Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who engages in barratry.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In old law, one who buys or sells ecclesiastical preferment; a simonist.
- noun In Scots law, a judge who takes a bribe.
- noun One who buys or sells offices of state.
- noun One who commits barratry; one who, being the master of a ship or one of its officers or seamen, commits any fraud or fraudulent act in the management of the ship or cargo, by which the owner, freighters, or insurers are injured, as by running away with the ship, sinking or deserting her, wilful deviation from the fixed course, or embezzlement of the cargo.
- noun A quarrelsome, brawling person; a rowdy.
- noun One who frequently excites others to lawsuits or quarrels; a common mover and maintainer of suits and controversies; an encourager of litigation between other persons: chiefly in the phrase common barrator. See
barratry , 4. - noun Also spelled
barrater , and, especially in the last sense, barretor.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One guilty of barratry.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who is guilty of
barratry .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone guilty of barratry
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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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.
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And, when the barrator had disappeared, he turned his talons on his fellow, and was clutched with him above the ditch.
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The great barrator made no hypocritical pretence of desiring peace.
The Drama Of Three Hundred & Sixty-Five Days Scenes In The Great War Hall Caine 1892
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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 Hall Caine 1892
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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 John West 1840
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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. Thomas Carlyle 1838
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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) Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay 1829
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Term Rtp, officer, ** that he is a common barrator, * 'an a£tion lies not; and
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