enchiridion
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Carson's book is strewn with such showoff, jawbreaker words as armigerous, pogonologist, acescent, enchiridion, ochlocracy.*
From Time Magazine Archive
Sarah and Isaac were romping noisily about and under the beds; Rachel was at the table, knitting a scarf for Solomon; the grandmother pored over a bulky enchiridion for pious women, written in jargon.
From Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People by Zangwill, Israel
