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frivole

frivole [LL] , triflingly, to no serious purpose. b (leg., mostly eccl.) wasting (the court’s) time on trifles (in order to cause delay). diffuse nimis et inordinate magnaque ex parte superflue satis et ~e ‥ congesta Gir. TH intr. p. 8.  b 1305 ab ipsis ad nos ~e appellarunt ut possent evadere restitucionem [vini maliciose capti] RGasc III 488; correptus legitime a prelato de errore, si appellat frustratorie aut ~e, puniri debet Ockham Dial. 456; conclusiones ‥ propter quas ‥ fratres ad istam sanctam sedem, licet ~e, apellarunt Ric. Armagh Def. Cur. 1392 (recte 1292); s1382 [discipuli J. Wyclif] ab ejus excommunicacione et processu, contra eos facto et habito, ~e ad curiam Romanam appellaverunt V. Ric. II 40; 14‥ Henricus ‥ iterum ~e appellavit, appellacioneque hujusmodi minime prosecute sed dimissione a dicta curia ‥ obtenta, idem H. voluntati et ordinacioni vestris ‥ iterato se submisit Reg. Brev. Orig. 55.

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