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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In law, the offense of speaking slanderously or in defamation of high personages (magnates) of the realm, as temporal and spiritual peers, judges, and other high officers. Actions on this plea are obsolete. Abbreviated scan. mag.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- (Law) A defamatory speech or writing published to the injury of a person of dignity; -- usually abbreviated scan. mag.
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- noun law A
defamatory speech or writing published to the injury of a person ofdignity .
Etymologies
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Latin, scandal of magnates.
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