Vehmistn.
/ˈfeɪmɪst/, /ˈveɪmɪst/, U.S. /ˈfeɪmᵻst/, /ˈveɪmᵻst/ European History. Now rare.
A member of the Vehmgericht.
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society > law > administration of justice > one who administers justice > judge > [noun] > member of secret tribunal
Vehmist1841
1841 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 49 234 [They] thus, like the Vehmists of Germany, pursued a faithless or refractory member, even on the throne, with the steel and the cord.
1880 T. Frost Forty Years' Recoll. xi. 188 The secret associations of the Middle Ages, such as the Assassins, the Templars, the Vehmists, and the Rosicrucians.
1961 ‘A. Daraul’ Secret Societies xx. 203 There are folk-legends..which paint the Vehmists with the rosy colours of chivalrous knights.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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