Scoldingly - Law Dictionary Search Results
Jaw
To scold to clamor
Frab
To scold to nag
Flite
To scold to quarrel
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Chidester
A female scold
Castigatory
Castigatory, a certain engine of correction, otherwise called the tre-bucket, tumbrel tymborella, cucking-stool, scolding-stool, ducking-stool, goginstole, and cokestole, corrupted from choaking-stool. It was a punishment provided for scolding women, wherein they were plunged or soused overhead...
Rate
To chide with vehemence to scold to censure violently to berate
Rixatrix communis
Rixatrix communis, a common scold, 4 Steph. Com.
Obsolete
Obsolete, invalid by virtue of discontinuance, said of a law or practice which has ceased to be enforced or be in use by reason of change of manners and circumstances, as 'wager or battel' (see BATTEL,...
Medlefe, Medleta, Medletum
Medlefe, Medleta, Medletum [fr. meler, Fr., to meddle], a sudden scolding at and beating one another, Bract, 1, 3, c. xxxv.
Cucking-Stoll
Cucking-Stoll. a chair on which females in ancient times for certain offences, as for being 'Common scolds' were fastened and ducked in a pond, Steph. Com., bk. Vi. Ch. xi
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