A growing assortment of words and definitions used in the Early Modern era. See the Guide for more information.
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Fumade
A smoked herring (pilchard). Recommended by Thomas Fuller (1661) with oil and lemon. Also fumatho, fumado, fair maid. Spanish fumado, smoked.
Tralatitious
(1) Transferred; metaphorical, figurative. (2) Transferred from hand to hand, ordinary, commonplace. (3) Transferred from generation to generation, traditional; repeated by person after person. Latin transferre, tralatum, to bear across; whence also transference and many more transfers. Hence tralation, tralatition, metaphor, figurative use. Thomas Fuller in A PISGAH-SIGHT OF PALESTINE (1650) declared men too often guilty of what may be termed tralatitious idolatry, when any thing . . . is loved or honoured above, or even with, God himself. Holder in THE ELEMENTS OF SPEECH (1669), considering the etymology of the word language, said that 'language' properly refers to that of the tongue; 'written language' is tralatitiously so called.
Ungrayhair
As a verb, used by Thomas Fuller in THE HOLY WAR (1639): Whilest his old wife plucked out his black hairs . . . his young one ungrayhaired him.
