Dictionary of Early English by Joseph T. Shipley

Author:Joseph T. Shipley [Shipley, Joseph T.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corp.
Published: 2013-10-14T16:00:00+00:00

lambitive. A medicine to be taken by licking, often given (in the 17th and 18th centuries) on the end of a licorice stick. Latin lambere, lambitus, to lick, whence lambent flames. Also lambative, lambetive; Steele in THE TATLER (1710, No. 266) has: Upon the mantle tree . . . stood a pot of lambetive electuary.

lampad. Almost always in the plural: lampads, in the BIBLE: REVELATIONS, the “seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven spirits of God.” Greek lampas, lampad-, lamp, has given English a number of forms: lampadary (1) an officer of the Eastern church, in charge of the lighting, (2) a cluster of lamps, a candelabrum. A lampadephore was a torch-bearer, especially, (a lampadist) a competitor in a torch-race, in a lampadedromy, lampadrome, lampade-phoria. A lampadias (Bailey’s DICTIONARY, 1751) is a shooting-star resembling the flame of a torch; I saw one in August 1953. For lampadomancy see aeromancy. The adjective lampyrine means shining; it has been applied in zoology to the genus of glowworms.

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