† braceryn.
Obsolete. rare.
Embracery, corruption.
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the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > corruption > [noun]
rusteOE
vice1297
corrumpciona1340
infectiona1398
corruptiona1400
foulinga1400
viciousness1440
inquination1447
turpitude1490
intoxicationa1513
pravitya1513
bracery1540
insincerity1548
corruptness1561
sophistication1564
faultiness1571
depravation1577
base-mindedness1582
mangling1585
reprobacy1591
uninnocence1593
vitiosity1603
turkessing1612
reprobancea1616
debauchedness1618
tortuosity1621
depravedness1623
deboistness1628
debauchness1640
depravity1646
corruptedness1648
moral turpitude1660
unprincipledness1792
demoralization1797
erosion1804
miscreancy1804
trituration1832
unwholesomeness1881
ne'er-do-wellism1891
society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > specific offences > [noun] > influencing or packing jury
embracery1450
packa1475
embracing1495
bracery1540
jury-fixing1882
1540 Act 32 Hen. VIII ix, (title) The bill of bracery and buying of titles.
1886 in Law Q. Rev. Oct. 484 Our laws did manifest a great..jealousy of..bracery and the buying of pretenced titles.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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n.1540- well hook
- well ill friended
- well in
- well in cash
- well in goods
- well in health
- well in one's wits
- well in the world
- well in woe
- well inquered
- well isene
- well kerb
- well kick
- well liked of
- well liquor
- well meaned
- well mouth
- well now
- well nutrimented
- well of one's wits
- well off
- well or ill together
- well out
- well over
- well overtaken