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A28472 A world of errors discovered in The new world of words, or, General English dictionary, and in Nomothetes, or, The interpreter of law-words and terms by Tho. Blount ... Esq. Blount, Thomas, 1618-1679. 1673 (1673) Wing B3345; ESTC R18536 22,640 22

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according to Camden Missale Lat. A Breviary or Mass-Book This Error he borrowed out of Cotgraves Dictionary The Books are of very different kinds Mission Lat. A sending it is also taken peculiarly or if a power given by the Church of Rome to go Nonsence if the Printer do not acquit him Nativo habendo A Writ for the apprehending and restoring to his Lord his Villain claimed as his inheritance who in Common Law is called Neif However blundringly the words are put together the Author intends Neif shall relate to Villain and Villain to be a Man but Neif is the Bond-woman or she Villain Nonability A Term in Law Being an exception taken against the Plaintiff or Defendant why he cannot commence any sute in Law We must convert Defendant into Demandant to make it tolerable sence None of a day The third quarter of a day from Noon till Sun-set Where then shall we find the other three quarters He should have said from Noon till the Sun be half-way down An Obit Lat. A Rental an Obsequy or Funeral It signifies an Office or certain Prayers for the dead Oratorians An Order of Fryers so called They are not Fryers but a kind of Regular-Secular Priests Ordeal a Saxon word Signifying Judgment a kind of purgation Of which there are several kinds as Campfight Free Ordeal and Water Ordeal Campfight was none of the kinds of Ordaele and Free Ordaele should be Fire Ordaele For Ordalium fuit judicium aquae ignis ferri Ostiary Lat. One that keeps the Hoasts in a Church a Door Keeper a Keeper If he had onely said a Door Keeper he had preserved the word from an erroneous explication For Ostiary has no relation to the keeping the Hoasts in a Church Pathopep Greek An expression of a Passion in Rhetorick it is a figure by which the mind We are left to guess at the rest for so he leaves it And Pathopep is an unknown word of his New World The Court of Peculiars A certain Court in the Bishops time which dealt in certain Parishes This is a certain kind of Independent-Commonwealth expression insinuating a certain Non-Entity of Bishops at present Peter-pence A tribute given by Inas King of the West-Saxons It was also called the See of Rome It was also called Romefeoh and Rome-penny and was a Pension or an Alms given by King Inas not a Tribute Pipe A Measure of Wine or Oyl containing Twenty six Gallons or half a Tun. By this account a Tun should be but Fifty two Gallons which contains Two hundred fifty two The Prerogative Court A certain Court belonging to the Civil Law in which the Commissary sits upon Inheritances faln either by the intestate or by Will and Testament This is an Ecclesiastical Court wherein all Testaments are proved and Administrations granted where the party dying within the Province of Canterbury hath Bona notabilia in some other Diocess V. Cokes 4 Inst fol. 335. Pownd In Common Law signifie an Inclosure to keep Beasts in but more especially a place of strength where Cattle distreined for any trespass are put until they be replevied or distreined Where Cattle distreined are put till they be distreined is suitable to the rest Primier Seisin A word used in Common Law a Branch of the Kings Prerogative whereby he hath the first possession of all Lands and Tenements through the Realm This is sufficiently erroneous The King before the Statute of 12 Car. 2. ca. 24. had the Primier Seisin or first possession onely of all Lands and Tenements holden of him in cheif whereof his Tenant died seised in Fee which is taken away by the said Statute Quaver A measure of time in Musick being the half of a Crotchet as a Crotchet the half of a Quaver a Semiquaver c. What fustian is here Just so two is the half of four and four the half of two and Semiquaver is explicated by a dumb c. Reasonable Aid In Common Law is a duty that the Lord of the Fee claimeth holding by Knights Service or in Soccage to marry his Daughter or make his son Knight I doubt our Author bears some malice to the Common Law else he could not have maimed so many of its Terms which are in several Books expounded to his hand It should be claimeth of his Tenants to make it sence Returns Certain set times in each of the four Terms Each Term consisting of 4 5 or 8 Returns The longest Term has but ● Returns as every Almanack will shew Rosemary Lat. Rosmarinus A well and most wholsome Plant He omits the singular use of it in adorning a piece of Roast Beef Scapular Lat. Belonging to the Sholders whence a Scapulary a Monks Hood or Cowl reaching down to the Sholders This Scapulary is mis-interpreted it being a narrow piece of Cloth or Stuff worn by Monks and Fryars over the rest of their habit and reaching from the Sholders to the Ground and is neither like a Hood nor Cowl Sequestration Lat. A separating a thing in controversie But it is now commonly taken for a seising upon the Rents of Delinquents Estates for the use of the Common-wealth Our Author having Revised and Printed his Book as appears by the Title-page in the year 1671 is very bold to call this Kingdom a Commonwealth as he also does in the word Coroner where he speaks of the State and Commonwealth of England Seragesm Sunday The Sunday before Shrove-Tuesday Sexagesima Sunday is the Sunday sennight before Shrove-Tuesday Shafment A kind of measure containing an hand bredth It is from the top of the Thumb set upright to the utmost part of the Palm which is by a tall mans hand half a foot Socinians A certain Sect that deny the Divinity of Christ first spred by Faustus Socinianus of Siena It was first broached by Laelius Socinus and advanced by Faustus Socinus of Sienna Tierce French A certain liquid measure containing the third part of a Pipe which is two Tuns And before he said a Pipe is Twenty six Gallons or half a Tun. Strange contradictions and mistakes even in common notions Trestle A Trevet or Stool with three Feet Trevet is a Three-footed instrument of Iron to set Cauldrons on Threstle that of Wood for other uses Tuilleries French So called because that Titles were made there Tiles and Titles are all one with our Author Verdera Lat. Viridarius A judicial Officer of the Kings Forest This our Author will say was the Printers fault for Verderer And Vncore purist French For Vncore prist Warrant or Warranty In Common Law is a Covenant made in a Deed by one man to another to warrant and secure himself and his heirs against all men whatsoever for the injoyning of any thing agreed on between them Surely no man will buy any Land of this Author if his Warranty or Covenant shall onely extend to secure himself and his heirs Warren Lat. Varrenna or Vivarium A Prescription or Grant to a Man from the King of having Phesants Patridges