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单词 silver sickness
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silver sickness
silver sickness n. Obsolete (see quot. 1706 and cf. silver quinsy n.).
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society > law > legal profession > [noun] > practice of > feigning sickness for a bribe
silverya1387
silver sickness1548
silver squinsy1611
silver quinsy1706
1548 T. Cooper Bibliotheca Eliotæ (rev. ed.) Argentagina, the syluer sycknesse.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Silver-sickness, or Silver-squincy, is when an Advocate or pleading Lawyer, being brib'd by the other Party, feigns himself sick, or not able to speak.
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