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contumacious, a. (kɒntjuːˈmeɪʃəs) Also 7 -atious. [f. L. contumāci- (contumāx); see contumax and -acious.] 1. Contemning and obstinately resisting authority; stubbornly perverse, insubordinate, rebellious. (Of persons and their actions.)1603 Knolles Hist. Turks (1621) 997 Their Turcoman nation..were...
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contumacious
contumacious/ˌkɔntju:ˈmeɪʃəs; ?@ -tu:-; ˌkɑntu`meʃəs/ adj(fml 文) obstinate and disobedient 固执的; 桀骜不驯的; 顽抗的.
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Valerik (poem)
, but he never received the award as his name was removed from the final list of recipients by Czar Nicholas I, who harbored a strong dislike for the contumacious
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give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause. continence. voluntary control over urinary and fecal discharge. contumacious. willfully obstinate; stubbornly disobedient. coquette. talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions. cornucopia. a horn filled with fruit and grain symbolizing prosperity.
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He was condemned as contumacious in his absence, and a year later he officially resigned his see and retired to Coventry Abbey.
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contumace
▪ I. † contumace, n. Obs. rare. [a. F. contumace, ad. L. contumācia contumacy.] = contumacy; also, a pronouncing a person to be in contumacy.a 1225 Ancr. R. 198 Contumace..is onwil ine þing þet heo haueð undernumen uorto donne. a 1662 Heylin Hist. Presbyterians 358 (D.) Except the fault be notorious...
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contumaced
† contumaced, ppl. a. Obs. Become ‘contumacious’: cf. contumace a. (for which it may be an error).1541 R. Copland Galyen's Terap. 2 D iij b, [He] wolde often open it [an ulcer] to wit yf it were contumaced.
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In re Snyder
Here, the Eighth Circuit had concluded that Snyder had engaged in "contumacious conduct" and demonstrated unfitness to practice law in federal court when an unlawyerlike rudeness, a single incident of rudeness or lack of professional courtesy—in this context—does not support a finding of contemptuous or contumacious
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contumation
† contuˈmation Obs. rare. [f. contumacious, by false analogy after vexatious, vexation, etc.] = contumacy.1618 Naunton To Sir R. Wilson 16 Sept. (R. Suppl.), If he [Raleigh] should fail in either of these two conditions, he should but augment his fault and contumation both.
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1345 Liverpool riot
What began with hurling insults escalated into violence, and swiftly following their "'insulting and contumacious words", the armed mob "did wickedly kill
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contumax
† ˈcontumax, a. Obs. Also 4–5 contimax, -ymax. [a. L. contumāx insolent, obstinate, showing contempt of court (also a technical word of criminal law in Fr.), f. con- prefix and -āx suffix (-acious); the radical part tum- is generally referred to tumē-re to swell, but some would connect it with tem-n...
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In Darkness and in Light
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The film is a tale about a small band of contumacious boys and girls that live in a hidden village on a faraway beach; they are the Ivory Rebellion
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contumacity
contumacity rare. (kɒntjuːˈmæsɪtɪ) [a. F. contumacité (16th c. in Godef.), f. L. type *contumācitās, f. contumāx; see contumax and -ity.] Contumacious quality, stubborn perverseness.c 1420 Pallad. on Husb. iv. 671 To tame her contumacitee. 1837 Carlyle Mirabeau Misc. Ess. (1888) V. 223 A solemn high...
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Clement Scotus I
re-examine the whole question at a council which was shortly to be held in Germany, and to do his best to bring Clement to repentance; should he prove contumacious
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cherem
‖ cherem (ˈhɛrɛm) Also herem. [Heb. ḥērem, f. ḥāram to devote, put under a curse.] Excommunication from the Synagogue.1829 H. H. Milman Hist. Jews III. 145 For more heinous offences, and against contumacious delinquents, the more terrific Cherem, or the still more fatal Shammata, the excommunication...
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