bocardo

bocardo , a logical mood. b (humorous) name of a prison (Oxford and Cambridge). felapton, disamis, datisi, bocardo, ferison Bacon XV 301. b s1318 per cancellarium et ballivos Oxonie captus et in Bokardo incarceratus fuit Ann. Paul. I 282; 1434 in ~o positus est MunAcOx 506; hic ~o A. a prisoun WW; 1495 pro mundacione bocardi (Ac. Peterhouse) Building in Eng. 282.

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