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† paltriˈpolitan Obs.
Also paultri-, pautry-.
An opprobrious perversion of metropolitan; associating it with paltry. Hence † paltriˈpolitanship.
1588Marprel. Epist. (Arb.) 24 Against the vsurped state of your Paultripolitanship. Ibid. 25 Such buggs words being in these daies accounted no lesse then high treason against a Paltripolitan. 1589Marprel. Epit. F iij. 1637Bastwick Litany i. 11, I will soe thunderthump Your Pautry Politans, as..I will make them come tumbling downe like Phaeton. |