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Honorificabilitudinitatibus is a word appearing in act five, scene one of William Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost. It is (in the quote) the ablativus absolutus plural of the medieval Latin word honorificabilitudinitas, which can be translated as "the state of being able to achieve honours."
You mean it only appears in one of Shakespears works?
That's like saying Supercalifragilistic is a word, doesn't it
Hey - tell that to my English student friend ...
Originally posted by http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-hon1.htm
HONORIFICABILITUDINITATIBUS
With honour.
We are in the arena of sesquipedalian words—those a foot and a half long, whose prime characteristic is their length rather than their sense or value.
Any word used by James Joyce (in Ulysses) and William Shakespeare (in Love’s Labour Lost) can’t be entirely dismissed from the canon of English, even though the former borrowed it from the latter, who in turn borrowed it from Latin. The only other person who seems to have used it, ever, was John Taylor, a Thames waterman known as the Water Poet, in the middle of the seventeenth century.
An anagram of honorificabilitudinitatibus is Hi ludi, F. Baconis nati, tuiti orbi. In English, this says: “These plays, F. Bacon’s offspring, are preserved for the world”. This little gem of misapplied cryptography was presented by Sir Edwin Lawrence-Durning in 1910 in his book Bacon is Shakespeare as a hidden message left by Francis Bacon, who (as some are convinced) actually wrote the plays usually said to be by Shakespeare. This is all nonsense, of course—as every schoolboy knows, they were really written by Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford.
But the same set of letters, tested in the common tongue, makes up Inhibit in fabulous, idiotic art, Inhabit furious libido in attic, Habitual if ionic distribution, and Hi! fabulous tit in idiotic brain. What would Sir Edwin have made of all these?
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