Word origins

• sanctifyTo make holy; to consecrate; to set aside for sacred or ceremonial use.
• lorimerA person who makes the bits and other metal parts of a horse's bridle, and other small metal pieces.
• peremptoryPrecluding debate or expostulation; not admitting of question or appeal.
• gingerlyIn a cautious and delicate manner; (very) carefully or cautiously.
• flotsamDebris floating in a river or sea, in particular fragments from a shipwreck.
• pimpernelA plant of the genus Pimpinella, especially burnet saxifrage (Pimpinella saxifraga).
• premonitionA clairvoyant or clairaudient experience, such as a dream, which resonates with some event in the future.
• impoverishmentThe action of impoverishing someone.
• rivageA coast, a shore.
• abeyanceExpectancy; a condition when an ownership of real property is undetermined; lapse in succession of ownership of estate, or title.
• tormentorOne who torments; a person, animal, or object that causes suffering.
• FitzgibbonAn Irish surname from Anglo-Norman [in turn originating as a patronymic].
• BeaumarisA small town and community with a town council, the former county town of Anglesey, Wales (OS grid ref SH6076).
• ReynoldA male given name from the Germanic languages, today more popular in the forms Reginald and Ronald. Modern use is partly transferred from the surname.
• jettisonItems that have been or are about to be ejected from a boat or balloon to lighten the vessel.
• recapitulationA subsequent brief recitement or enumeration of the major points in a narrative, article, or book.
• cruetA small bottle or container used to hold a condiment, such as oil, vinegar, salt, or pepper, for use at a dining table.
• FortescueA surname.
• remountTo go up again; to rise another time.
• pennyroyalMentha pulegium, a plant of the mint family, formerly much used in various medicinal treatments and as a flea repellent.
• pillerA plunderer or thief.
• quotidianHappening every day; daily.
• judicatureThe administration of justice by judges and courts; judicial process.
• privityA divine mystery; something known only to God, or revealed only in holy scriptures.
• remiseTo send or give back.
• elopeOf a married or engaged person, to run away from home with a paramour.
• porteousA portable breviary.
• adjoinTo share a common boundary or border with; to be physically contiguous to (a piece of land or property).
• lachesNegligence in one's duty.
• quintalSynonym of hundredweight, 100 or 112 English or American pounds.
• descantA lengthy discourse on a subject.
• demurrerA motion by a party to a legal action for the immediate or summary judgment of the court on the question of whether, assuming the truth of the matter alleged by the opposite party, it is sufficient in law to sustain the action or defense, and hence whether the party bringing the motion is required to answer or proceed further.
• RockettA surname from Anglo-Norman.
• tortfeasorA person who commits a tort.
• debarTo exclude or shut out; to bar.
• defeasibleCapable of being defeated, terminated, annulled, voided or invalidated.
• attainderThe state a prisoner entered once a death sentence (usually for treason) had been issued; the state of being stripped of all civil rights.
• CuckfieldA village and civil parish in Mid Sussex district, West Sussex, England (OS grid ref TQ3024).
• prorogationCausing something to last longer or remain in effect longer; prolongation, continuance.
• pucelleA girl, a maiden; a virgin (often with reference to Joan of Arc).
• catchpoleA taxman, one who gathers taxes.
• defeasanceDestruction, defeat, overthrow.
• PontelandA town and civil parish with a town council in southern Northumberland, England (OS grid ref NZ1672).
• oyerA hearing in a civil case which is based on the content of a document, in which the plaintiff is required to produce the document.
• EnvisA surname from Anglo-Norman.
• recomfortTo console (someone); to comfort, look after.
• hotchTo move irregularly up and down.
• mortifyTo discipline (one's body, appetites etc.) by suppressing desires; to practise abstinence on.
• haberdasherA dealer in ribbons, buttons, thread, needles and similar sewing goods.
• redoundTo swell up (of water, waves etc.); to overflow, to surge (of bodily fluids).
• mischanceBad luck, misfortune.
• repassTo pass (back) again, especially in the opposite direction; to return.
• lecheryInordinate indulgence in sexual activity.
• tournayA village in Hautes-Pyrénées department, Occitania.
• countervailTo have the same value or number as.
• a-Forming verbs with the sense away, up, on, out.
• achatourA purveyor of provisions; a provedore.
• acquittanceA writing which is evidence of a discharge; a receipt in full, which bars a further demand.
• aetitesAn eaglestone.
• affeererOne who affeers.
• agistTo take to graze or pasture, at a certain sum; used originally of the feeding of cattle in the king's forests, and collecting the money for the same.
• amerceTo impose a fine on; to fine.
• appeachTo charge (someone) with a crime; to impeach.
• BasnettA surname from Anglo-Norman.
• brevierThe size of type between minion and bourgeois, standardized as 8-point.
• chequyChequered; divided into small squares (chequers) by transverse vertical and horizontal lines.
• -cyUsed to form nouns of state, condition or quality.
• darreinIn the names of legal actions, pleas, writs, etc.: final, last; dernier.
• decrescentBecoming gradually less; diminishing.
• deodandAn object forfeited to the state (and supposedly to God) because it had caused the death of a person.
• destrierA large warhorse, especially of a medieval knight.
• DiffeyA surname transferred from the nickname [in turn from Anglo-Norman].
• Duchy of NormandyA country, a duchy in Europe, now only composed of the Channel Islands in the English Channel; a crown possession of the Monarch of England, since the Conquest of England by William the Conqueror, Duke of Normandy; bureaucratically, it is administered by the UK.
• ensuantEnsuing; following as a consequence.
• enurnyCharged with animals.
• feasancethe performing of an act, especially out of one's duty.
• feme covertA married woman.
• feme soleA single woman, whether unmarried, spinster, widow or divorcee.
• feoffA fief.
• Fitz-Son of; especially used for the illegitimate sons of royalty.
• frank bankFree bench.
• free benchA married woman's entitlement to the use of her husband's lands or property after he dies; or the land and property itself considered as such an entitlement.
• -iceForms abstract nouns.
• impanelTo enrol (jurors), e.g. from a jury pool; to register (the names of jurors) on a "panel" or official list.
• imparlanceDiscussion, especially before some action is taken; conference, debate.
• limerA kind of dog kept on a lead; a bloodhound; a mongrel.
• mainorThe act or fact, especially of theft.
• mathesisMental calculation or discipline; science, especially mathematical learning.
• matrassA bolt for a crossbow.
• medicinableMedicinal; having healing properties.
• menstruousOf or pertaining to menstruation; menstrual.
• mercementAn amercement, a punishment.
• mesneIntermediate.
• monialA mullion.
• monitionA caution or warning.
• mortmainThe perpetual, inalienable possession of lands by a corporation or non-personal entity such as a church.
• munimentA deed, or other official document kept as proof of ownership or rights or privileges; an archived document.
• nonageThe state of being under legal age; minority, the fact of being a minor.
• obleyA communion wafer.
• overplusThat which remains beyond what is necessary or required; a surplus.