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barratry
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun barratry has 4 senses
- barratry(n = noun.act) simony - traffic in ecclesiastical offices or preferments; Array is a kind of traffic
- barratry(n = noun.act) Array - the crime of a judge whose judgment is influenced by bribery; Array is a kind of bribery, graft
- barratry(n = noun.act) Array - (maritime law) a fraudulent breach of duty by the master of a ship that injures the owner of the ship or its cargo; includes every breach of trust such as stealing or sinking or deserting the ship or embezzling the cargo; Array is a kind of fraud
- barratry(n = noun.act) Array - the offense of vexatiously persisting in inciting lawsuits and quarrels; Array is a kind of crime, criminal offence, criminal offense, law-breaking, offence, offense
CIDE DICTIONARY
- The practice of exciting and encouraging lawsuits and quarrels. Coke. Blackstone. [1913 Webster]
- A fraudulent breach of duty or willful act of known illegality on the part of a master of a ship, in his character of master, or of the mariners, to the injury of the owner of the ship or cargo, and without his consent. It includes every breach of trust committed with dishonest purpose, as by running away with the ship, sinking or deserting her, etc., or by embezzling the cargo. Kent.
Park. [1913 Webster] - The crime of a judge who is influenced by bribery in pronouncing judgment. Wharton. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
barratry, n.
1 fraud or gross negligence of a ship's master or crew at the expense of its owners or users.
2 hist. vexatious litigation or incitement to it.
3 hist. trade in the sale of Church or State appointments.
1 fraud or gross negligence of a ship's master or crew at the expense of its owners or users.
2 hist. vexatious litigation or incitement to it.
3 hist. trade in the sale of Church or State appointments.
Derivative
barratrous adj.
Etymology
ME f. OF baraterie (as BARRATOR)
ROGET THESAURUS
barratry
Improbity
N improbity, dishonesty, dishonor, deviation from rectitude, disgrace, fraud, lying, bad faith, Punic faith, mala fides, Punica fides, infidelity, faithlessness, Judas kiss, betrayal, breach of promise, breach of trust, breach of faith, prodition, disloyalty, treason, high treason, apostasy, nonobservance, shabbiness, villainy, villany, baseness, abjection, debasement, turpitude, moral turpitude, laxity, trimming, shuffling, perfidy, perfidiousness, treachery, double dealing, unfairness, knavery, roguery, rascality, foul play, jobbing, jobbery, graft, bribery, venality, nepotism, corruption, job, shuffle, fishy transaction, barratry, sharp practice, heads I win tails you lose, mouth honor, dishonest, dishonorable, unconscientious, unscrupulous, fraudulent, knavish, disgraceful, wicked, false-hearted, disingenuous, unfair, one-sided, double, double- hearted, double-tongued, double-faced, timeserving, crooked, tortuous, insidious, Machiavelian, dark, slippery, fishy, perfidious, treacherous, perjured, infamous, arrant, foul, base, vile, ignominious, blackguard, contemptible, unrespectable, abject, mean, shabby, little, paltry, dirty, scurvy, scabby, sneaking, groveling, scrubby, rascally, pettifogging, beneath one, low-minded, low-thoughted, base-minded, undignified, indign, unbecoming, unbeseeming, unbefitting, derogatory, degrading, infra dignitatem, beneath one's dignity, ungentlemanly, ungentlemanlike, unknightly, unchivalric, unmanly, unhandsome, recreant, inglorious, corrupt, venal, debased, mongrel, faithless, of bad faith, false, unfaithful, disloyal, untrustworthy, trustless, trothless, lost to shame, dead to honor, barratrous, dishonestly, mala fide, like a thief in the night, by crooked paths, Int, O tempora!, O mores!, corruptissima respublica plurimae leges.
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