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03-13-2015, 11:44 AM
\ SEL-kooth \ , adjective;
1.
Strange; uncommon.
Quotes:
Its English is not more quaint than that of De Brunne himself; it contains no names more selcouth than he himself is in the custom of introducing…
-- Sir Walter Scott, The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott
To whom there's hardly any selcouth thing, but seems a juggling trick, that would delude their fancies with an empty wondering; therefore against it they with thundering words do ring.
-- George Starkey, An Exposition Upon the Preface of Sir George Ripley
Origin:
Selcouth has odd Old English roots. It is related to the word seldom and the Old English word couth meaning "to know."
1.
Strange; uncommon.
Quotes:
Its English is not more quaint than that of De Brunne himself; it contains no names more selcouth than he himself is in the custom of introducing…
-- Sir Walter Scott, The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott
To whom there's hardly any selcouth thing, but seems a juggling trick, that would delude their fancies with an empty wondering; therefore against it they with thundering words do ring.
-- George Starkey, An Exposition Upon the Preface of Sir George Ripley
Origin:
Selcouth has odd Old English roots. It is related to the word seldom and the Old English word couth meaning "to know."