A Select Glossary of English Words Used Formerly in Senses Different From Their Present

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v. c. 10.
The first thing she did after rising was to have recourse to the red- pot, out of which she laid it on very thick with a pencil, not only on her cheeks, chin, under the nose, above the eyebrows and edges of the ears, but also on the inside of her hands, her fingers, and shoul- ders.
The Lady's Travels in Spain, Letter 8.
Penitentiary. It is curious that this word has pos- sessed three entirely independent meanings, penitent, ordainer of penances in the Church, and place for penitents
...; only the last survives.
146 PENITENTIARY PERSETEBANCR.
So Manassch in the beginninK and middle of his reign filled the city with innocent blood, and died a penitentiary.
Jackson, Christ's Session at the Right Hand of God, b. ii. c. 42.
'Twas a French friar's conceit that conrtiers were of all men the likeliest to forsake the world and turn penitentiaries.
Hammond, The Seventh Sermim, Works, vol. iv, p. 517.
Penitentiary, a priest that imposes upon an offender what penance he thinks fit.
Phillips, The New World of Words.


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