Elizabeth - Law Dictionary Search Results
Act of Parliament
C. 96); Jervis's Act (English) (11 & 12 Vict. C. 43); and some few, as the Statute of Elizabeth, which founded the Poor Law (43 Eliz. C. 2), and the Statute of James, which founded the law
Puritan
One who in the time of Queen Elizabeth and the first two Stuarts opposed traditional and formal usages and advocated simpler forms of faith and worship
Paspy
A kind of minuet in triple time of French origin popular in the reign of Queen Elizabeth and for some time after called also passing measure and passymeasure
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Lovelock
lock of hair hanging prominently by itself an earlock worn by men of fashion in the reigns of Elizabeth and James I
Euphuist
affects excessive refinement and elegance of language applied esp to a class of writers in the age of Elizabeth whose productions are marked by affected conceits and high flown diction
Elizabethan
Pertaining to Queen Elizabeth I or her times esp to the architecture or literature of her reign as the Elizabethan writers drama
Ladykin
A little lady applied by the writers of Queen Elizabeths time in the abbreviated form Lakin to the Virgin Mary
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