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Etymological dictionaries do pretty much the same, though for the most part they, like the OED , eschew information about multiword entries, idiomatic phrases, and such.
Mr. Hall may be pleased to know that the OED does not list hospitalise.
Actually, the word quark is in the OED as a verb meaning `croak,' with 19th-century references to frogs, rooks, and herons.
Perhaps it was formed originaly as a macaronic phrase by students, because of its meter; its earliest OED citation is in the 16th century, when the study of Horace would undoubtedly have been part of a scholar's curriculum (including the memorizing of many of the odes).
"Jesuitical" originally signified "of or pertaining to the Jesuits; belonging to the Society of Jesus; Jesuit" ( OED , again), the Jesuits being the Roman Catholic clerical order founded by Ignatius Loyola in 1534 as an intellectual bulwark against the Reformation.