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quondam, adv., n., and a.|ˈkwɒndəm|
Also 6 condam.
[L., ‘formerly’.]
A. adv. At one time, formerly, heretofore, ‘whilome’. rare.
1537Wriothesley Chron. (1875) I. 63 An Abbott condam of Fountens, of the order of pyed monkes. 1611Coryat Crudities 648 That..most faithful attendant quondam vppon the right Worshipfull Sir Edward Phillips. 1841Catlin N. Amer. Ind. (1844) II. liii. 162 Mr. C. Jennings quondam of the city hotel in New York.
B. n. The former holder of some office or position; one who has been deposed or ejected; see also quot. 1962.
1535Lett. Suppress. Monast. (Camden) 93 The kinges fowndation thus to be mangellede by the quondam, I have petie; the prior now is..a goode clerke. 1549Latimer 4th Serm. bef. Edw. VI (Arb.) 107 Make them quondammes, out with them, cast them out of ther office. 1583Stubbes Anat. Abus. (1882) ii. 54 Let him be..Jacke out of office, make him a Quondam. 1888A. Blomfield Let. in H. H. Henson Retrospect (1942) I. ii. 30 My dear Henson (If I may as a quondam thus familiarly address you). 1962A. Sampson Anatomy of Britain xiii. 214 The most worldly college has been All Souls... The fellows and ex-fellows (called Quondams) are supposed to be the cream of Oxford intellectuals... Lord Curzon, the Viceroy of India, ‘an enthusiastic quondam’.
C. adj. That formerly was or existed:
a. of persons (the most frequent use).
1586Warner Alb. Eng. iii. xiv. (1612) 65 In Albanie the quondam King at eldest Daughters Court was setled scarce, when she repynes. 1615R. Brathwait Strappado (1878) 86, I see thy quondam friend, Hath cause to say his hopes are at an end. 1675Cocker Morals 47 Quarles, quondam Poet, for rare Lines Divine. 1728Morgan Algiers II. ii. 234 This aspiring quondam Consort of his grew apace. 1825Bentham Offic. Apt. Maximized (1830) 13 A quondam country Gentleman with thirty years of..experience. 1874Ruskin Fors Clav. xxxvii. (1874) IV. 3 The loquacious and speculative disposition..of all my quondam friends.
b. of things, qualities, etc.
1588Shakes. L.L.L. v. i. 6, I did conuerse this quondam day with a companion of the kings. 1600S. Nicholson Acolastus (1876) 34 Marke..How euery thing in quondam sort appeares. 1642Vicars God in Mount (1644) 44 The heighth of their quondam pride and cruelty. 1717Bp. Nicolson in Ellis Orig. Lett. Ser. ii. IV. 318 His quondam diocese of Derry. 1795–6Wordsw. Borderer i. 79 The tale of this his quondam Barony Is cunningly devised.
Hence ˈquondamly adv., formerly; † ˈquondamship, the state of being out of office. Obs.
1549Latimer 4th Serm. bef. Edw. VI (Arb.) 108 As for my quondamshyp I thancke God that he gaue me ye grace to come by it so honest a meanes as I dyd. 1814Sporting Mag. XLIV. 53 Certain gentlemen smiths, who have been quondamly in habits of wearing such articles. |