'trutz'; 'born' and 'brunn'; 'athem' and 'odem'; in French with
'harnois' the armour, or 'harness', of a soldier, 'harnais' of a
horse; with 'Zephire' and 'zephir', and with many more.

{121} Coleridge, _Church and State_, p. 200.

{122} [One hardly expects to find this otiose Americanism (first used by
J. Adams in 1759) in the work of a verbal purist, when 'longish'
or the old 'longsome' were at hand. No one, as yet, has ventured
on 'strengthy' or 'breadthy' for somewhat strong or broad.]

{123} [This prediction was correct. 'Dissimilation' is first found in
philological works published in the decade 1874-85. See N.E.D.]

{124} [Coblenz, at the junction of the Moselle and Rhine (from
_Confluentes_), reminds us that the word was so used.]

{125} A passage from Hacket's _Life of Archbishop Williams_, part 2, p.
144, marks the first rise of this word, and the quarter from
whence it arose: "When they [the Presbyterians] saw that he was
not _selfish_ (it is a word of their own new mint), etc". In
Whitlock's _Zootomia_ (1654) there is another indication of it as
a novelty, p. 364: "If constancy may be tainted with this
_selfishness_ (to use our _new wordings_ of old and general
actings)"--It is he who in his striking essay, _The Grand
Schismatic, or Suist Anatomized_, puts forward his own words,
'suist', and 'suicism', in lieu of those which have ultimately
been adopted. 'Suicism', let me observe, had not in his time the
obvious objection of resembling another word nearly, and being
liable to be confused with it; for 'suicide' did not then exist in
the language, nor indeed till some twenty years later. The coming
up of 'suicide' is marked by this passage in Phillips' _New World
of Words_, 1671, 3rd ed.: "Nor less to be exploded is the word
'_suicide_', which may as well seem to participate of _sus_ a sow,
as of the pronoun _sui_". In the _Index_ to Jackson's Works,
published two years later, it is still '_suicidium_'--"the horrid
_suicidium_ of the Jews at York". 'Suicide' is apparently of much
later introduction into French. Genin (_Recreations Philol._ vol.
i, p. 194) places it about the year 1728, and makes the Abbe
Desfontaines its first sponsor. He is wrong, as the words just
quoted show, in supposing that we borrowed it from the French,