I'm feeling very confident about my job interview. I'm going to go in and knock 'em dead.

Alchemizing media power into political influence, Mr. Carlson stands in a nativist American tradition that runs from Father Coughlin to Patrick J. Buchanan.

And these kisses, […] it was Mrs. Gorman's invariable habit to catch up, as it were, upon her own lips, and return, with tranquil civility, as one picks up a glove, or newspaper, let fall in some public place, and restores it with a smile, if not a bow, to its rightful proprietor. So that each kiss was in reality two kisses, first Watt's kiss, velleitary, anxious, and then Mrs. Gorman's, unctious and urbane.

As a Latinistic participial adjective, the word occurs in Henry Earl of Monmouth, Advertisements from Parnassus (1656), p. 52.