Epithite

Ep´i`thite


n. 1. A lazy, worthless fellow; a vagrant.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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(26) The Induction to John Day's The Isle of Gulls (1606), which precipitated the loss of the company's royal association by the time Beaumont's play debuted, dramatizes the pickiness with which three gallants make their contradictory demands on the Blackfriars company--the first wants a satire, the second prefers a bawdy play, and the third orders 'bumbast Epithites'.
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