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Such lists of vocables, with their meaning in the vulgar tongue, were also at times committed to paper or parchment leaves, and a collection of these constituted a Vocabularium or Vocabulary.
My grandmother spoke of him in pitiful tones, whereas Father Fromm assumed a look of inexorable severity, when he gave information on this subject; and as he spoke I gathered frequently the words "prosodia," "pensum" "labor" "vocabularium" and many other terms common to dog-Latin: among which words like "secunda" "tertia" "carcer" served as a sufficiently trustworthy compass to direct me to the following conclusion: My friend Henrik might not put in an appearance to-day at supper, because he did not know his lessons, and was to remain imprisoned in the house until he could improve his standing by learning to repeat, in the language of a people long since dead, the names of a host of eatables.
"We will have a vocabularium apostolicum, and I will start it with four words: 'pampered aristocrats, 'resident gentlemen, 'smug parsons, and 'pauperes Christi'. I shall use the first on all occasions; it seems to me just to hit the thing."
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