| 释义 |
† tot-quot Obs.
[L. tot quot as much or as many as (there may be).]
1. Eccl. A dispensation or licence to hold as many ecclesiastical benefices as the holder pleases or can get; hence, the holding of such benefices, unlimited pluralism; pl. benefices so held.
1509Barclay Shyp Folys (1570) 60 He hath hope To haue another benefyce of greater dignitie, And so maketh a false suggestion to the pope, For a tot quot or els a pluralitie. 1522Skelton Why not to Court? 125 We shall haue a tot quot From the Pope of Rome. a1550Image Ipocr. i. in Skelton's Wks. (1843) II. 420/2 Ye drawe and cast lottes, In hattes and in pottes, For tottes and for quottes. 1583Stubbes Anat. Abus. ii. (1882) 79 They purchase a dispensation, a licence,..by vertue whereof they may hold totquots so manie, how manie soeuer. 1637Bastwick Litany ii. 9 The Pope selleth nonresidences, pluralityes, trialityes, totquots, the Prelats doe the same.
b. transf. One who holds tot-quots; an unlimited pluralist.
1628P. Smart Serm. Durh. Cath. 7 July 21 The same will be also a notorious Non-resident, a very Tot-quot. 1677W. Hughes Man of Sin ii. iv. 82 S. Wereburga,..being Governess of three Nunneries (being no more, she was no Tot-quot then).
2. An indefinite or infinite number; as many as you like.
1565Jewel Repl. Harding xiii. (1611) 360 He pleadeth his toties, quoties, and thereby would erect a whole totquot of Masses, sans number... By these words, M. Hardings Totquot is much abridged.
3. A rate or tax assessed in proportion to income.
1611Cotgr., Quottité, an euen assessement, a rate or totquot imposed; the laying on euerie one his share. |