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palliardise

palliardise noun: fornication, lechery.

Noun

palliardise (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) Fornication, lechery.
    • Nothing […] more weakeneth an Armye than luxuritie and palliardize.1591, Lodge, Diogenes, page 46
    • A man whose Paillardize [translating paillardise] and luxurie, doth uncessantly sway and rule the head, and who judgeth the same abhominable and most hatefull in the sight of God; what saith he unto his all-seeing Majesty, when he openeth his lips, either of mouth or hart, to speake to him of it?, I.56

Examples of palliardise in a sentence

  • King Kichard was ever held to be frugal, with the preservation of his honour; nor can they tax him with Palliardise, Luxury, Epicurism, nor Gluttony, vices following many Tyrants; […]1647, George Buck, The History of the Life and Reigne of Richard the Third, page 136:
  • I beléeue this was the reason that mooued Auicen the Arabian to say, that the exercise of palliardise is more pernicious to the body of man, than if hee had diuers time indured letting of bloud.1883(?), Thomas Lodge, The Complete Works of Thomas Lodge 1580-1623? Now First Collected […], page 56
  • ... and their actions only to the Church, the well-beloved spouse of Christ, to this which “castis avay the forsaid spous and with palliardise and al kynd of harlatrie abusis the sacred and halie".1901(?), Thomas Graves Law, Catholic Tractates of the Sixteenth Century, 1573-1600

Forms of palliardise

alternative formpaillardize
alternative formpailliardize

Origin of palliardise

From palliard + -ise, after Middle French paillardise.

Questions about palliardise

What does palliardise mean?
Palliardise means fornication, lechery.
How do you use palliardise in a sentence?
King Kichard was ever held to be frugal, with the preservation of his honour; nor can they tax him with Palliardise, Luxury, Epicurism, nor Gluttony, vices following many Tyrants; […]
What part of speech is palliardise?
Palliardise is a noun.

Words near palliardise in the dictionary

  1. pallia
  2. pallial
  3. palliament
  4. palliaments
  5. palliard
  6. palliardise
  7. palliardize
  8. palliardizing
  9. palliards
  10. palliasse
  11. palliasses

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