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Columbia [Columbia 词源字典]: poetic name for United States of America, earlier for the British colonies there, 1730s, also the nation's female personification, from name of Christopher Columbus (also see Colombia) with Latin "country" ending -ia. A popular name for places and institutions in the U.S. in the post-Revolutionary years, when former tributes to king and crown were out of fashion: such as Columbia University (New York, U.S.) founded in 1754 as King's College; re-named 1784. Also District of Columbia (1791, as Territory of Columbia); "Hail, Columbia" (Joseph Hopkinson, 1798), Barlow's "Columbiad" (1809).[Columbia etymology, Columbia origin, 英语词源]
insipid (adj.): 1610s, "without taste or perceptible flavor," from French insipide (16c.), from Late Latin inspidus "tasteless," from Latin in- "not" (see in- (1)) + sapidus "tasty," from sapere "have a taste" (also "be wise;" see sapient). Figurative meaning "uninteresting, dull" first recorded 1640s, but it was also a secondary sense in Medieval Latin.
In ye coach ... went Mrs. Barlow, the King's mistress and mother to ye Duke of Monmouth, a browne, beautifull, bold, but insipid creature. [John Evelyn, diary, Aug. 18, 1649]
Related: Insipidly.
credenda: "With plural concord: things to be believed; matters of faith; propositions forming or belonging to a system. Also in singular (credendum): one such thing, an article of faith", Early 17th cent.; earliest use found in William Barlow. From classical Latin crēdenda things to be believed, neuter plural of crēdendus, gerundive of crēdere to believe.
acyrology: "Incorrect use of language", Early 17th cent.; earliest use found in William Barlow. From post-classical Latin acyrologia incorrect use of language from Hellenistic Greek ἀκυρολογία from ancient Greek ἀ- + κῦρος authority + -λογία.