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stellionate Civil Law.|ˈstɛlɪənət|
Also 7 -at.
[ad. L. stelliōnātus (u stem), f. stelliōn-em, a fraudulent person, perh. a transf. use of stelliōn-em a kind of lizard (see stellion). See -ate1.]
(See quot. 1754.)
1622Bacon Hen. VII, 64 This Court of Star-chamber..discerneth also principally of foure kinds of Causes; Forces, Frauds, Crimes various of Stellionate, and the Inchoations or middle Acts towards Crimes Capitall, or hainous, not actually committed. 1637Bastwick Litany i. 13 As if I were guilty of crimes of stellionate or maluersation. 1678Sir G. Mackenzie Crim. Laws Scot. i. xxviii. §1 (1699) 144 Legislators were forced to invent this general name of Stellionat; under which they might range all Cheats, and thence sprung that Maxime. 1754Erskine Princ. Sc. Law (1809) 519 The crime of stellionate..includes every fraud which is not distinguished by a special name; but is chiefly applied to conveyances of the same numerical right, granted by the proprietor to different disponees. 1861Two Cosmos iii. iii. I. 300 ‘Art and part stealing an heiress, and for aught I see stellionate and stouthrieff!’ said he.
Hence † ˈstellionated a. Obs. rare—1, fraudulent.
1672G. Thomson Let. to H. Stubbe 25 To discover their Stellionated and counterfeit Devices, in making the World believe, that they are the onely true Chymists. |