From: utzoo!decvax!duke!harpo!floyd!peri!sbcs!debray
Newsgroups: net.followup
Title: Re: Re:more interesting words
Article-I.D.: sbcs.171
Posted: Fri Dec 17 13:56:30 1982
Received: Fri Dec 24 03:10:47 1982
References: sbcs.152


My favourite obscure word is "feague" - defined by a 1785 dictionary as
"to put ginger up a horse's fundament to make it step more lively"...

Imagine Lady Chatterley asking her gardener, "Have you feagued the horses?"

Obscurer is "metempsychosis"...it means 'reincarnation'. (The only place I've
encountered that in is Marlowe's "Dr. Faustus".