‖ sumpsimus
(ˈsʌmpsɪməs)
[L., 1st pers. pl. perf. ind. of sūmĕre to take.]
A correct expression taking the place of an incorrect but popular one (mumpsimus).
| 1545 Hen. VIII Sp. Parl. 24 Dec. in Hall Chron., Hen. VIII (1548) 261 b, Some be to stiffe in their old Mumpsimus, other be to busy and curious, in their newe Sumpsimus. 1621 Mountagu Diatribæ 115 Some very few, too much giuen vp vnto their old Mumpsimus, which they would not leaue for the new Sumpsimus. 1653 Z. Bogan Mirth Chr. Life 124 One that hath been long in another way..will not easily be brought to change his old mumsimus (as they say) for a new sumpsimus. 1818 Bentham Ch. Eng. Introd. 34 The insufficiency and inaptitude of the old mumpsimus, on the back of which they thus clap this their new sumpsimus. 1828 Scott Aunt Marg. Mirror (ad init.), The clergyman, who, without vindicating his false reading, preferred, from habit's sake, his old mumpsimus to the modern sumpsimus. 1882 Contemp. Rev. Mar. 372 Did they want a correct sumpsimus, or their erroneous but pleasing mumpsimus? |