One who engages in barratry.
[Middle English baratour, from Old French barateour, swindler, from barater, to cheat, perhaps from Vulgar Latin *prattāre, from Greek prāttein, to do.]
barrator
Dictionary:
bar·ra·tor bar·ra·ter (băr'ə-tər)  |
also n.
One who engages in barratry.
One who engages in barratry.
| Wordsmith Words: barrator |
or barrater or barretor
"Thus in the second circle nest hypocrisy, flatteries, and sorcerers; lies, theft, and simony; panders, barrators, and all such filth." — Inferno XI.57-60.
"This is Virgil's description of the denizens of Malebolge, the eighth and penultimate circle of hell, in which those who practiced fraud are punished. For Dante, barratry, the buying and selling of civil office, was equally contemptible as the sin of simony, the buying or selling of ecclesiastical office, for which we hear the names of three popes angrily recounted in Inferno XIX."
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noun
One who commits barratry, which is 1. Persistently bringing lawsuits regardless of their merit. 2. Buying or selling of positions in church of state. 3. A breach of duty or fraud by a ship's master or crew that results in harm to the ship's owner.
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin prattare, from Greek prattein (to do).
"Thus in the second circle nest hypocrisy, flatteries, and sorcerers; lies, theft, and simony; panders, barrators, and all such filth." — Inferno XI.57-60.
"This is Virgil's description of the denizens of Malebolge, the eighth and penultimate circle of hell, in which those who practiced fraud are punished. For Dante, barratry, the buying and selling of civil office, was equally contemptible as the sin of simony, the buying or selling of ecclesiastical office, for which we hear the names of three popes angrily recounted in Inferno XIX."
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