单词 | sumptuary |
释义 | sump·tu·ar·y (sŭmpch-ĕr′ē) adj. 1. Legally regulating expenditures considered extravagant. 2. Legally prohibiting or discouraging, as by the imposition of taxes, certain behaviors: sumptuary laws forbidding gambling. [Latin sūmptuārius, from sūmptus, expense, from past participle of sūmere, to take, buy; see em- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.] |
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