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单词 bum-court
释义 bum-court Obs.
[Etymol. uncertain: app. f. bum n.1 (cf. the first quot.).]
Apparently, a vulgar nick-name for the Ecclesiastical Court.
1544Suppl. to Hen. VIII, 28 The hearing of testamenterye causes..of sclaunders, of leachery, adultery, and punyshement of bawedrye; and suche other bumme courte matters.1580Fulke Stapl. & Mart. Confuted 128 These quarrels sir Bachiler, are more meet for the bomme-courts, in which perhaps you are a prating proctor, than for the schools of divinity.1583Brief Confut. 33 In this saying, if the term of bumcourts seem too light, I yield unto the censure of grave and godly men.
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