单词 | stellionate |
释义 | stellionaten. 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. DerivativesΘΚΠ 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). < n.1622 |
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