Word origins

• FranconiaA cultural region and former duchy in Germany, comprising the northern area of modern Bavaria and lands to its immediate west.
• omniscientHaving total knowledge.
• curateAn assistant rector or vicar.
• duodenumThe first part of the small intestine, starting at the lower end of the stomach and extending to the jejunum.
• febrileFeverish, or having a high temperature.
• hymnalA collection of hymns; a hymn book.
• deicideThe killing of a deity; godslaughter.
• pulsatilePulsating; that pulses; pulsatory.
• SlavonicOf, denoting, or relating to the people who speak these languages, their languages, or cultures.
• sagittalRelating to or denoting the suture on top of the skull which runs between the parietal bones in a front to back direction.
• asceticOf or relating to ascetics.
• annulusA ring- or donut-shaped area, object, or structure.
• KareliaA historical region of Northern Europe, located to the north of Saint Petersburg and politically split between Russia and Finland.
• afforestationThe act or process of creating a new forest where none had existed before, or reforestation of areas long deforested.
• ThunA city and municipality of Bern canton, Switzerland.
• caliphateMonarchical government based on a claim of succession to the Islamic State of Muhammad, ruled by a caliph.
• ultramarineBeyond the sea.
• DabneyA surname from Norman.
• evidentialOf or providing evidence.
• parentheticalUsing, containing, or within parenthesis.
• missiveA written message; a letter, note or memo.
• TurkicOf or relating to the Turkic peoples or the Turkic languages.
• baobabA tree, Adansonia digitata, native to tropical Africa, having a broad swollen trunk and edible gourd-like hanging fruits.
• officiantA person who officiates at a religious ceremony (in Christianity, at any ceremony other than the Eucharist).
• vegetalCapable of growth and reproduction, but not feeling or reason (often opposed to sensible and rational).
• incriminationThe act of incriminating someone.
• PetryA surname.
• plenipotentiaryA person invested with full powers, especially as the diplomatic agent of a sovereign state, (originally) charged with handling a certain matter.
• predilectionA condition of favoring or liking; a tendency towards; proclivity; predisposition.
• bifurcatedDivided into two branches.
• alluviumsoil, clay, silt or gravel deposited by flowing water, as it slows, in a river bed, delta, estuary or flood plain
• manseTo excommunicate; curse.
• labialOf or pertaining to the lips or labia.
• catenaA series of related items.
• pleuraEach of a pair of smooth serous membranes which line the thorax and envelop the lungs in humans and other mammals.
• camembertA soft, creamy cheese from France made from cow's milk.
• hierarchOne who has high and controlling authority in sacred things; the chief of a sacred order.
• lacrimalOf or relating to tears or the tear-secreting organs.
• punctuateTo add punctuation to.
• illusiveSubject to or pertaining to an illusion, often used in the sense of an unrealistic expectation or an unreachable goal or outcome.
• carolingA singing of carols.
• interlocutorA person who takes part in dialogue or conversation: a locutive partner.
• StyriaA southeastern state of Austria, with its capital in Graz.
• caudateTapering into a long, tail-like extension at the apex.
• HeloiseA female given name from French.
• scriptoriumA room set aside for the copying, writing, or illuminating of manuscripts and records, especially such a room in a monastery.
• crokerBurlap.
• demonizeTo turn into a demon.
• tyroA beginner; a novice.
• conjunctivaA clear mucous membrane that lines the inner surface of the eyelid and the exposed surface of the eyeball or sclera.
• exculpatoryTending to excuse or clear of wrongdoing.
• HanseaticOf or pertaining to the German Hanse.
• SudaA comprehensive 10th-century Byzantine encyclopaedia, written in Greek, containing approximately 30,000 entries on historical, biographical, literary, and lexical topics from the ancient Mediterranean world.
• syllabicOf, relating to, or consisting of a syllable or syllables.
• abyssalBelonging to, or resembling, an abyss; unfathomable.
• toxicantCapable of causing damage or dysfunction by toxicity.
• amalgamateTo merge, to combine, to blend, to join.
• abductorOne who abducts; a kidnapper.
• seraphicOf or relating to a seraph or the seraphim.
• incriminateTo accuse or bring criminal charges against.
• HippocraticPertaining to, or in accordance with the theories of, ancient Greek physician and philosopher Hippocrates.
• adventitiousFrom an external source; not innate or inherent, foreign.
• stationerA person or business that sells stationery.
• effusiveGushy; unrestrained, extravagant or excessive (in emotional expression).
• infuriateTo make furious or mad with anger; to fill with fury.
• SaussureA surname from French.
• CarolingianOf or pertaining to the Carolings, the members of a Frankish dynasty, descended from Charles Martel, which arose from the Pippinid and Arnulfingian clans in the 7th century and ruled parts of western Europe until the 9th century, reaching its peak under Martel's grandson Charlemagne.
• fungibleAble to be substituted for something of equal value or utility.
• BaphometA deity which medieval Christians mistakenly imagined that the Knights Templar worshipped, and which figures into some modern occultist and Satanic religions.
• impregnateTo cause to become pregnant.
• collodionA syrupy solution of nitrocellulose (pyroxylin) in alcohol and ether that evaporates on a surface to form a clear elastic film; used in surgical dressings, photographic plates and lacquer paints.
• LongwellA surname from Norman.
• factotumA person employed to perform all sorts of duties.
• subsumeTo place (any one cognition) under another as belonging to it; to include or contain something else.
• laboratoriumA laboratory.
• tartaricContaining tartrates
• connoteTo signify beyond its literal or principal meaning.
• capitulateTo surrender on stipulated terms, end all resistance, give up, go along with or comply.
• AvicennaPersian polymath (c. 980–1037).
• nuchalThe back of the neck.
• doxologyAn expression of praise to God, especially a short hymn sung as part of a Christian worship service.
• buboAn inflamed swelling of a lymph node, especially in the armpit or groin, due to an infection such as bubonic plague, gonorrhea, tuberculosis, or syphilis.
• reverentialShowing or characterized by reverence; respectful.
• prefatoryServing as a preface or prelude; introductory, preliminary.
• expropriateTo deprive a person of (their private property) for public use.
• nillTo be unwilling; will not (+ infinitive).
• impaleTo pierce (something) with any long, pointed object.
• tritoneAn interval of three whole tones.
• mandragoraAny of various plants of the genus Mandragora.
• horaryPertaining to an hour or hours.
• AbbasidA member of the dynasty of caliphs that ruled from Baghdad, from about 750 to 1250, claiming ancestry of Abbas.
• penitentialPertaining to penance or penitence.
• stigmatizeTo characterize as disgraceful or ignominious; to mark with a stigma or stigmata.
• transubstantiationThe doctrine holding that the bread and wine of the Eucharist are essentially transformed into the body and blood of Jesus.
• bulgarA member of a migratory Turkic people from Central Asia who conquered Moesia in the 7th century and settled what is now Bulgaria, and some of whom then migrated to the Volga basin to establish Volga Bulgaria.
• KerinA surname.
• paginateTo number the pages of (a book or other document); to foliate.
• ServiaA city in West Macedonia, in northern Greece.
• GasconyA former duchy in the kingdom of France, covering southern Aquitaine.
• incarcerateTo lock away; to imprison, especially for breaking the law.