| 词汇 | hirquitalliency |
| 词源 | hirquitalliency. James Crichton, the Admirable Crichton, took a prince’s lady to bed, according to Sir Thomas Urquhart in his The Discovery of a Most Exquisite Jewel (1652), the love scene described by Urquhart with majestic euphemisms: . . . the visuriency of either, by ushering the tacturiency of both, made the attraction of both consequent to the inspection of either: here it was that Passion was active, and Action passive: they both being overcome by each other, and each the conqueror. To speak of her hirquitalliency at the elevation of the pole of his Microcosm, or of his luxuriousness to erect a gnomon on her horizontal dial, will perhaps be held by some to be expressions full of obsceneness, and offensive to the purity of chaste ears. Not today, Sir Thomas. The italics and spellings are Urquhart’s as is the opinion that the Admirable Crichton was killed in me- dias res by the jealous prince. So is the word hirquitalliency, which the author apparently coined for the occasion from the Latin hirquitallire. The nonce word, meaning to acquire a strong voice (like an infant’s), is apparently found nowhere else in liter- ature. Visuriency, another nonce word, means “the desire of seeing.” |
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