| 单词 | civility money |
| 释义 | > as lemmascivility money ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > payment for labour or service > fee for services rendered > [noun] > fee of professional person > jailer's fee bar-fee1641 civility money1694 jailage1853 1694 P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais Pantagruel's Voy.: 4th Bk. Wks. iv. xiv. 62 To the Catchpole and his Bums he order'd four Ducats for Civility Money [Fr. A Chiquanous & ses Records furent quatre escus au Soleil donnez]. 1716 T. Baston Thoughts on Trade 101 Most, or all of these Goalers, purchase their Places, and give Civility Money to some body to wink at their Villanies and Murthers. 1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian ix, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. II. 224 No opposition was offered..either by the guards or door-keepers..one of the latter refused a shilling of civility-money, tendered him by the Laird of Dumbiedikes. 1869 H. W. Woolrych Lives Eminent Serjeants-at-Law 506 Here, unfortunately, the bailiffs began to abuse their prisoner. They called him names, and demanded three guineas for civility money. < as lemmas |
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