contumaceously

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And afterwards, under a commission of Oyer and Terminer, the commission ordered that all who had "contumaceously" disobeyed the proclamation, should be punished by "pecuniary mulcts." Witty Optics.

Various - The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction : Volume 19, No. 534, February 18, 1832