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lack-latin, n. and a.
(stress even or variable)
[f. lack v.1 + Latin n.]
†A. n. One who knows little or no Latin; chiefly in Sir John Lack-latin, a name for an ignorant priest. Obs.
B. adj. Ignorant of Latin; unlearned.
c1534F. Bygod Treat. conc. impropriations C vj, Is it nat great pitye to se a man to haue thre or foure benefyces.. whiche he neuer cometh at, but setteth in euery one of them a syr John lacke laten, that can scarce rede his porteus. 1552Latimer Serm. St. Andrew's Day (1584) 236 [The patron] will..hyer a Syr Iohn Lacke Latin, whiche shall say seruice. 1608J. Day Law Trickes i. i. (1881) 11 Your selfe and such lacke-Latin Aduocates Infect the heart. 1614Jackson Creed iii. iii. §5 We are bound to believe the Church's decisions read or explicated unto us (by the pope's messenger though a Sir John Lack-latin). 1649G. Daniel Trinarch., Rich. II 343 'Tis but in Ayre, as on the Earth, one Cause; Wee haue our Lack-Latins, and They, their Dawes. 1832J. Hodgson in J. Raine Mem. (1858) II. 257 That sad lack-Latin prelate Lewis Beaumont. |