单词 | bum-court |
释义 | † bum-courtn. slang. Obsolete. An ecclesiastical court dealing with cases of a sexual nature. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > ecclesiastical discipline > court > [noun] chaptera1300 Court Christianc1405 spiritual court1481 bum-court1544 Court of Christianity1573 church court1644 court1864 1544 R. Tracy Supplycacion to Kynge Henry VIII sig. Cvjv The hearinge of testamentorye causes,..of sclaunders, of leacherye, adultery, and punyshement of bawedrye, and suche other bumme courte matters. 1580 W. Fulke T. Stapleton & Martiall Confuted 128 These quarrels sir Bachiler, are more meet for the bomme-courts, in which perhaps you are a prating proctor, than for the schools of divinity. 1635 J. Jones Adrasta iii. 33 Hee shall finde no mercy i'th Bumme-Court. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1544 |
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