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单词 stellionate
释义

stellionaten.

/ˈstɛlɪənət/
Forms: Also 1600s -at.
Etymology: < Latin stelliōnātus (u stem), < stelliōn-em , a fraudulent person, perhaps a transferred use of stelliōn-em a kind of lizard (see stellion n.). See -ate suffix1.
Civil Law.
(See quot. 1754.)
ΘΚΠ
society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > specific offences > [noun] > concealment of truth > criminal deception
fraudc1330
crimen falsi1602
stellature1608
stellionate1622
estafa1903
1622 F. Bacon Hist. Raigne Henry VII 64 This Court of Star-chamber..discerneth also principally of foure kinds of Causes; Forces, Frauds, Crimes various of Stellionate, and the Inchoations or middle Acts towards Crimes Capitall, or hainous, not actually committed.
1637 J. Bastwick Letany i. 13/1 As if I were guilty of crimes of stellionate or maluersation.
1678 G. Mackenzie Laws & Customes Scotl. i. 286 Legislators were forced to invent this general name of Stellionat; under which they might range all cheats, and thence sprung that maxime.
1754 J. Erskine Princ. Law Scotl. II. iv. iv. 495 The crime of stellionate..comprehends every fraud which is not distinguished by a special name; but is chiefly applied to conveyances of the same numerical right, granted by the proprietor to different disponees.
1861 Two Cosmos I. iii. iii. 300 ‘Art and part stealing an heiress, and for aught I see stellionate and stouthrieff!’ said he.

Derivatives

ˈstellionated adj. Obsolete rare. fraudulent.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > [adjective]
fakenOE
fraudulent1412
fraudfulc1475
impostorous?1549
imposterous1562
cavillinga1576
impostural1588
cogged1589
defraudfulc1592
imposturious?a1600
imposturizing1603
imposturous1608
impostured1619
circumventive1630
impostrate1632
imposterious1633
impostrous1635
charlatanical1663
quackish1670
charlatan1671
stellionated1672
shammisha1734
shim-sham1797
humbug1811
charlatanic1843
Peter Funk1845
charlatanish1846
jazzy1934
run-out1938
jivey1972
1672 G. Thomson Let. to H. Stubbe 25 To discover their Stellionated and counterfeit Devices, in making the World believe, that they are the onely true Chymists.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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