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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
 * aright or  - better check again.
 * wampum belt, wampum
 * aloe = agave = maguey - book says these are synonyms but from different source languages.
 * damps - as a plural noun.
 * obloquy
 * thorough-bred - as a hyphenated compound.
 * Hindostan - another alt. spelling for Hindustan / Hindoostan, now India.
 * peruke
 * 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, intercalated
 * Gregorian
 * inappreciable
 * tropical year
 * civil time
 * solar time
 * cumbrous
 * solar calendar
 * nowise
 * necromancy
 * compact
 * tardily
 * divinar
 * Chapoltepec - obsolete spelling of Chapultepec?
 * presage
 * genii - irregular plural of genie?
 * augury
 * hearthstone
 * chaplets - used several times, sometimes along with garland.
 * ablations
 * his lordship
 * thither
 * codices - irregular plural of codex.
 * munificent
 * born at Mexico - rather than the usual modern born in Mexico.
 * antiquary
 * credulity
 * eulogiums
 * raiment
 * Indian corn - 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
 * coronals
 * stuffs - 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
 * 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
 * coeval
 * Ph&oelig;nicia - 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
 * 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
 * man&oelig;uvres
 * 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