Citations:fœdifragous

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 * 1663, Records of the Colony or Jurisdiction of New Haven, Volume II., page #530:
 * In order thereunto, we doe offer yow this choise, either to returne our members unto vs uolluntarily, w ch wilbe your hono r & a confirmation of our mutuall love, or to remoue them to some other plantation w th in yo r owne bounds, & free vs wholy from them, for we may not beare it that such fœdifragous disorderly psons shall continue w th in the townes belonging to this colonie, to disturb our pace, dispise our gouernmt, & disquiett our members & disable us to obey the kings commands.
 * 1843, Mr. & Mrs. S. C. Hall, Ireland: its Scenery, Character, &c., Volume III., page #40:
 * Still Tyrone continued his attempts at deception ; “ though now,” writes Fynes Moryon, “ the gentleman was growne higher in the instep, as appeared by the insolent conditions he required ;”—so that “ Carthage never bred such a dissembling fœdifragous wretch.”
 * 1855, Robert Phillimore, Commentaries Upon International Law, Chapter VIII., page #74:
 * To affix a particular sense, founded on etymological *or other reasons, upon an expression, in order to evade the obligation arising from the customary meaning, is a fraudulent subterfuge aggravating the guilt of the fœdifragous party, “ fraus enim adstringit non dissolvit perjurium.”
 * 1861, Thomas Adams quoted in The Works of Thomas Adams, Volume I., sermon XVII., page #250:
 * Let adultery plead that nature is the encourager and directer of it, and that she is unjust to give him an affection, and to bar him the action ; yet we see it plagued, to teach us that the sin is of a greater latitude than some imagine it : unclean, fœdifragous, perjured.