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barrator

[ UK /bæɹˈe‍ɪtɐ/ ]
NOUN
  1. someone guilty of barratry

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  • On the contrary, I was constantly hearing tales of silly fooleries, of overbearing behaviour, of deliberate rudeness, such as irresistibly recalled, in spirit if not in form, the conduct of the common barrator in the guise of a king, who, if The Drama Of Three Hundred & Sixty-Five Days Scenes In The Great War
  • And he answered: 'It was Friar Gomita, he of Gallura, vessel of every fraud, who had his master's enemies in hand, and did so to them that they all praise him for it: money took he for himself, and dismissed them smoothly, as he says; and in his other offices besides, he was no petty but a sovereign barrator. Dante: "The Central Man of All the World" A Course of Lectures Delivered Before the Student Body of the New York State College for Teachers, Albany, 1919, 1920
  • Term Rtp, officer, ** that he is a common barrator, * 'an a£tion lies not; and Reports of Sir George Croke, knight. Formerly one of the justices of the courts of Kings-bench, and common-pleas, of such select cases as were adjudged in the said courts [1582-1641]
  • Judge Field presided at a session of magistrates at Parramatta, when Eagar attempted to act as counsel: this was prevented by the court; and the judge, as chairman, expressed himself, in reference to Eagar, in terms of severe disapprobation and contempt, stigmatising him as a common _barrator_, or mover of quarrels, whom the The History of Tasmania , Volume II
  • The great barrator made no hypocritical pretence of desiring peace. The Drama Of Three Hundred & Sixty-Five Days Scenes In The Great War
  • Surely the true wisdom of the great powers was to attack, not each other, but this common barrator, who, by inflaming the passions of both, by pretending to serve both, and by deserting both, had raised himself above the station to which he was born. Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3)
  • And, when the barrator had disappeared, he turned his talons on his fellow, and was clutched with him above the ditch. Dante: "The Central Man of All the World" A Course of Lectures Delivered Before the Student Body of the New York State College for Teachers, Albany, 1919, 1920
  • Whence great discontent among certain of these, who had contributed to make him Abbot: reproaches, open and secret, of his being 'ungrateful, hard-tempered, unsocial, a Norfolk _barrator_ and _paltenerius_.' Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII.
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