Throwback Thursday: Semovedly
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1word1dayGreetings, and thank you for reading the inaugural Throwback Thursday post! Many thanks to the lovely med_cat for allowing me to do this series. Throwback Thursday devotes itself to the joy of obsolete and archaic language.
Semovedly [adverb]
separate, alone
Semovedly appears in the second edition of Henry Cockerham's The English Dictionarie: or, an Interpreter of hard English words (1637). Cockerham's entry defines semovedly as "meaning one alone". Early dictionaries like Cockerham's tend to be word dumps, organized alphabetically or by subject, and often without the definitions and illustrative quotations as normalized by Samuel Johnson's 1755 Dictionary of the English Language. For the curious, here's a transcription of Cockerham's first edition of The English Dictionarie (1623). It has wonderful sections, such as "Men vext in Hell".
The word semovedly appears in Thomas Nashe's discursive Christs Teares over Jerusalem (1593).
The TL;DR of Cristes Teares: reform, fellow Englishmen, or London will go the way of Jerusalem. People have their own ways of interpreting the bubonic plague, commonly moral.
Stay safe, folks. It's dangerous to go semovedly.
med_cat for allowing me to do this series. Throwback Thursday devotes itself to the joy of obsolete and archaic language.Semovedly [adverb]
separate, alone
Semovedly appears in the second edition of Henry Cockerham's The English Dictionarie: or, an Interpreter of hard English words (1637). Cockerham's entry defines semovedly as "meaning one alone". Early dictionaries like Cockerham's tend to be word dumps, organized alphabetically or by subject, and often without the definitions and illustrative quotations as normalized by Samuel Johnson's 1755 Dictionary of the English Language. For the curious, here's a transcription of Cockerham's first edition of The English Dictionarie (1623). It has wonderful sections, such as "Men vext in Hell".
The word semovedly appears in Thomas Nashe's discursive Christs Teares over Jerusalem (1593).
So let it be acceptable to God and His church what I write, as no man in this treatise I will particularly touch; none I will semovedly allude to, but only attaint vice in general.
Nashe is providing your basic all persons fictitious disclaimer: “all names, characters, and incidents portrayed in this writing are fictitious.” He’s only holding a mirror up to society and showing it its sins, right guys?
The TL;DR of Cristes Teares: reform, fellow Englishmen, or London will go the way of Jerusalem. People have their own ways of interpreting the bubonic plague, commonly moral.
Stay safe, folks. It's dangerous to go semovedly.
