Fragments From Floyd

I never use the word 'calcitrant', even in my most creative spurts of verbiage, because it is, after all, not a word. How, then, I wondered recently, could one having never been calcitrant, be recalcitrant--the word I originally intended to use? And so I erased that word in my haughty paragraph and replaced it with 'incalcitrant.' And yet, that didn't seem right, either; maybe it wasn't even a word at all. This is what I found out that set my etymological mind at rest:

"The word incalcitrant is often used in Modern English, and is understood by native speakers to mean something like 'stubborn,' 'resistant,' 'uncooperative' (a Google search on incalcitrant brought 193 results, all with this meaning). Yet incalcitrant does not appear in any dictionaries that I have consulted. Incalcitrant appears to be related to the word recalcitrant, whose Webster's (Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary, 1991) definition is as follows:

1. Obstinately defiant of authority or restraint

2. a: Difficult to manage or operate b: Not responsive to treatment

3. Resistant