frumentationn.
/fruːmənˈteɪʃən/ Roman History.
(See quot. 1861.)
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the mind > possession > giving > gift or present > [noun] > gifts distributed among the people
congiary1601
missiles1606
frumentation1623
missive1649
1623 in H. Cockeram Eng. Dict.
1721–92 in N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict.
1861 J. G. Sheppard Fall of Rome i. 28 The third class..lived upon the ‘frumentations’, or public largesses of corn.
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n.1623- to have a person in the palm of one's hand
- to have a person on a slow boat to china
- to have a person on also upon the hip
- to have a person or thing skinned
- to have a person or thing skinned to death
- to have a person pegged
- to have a person wrapped around one's finger
- to have a person's back
- to have a person's guts for garters
- to have a person's i-wald
- to have a person's iwald
- to have a person's name on it
- to have a person's number on it
- to have a piece of the pie
- to have a pig in the worse pannier
- to have a pig of the worse pannier
- to have a plenty on one's plate
- to have a point
- to have a poke at
- to have a pop at
- to have a pot in the pate
- to have a price on one's head
- to have a problem with
- to have a pudding in the oven
- to have a pull of