honorificabilitudinitatibus

Example Sentences

• "Phyſitions deafen our eares with the Honorificabilitudinitatibus of their heauenly Panachæa their ſoueraigne Guiacum, their gliſters, their triacles, their mithridates of fortie ſeuerall poyſons compacted, their bitter Rubarbe, and tortuting Stibium."
• "Novv the Drums doubbes & the ſticks turn'd bed-ſtaves, / All the old Foxes hunted to their holes, / The Iron age return'd to Eribus, / And Honorificabilitudinitatibus / Thruſt out o'th' Kingdome by the head and ſhoulders, / VVhat trade doe you meane to follovv."
• "[H]e would much more have approv'd this victory over natural inclinations, in the Virgin [Mary, mother of Jesus] than in the Father, who might be neceſſitated to go againſt his will, by the incontinacibility (or, honorificabilitudinitatibus) of the Virgin."
• "He who by the seashore makes friends with the sea-nettles, is introduced to them by the scientific master of ceremonies as the Physsophoridæ and Hippopodydæ. Creatures weak, delicate and beautiful, are Desmidiaceæ, Chætopterina, and Amphinomaceæ, Pyenogonida, Teuthredineta, Twentysyllableorfeeta, and all for the honour of science; or rather, not for its honour; but for its honorificabilitudinitatibus."
• "Clow[ne]. O they haue lyud long on the almſbaſket of vvordes. I maruaile thy M[aster] hath not eaten thee for a vvorde, for thou art not ſo long by the head as honorificabilitudinitatibus: Thou art eaſier ſvvallovved then a flapdragon."
• "For griefes ſake keepe him out, his diſcourſe is like the long vvord, Honorificabilitudinitatibus: a great deale / Of ſound and no ſence: […]"