单词 | silver sickness |
释义 | > as lemmassilver sickness ΘΚΠ 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. < as lemmas |
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