word of the day: wracksome

WRACKSOME

​ADJ.
destructive ...1608 obs, rare

ETYMOLOGY
from wrack (vb.) to wreck a vessel, mariners, etc. + -some


First Documented Use: 1608
Now, if so be that any odious sinne
Prouoke their Lord his Iustice to begin:
Then mine not you their towers and tourets tall,
Nor bring the wracksom engine to their wall:
Nor place thy battries braue, nor yet aduenter,
With thy courageous camp, the breach to enter.

From: Bartas his deuine weekes & workes translated: and dedicated to the Kings most excellent Maiestie by Iosuah Syluester 
- Guillaume de Saluste Du Bartas, translated by Joshua Sylvester 

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