conforaneous

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Definition von conforaneous im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch

Of the same court or marketplace.Glossographia; or, a dictionary interpreting the hard words of whatsoever language, now used in our refined English tongue by Thomas Blount (1656) Conforaneous, of the same Court or Market place.An English Dictionary: Explaining the Difficult Terms that are used in Divinity, Husbandry, Physick, Phylosophy, Law, Navigation, Mathematicks, and Other Arts and Sciences by Elisha Coles (1676), Conforaneous. l. of the ſame Court or Market-Place

In times of scarcity, wardens of the peace patrolled the city’s streets to deter the conforaneous vendors’ less scrupulous competition strategies.

Etymologie

() From Latin conforāneus (“using the same forum”), from con- (“with”, “together”) + forum (“marketplace”) + -āneus.“” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary