dog-latin

The bestowal of the D.C.L. degree at Cambridge in October, 1843, is treated with acidulated satire, and in his imaginary speech in dog-latin the Prince presents the University with a new academic cap (novus pileus academicus) of his own designing.

Mr. Punch`s history of modern England, Volume I -- 1841-1857 Charles Larcom 1921

Who feels injustice; who shrinks before a slight; who has a sense of wrong so acute, and so glowing a gratitude for kindness, as a generous boy? and how many of those gentle souls do you degrade, estrange, torture, for the sake of a little loose arithmetic, and miserable dog-latin?

V. Dobbin of Ours 1917

To the cultured American who knows only the English of Lindley Murray and scholastic French, the book is about as intelligible as Greek to Casca or the "dog-latin" of the American schoolboy to Julius Cæsar.

The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 1. 1898

Magyars an inspiring passion, it naturally sought a nobler and more spontaneous utterance than dog-latin.

A History of Modern Europe, 1792-1878 Charles Alan Fyffe 1868

Montague, that when a young nobleman refused to translate some inscription over an alcove, because it was in "dog-latin," she observed,

Heads and Tales : or, Anecdotes and Stories of Quadrupeds and Other Beasts, Chiefly Connected with Incidents in the Histories of More or Less Distinguished Men. Adam White 1848

a gratitude for kindness, as a generous boy? and how many of those gentle souls do you degrade, estrange, torture, for the sake of a little loose arithmetic, and miserable dog-latin?

Vanity Fair 2006

99 Browning called "dog-latin" and he called "Ulpian, the golden jurist, a copper latinist."

Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning Robert Browning 1850

a slight; who has a sense of wrong so acute, and so glowing a gratitude for kindness, as a generous boy? and how many of those gentle souls do you degrade, estrange, torture, for the sake of a little loose arithmetic, and miserable dog-latin?

Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray 1837