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The History of the Conquest of Mexico

by William H. Prescott

Being 150 years old and on an exotic topic, it has quite a few rare words, senses, and uses. It even has some interesting Spanish and Nahuatl.

• anaglyphs Template:pos n
• aright Template:pos vt or Template:pos adv - better check again.
• wampum belt Template:pos n, wampum Template:pos n
• aloe = agave = maguey - book says these are synonyms but from different source languages.
• damps Template:pos n - as a plural noun.
• obloquy Template:pos n
• thorough-bred - as a hyphenated compound.
• Hindostan Template:pos n - another alt. spelling for Hindustan / Hindoostan, now India.
• peruke Template:pos n
• month - do we have a sense for speaking about months of various lengths in exotic cultures?
• week - do we have a sense for speaking about weeks of various lengths in exotic cultures?
• intercalation Template:pos n, intercalated
• Gregorian
• inappreciable
• tropical year Template:pos n
• civil time Template:pos n
• solar time Template:pos n
• cumbrous
• solar calendar Template:pos n
• nowise
• necromancy Template:pos n
• compact Template:pos n
• tardily Template:pos adv
• divinar
• Chapoltepec - obsolete spelling of Chapultepec?
• presage Template:pos n
• genii Template:pos n - irregular plural of genie?
• augury Template:pos n
• hearthstone Template:pos n
• chaplets Template:pos n - used several times, sometimes along with garland.
• ablations Template:pos n
• his lordship
• thither
• codices - irregular plural of codex.
• munificent
• born at Mexico - rather than the usual modern born in Mexico.
• antiquary
• credulity Template:pos n
• eulogiums Template:pos n
• raiment Template:pos n
• Indian corn Template:pos n - older synonym for maize and corn when the primary meaning of the latter was not restricted to this specific grain. Also synonyms of sweetcorn / sweet corn?
• improvident
• equinoctal Template:pos a
• coronals Template:pos n
• stuffs Template:pos n - used a couple of times so far in the plural!
• Tasco - obs. spelling of Taxco?
• silicious
• portraiture
• animadversion footnote 68
• "animals of draught" - rather than draught animals?
• lackered - alt. spelling of laquered?
• humming-bird - hyphenated
• whither
• grandee Template:pos n
• an hereditary - is h pronounced or is this an example of the "an also before h" rule?
• preferment
• refractory footnote 72
• tyro footnote 72
• fulness - single l
• tranquillity - double l
• traditionary - not in Collins or Encarta
• ewers
• paneayrized footnote 73 - shoul be panegyrized?
• Panamá - accent even in English
• deglutition footnote 74
• usages - used in plural several times which seems rare these days
• encomium
• preceptor
• making away with - seems archaic, is in Encarta
• Tlascala - obs. spelling of Tlaxcala?
• misrule
• judicature
• censorial
• of some moment - do we cover this old sense?
• minstrelsy
• fadeth - archaic inflection
• shalt - archaic inflection
• hast - archaic inflection
• ere - archaic / poetical
• to-day - archaic or obsolete spelling
• to-morrow - archaic or obsolete spelling
• numerous household - do we cover this old sense with a singular noun?
• to hold converse - noun sense
• brilliancy
• freemen - irregular plural of old word
• allurements
• cuia - Spanish: obs. spelling of cuya?
• noontide - attributive noun
• embowering Template:pos a
• coeval
• Phœnicia - with oe ligature
• blood royal - not in Collins or Encarta - is it a set phrase or just an old/special use of an adjective following a noun?
• Tlascalans - obs. spelling of Tlaxcalans?
• circumstantiality
• laws full as severe - full as an adverb
• woodman
• chaffering
• mendicity - Collins has it - related to mendicant - not a mispelling of mendacity
• but was not blessed with issue - do we cover this old sense?
• io - Spanish: obs. spelling of yo?
• á - Spanish: obs. spelling of a?
• sallies
• arrogated
• fué - Spanish: obs. spelling of fue?
• adieu - used several times in English context
• mas - Spanish: obs. spelling of más?
• sugeto - Spanish: obs. spelling of sujeto?
• intrepidity
• Fleming - noun related to Flemish
• archiepiscopal see - as a set phrase or just an adjective and a noun?
• usurpations
• cupidity
• Columbus launched his bold bark - alt. spelling of barque
• caravel
• to win the meed of glory - probably homophone of mead
• descried
• Caribbee Islands - some old name for some part of the Caribbean?
• sugar-cane - hyphenated
• dye-woods - set phrase or just a noun used attributively?
• remonstrances
• Hieronymite - used a couple of times - not in Collins or Encarta
• Fernandina - old name for Cuba
• Juana - old name for Cuba
• Page 106 lists 3 possible etymologies for Yucatan / Yucatán
• Campeachy - old spelling of Campeche?
• Rio de Vanderas - is vandera an obs. spelling of bandera?
• cacique
• doubling a boisterous headland - do we cover this sense?
• captious
• importunities
• auidaban - obs. spelling of ayudaban?
• i - obs. spelling of y?
• bade
• dismasted
• topmast
• so many blanks to a prize - what sense is this and do we cover it?
• scutcheons
• jocund
• requital
• durance
• Spanish: alguacil
• gibbet
• Spanish: ó - obs. spelling of o?
• Spanish: dixo - obs. spelling of dijo?
• Spanish: estava - obs. spelling of estaba?
• intrusted, intrust - isn't the usual modern spelling entrusted, entrust?
• importunate
• toilsome
• redound
• Spanish: hazer - obs. spelling of hacer?
• misconstructions
• Spanish: avia - obs. spelling of había?
• morrow
• made sale - wouldn't "made sail" be correct?
• the Havana - I know it's La Habana in Spanish, but it looks like English also used to use a definite article but since it was not capitalised, it was not an actual part of the name...
• soldiery
• ungenerous
• impracticability
• tranquillize - double l
• brigantine
• crossbowmen
• arquebusiers
• falconets
• after-ages
• countrymen
• carry to a glorious issue - another old sense?
• Spanish: é - obs. spelling of y?
• Spanish: deve - obs. spelling of debe?
• unlettered
• Mohometanism
• after-time
• lineaments
• profanation
• continence
• salutary
• hawk-bells
• brigantines
• habiliments
• mangrove-trees
• billets
• arquebuses
• breastwork
• buckler
• gainsay
• vaunting
• chivalric
• potentate
• fain
• Lady-day
• musketry
• war-instruments
• war-horse
• Pompey - obs. spelling of Pompeii, or the Roman military leader?
• heathenish
• proselytism
• lee
• pirogue
• obsequies - what is the singular?
• mart - didn't know this was so old
• malignity
• innoxious
• wrought gold - does this mean wrought iron is not idiomatic, or that this also is?
• casque
• impolitic
• unintermitting
• exactions
• enginery
• Spanish: prophetas
• Spanish: avian
• Spanish: rriquezas
• Spanish: avia
• Spanish: çiertas
• Spanish: dias
• Spanish: vivia
• Spanish: tristeça
• pine-apples
• divers - alt. spelling or error for diverse?
• rivalled - double l
• weighed 50 marks - do we cover this unit of weight?
• Spanish: artifiçiadas
• roadstead
• vespers
• orisons
• importunities
• countermand
• magistracy
• high-mettled
• usurpation
• indissolubly
• weal - in the probable set phase for weal or for woe
• diadem
• intendancy (footnote)
• bivouacked
• variegated convolvuli
• sweet-swelling buds - typo for sweet-smelling?
• Spanish: mui
• Spanish: ansí
• Spanish: apaçibles
• Spanish: oy
• exactions
• enormities
• vaunt
• concert Template:pos v
• market-place
• conciliate
• expiation
• peremptorily
• evinced
• panegyrist
• affrighted
• overawe
• wonted
• Spanish: antepassados
• Spanish: auian
• besought
• venality
• alguacil
• Spanish: dejasse
• cordage
• Spanish: dixéron
• Spanish: savia
• Spanish: haçer
• Spanish: rrespondióles
• Spanish: estavan
• Spanish: al cavo
• Spanish: ayna
• able-bodied
• Spanish: dexado
• curacy
• overleaped
• temporizing
• peculation
• obloquy
• chimerical
• narrow-minded
• goodwill - closed compound
• misdeeds
• rapine
• enfranchisement
• bishopric
• preferment
• expostulations
• disapprobation
• vituperation
• over-colouring
• unwarrantable
• crimination
• table-land - arch. spell. of tableland
• half-a-dozen - hyphenated compound
• Spanish: nauìos - navios
• Spanish: coraçones
• Spanish: vna - una
• Spanish: ordenasse
• Spanish: estaua - estaba
• Nature - often / usually capitalized at least when personified
• declivities
• a ragged defile - defile is used as noun and verb in an old sense
• coffer-like rock
• scoriæ
• wayworn
• organum
• Spanish: calaueras
• Spanish: estauan - estaban
• Spanish: cient mill - cien mil ?
• ground-swell
• fructify
• amity
• indited
• van - an old sense probably related to vanguard
• Spanish: aora
• Spanish: viessemos
• a half broad
• Cyclopean
• suzerain
• sierra
• intermarriages
• co-operate
• rode at the head of his body of horse - singular form used in plural or uncountable or invariant manner
• Spanish: puescueço
• peasantry
• tuna syn. Indian fig
• Spanish: rompiessemos
• Spanish: lleuassen
• Spanish: lanças
• Spanish: lançadas
• Spanish: parassen
• Spanish: echassen
• battle-cry
• a narrow glen or defile
• war-cry
• serried
• panoplies
• manœuvres
• panic-struck - rather than modern panick-stricken
• inroad
• two leagues' distance
• pertinacious
• lion-hearted
• betide
• inspiriting
• intrenchments - rather than modern en-
• arquebusiers, crossbowmen
• unintermitted - modern is unintermitting no?
• meadow-ground
• phosporic
• feather-mail
• cuirasses
• leathern - modern is just leather
• surcoat
• minstrelsy
• atabal
• bowshot
• arrowy
• war-shriek
• war-party
• discomfiture
• night-attack
• vedettes
• mid-air
• evidences - modern is uncountable with no plural besides "pieces of evidence" etc
• lenity
• soever - related to whatsoever, whosoever, etc?
• Spanish: fuerças
• vapouring
• suing for peace - do we cover this sense?
• slunk
• exercrations
• caparisons
• volumes of incense - do we cover this sense?
• the air was rent
• unprovided
• dark-green
• infidelity - related to infidel?
• polytheistic
• abjure