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contumacy|ˈkɒntjʊməsɪ|
Also 4–7 -acie, 5 -acye.
[ad. L. contumācia, n. of quality f. contumāx: see contumax a. and -acy. Cf. contumace n.]
1. Perverse and obstinate resistance of or disobedience to authority; rebellious stubbornness.
c1386Chaucer Pars. T. ⁋317 Strif, contumacie, presumpcion. 1494Fabyan Chron. vii. 316 His contumacy agayne y⊇ churche. 1574Whitgift Def. Aunsw. ii. Wks. 1851 I. 245 If [we offend] through contempt or contumacy, it is to be reproved. 1656Bramhall Replic. 32 If contumacy against one lawfull single superiour be schismaticall. 1667Milton P.L. x. 1027 Such acts Of contumacie will provoke the highest. 1828Scott F. M. Perth ii, His entertainer took not the contumacy of the young apprentice with so much patience. 1860Pusey Min. Proph. 177 Direct contumacy to God's known voice. 1871Blackie Four Phases i. 148 They passed sentence of death upon the philosopher for contumacy towards themselves.
†b. rarely in good or neutral sense: Refusal to comply, obstinate resistance. Obs.
1618Bolton Florus i. vii. 18 All other the gods..leaving the place, Juventus and Terminus only, would not stir. This contumacie of the powers divine pleased the Sooth⁓sayers well. 1656tr. Hobbes' Elem. Philos. (1839) 395 The contumacy which the motion, they have already, gives them against the reception of all other motion. 1655–60Stanley Hist. Philos. (1701) 90/1 With a free contumacy proceeding not from Pride, but the greatness of his Mind.
†2. Of diseases, etc.: Reluctance to yield to treatment; stubborn or unyielding nature. Obs.
1541R. Copland Galyen's Terap. 2 D iv, Some vlceres and diseases are contumacy and rebellyon to heale. 1634T. Johnson Parey's Chirurg. vii. xviii. (1678) 183 The contumacy of the humour which gives no place to the resolving Medicins. 1661Lovell Hist. Anim. & Min. 366 By reason of..contumacy of the matter, it expelleth nothing out of the mouth, except a thin and waterish humour.
3. Law. Wilful disobedience to the summons or order of a court. † to put in contumacy: to pronounce (in legal form) contumacious.
c1425Wyntoun Cron. vii. viii. 764 For his [Balliol's] wylful contwmacy. 1483Caxton Cato A viij, Holden for a rebelle..and put into contumacye. 1579Fenton Guicciard. iii. (1599) 140 To put the Duke of Myllan in contumacie, it were necessary to haue interpellation. 1660R. Coke Power & Subj. 200 If any of the King's tenure be called before their Ordinaries..if they be excommunicate for their manifest contumacy. 1855Prescott Philip II, I. iii. iii. 352 They were pronounced guilty of contumacy in not obeying the summons of the council.
4. An act or instance of wilful disobedience.
1726Ayliffe Parerg. 159 These Certificates..mention the Parties Contumacies. 1868Milman St. Paul's vii. 133 He corrected all excesses, and contumacies.
†5. to hold the contumacy: see quot. Obs.
[1682Wheler Journ. Greece i. 16 Which they call doing Contumaccia, or Quarantine.] 1762tr. Busching's Syst. Geog. IV. 236 A Lazaretto, in which travellers in the time of a plague must perform quarantine, or as they term it here, hold the contumacy.
6. attrib., as in contumacy fees.
1685H. Consett Pract. Spirit. Courts 322 His contumacy fees being paid. |