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pejoratio

pejoratio [CL pejor+-tio] 1 deterioration (of land, property, or sim.). 1195 in defectu pro ~one terre tempore guerre RScacNorm I 156; 1337 allocantur computanti, pro ~one et combustione domorum Willelmi Chapman, factis per dominum Eugenium de Garansers ExchScot 453; in ‥ recordo et charta ‥ nullum ‥ infortunium aut detrimentum perpessa sunt in ~onem eorundem Meaux III 175; 1581 reddent[ibus] ‥ recompensacionem ‥ pro fraccione et ~one terr[e] predict[e] Pat 1205 m. 8. 2 injury (of the name of God). qui ‥ pejerant scienter nomen Dei negant, et per ipsam pejerationem non potest aliud intelligi quam quedam ipsius nominis Dei abnegatio Knapwell Quare 405.

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