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
Alani enchiridion de planctu seu conquestu naturæ, prosa et versu.—
From The Private Diary of Dr. John Dee And the Catalog of His Library of Manuscripts by Dee, John
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