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单词 contumacy
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contumacyn.

/ˈkɒntjʊməsi/
Forms: Also Middle English–1600s -acie, Middle English -acye.
Etymology: < Latin contumācia, noun of quality < contumāx : see contumax adj. and -acy suffix. Compare contumace n.
1.
a. Perverse and obstinate resistance of or disobedience to authority; rebellious stubbornness.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > will > decision > obstinacy or stubbornness > [noun] > disobedient stubbornness
contumacec1230
unbuxomnessa1300
unbuxomheada1325
contumacyc1386
sturdinessa1400
stoutnessc1400
contumacityc1420
pervicacy1537
untractablenessa1600
pervicacity1604
contumation1618
refractariness1624
refractoriness1627
incorrigiblenessa1631
indocibleness1647
immorigerousness1649
contumaciousness1654
refracture1659
intractableness1664
unmanageableness1664
refractiveness1674
untractibleness1676
pervicaciousness1692
untreatableness1693
untractability1797
recalcitrancy1844
recalcitrance1845
society > authority > lack of subjection > [noun] > intractability or recalcitrance > perverse
riot?c1225
contumacec1230
waywardnessc1384
contumacyc1386
sturdinessa1400
stoutnessc1400
contumation1618
gainsayingness1648
contumaciousness1654
c1386 G. Chaucer Parson's Tale ⁋317 Strif, contumacie, presumpcion.
a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) II. f. xiii His contumacy agayne ye Churche.
1572 J. Whitgift Answere to Admon. 27 If we..offende..thorough contempte or contumacie, it is to be reproued.
1656 J. Bramhall Replic. to Bishop of Chalcedon 32 If contumacy against one lawfull single superiour be schismaticall.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost x. 1027 Such acts Of contumacie will provoke the highest. View more context for this quotation
1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth ii, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. I. 59 His entertainer took not the contumacy of the young apprentice with so much patience.
1860 E. B. Pusey Minor Prophets 177 Direct contumacy to God's known voice.
1871 J. S. Blackie Four Phases Morals 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. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > will > decision > obstinacy or stubbornness > [noun]
obstination?1387
pertinacyc1390
obstinacya1393
thronessa1400
stubbornnessc1440
obstinance?a1475
durenessc1480
pertinacity?1504
stomacha1513
stiffness1526
tenacity1526
persistence1546
obstacleness1548
obstinateness1561
stiffneckedness1570
self-mindedness1574
intractability1579
persistency1600
obstinancy1614
contumacy1619
stomachfulness1621
tenaciousness1642
pertinaciousness1651
irresignation1657
peremptoriness1747
mulishness1763
strongheadedness1793
dourness1794
unmovableness1818
stoutheartedness1826
bullet-headednessa1849
stalwartism1879
camelishness1883
thick and thin1884
stupidity1886
jusqu'auboutisme1917
die-hardism1922
obstinative-
1619 E. M. Bolton tr. Florus Rom. Hist. i. vii. 18 All other the Gods..leauing the place, Iuuentas & Terminus only, would not stirre. This contumacie of the powers diuine pleased the soothsayers well.
1655 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. I. iii. 35 With a free contumacy proceeding not from pride, but the greatnesse of his mind.
1656 tr. T. Hobbes Elements Philos. iv. xxv. 295 The contumacy which the motion they have already gives them against the reception of all other motion.
2. Of diseases, etc.: Reluctance to yield to treatment; stubborn or unyielding nature. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > characteristics > [noun] > resistance to treatment
contumacy?1541
contumaciousness1654
obstinacy1808
refractoriness1891
?1541 R. Copland Galen's Fourth Bk. Terapeutyke sig. Div, in Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens Some vlceres and diseases are contumacy and rebellyon to heale.
1634 T. Johnson tr. A. Paré Chirurg. Wks. vii. xviii. 271 The contumacie of the humor which gives no place to the resolving medicines.
1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia 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.
ΘΚΠ
society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > specific offences > [noun] > disobedience to or contempt of court
contumacyc1425
rebellion1446
praemunire1553
contempt1652
society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > judging > conviction or judicial condemnation > convict or condemn [verb (transitive)] > pronounce a person to be in contumacy
to put in contumacyc1425
contumacec1650
c1425 Wyntoun Cron. vii. viii. 764 For his [Balliol's] wylful contwmacy.
1483 W. Caxton tr. Caton A viij Holden for a rebelle..and put into contumacye.
1579 G. Fenton tr. F. Guicciardini Hist. Guicciardin iii. 181 To put the Duke of Myllan in contumacie, it were necessary to haue interpellacion.
1660 R. Coke Elements Power & Subjection 200 in Justice Vindicated If any of the King's tenure be called before their Ordinaries..if they be excommunicate for their manifest contumacy.
1855 W. H. Prescott Hist. Reign Philip II of Spain 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.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > lack of subjection > [noun] > disobedience > an act of
contumacy1726
disobeyal1889
1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 159 These Certificates..mention the Parties Contumacies.
1868 H. H. Milman Ann. St. Paul's Cathedral vii. 133 He corrected all excesses, and contumacies.
5. to hold the contumacy: see quot. Obsolete.
ΚΠ
1682 G. Wheler Journey into Greece i. 16 Which they call doing Contumaccia, or Quarantine.]
1762 P. Murdoch tr. A. F. Büsching New Syst. Geogr. 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. attributive, as in contumacy fees.
ΚΠ
1685 H. Consett Pract. Spiritual Courts 322 His contumacy fees being paid.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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