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oed
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
encirclement

1809, from encircle + -ment.

subpar

also sub-par, 1896, from sub- + par.

for-

prefix usually meaning "away, opposite, completely," from Old English for-, indicating loss or destruction, but in other cases completion, and used as well with intensive or pejorative force, from Proto-Germanic *fur "before, in" (cognates: Old Norse for-, Swedish för-, Dutch ver-, Old High German fir-, German ver-); from PIE *pr-, from root *per- (1) "forward, through" (see per).\n\nIn verbs the prefix denotes

  1. intensive or completive action or process, or

  2. action that miscarries, turns out for the worse, results in failure, or produces adverse or opposite results. In many verbs the prefix exhibits both meanings, and the verbs frequently have secondary and figurative meanings or are synonymous with the simplex.

    [Middle English Dictionary]

    \nProbably originally in Germanic with a sense of "forward, forth," but it spun out complex sense developments in the historical languages. Disused in Modern English. Ultimately from the same root as fore (adv.). From its use in participles it came to be an intensive prefix of adjectives in Middle English (for example Chaucer's forblak "exceedingly black"), but all these now seem to be obsolete.
OED

initialism (acronym) of Oxford English Dictionary, attested from 1898, according to the "Oxford English Dictionary."

Usage examples of "oed".

Finding a mostly empty box of sugar coated cereal, she sat down at the kitchen counter with it and ate it dry, wondering where Adonis had gone off to.

These drains are of wood, asphaltum coated, with an inside diameter ranging from 3 to 6 in.

With her hands batting at the creatures, Betta fell backward out of the tent, coated with the scrabbling bodies of the poisonous beasts.

Once a boggart is in the pit, it will stay there because the underside of the stone and the sides of the pit are coated with the mixture, forcing it to make itself small and stay within the boundaries of the space inside.

For sure enough, all of the men were drinking out of Brobdignagian beer steins, their faces and noses pleasantly coated with beer foam.

Though coated with a thick, calcareous crust, an iron nail could be seen traversing the calcaneus from side to side.

Drawers contained sheets of fine paper coated with dustlike abrasives.

Whenever the no-sponsors took a shower, their skin was coated with microbeads of an electronegative halogen solution, which would show up on the Clarissa Frayne scanner.

It was thickly coated with soot from the passing engines, but the black surface was blurred and rubbed in places.

His gasmask facepiece was misted within and coated by grime without, but ahead he could make out the figure of a Moro, half crouched, a heavy revolver in one hand, a neckerchief wrapped over nose and mouth.

Every morning the ground was coated with a thick cover of hoarfrost, and the windows bore delicate, fernlike traceries of frost on the inside.

She was coated in brown, downy feathers, a useful camouflage in the forest fringes where her kind had evolved as hunters of carrion and eggs.

It was as if the frozen furtiveness of his concealment in the bricks suffused the shadows that coated him.

And sure enough, the end of that dipstick was coated with the darkest, grimiest, sludgiest coat of oil I have ever seen.

Whenever guns are to be struck below, or prepared for transportation, the gunner will see that the bores are washed with fresh water, carefully sponged, thoroughly dried, and coated with melted tallow, and a wad dipped in the same material inserted, and connected with a tompion by a lanyard.