autem

plural autems · alternative autum · alternative autom

1. UKobsoletethieves' cantA church.First known use 16th–18th c.

   Come, I say, who’s a going-out? Autem is over […]

   1823, Jon Bee, Sportsman's Slang; a New Dictionary of the terms used in the affairs of the Turf, the Ring, the Chase, and the Cock-pit; with those of Bon-ton, and the Varieties of Life; […]

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   THESE Autem Mortes be maried wemen, as there be but a fewe: For Autem in their language is a Church, so shee is a wyfe maried at the church, and they be as chaste as a cowe: I haue yt gooeth to bull euery moone, with what bull she careth not.

   1566, Thomas Harman, A Caveat or Warning for Common Cursetors, page 49; republished 1814

   As ſoone as euer the pꝛoclamation was ended, Loꝛd, what a Companie of petitioners pꝛeſſed to the barre to pꝛeferre their papers of iniuries, that were offred and done among themſelues, here one complaines that hee could not trauell ſafely, noꝛ cary any money without danger of the vpꝛight man and Tinker, but that they would robbe and ſpoyle them of all that was ought about them, here another that they could not quietly take their reſt in the night, noꝛ keepe his Autem, oꝛ doxie ſole vnto himſelfe: but that the Ruffler, padder, oꝛ any vpright man, would take them away perfoꝛce, and others that they could not conuerſe, and keepe company with thoſe that they met, but that in the night they are ſure to be Clyd in the night, by the Angler, oꝛ hooker, oꝛ ſuch like pilferers that liue vpon the ſpoyle of other pooꝛe people.

   1610, Samuel Rowlands, Martin Mark-All, Beadle of Bridewell; His defence and the Anſwere to the Belman of London.

   […] but in the mean Time he taught his Pupil a deal of canting Words, telling him Autem was Arabick for a Church; […]

   1714, Alexander Smith, The History of the Lives Of the moſt Noted Highway-men, […] , 2nd edition

   Vell, vell, a few minutes will settle that. Come, pals, to the autem ken. Avay. Mind and obey orders.

   1837, W. Harrison Ainsworth, Rookwood, revised edition, page 246

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1. UKnot comparableobsoletethieves' cantMarried.

   Synonyms: wed, wedded