honorificabilitudinitatibus

Definition

The state of being able to achieve honours; honourableness.

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin honōrificābilitūdinitātibus, the ablative and dative plural of honōrificābilitūdinitās (“the state of being able to achieve honours”).

Example Sentences

• "Phyſitions deafen our eares with the Honorificabilitudinitatibus of their heauenly Panachæa their ſoueraigne Guiacum, their gliſters, their triacles, their mithridates of fortie ſeuerall poyſons compacted, their bitter Rubarbe, and tortuting Stibium."
• "Novv the Drums doubbes & the ſticks turn'd bed-ſtaves, / All the old Foxes hunted to their holes, / The Iron age return'd to Eribus, / And Honorificabilitudinitatibus / Thruſt out o'th' Kingdome by the head and ſhoulders, / VVhat trade doe you meane to follovv."
• "[H]e would much more have approv'd this victory over natural inclinations, in the Virgin [Mary, mother of Jesus] than in the Father, who might be neceſſitated to go againſt his will, by the incontinacibility (or, honorificabilitudinitatibus) of the Virgin."

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