Definitions
Sorry, no definitions found.
Examples
Sorry, no example sentences found.
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘thelyphthoric’.
-
More Adjectival Arcana
List of adjectives such as everduring that do not frequent common speech and writing. A continuation of my list Adjectival Arcana, which had grown to over 7700 words and had become far too cumbersome.
transpontine, fetichistic, everduring, tachygraphic, tachygraphical, holographic, holographical, spectrobolographic, autographic, chirographal, autographal, ipsographic and 1419 more...
-
Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
-
Papageno's Words, Pt. II
cicurate, circumforaneous, codger, comiconomenclaturist, constable, contradistinction, contraindicated, counterpane, coxcomb, decalcomania, decanal, decoction and 307 more...
-
Grandiloquent Gleanings
polyphloesboean, testudineous, thelyphthoric, psychopannychism, thnetopsychism, xenodocheionology, zenzizenzizenzic, paraskevidekatria..., arachibutyrophobia, heautontimorumenos, hippopotomonstros..., lethologica and 3 more...
-
Old Coins
-
*phth
Words containing the string *phth.
Tweets
Looking for tweets for thelyphthoric.
retorick One place where thelyphthoric is listed is in The Compact Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary (1971, Oxford University Press), which marks it as both obsolete and a nonce word. Two citations appear, from 1780 and 1794, I think.
From arcamax.com, where the word was featured as "Today's Word" on 3/6/05: Today's word was the creation of Martin Madan, who wrote in 1780 "Thelyphthora or, A treatise on female ruin: in its causes, effects, consequences, prevention, and remedy." Madan put this word together from Greek thelus "woman" + phthora "destruction, ruin." Both Greek words have resisted efforts of etymologists to dissipate their mystery.
http://www.arcamax.com/knowledge/vocabulary/s-22625-956164#BC4b82xmRdGrj7Jz.99 " Jan 25, 2013
ephraim99 I've seen 'thelyphthoric' listed in some specialized dictionaries of unusual words. It is listed on the site Luciferous Logolepsy and in Mrs. Byrne's Dictionary and Peter Bowler's _Superior Person's Book of Words_. The definition given is "that which corrupts women". The 'thely-' and 'phth' roots would be Greek, so the definition is feasible, but I've never seen it in any "official" dictionaries. Jun 10, 2009
whichbe That which corrupts women. (Luciferous Logolepsy) May 16, 2008