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Not medical, but mildly interesting, at least to me.
In a genealogy book, a man in about 1200 was convicted
of "misprision of knighthood". It took me quite a while
to figure out that this meant he got fined for trying to
avoid a tax on those holding that title, by concealing
the fact that he had been given the title.
From Brewer:
Misprision Concealment, neglect of. (French, mépris.)
Misprision of clerks. Mistakes in accounts arising from neglect.
Misprision of felony. Neglecting to reveal a felony when known.
Misprision of treason. Neglecting to disclose or purposely concealing a treasonable design.
From my dictionary:
misprision
n.
ME mesprision < OFr < pp. of mesprendre, to take wrongly < mes3, MIS31 + prendre < L prehendere, to take: see PREHENSILE6
1 a mistake, now especially one due to misreading, either deliberate or unintended, or to misunderstanding
2 scorn; contempt
3 Law
a) misconduct or neglect of duty, esp. by a public official b) act of contempt against a government or court
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concealing the fact that he had been given the title
He was sandbagging?
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No, he kept his dough hidden in an old sock just like
everbody else.
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Well, if he kept dough in the sock instead of sand in the sock, he was doughbagging.
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And he had to be very careful his wife didn't bake his socks.
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Legend has it that Molly Brown burnt about 100,000 dollars her husband brought home and hid--I think it goes--in their stove. It's been a while since I saw "The Unsinkable Molly Brown..." but I do remember reading that the incident probably never happened.
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