‘hulk, n.2 < Old English hulc . . a word of early diffusion among the maritime peoples of Western Europe, of uncertain origin, conjecturally referred to Greek ὁλκάς a ship that is towed, hence a ship of burthen, a trading vessel, merchantman. . . 3. a. The body of a dismantled ship (worn out and unfit for sea service) retained in use as a store-vessel, for the temporary housing of crews, for quarantine or other purposes; also applied to vessels specially built for such purposes. 1671 Dryden Evening's Love Pref., The Hulk of Sir Francis Drake. . . 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Hulks, are large Vessels, having their Gun Decks from 113 to 150 Foot long, and from 31 to 40 Foot broad... Their chief Use is for setting in Masts into Ships, and the like . . ‘
‘charge, n.1 < French charge . . . . 10. a. Pecuniary burden; expense, cost. arch. . . c1522 T. More Treat. Quatuor Nouissimis in Wks. (1557) I. 90 Thou hast lytle money & much charge. . . 1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler iii. 79 'Tis the company and not the charge that makes the feast. 1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ (1681) 265 January..is the rich mans charge, and the poor mans misery . . ‘
‘bargain, n.1 < Old French bargaine. . . 2. b. Sometimes applied to what one of the parties has contracted . . to . . receive . . 1502 tr. Ordynarye of Crysten Men (de Worde) iv. xxi. sig. y.v v, The seller putteth in his bargayne that he may bye agayne his herytage . . ‘
‘fuddle, v. < Of obscure origin . . . . 2. a. trans. To confuse with or as with drink, intoxicate, render tipsy. c1600 Timon (1980) ii. v. 34 Ile giue thee ale pragmaticall indeede Which if thou drinke shall fuddle thee hande & foote. . . 1706 E. Baynard Cold Baths (1709) ii. 362, I made my Man give him a Cup of Ale..under a Pint, yet it almost fuddled him . . ‘
‘These people’ in Bill’s pejorative sense is not in OED but the non-pejorative phrase is certainly in common use: it’s in 8 etymologies, 36 definitions and 446 quotes. This is the pejorative sense here:
‘ . . II 3.d. Used instead of this with a sing. noun of multitude (formerly with company, number; now only with collectives in pl. sense, as vermin); or esp. with kind, sort (†form, †manner) followed by of with pl. n. (cf. kind n. 14b, those pron. and adj. 6c). . . 1797 R. Southey Lett. from Spain xxv. 473 A faithful picture of these vermin.’
‘git, n.< variant of get n.1 slang. In contemptuous use: a worthless person. 1946 Penguin New Writing 28 171 Chalky! You idle git! . . 1967 Listener 3 Aug. 136/3 That bald-headed, moon-faced, four-eyed git Garnett gristling on about Harold Wilson. 1967 Observer 24 Sept. 36/6 The girl scarcely turned her head: ‘Shutup yerself yer senseless git!’‘
‘get, n.1 < get v. . . 2.a. What is begotten; an offspring, child. Also collect. progeny. Now only of animals. . . a1500 (▸a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. vi. 63, I pray the, Lord, as thou me het, That [thou] saue me and my gete. . . 1795 J. Haldane in J. Robertson Agric. PerthApp. (1799) 534 Some of his [a ram's] gets were of the best country kind. 1815 Sporting Mag. 46 118 The Stradling or Lister Turk..proved his high blood, by the racers, his immediate get . .
2.b. orig. Sc. and north. In contemptuous use = brat. Also spec. a bastard; hence as a general term of abuse: a fool, idiot. (Cf. git n.) Now dial. and slang. 1567 R. Sempill in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. viii. 11 Blasphemus baird and beggeris get! . . 1880 W. H. Patterson Gloss. Words Antrim & Down 43 Get, an opprobrious term used in scolding matches. . . 1940 Daily Mail 7 Sept. 3/8 Here are some current military phrases interpreted:..get, chump, fool . . ‘
HM has never actually traveled on it - she accepted the gift graciously - and promptly graciously gave it to an independent trust, clearly recognising it as a white elephant. Its looks very fine from a distance, as Carol says, but close up it is an over-painted and over-gilded piece of kitsch.
It is based on the designs of the royal row-boats of Georgian times, which may be seen at Greenwich. No doubt the overdecoration is authentic.
‘care, n.1 , < Common Germanic: Old English caru . . . . 3. c. to have a care . . . . 1600 Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream iv. i. 14 Good Mounsieur haue a care, the honybagge breake not. . . 1876 W. Black Madcap Violet xviii. 161 ‘Have a care, Jack!’ Peter called out.’
‘ombre, n.1 < French hombre (1657) . . 1. A trick-taking card game for three people using forty cards . . the eights, nines, and tens are discarded from an ordinary pack of 52 cards . . It was the first card game to use the idea of an auction, where players bid for the right to nominate a trump suit. 1661 E. Gower Let. 26 Jan. in 5th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1876) 202/1 To play at Hombre, the new game at cards now in fashion at court. 1662 J. Cotgrave Wits Interpreter (ed. 2) 353 L'Ombre is a Spanish Game at Cards, wherein he who undertakes to play it saith Jo soy L'Ombre, i.e. I am the man; for so the word L'Ombre signifieth. 1691 G. Etherege Let. to E. of M. in Hist. Adolphus 72 Such ropes of Pearl her Arms incumber, She scarce can deal the Cards at Omber . . ‘
Banned for 15 years by the Commonwealth, no doubt, and perhaps rare before that but known by name to a wider circle.
‘hang, v. < The history of this word involves that of two Old English and one Old Norse verbs: (1) the Old English strong hón . . transitive; (2) the Old English weak hangian . . ; (3) the Old Norse causal verb hęngjan transitive = Old High German hęngan . . . . I. Transitive senses. 1. b. To suspend or tie up (bacon, beef, etc.) in the air to mature, to dry for preservation, or (game, venison) to become ‘high’. 1599 H. Buttes Dyets Dry Dinner sig. I6v, Fallow Deere..fat, very well chased, hang'd untill it be tender. . . 1863 Morning Star 1 Jan. 5 Potter..said game is not fit to eat until it has been hung.’
Game is still hung in this way in the game larders of country houses, placed on the north side of the house to keep them from warming up in the sun. Traditional butchers hang their beef before they butcher it but this is becoming rarer as the customers who appreciate and are willing to pay extra for the resulting flavour and tenderness die off.
‘Castile soap, n. < Castile, a province of Spain, in which the soap was originally made. A fine hard soap made with olive-oil and soda. There are two kinds, the white and the mottled. Called also Spanish soap. 1631 B. Jonson Divell is Asse v. iii. 3 in Wks. II Foame at th'mouth. A little castle-soape Will do't, to rub your lips. 1651 J. French Art Distillation v. 153 You may make candles of Castle-sope . . ‘ ……... ‘napalm, n.< na- (in naphthenate n.) + palm- (in palmitate n.): see further quot. 1946 at sense 1b. orig. U.S. 1. a. A thickening agent consisting essentially of aluminium salts of naphthenic acids and of the fatty acids of coconut oil. b. A thixotropic* gel consisting of petrol and this thickening agent (or some similar agent), used in flame-throwers and incendiary bombs; jellied petrol. . . 1946 L. F. Fieser et al. in Industr. & Engin. Chem. Aug. 769/1 It was next found (January 29, 1942) that a combination of aluminium naphthenate with the same ‘aluminum palmitate’ could be easily incorporated into gasoline to form a promising gel, and we termed this naphthenate-‘palmitate’ combination a Napalm gel. Subsequently it developed that the supposed ‘aluminum palmitate’ was actually the aluminum soap of the total fatty acids of coconut oil, and that the specific gelling quality is due to a high content of lauric, not palmitic, acid . .
napalm burn n. . . 1997 Tampa (Florida) Tribune (Nexis) 7 Nov. (Baylife section), The image of her running naked, screaming in pain from napalm burns, remains a symbol of all that was wrong with the Vietnam War . . ‘ ……... * ‘thixotropy, n.< German tixotropie . . The property of certain gels of becoming fluid when agitated and of reverting back to a gel when left to stand. . . 1971 New Scientist 19 Aug. 435/2 How to demonstrate thixotropy with custard.’ ……...
‘ . . Assessment: Contemporaries of all persuasions acknowledged Sir Henry Vane's importance. Charles II believed him ‘too dangerous … to let live’; Algernon Sidney thought his death ‘intollerable grievous’ to England, whose ‘greatest ornament’ he was. Anthony Wood pronounced Vane ‘the Proteus of the times … an inventor … of whimseys in religion’ and ‘crotchets in the state’; George Sikes portrayed him as a ‘faithful watchman and able Patriot’, with ‘remarkable insight [into] the Politie of the true Commonwealth’ . .
Machiavellian or martyr? Historiography has since oscillated between these interpretations of his character . . Most politicians are not thinkers; most theorists are not actors. Vane was both. After over a decade of intense activity he began, in the 1650s, to publish his vision of the righteous republic . . Unswerving in his dedication to the cause of God and the principles befitting its adherents he remained a political pragmatist . . pursuing the reconciliation of all those formerly united under the banner of civil and Christian liberty.
This understudied ideological legacy survived the débâcle of 1659 to influence the subsequent development of republicanism on both sides of the Atlantic.’ [DNB]
‘Venice, n. < . . Latin Venetia . . . . b. Venice treacle n. in old pharmacy, an electuary composed of many ingredients and supposed to possess universal alexipharmic and preservative properties. 1617 J. Woodall Surgions Mate 141 A little Venice Trekle or other Trekle. 1635 J. Taylor Life T. Parr C 3, And Garlick hee esteem'd above the rate Of Venice-Triacle, or best Mithridate. 1691 T. Hale Acct. New Inventions p. xxv, And as well may we be afraid to take the Venice Treacle, because of its being long kept in boxes of Lead . . ‘
‘electuary, n. < . . ἐκλείχειν to lick out 1. a. A medicinal conserve or paste, consisting of a powder or other ingredient mixed with honey, preserve, or syrup of some kind. . . 1636 D. Featley Clavis Mystica xii. 148 Many simples goe to the making of a soveraigne Electuary . . ‘
‘alexipharmic, < post-classical Latin alexipharmicus . . A medicine or treatment believed to protect against, counteract the effects of, or expel from the body a noxious or toxic substance, esp. a poison or venom; an antidote . . Alexipharmics were originally used in the treatment of many infectious diseases, including plague and smallpox. 1628 J. Woodall Viaticum 13 It [sc. Theriaca Diatessaron] resisteth putrifactious and pestilentiall vapours, and is the most antients Treacle of all other: my selfe haue had very much, true, and good experience of it, and would trust my life vpon it, before the 2. aforesaid Alexifarmicks. 1666 N. Hodges Vindiciæ Medicinæ & Medicorum (new ed.) 229 The chief intention in the cure consisting in an early expulsion of the malignity, proper Alexipharmicks did mostly contribute to this end . . ‘
To better understand Sasha Clarkson’s most helpful post above refer to the family tree at http://www.pepysdiary.com/encyclo…. SP had 10 siblings; on his father’s side 2 uncles, 3 aunts and 7 cousins; on his mother’s, one uncle, 3 aunts and 3 cousins.
Sir Richard Pepys, 1588-1659, was a cousin: it was no doubt his arms that SP claimed for himself.
Samuel is offering to give up 10 years' income now, when he is prospering and doesn't need it, for the certainty of a useful income for their old age, when he and then Elizabeth as his widow (7 years younger than him) may be poor. No doubt he was looking forward to his allotted 'three score years and ten' which turned out to be exactly what he got.
‘Ground-hog Day n. N. Amer. 1871 M. Schele de Vere Americanisms 369 Candlemas is known as Ground-hog Day, for on that day the ground-hog comes annually out of his hole, after a long winter nap, to look for his shadow. If he perceives it, he retires again to his burrow, which he does not leave for six weeks—weeks necessarily of stormy weather. But if he does not see his shadow, for lack of sunshine, he stays out of his hole till he can, and the weather is sure to become mild and pleasant . . ‘
‘collar-day, n. A day on which Knights wear the collar of their Order, when taking part in any court ceremony. . . 1662 S. Pepys Diary 29 Sept. (1970) III. 207 It being Collar day—we had no time to talk with him about any business. 1663 S. Pepys Diary 2 Feb. (1971) IV. 31 It being Coller-day, it being Candlemas-day. . . 1764 Low Life 56 This being Whitsunday and consequently Collar Day at Court . . ‘ ………………..
‘If Candlemas Day be fair and bright Winter will have another fight If Candlemas Day brings cloud and rain Winter won't come again.
If Candlemas Day be dry and fair The half o the winter's to come and mair If Candlemas Day be wet and foul The half o the winter's gone at yule.’
Better known to godless colonials as Groundhog Day!
The secret history of the Calves-head-Clubb by Edward Ward, published 1709, relates the dreadful fates of ‘Fanatiques’ who met to celebrate the execution of Kings Charles: http://tinyurl.com/hlw4faz
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About Monday 2 March 1662/63
Chris Squire UK • Link
OED has:
‘hulk, n.2 < Old English hulc . . a word of early diffusion among the maritime peoples of Western Europe, of uncertain origin, conjecturally referred to Greek ὁλκάς a ship that is towed, hence a ship of burthen, a trading vessel, merchantman.
. . 3. a. The body of a dismantled ship (worn out and unfit for sea service) retained in use as a store-vessel, for the temporary housing of crews, for quarantine or other purposes; also applied to vessels specially built for such purposes.
1671 Dryden Evening's Love Pref., The Hulk of Sir Francis Drake.
. . 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Hulks, are large Vessels, having their Gun Decks from 113 to 150 Foot long, and from 31 to 40 Foot broad... Their chief Use is for setting in Masts into Ships, and the like . . ‘
About Sunday 1 March 1662/63
Chris Squire UK • Link
OED has:
‘charge, n.1 < French charge . .
. . 10. a. Pecuniary burden; expense, cost. arch.
. . c1522 T. More Treat. Quatuor Nouissimis in Wks. (1557) I. 90 Thou hast lytle money & much charge.
. . 1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler iii. 79 'Tis the company and not the charge that makes the feast.
1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ (1681) 265 January..is the rich mans charge, and the poor mans misery . . ‘
About Saturday 28 February 1662/63
Chris Squire UK • Link
OED has:
‘bargain, n.1 < Old French bargaine.
. . 2. b. Sometimes applied to what one of the parties has contracted . . to . . receive . .
1502 tr. Ordynarye of Crysten Men (de Worde) iv. xxi. sig. y.v v, The seller putteth in his bargayne that he may bye agayne his herytage . . ‘
About Friday 27 February 1662/63
Chris Squire UK • Link
OED has:
‘fuddle, v. < Of obscure origin . .
. . 2. a. trans. To confuse with or as with drink, intoxicate, render tipsy.
c1600 Timon (1980) ii. v. 34 Ile giue thee ale pragmaticall indeede Which if thou drinke shall fuddle thee hande & foote.
. . 1706 E. Baynard Cold Baths (1709) ii. 362, I made my Man give him a Cup of Ale..under a Pint, yet it almost fuddled him . . ‘
About Thursday 26 February 1662/63
Chris Squire UK • Link
‘These people’ in Bill’s pejorative sense is not in OED but the non-pejorative phrase is certainly in common use: it’s in 8 etymologies, 36 definitions and 446 quotes. This is the pejorative sense here:
‘ . . II 3.d. Used instead of this with a sing. noun of multitude (formerly with company, number; now only with collectives in pl. sense, as vermin); or esp. with kind, sort (†form, †manner) followed by of with pl. n. (cf. kind n. 14b, those pron. and adj. 6c).
. . 1797 R. Southey Lett. from Spain xxv. 473 A faithful picture of these vermin.’
About Wednesday 25 February 1662/63
Chris Squire UK • Link
Re: Stolzi on 26 Feb 2006 • Link • Flag
‘Rochester . . is also notable for his impromptus, one of which is a teasing epitaph of King Charles II:
Here lies our sovereign lord the King,
Whose word no man relies on,
He never said a foolish thing,
And never did a wise one"
to which Charles supposedly said "that's true, for my words are my own, but my actions are those of my ministers".’
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joh…
About Sunday 22 February 1662/63
Chris Squire UK • Link
OED has:
‘git, n.< variant of get n.1
slang. In contemptuous use: a worthless person.
1946 Penguin New Writing 28 171 Chalky! You idle git!
. . 1967 Listener 3 Aug. 136/3 That bald-headed, moon-faced, four-eyed git Garnett gristling on about Harold Wilson.
1967 Observer 24 Sept. 36/6 The girl scarcely turned her head: ‘Shutup yerself yer senseless git!’‘
‘get, n.1 < get v.
. . 2.a. What is begotten; an offspring, child. Also collect. progeny. Now only of animals.
. . a1500 (▸a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. vi. 63, I pray the, Lord, as thou me het, That [thou] saue me and my gete.
. . 1795 J. Haldane in J. Robertson Agric. PerthApp. (1799) 534 Some of his [a ram's] gets were of the best country kind.
1815 Sporting Mag. 46 118 The Stradling or Lister Turk..proved his high blood, by the racers, his immediate get . .
2.b. orig. Sc. and north. In contemptuous use = brat. Also spec. a bastard; hence as a general term of abuse: a fool, idiot. (Cf. git n.) Now dial. and slang.
1567 R. Sempill in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. viii. 11 Blasphemus baird and beggeris get!
. . 1880 W. H. Patterson Gloss. Words Antrim & Down 43 Get, an opprobrious term used in scolding matches.
. . 1940 Daily Mail 7 Sept. 3/8 Here are some current military phrases interpreted:..get, chump, fool . . ‘
About Friday 20 February 1662/63
Chris Squire UK • Link
Not everyone is a fan of Gloriana: https://orleansgardensblog.wordpr….
HM has never actually traveled on it - she accepted the gift graciously - and promptly graciously gave it to an independent trust, clearly recognising it as a white elephant. Its looks very fine from a distance, as Carol says, but close up it is an over-painted and over-gilded piece of kitsch.
It is based on the designs of the royal row-boats of Georgian times, which may be seen at Greenwich. No doubt the overdecoration is authentic.
About Saturday 21 February 1662/63
Chris Squire UK • Link
OED has:
‘care, n.1 , < Common Germanic: Old English caru . . . . 3. c. to have a care . .
. . 1600 Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream iv. i. 14 Good Mounsieur haue a care, the honybagge breake not.
. . 1876 W. Black Madcap Violet xviii. 161 ‘Have a care, Jack!’ Peter called out.’
Extinct in modern British English.
About Monday 16 February 1662/63
Chris Squire UK • Link
OED has:
‘ombre, n.1 < French hombre (1657) . .
1. A trick-taking card game for three people using forty cards . . the eights, nines, and tens are discarded from an ordinary pack of 52 cards . . It was the first card game to use the idea of an auction, where players bid for the right to nominate a trump suit.
1661 E. Gower Let. 26 Jan. in 5th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1876) 202/1 To play at Hombre, the new game at cards now in fashion at court.
1662 J. Cotgrave Wits Interpreter (ed. 2) 353 L'Ombre is a Spanish Game at Cards, wherein he who undertakes to play it saith Jo soy L'Ombre, i.e. I am the man; for so the word L'Ombre signifieth.
1691 G. Etherege Let. to E. of M. in Hist. Adolphus 72 Such ropes of Pearl her Arms incumber, She scarce can deal the Cards at Omber . . ‘
Banned for 15 years by the Commonwealth, no doubt, and perhaps rare before that but known by name to a wider circle.
About Saturday 14 February 1662/63
Chris Squire UK • Link
OED has:
‘hang, v. < The history of this word involves that of two Old English and one Old Norse verbs: (1) the Old English strong hón . . transitive; (2) the Old English weak hangian . . ; (3) the Old Norse causal verb hęngjan transitive = Old High German hęngan . .
. . I. Transitive senses. 1. b. To suspend or tie up (bacon, beef, etc.) in the air to mature, to dry for preservation, or (game, venison) to become ‘high’.
1599 H. Buttes Dyets Dry Dinner sig. I6v, Fallow Deere..fat, very well chased, hang'd untill it be tender.
. . 1863 Morning Star 1 Jan. 5 Potter..said game is not fit to eat until it has been hung.’
Game is still hung in this way in the game larders of country houses, placed on the north side of the house to keep them from warming up in the sun. Traditional butchers hang their beef before they butcher it but this is becoming rarer as the customers who appreciate and are willing to pay extra for the resulting flavour and tenderness die off.
Here's a modern model: http://www.fisheruk.co.uk/feather…
About Thursday 12 February 1662/63
Chris Squire UK • Link
OED has:
‘Castile soap, n. < Castile, a province of Spain, in which the soap was originally made.
A fine hard soap made with olive-oil and soda. There are two kinds, the white and the mottled. Called also Spanish soap.
1631 B. Jonson Divell is Asse v. iii. 3 in Wks. II Foame at th'mouth. A little castle-soape Will do't, to rub your lips.
1651 J. French Art Distillation v. 153 You may make candles of Castle-sope . . ‘
……...
‘napalm, n.< na- (in naphthenate n.) + palm- (in palmitate n.): see further quot. 1946 at sense 1b. orig. U.S.
1. a. A thickening agent consisting essentially of aluminium salts of naphthenic acids and of the fatty acids of coconut oil.
b. A thixotropic* gel consisting of petrol and this thickening agent (or some similar agent), used in flame-throwers and incendiary bombs; jellied petrol.
. . 1946 L. F. Fieser et al. in Industr. & Engin. Chem. Aug. 769/1 It was next found (January 29, 1942) that a combination of aluminium naphthenate with the same ‘aluminum palmitate’ could be easily incorporated into gasoline to form a promising gel, and we termed this naphthenate-‘palmitate’ combination a Napalm gel. Subsequently it developed that the supposed ‘aluminum palmitate’ was actually the aluminum soap of the total fatty acids of coconut oil, and that the specific gelling quality is due to a high content of lauric, not palmitic, acid . .
napalm burn n.
. . 1997 Tampa (Florida) Tribune (Nexis) 7 Nov. (Baylife section), The image of her running naked, screaming in pain from napalm burns, remains a symbol of all that was wrong with the Vietnam War . . ‘
……...
* ‘thixotropy, n.< German tixotropie . .
The property of certain gels of becoming fluid when agitated and of reverting back to a gel when left to stand.
. . 1971 New Scientist 19 Aug. 435/2 How to demonstrate thixotropy with custard.’
……...
About Wednesday 11 February 1662/63
Chris Squire UK • Link
‘ . . Assessment: Contemporaries of all persuasions acknowledged Sir Henry Vane's importance. Charles II believed him ‘too dangerous … to let live’; Algernon Sidney thought his death ‘intollerable grievous’ to England, whose ‘greatest ornament’ he was. Anthony Wood pronounced Vane ‘the Proteus of the times … an inventor … of whimseys in religion’ and ‘crotchets in the state’; George Sikes portrayed him as a ‘faithful watchman and able Patriot’, with ‘remarkable insight [into] the Politie of the true Commonwealth’ . .
Machiavellian or martyr? Historiography has since oscillated between these interpretations of his character . . Most politicians are not thinkers; most theorists are not actors. Vane was both. After over a decade of intense activity he began, in the 1650s, to publish his vision of the righteous republic . . Unswerving in his dedication to the cause of God and the principles befitting its adherents he remained a political pragmatist . . pursuing the reconciliation of all those formerly united under the banner of civil and Christian liberty.
This understudied ideological legacy survived the débâcle of 1659 to influence the subsequent development of republicanism on both sides of the Atlantic.’ [DNB]
About Monday 9 February 1662/63
Chris Squire UK • Link
Hooke's Law: ut vis, sic extensio - a modern physicist would say: 'the extension goes as the force'.
About Monday 9 February 1662/63
Chris Squire UK • Link
OED has:
‘Venice, n. < . . Latin Venetia . .
. . b. Venice treacle n. in old pharmacy, an electuary composed of many ingredients and supposed to possess universal alexipharmic and preservative properties.
1617 J. Woodall Surgions Mate 141 A little Venice Trekle or other Trekle.
1635 J. Taylor Life T. Parr C 3, And Garlick hee esteem'd above the rate Of Venice-Triacle, or best Mithridate.
1691 T. Hale Acct. New Inventions p. xxv, And as well may we be afraid to take the Venice Treacle, because of its being long kept in boxes of Lead . . ‘
‘electuary, n. < . . ἐκλείχειν to lick out
1. a. A medicinal conserve or paste, consisting of a powder or other ingredient mixed with honey, preserve, or syrup of some kind.
. . 1636 D. Featley Clavis Mystica xii. 148 Many simples goe to the making of a soveraigne Electuary . . ‘
‘alexipharmic, < post-classical Latin alexipharmicus . .
A medicine or treatment believed to protect against, counteract the effects of, or expel from the body a noxious or toxic substance, esp. a poison or venom; an antidote . . Alexipharmics were originally used in the treatment of many infectious diseases, including plague and smallpox.
1628 J. Woodall Viaticum 13 It [sc. Theriaca Diatessaron] resisteth putrifactious and pestilentiall vapours, and is the most antients Treacle of all other: my selfe haue had very much, true, and good experience of it, and would trust my life vpon it, before the 2. aforesaid Alexifarmicks.
1666 N. Hodges Vindiciæ Medicinæ & Medicorum (new ed.) 229 The chief intention in the cure consisting in an early expulsion of the malignity, proper Alexipharmicks did mostly contribute to this end . . ‘
About Friday 6 February 1662/63
Chris Squire UK • Link
To better understand Sasha Clarkson’s most helpful post above refer to the family tree at http://www.pepysdiary.com/encyclo…. SP had 10 siblings; on his father’s side 2 uncles, 3 aunts and 7 cousins; on his mother’s, one uncle, 3 aunts and 3 cousins.
Sir Richard Pepys, 1588-1659, was a cousin: it was no doubt his arms that SP claimed for himself.
About Thursday 5 February 1662/63
Chris Squire UK • Link
Samuel is offering to give up 10 years' income now, when he is prospering and doesn't need it, for the certainty of a useful income for their old age, when he and then Elizabeth as his widow (7 years younger than him) may be poor. No doubt he was looking forward to his allotted 'three score years and ten' which turned out to be exactly what he got.
About Monday 2 February 1662/63
Chris Squire UK • Link
OED has;
‘Ground-hog Day n. N. Amer.
1871 M. Schele de Vere Americanisms 369 Candlemas is known as Ground-hog Day, for on that day the ground-hog comes annually out of his hole, after a long winter nap, to look for his shadow. If he perceives it, he retires again to his burrow, which he does not leave for six weeks—weeks necessarily of stormy weather. But if he does not see his shadow, for lack of sunshine, he stays out of his hole till he can, and the weather is sure to become mild and pleasant . . ‘
About Monday 2 February 1662/63
Chris Squire UK • Link
OED has:
‘collar-day, n. A day on which Knights wear the collar of their Order, when taking part in any court ceremony.
. . 1662 S. Pepys Diary 29 Sept. (1970) III. 207 It being Collar day—we had no time to talk with him about any business.
1663 S. Pepys Diary 2 Feb. (1971) IV. 31 It being Coller-day, it being Candlemas-day.
. . 1764 Low Life 56 This being Whitsunday and consequently Collar Day at Court . . ‘
………………..
‘If Candlemas Day be fair and bright
Winter will have another fight
If Candlemas Day brings cloud and rain
Winter won't come again.
If Candlemas Day be dry and fair
The half o the winter's to come and mair
If Candlemas Day be wet and foul
The half o the winter's gone at yule.’
Better known to godless colonials as Groundhog Day!
About Friday 30 January 1662/63
Chris Squire UK • Link
The secret history of the Calves-head-Clubb by Edward Ward, published 1709, relates the dreadful fates of ‘Fanatiques’ who met to celebrate the execution of Kings Charles: http://tinyurl.com/hlw4faz
hat-tip: https://pastnow.wordpress.com/