by
Jaye B.
Yet more culled this morning from the oddball compendium aka Black’s Dictionary of Law 1891. It would be intriguing to delve historically into how the legal definitions made, were codified, enforced and used in the legally lunatic courts of yore.
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Some etymological digging brought this up:
turpitude (n.)
"depravity, infamy, inherent baseness or vileness," late 15c., from Old French turpitude (early 15c.), from Latin turpitudinem (nominative turpitudo) "baseness," from turpis "vile, foul, physically ugly, base, unsightly," figuratively "morally ugly, scandalous, shameful," a word of uncertain origin. De Vaan finds proposed connections to IE words meaning "to turn" (via the notion of "to turn away") as "too constructed" to be credible. Klein suggests perhaps originally "what one turns away from" (compare Latin trepit "he turns").
Wonder what the punishment was for someone who reneged on unceasesath.
Jobs for veltrarius-es are now opening up.
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