单词 | contumacy |
释义 | contumacyn. 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. 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. 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. 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). < n.c1386 |
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