† Ludgaten.
Obsolete.
The name of: an ancient debtors' prison in London; phrase †to take Ludgate (see quot. 1585).
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society > trade and finance > management of money > insolvency > [verb (intransitive)] > become bankrupt
to play (the) bankrupt1548
bankrupt1552
to take Ludgate1585
break1600
to go down the weather1611
to break the bank1623
to go to the right shop1655
to swallow a spider1670
to march off1683
to go off1688
to break up shop1712
bust1834
burst1848
to go up King Street1864
to go bust1875
to go under1882
to belly up1886
1585 J. Higgins tr. Junius Nomenclator 324 Argentariam dissoluere..To play the bankerupt: to take Ludgate.
1606 T. Dekker Seuen Deadly Sinnes London i. sig. B1 The Master, the Keepers, and all the Prisoners of Ludgate.
1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Lud's-bulwark, Ludgate Prison.
Derivatives
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society > trade and finance > management of money > insolvency > [noun] > one who is insolvent
bankrupt?1563
bare-man1581
Ludgatian1600
non-solvent1647
insolvent1725
fraudulent1796
brosier1826
1600 B. Jonson Every Man out of his Humor i. ii. sig. Civv Alwaies beware you commerce not with bankrupts, or poore needie Ludgathians . View more context for this quotation
1606 T. Dekker Seuen Deadly Sinnes London i. sig. Bv It was a bird pickt out of purpose (amongst the Ludgathians) that had the basest and lowest voice, and was able in a Terme time, for a throat, to giue any prisoner great ods for ye box at the grate.
1607 E. Sharpham Cupids Whirligig iii. i. sig. E3 I am none of these Ludgations that beg for fourscore and ten poore men: my suite is only for my selfe.
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