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Brocard1. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1888, rev. 2024. Brocard1 [a. F. brocard, akin to med.L. brocarda, brocardicorum opus, a name given to the ‘sentences’ of Burchard or Brocard, bishop of Worms in the 11th c., who compiled twenty books of ‘Regulæ Ecclesiasticæ.’]

1   1.  Law. An elementary principle or maxim.

2 a. 1624.  Swinburne, Spousals (1686), 184. Because the Brocardes or contrary Conclusions, rather breed brabbles, than pacific Contentions.

3 1759.  Fountainhall, Decisions, I. 243 (Jam.). Alledged, He was minor, and so non tenetur placitare super hæreditate paterna. Answered, The brocard meets not.

4 1785.  Arnot, Trials (1812), 298. An intention to commit iniquity is not a crime at common law, according to the well known brocard, ‘Cogitationis poenam in foro nemo patitur.’

5 1825.  Scott, Betrothed, Introd. Societas mater discordiarum is a brocard as ancient and as veritable.

6 1862.  M. Napier, Mem. Visct. Dundee, II. 10. Dolus latet in generalibus is a brocard of the civilians.

7   2.  gen.

8 1836–7.  Sir W. Hamilton, Metaph., xiii. I. 234, note. The scholastic brocard pointing to the difficulties of the study of self: Reflexiva cogitatio facile fit deflexiva.

9 1856.  Ferrier, Inst. Metaph., 261. The scholastic brocard, which has been adopted as the tenth counter-proposition, is the fundamental article in the creed of … ‘the sensualists.’

10   ǁ 3.  Biting speech, cutting gibe. (A French sense.)

11 1837.  Carlyle, Fr. Rev., II. III. iii. 143. Lameth … is met in those Assembly corridors by nothing but Royalist brocards; sniffs, huffs, and open insults.

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