness, ply (noun, verb), plying, plight, reply (noun, verb), replying, replyingly, replyist, unreplied, unreplying, splay (verb, noun), splayed, splaying, supple (adj., verb), suppled, supplely, unsupple, unsuppled, unsupplicated, suppliant, suppliantness, suppliantly, supplicant, supplicantly, supplicate, supplicated, supplicating, supplicatingly, supplication (noun, verb), supplicationer, supplicator, supplicatorily, simple, simple-minded, simple-mindedness, simple-mindedly, simpleness, simpleton, simplex, simplicial, simplicist, simplicistic, simplicity, simplicize, simplification, simplificator, simplificatory, simplified, simplifiedly, simplifier, simplify, simplifying, simplism, simplist, simplistic, simplistically, simply, double (noun, verb), doubleness, doubler, doublet, doubleted, doubling, doubly, duplicate (noun, verb), duplicating, duplicable, duplicability, duplicated, duplicatedly, duplicating, duplication, duplicative, duplicature, duplicity, duplicitous, treble (noun, verb, adj.), trebled, trebleness, trebling, trebly, triple (noun, verb, adj.), tripled, tripleness, triplet, triplex (noun, verb), triplexity, triplicity, triplexed, triplicate (verb, adj.), triplicating, triplicated, triplication, triplicative, triplicature, triply, quadruple (noun, verb, adj.), quadrupled, quadrupler, quadruplet, quadruplex (noun, verb), quadruplicate (verb, noun, adj.), quadruplicating, quadruplication, quadruplicature, quadruplicity, quadrupling, quadruply, multiple (noun, verb, adj.), multiplet, multiplex (verb, noun, adj.), multiplexed, multiplexing, multiplexer, multiplexity, multipliable, multipliableness, multiplicability, multiplicable, multiplicand, multiplicate, multiplication, multiplicational, multiplicative, multiplicatively, multiplicator, multiplicity, multiplied, multiplier, multiply (adv., verb), multiplying, application, applicative, applicatively, applicator, applicatory, applied, applier, applicate (adj., noun), applicant, applicancy, applicably, applicableness, applicable, applicability, appliance.

 

 

/anorgasmia-meaning

/anorgasmia-meaning-etymology

-) Noun.

-) Pronunciation and accent: ænɔːgæzmɪə.

-) Plural: anorgasmias.

-) Etymology: it is analysed in an- (privative prefix), + orgasm + -ia (suffix). It is identical with Spanish anorgasmia, Italian anorgasmia, and French anorgasmie.

-) It is dated from 1900.

-) Meaning: state of a person who does not orgasm for any cause (for sickness, dysfunction, inability, inhibition, bigotry, etc.)

 [Anorgasmia] occurs in both men and women.

Komisaruk – Nasserzadeh… Orgasm… 2009

“Situational anorgasmia” relates to the [… state] under which a woman may or may not experience orgasm –such as being able to experience orgasm by masturbation, but not with a partner.

Komisaruk – Nasserzadeh… Orgasm… 2009

-) English words derived from the word “orgasm”: orgasmic, orgastic, anorgasmic, orgasm (verb), orgasmically.

 

 

/anon-meaning-etymology

-) Adverb. 

-) Pronunciation and accent: ənɒn. 

-) It is dated from the beginning of 1100.

-) Etymology: Middle English anon, from Old English on an “in one; in one moment, in one movement, in a body, etc.”, from on “in” + an “one”.

-) 1. Obsolete and pristine values: -) a. In one body; together; in one accord. -) b. In one state. -) c. In one direction. 

-) 2. Archaic: instantly, at once.

-) 3. Misuse: in a short time; soon, in a little while.

… lie thou there, good dog, I’ll be back anon.

P. Egan… Robin Hood… 1840

You will not maltreat me. My partner, Sir Giles Mompesson, will be here anon, and will requite any outrage committed upon me.

W. Ainsworth… The Star-Chamber… 1854

-) 4. Now again; here again; then; now at this time.

-) Found in correlation with another adverb that has previously been used in the context.

… now to the right, then to the left, again up in the air, and anon to the bottom.

Dickens… Sketches by Boz… 1836

The wind came in sharp fitful gusts, whistling now, and anon sighing through the young green leaves and old boughs of the huge trees.

P. Egan… Robin Hood… 1840

I now heard as if the owners of the voices were moving slowly from place to place among the brushwood. There were intervals of silence, and then the whispering and talking would begin, and anon there was a sound of footsteps, nicked slowly, and with groping among the bushes.

 R. Douglas… Adventures of a medical student… 1848

A kind of zigzag channel had been worn on the side of the mountain, and through this the avalanche rushed, hidden at intervals, and anon shooting forth, and leaping like a cataract down the precipices.

J. Tyndall… The Glaciers of the Alps… 1860

Fräulein Müller was charmed at hearing some of her favourite poems, asking now for this little bit, and anon for another, and expatiating upon the merits of German poets in general, and Heine in particular, in the pauses of the lecture.

Braddon… Phantom Fortune… 1883

-) Ever and anon: ever and again, every now and then; frequently; often. 

It was a fearful page in the record of my existence, written all over with dim, and hideous, and unintelligible recollections. I strived to decypher them, but in vain; while ever and anon […] the shrill and piercing shriek of a female voice seemed to be ringing in my ears.

Poe… Berenice… 1835