Origin and history of fowler

"Though the etymology of maunder is uncertain, it is clear that it is not a corruption of meander" [Fowler], but the two...Fowler writes that maunder is "best confined to speech, & suggests futility rather than digression ......

, a tendency to loosen the hold of the Church upon men's beliefs," humanist also gradually came to mean "free-thinker" [Fowler...Humanity (compare humanism), unconnected to the two earlier meanings, "though accidentally near one of them in effect" [Fowler...

true adjective would be obstetricic, "but only pedantry would take exception to obstetric at this stage of its career" [Fowler...

[Fowler]...

Fowler writes that the word "has now the dignity of incipient archaism," but it might continue useful in its original sense...

[Fowler] The correct classical formation is tachometer. Speed indicator also was used....

Fowler (1926) notes that reparable "is used almost only of abstracts, such as loss, injury, mistake, which are to be made...

c. 1200, flour, also flur, flor, floer, floyer, flowre, "the blossom of a plant; a flowering plant," from Old French flor "flower, blossom; heyday, prime; fine flour; elite; innocence, virginity" (12c., Modern French fleur), from Latin florem (nominative flos) "flower" (source of

c. 1300, dyscrecyounne, "ability to perceive and understand;" mid-14c., "moral discernment, ability to distinguish right from wrong;" c. 1400, "prudence, sagacity regarding one's conduct," from Old French discrecion and directly from Medieval Latin discretionem (nominative discre

late 14c., "pertaining to, of the nature of, or proceeding from God or a god; addressed to God," from Old French divin, devin (12c.), from Latin divinus "of a god," from divus "of or belonging to a god, inspired, prophetic," related to deus "god, deity" (from PIE root *dyeu- "to