Word origins

• hesychastA monk of the Orthodox Catholic Church that engages in noetic prayer.
• Holy OfficeThe Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
• imburseTo put into a purse; to save, to store up.
• impropriateTo appropriate for private use.
• insipidityThe condition of being insipid; insipidness.
• jactitationBragging or boasting, especially in a false manner to another's detriment.
• lazuriteA mineral of metamorphosed limestones. Lazurite forms the gemstone lapis lazuli, and crushed lazurite provided the ultramarine color in artists' paint of the Old Masters. Sodalite and lazurite form the sodalite group of silicate minerals. Chemical composition: Sodium aluminum silicate with sulphur, Na₄₋₅Al₃Si₃O₁₂S.
• legendariumA literary collection of legends, particularly those detailing the life of a saint.
• lenticularisa cloud species which consists of rounded lens shaped of cloud, often forming near mountains. Associated with cirrocumulus, and altocumulus, and sometimes stratocumulus genera.
• librateTo oscillate (like the beam of a balance).
• litraA silver coin in ancient Sicily, worth one fifth of a drachm.
• lividnessThe state or condition of being livid (dark or pallid).
• machicolateTo furnish with machicolations.
• macilenceLeanness; emaciation.
• menologyThe study of months; the names and system of months within a given calendar.
• minoressSynonym of Poor Clare: a nun of the Order of Saint Clare.
• minoriteSynonym of Franciscan: a friar of the Order of Friars Minor.
• MisniaMeissen.
• morbillimeasles, rubeola
• morbilliformResembling the erythematous, maculopapular rash of measles.
• motu proprioOf one’s own free will, of one’s own volition.
• NicosianOf, from, or pertaining to Nicosia, the capital of Cyprus and Northern Cyprus.
• obedientiaryThe holder of a monastic rank or office below that of superior.
• Order of Friars MinorThe religious order of friars established by St Francis of Assisi.
• origo gentisThe origin story of a tribe or people.
• paludinousPaludinal: characteristic of or relating to marsh, swamp or fen.
• patriciateThe rank of a patrician
• peccableLiable to sin; subject to transgress the divine law.
• pendicleAn appendage; something attached to something else.
• picraThe powder of aloes with canella, formerly officinal, employed as a cathartic.
• pomateSynonym of ointment, particularly thick waxy ointments scented with fruit used to beautify the skin or hair.
• portgraveSynonym of portreeve.
• prefatialRelating to a preface.
• PremonstratensianA member of a Roman Catholic order of canons regular, founded by St Norbert c. 1120 in the town of Prémontré, France.
• pupillarityThe period before puberty, or from birth to fourteen in males, and twelve in females
• quindeneThe 14th day after a festival.
• quinquageneA set of 50 psalms, typically with an analytical commentary.
• quinquagesimalOf or related to a set of 50 people or items.
• remonstrationEarnest protest or objection, disapproving pleading, or an act thereof.
• rete mirabileA complex of blood vessels found in some vertebrates that preserves a gradient of a certain solute or particle, originally specifically the network of arterioles at the base of the brain in some ungulates and other mammals.
• RomániçoAn anonymous international auxiliary language created in 1991 which uses only Romance language vocabulary.
• scabiousHaving scabs.
• sexagesimalOf, related to, or based on the number sixty.
• SinicChinese.
• SinidA historical racial classification and term used in human physical anthropology as a Mongoloid subrace commonly found throughout East Asia and is associated with Chinese, Korean, and Japanese people.
• sino-Sinus.
• situalPositional, relating to position or location.
• Solomon's sealAny member of species of the genus Polygonatum of flowering plants, especially common Solomon's seal (Polygonatuym multiflorum).
• solutiveTending to produce relaxation (as of the bowels); having laxative properties.
• stercoranismThe belief or doctrine of stercoranists.
• stiriaAn icicle-shaped concretion.
• stycaAn Anglo-Saxon copper coin of little value, used in Northumbria.
• tartaric acidThe aldaric acid, 2,3 dihydroxy-succinic acid, that occurs naturally in many plants, in wine and in tamarind; it is used as the salts cream of tartar and Rochelle salt.
• terminemeThe smallest unbreakable element of the study of terminology.
• tonitruousthundering
• treagueA truce.
• tremulationA trembling, quivering.
• tricenaryOf or related to the number thirty.
• tricennalSynonym of trental, set of 30 requiem masses, the payment for such services.
• troperythe usage of tropes (in a creative work, genre, style, etc.)
• vestitureThe hairs of plants, invertebrates and other non-mammalian organisms, taken as a whole.
• vimpaA veil or shawl worn over the shoulders of servers who carry the mitre and crosier during liturgical functions when they are not being used by the bishop, in the Roman Catholic, Anglican, and some other western churches.
• WaldenseA member of a sect of dissenters from the ecclesiastical system of the Roman Catholic Church, who in the 13th century were driven by persecution to the valleys of Piedmont.
• when in Rome, do as the Romans doWhen situated in a foreign place, it is wise to follow the local customs.
• WilamowiceA city in Poland.
• zedoaryCurcuma zedoaria, a perennial herb native to India and Indonesia.