Meaning of honorificabilitudinitatibus | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The state of being able to achieve honours; honourableness.
   humorous, obsolete, rare, uncountable
2. Used as a person's title or the name of a thing meaning "honourable one", or simply as a very long word to indicate prolixity.
   humorous, obsolete, rare, uncountable

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Examples

“Phyſitions deafen our eares with the Honorificabilitudinitatibus of their heauenly Panachæa their ſoueraigne Guiacum, their gliſters, their triacles, their mithridates of fortie ſeuerall poyſons compacted, their bitter Rubarbe, and tortuting Stibium.”

“Novv the Drums doubbes & the ſticks turn'd bed-ſtaves, / All the old Foxes hunted to their holes, / The Iron age return'd to Eribus, / And Honorificabilitudinitatibus / Thruſt out o'th' Kingdome by the head and ſhoulders, / VVhat trade doe you meane to follovv.”

“[H]e would much more have approv'd this victory over natural inclinations, in the Virgin [Mary, mother of Jesus] than in the Father, who might be neceſſitated to go againſt his will, by the incontinacibility (or, honorificabilitudinitatibus) of the Virgin.”

“He who by the seashore makes friends with the sea-nettles, is introduced to them by the scientific master of ceremonies as the Physsophoridæ and Hippopodydæ. Creatures weak, delicate and beautiful, are Desmidiaceæ, Chætopterina, and Amphinomaceæ, Pyenogonida, Teuthredineta, Twentysyllableorfeeta, and all for the honour of science; or rather, not for its honour; but for its honorificabilitudinitatibus.”

“Clow[ne]. O they haue lyud long on the almſbaſket of vvordes. I maruaile thy M[aster] hath not eaten thee for a vvorde, for thou art not ſo long by the head as honorificabilitudinitatibus: Thou art eaſier ſvvallovved then a flapdragon.”

“For griefes ſake keepe him out, his diſcourſe is like the long vvord, Honorificabilitudinitatibus: a great deale / Of ſound and no ſence: […]”

“Most Honorificicabilitudinitatibus, I having studied the seven Lub berly sciences (being nine by computation) out of which I gathered three conjunctions four mile Ass-under, which with much labour, and great ease, to little or no purpose, I have noddicated to your gray, grave, and gravelled Prate ection.”

“Like John O’ Gaunt his name is dear to him, as dear as the coat of arms he toadied for, on a bend sable a spear or steeled argent, honorificabilitudinitatibus, dearer than his glory of greatest shakescene in the country.”

“When he bounded out of the darkroom in the long apron, squinting first at Jane and then at his father, it was an antidisestablishmentarian break; or a honorificabilitudinitatibus break; or a parking meter break; or a first-fifteen-Presidents-of-the-United-States-and-their-Secretaries-of-States break (it was the Secretaries that made that one—a lot of people knew the V.P.s); or a major-league-record-for-stolen-bases, time's up, Ty Cobb, ninety-six, break.”

“Arthur Goodhart dropped in at the Journal office the other morning and told me of the signal honor you have received in being chosen an Honorary Bencher of Lincoln's Inn. He tells me that the selection of a practicing lawyer, especially one not resident in England, is a notable departure from custom and as such, would qualify you for the title "Honorificabilitudinitatibus"! Many congratulations!”

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