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mortpays

mortpays is the plural of mortpay.

Meaning of mortpay

Noun

mortpay (plural mortpays)

  1. (historical, obsolete) The crime of taking pay for the service of dead soldiers, or for services not actually rendered by soldiers.
    • the severe punishing of mortpays and keeping back soldiers' wages in captain1622, Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban [i.e. Francis Bacon], The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh, […], London: […] W[illiam] Stansby for Matthew Lownes, and William Barret...

Questions about mortpays

What is mortpays the plural of?
Mortpays is the plural of mortpay.

Words near mortpays in the dictionary

  1. Morton-on-Swale
  2. Mortonian
  3. Mortons
  4. Mortons Creek
  5. mortpay
  6. mortpays
  7. mortress
  8. mortresses
  9. mortrew
  10. mortrews
  11. morts

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