单词 | mumpsimus |
例句 | We are not going to change our old 'mumpsimus' for anybody's new 'sumpsimus.' Res Judicat? Papers and Essays 2011-08-24T02:00:18.157Z If men prefer their “mumpsimus” to our “sumpsimus,” let them by all means have it: but pray let them keep their rubbish to themselves,—and at least leave our Saviour's words alone. The Revision Revised 2011-07-15T02:00:18.897Z So the reformers who call it “mulligatunny” are just as bad as we devotees of mumpsimus and mulligatawny ourselves. The Curry Cook's Assistant or, Curries, How to Make Them in England in Their Original Style In the reign of Henry the Eighth, an old priest was found who for forty years had read the word sumpsimus in his breviary as mumpsimus. Robin Tremayne A Story of the Marian Persecution And now let all defenders of present institutions, however bad they may be—let all violent supporters of their old mumpsimus against any new sumpsimus whatever, listen to a conversation among some undergraduates. Julian Home The Liberal party still clung to its miserable old mumpsimus of Laissez-faire, and steadily refused to learn the new and nobler language of Social Service. Fifteen Chapters of Autobiography Such a deliberate preference of “mumpsimus” to “sumpsimus” is by no means calculated to conciliate favour, or even to win respect. The Revision Revised 2011-07-15T02:00:18.897Z But the epitaphs were trim and sprag, and patent, and pleased the survivors of Thames Ditton above the old mumpsimus of "Afflictions sore." The Best Letters of Charles Lamb On being remonstrated with, he retorted that “He would not leave his old mumpsimus for their new sumpsimus.” Robin Tremayne A Story of the Marian Persecution |
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