1593, Thomas Nash, Christs Teares Over Iervsalem. Whereunto is annexed a comparatiue admonition to London.[1], London: Thomas Thorp, published 1613, →OCLC, page 105; republished as Christ's Tears Over Jerusalem: Whereunto is Annexed A comparative Admonition to London, 1815, page 97:
Vſurers, you are none of theſe cryers vnto God, but thoſe that hourely vnto God are most cryde out againſt. God hath cryde out vnto you by his Preachers, GOD hath cride out vnto you by the poore ; Pryſoners on their death-beds haue cride out of you : and when they haue had but one houre to interceſſionate for their ſoules, and ſue out the pardon of their numberleſſe ſins, the whole of that howre (ſauing one minute, when in two words they cryde for mercy,) haue they ſpent, in crying for vengeance againſt you.
" Without further parley, upon their knees they fell most devoutly, and for helpe on heaven never ceased extensively to intercessionate God, for his speedie recoverie.
1598, Robert Tofte, “The Second Part of the Moneths Mind of a Melancholy Lover.”, in Alba. The Month's Minde of a Melancholy Lover.[3] (Poetry), published 1880, →OCLC, page 67:
Yet Ile not leaue to interceſsionate, / To her hard Breaſt, for my too gentle Hart : / That if her Rigor ſhe'le not mitigate, / At leaſt ſhe'le ſomewhat eaſe me of this Smart : / I onely craue if ſhe'le not yeelde relieſe, / T'adiourne my paine, and to proroge my Griefe.
1598, Robert Tofte, “The Third Part of the Moneths Mind of a Melancholy Lover.”, in Alba. The Month's Minde of a Melancholy Lover.[4] (Poetry), published 1880, →OCLC, page 106:
My lifes Cataſtrophe is at an end, / The Staffe whereon my ſickly Loue did leane / And which from falling (ſtill) did him defend, / Is through miſchance in ſunder broken cleane. / Gone is my Mediatrix, my beſt Aduocate, / Who vſde for me to interceſsionate.
[1902, “COUNTERFEIT WORDS.”, in Plain English : A Practical Work on the English Language for Use in Public and Private Schools, Academies, Commercial Colleges, and for Private Learners.[5], →OCLC, page 145:
17. Intercessionate.—* 'To intercede with.' [ Rare. ]—Century Dictionary. Let us hope that it may continue to be "rare."]
As for Nash his chief aim seems to have been to vilify ; he by no means troubled himself about consistency. In Christ’s Tears over Jerusalem we find more strange expressious than he could have got out of all Harvey’s works, of which the following may serve as samples : callichrimate, Works, IV, 51 ; investurings, 72; sacrificatory, 76; delinquishment, 78; succoursuers, 116 ; intercessionate, 156 ; deplorement, 30. There are also a great number of derivatives in -ize, which are worth particular mention, e. g., unmortalize, 70 ; carionized, 75 ; oblivionize, 79 ; anatomize, 109 ; and many others. Of these some were in good use at the time, but others are obviously new coinages. There was some comment upon these particular derivatives on the appearance of the first edition of Christ’s Tears over Jerusalem, and in the second edition Nash commented upon the matter.]
The craze for -ization — a word first employed by Charles Dickens in “Our Mutual Friend” — has been around for a very long time. The patron saint of rampant suffixization is Thomas Nashe, author of the 1593 pamphlet “Christ’s Tears Over Jerusalem.” His ebullient creations included myrmidonize, unmortalize, anthropophagize, retranquillize, cabbalize, palpabrize, superficialize and citizenize — not to mention collachrymate, assertionate and intercessionate.]
[(Can we date this quote?), “intercessionate Sentence Examples”, in EZeeDictionary.com[9], archived from the original on April 20, 2024[10]:
The priest intercessionated for the parishioner's forgiveness. / The lawyer intercessionated on behalf of his unjustly accused client. / The ambassador intercessionated with the foreign government for her people.]
