Hungarish en · ADJ
Etymology
From Hungary + -ish.
Meanings
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(archaic) Of or relating to Hungary, its culture, language, or people; Hungarian.
The weak ones have this property, that upon them no Gold doth touch bright, but the Gold doth only grind on it, and becometh in the aspect weake and ruffe, also the Hungarish or other weak Gold will not touch it self right upon Touch-stones […]
1686, John Pettus, Fleta Minor: The Laws of Art and Nature, in Knowing, Judging, Assaying, Fining, Refining, and Inlarging the Bodies of Confin’d Metals […] , pages 136–37:Little more than a hundred years ago, a work was published in Germany, entitled, “[…] treatise of the chewing and smacking of the dead in graves, wherein the true nature of those Hungarish vampyres and blood-suckers is showed, and all writings are reviewed which have hitherto appeared concerning this matter.” Leipsig, 1734.
1846, [Thomas Carlyle?], “Miscellanea Mystica—No. II”, in The Dublin University Magazine, volume 27, page 159:Take, in the name of the Lord, of Hungarish gold, which hath been cast thrice through antimony and hath been laminated most thinly, as much of it as you will, and make with quick Mercury an amalgam; […]
c. 17th century, The Book of Saint Dunstan; republished as Arthur Edward Waite, editor, The Alchemical Writings of Edward Kelly, 1893, page lviii:Now it was said the French King sent his present to congratulate the Sultan upon his accession and also 10,000 ducats to the ambassador to accompany the Sultan on this Hungarish voyage.
2001, Richard Bruce Wernham, editor, List & Analysis of State Papers: January to December 1596, page 287:May 25th, I sent the Lantgrave my twelve Hungarish horses.
1589 May 25, John Dee, Diary; republished as James Orchard Halliwell, editor, The Private Diary of Dr. John Dee […] , 1842, page 31:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| more Hungarish | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| most Hungarish | Degree=Sup | lexicographic |