Snap-dragon (game)
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Snap-dragon was a parlour game popular from about the 16th century. It was played during the winter, particularly on Christmas Eve. Brandy was heated and placed in a wide shallow bowl; raisins were pl
Children playing snap-dragon (1889)
Fanciful image of a dragon playing Snap-dragon, from Robert Chambers' Book of Days (1879)
John Tenniel's illustration of a "snap-dragon-fly" from Through the Looking-Glass (1871)
Honorificabilitudinitatibus
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Honorificabilitudinitatibus is the dative and ablative plural of the medieval Latin word honōrificābilitūdinitās, which can be translated as "the state of being able to achieve honours". It is mention
Snap-dragon (game)
…1594): O, they have lived long on the alms-basket of words. I marvel thy master hath not eaten thee for a word for thou art not so long by the head as honorificabilitudinitatibus: thou art easier swallowed than a flap-dragon. and in Henry IV, Part 2 (1598…
An entry in Desiderius Erasmus's compendium Adagia, a possible source for Shakespeare