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1 calumniātor
calumniātor ōris, m [calumnior], a trickster, malicious prosecutor, false informer, perverter of law: scriptum sequi calumniatoris esse: calumniatores apponere: egens: Calumniator ab ove cum peteret canis, Ph.* * *false accuser; pettifogger, chicaner; perverter of law; carping critic -
2 lēgulēius
lēgulēius ī, m [lex], a pettifogging lawyer, pettifogger: cautus et acutus.* * * -
3 morātor
morātor ōris, m [moror], a delayer, hinderer: publici commodi, L.— A malingerer, loiterer: Persarum moratores mille, Cu.— An advocate who makes pretexts for delay, pettifogger: grex moratorum.* * *delayer; loiterer -
4 rabula
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5 kalumniator
false accuser; pettifogger, chicaner; perverter of the law; carping critic -
6 calumniator
călumnĭātor ( kălumnĭātor; v. the foreg.), ōris, m. [calumnior]; mostly t. t., a contriver of tricks or artifices, a pettifogger, a perverter of law, a chicaner (sometimes, perhaps, branded on the forehead with the letter K = calumniator; cf. Voss, Arist. 1, 17;II.Ernest. Clav. Cic. Ind. Leg. s. v. Remmia): si calvitur et moretur et frustratur. Inde et calumniatores appellati sunt, quia per fraudem et frustrationem alios vexarent litibus,
Dig. 50, 16, 223:scriptum sequi calumniatoris esse: boni judicis, voluntatem scriptoris auctoritatemque defendere,
Cic. Caecil. 23, 65:calumniatores apponere,
id. Verr. 2, 1, 10, § 27:calumniatorem quaerere,
id. ib. 2, 2, 8, § 22;2, 2, 10, § 26: egens,
id. Clu. 59, 163; id. Quint. 28, 87; Phaedr. 1, 17, 2; Mart. 11, 66, 1; Dig. 3, 2, 4, § 4; Suet. Rhet. 4.—Trop.:calumniator sui,
one who is too anxious in regard to his work, over-scrupulous, Plin. 34, 8, 19, § 92; cf. calumnia, III. B., and calumnior, II. B. [p. 273] -
7 kalumniator
călumnĭātor ( kălumnĭātor; v. the foreg.), ōris, m. [calumnior]; mostly t. t., a contriver of tricks or artifices, a pettifogger, a perverter of law, a chicaner (sometimes, perhaps, branded on the forehead with the letter K = calumniator; cf. Voss, Arist. 1, 17;II.Ernest. Clav. Cic. Ind. Leg. s. v. Remmia): si calvitur et moretur et frustratur. Inde et calumniatores appellati sunt, quia per fraudem et frustrationem alios vexarent litibus,
Dig. 50, 16, 223:scriptum sequi calumniatoris esse: boni judicis, voluntatem scriptoris auctoritatemque defendere,
Cic. Caecil. 23, 65:calumniatores apponere,
id. Verr. 2, 1, 10, § 27:calumniatorem quaerere,
id. ib. 2, 2, 8, § 22;2, 2, 10, § 26: egens,
id. Clu. 59, 163; id. Quint. 28, 87; Phaedr. 1, 17, 2; Mart. 11, 66, 1; Dig. 3, 2, 4, § 4; Suet. Rhet. 4.—Trop.:calumniator sui,
one who is too anxious in regard to his work, over-scrupulous, Plin. 34, 8, 19, § 92; cf. calumnia, III. B., and calumnior, II. B. [p. 273] -
8 leguleius
lēgŭlēïus, i, m. [lex], a pettifogging lawyer, pettifogger, one who depends on legal technicalities for getting the better of his opponent:leguleius quidam cautus et acutus,
Cic. de Or. 1, 55, 236:formularii, vel ut Cicero ait, leguleii,
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9 rabula
răbŭla, ae, m. [1. rabo], a brawling, wrangling advocate, a pettifogger (cf.:clamator, declamator): non declamatorem aliquem de ludo aut rabulam de foro... quaerimus,
Cic. Or. 15, 47; with causidicus and proclamator, id. de Or. 1, 46. 202; with latrator, Quint. 12, 9, 12; cf. Fest. s. v. rava vox, p. 137 Müll.; Non. 26, 21; 60, 19.
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Pettifogger — Pet ti*fog ger, n. A lawyer who deals in petty cases; an attorney whose methods are mean and tricky; an inferior lawyer. [1913 Webster] A pettifogger was lord chancellor. Macaulay. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
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pettifogger — noun archaic an inferior legal practitioner. Origin C16: from petty + obs. fogger underhand dealer , prob. from Fugger, the name of a family of merchants in Augsburg in the 15th and 16th cents … English new terms dictionary