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RIBALD , a word now only used in the sense of jeering, irreverent, abusive, particularly applied to the uses of See also:low, offensive or mocking jests. It has an interesting See also:early See also:history, of which Du Cange (See also:Gloss. s.v. Ribaldi) gives a full See also:account. It is one of those words, like the See also:Greek tiysavvos, an unconstitutional ruler, and the Latin latro, a hired soldier, See also:mercenary, later robber, which have acquired a degraded and evil significance. The ribaldi were See also:light-armed soldiers, on whom See also:fell the See also:duty of being first in attack, the enfans perdus or " forlorn See also:hope " of the armies of the See also:French See also:kings; thus Rigordus, in his contemporary history of the reign of See also:- PHILIP
- PHILIP (Gr.'FiXtrsro , fond of horses, from dn)^eiv, to love, and limos, horse; Lat. Philip pus, whence e.g. M. H. Ger. Philippes, Dutch Filips, and, with dropping of the final s, It. Filippo, Fr. Philippe, Ger. Philipp, Sp. Felipe)
- PHILIP, JOHN (1775-1851)
- PHILIP, KING (c. 1639-1676)
- PHILIP, LANOGRAVE OF HESSE (1504-1567)
Philip See also:Augustus, for the See also:year 1189, speaks of the Ribaldi . . . qui primos impetus in expuguandis munitionibus facere consueverunt. Later we find the ribaldi among the See also:rabble of See also:camp-followers of an See also:army, and Giovanni See also:Villani, in his 16th-See also:century See also:Chronicle (11, 139), speaks of ribaldi et i raguazzi del See also:hoste, and See also:Froissart of the ribaux as the lowest ranks in an army. Ribaldus (ribaut) was thus a See also:common name for everything ruffianly and abandoned, and See also:Matthew See also:Paris (See also:Ann. 1251) says: Fures, exules, fugitivi, excommunicali, quos omnes Rihaldos See also:Francia vulgariter consuevit appellare. The name (ribaldae or ribaldi) was particularly applied to prostitutes, brothel-keepers and all who frequent haunts of See also:vice, and there was at the French See also:court from the 12th century an See also:official, known as Rex Ribaldorum, See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of the ribalds, changed in the reign of See also:Charles VI. to Praepositus Hospitii Regis, whose duty was to investigate and hold judicial inquiry into all crimes committed within the precincts of the court, and See also:control vagrants, prostitutes, brothels and gambling-houses. The See also:etymology of the word has been much discussed, and no certainty can be arrived at. The termination —ald—points to a See also:Teutonic origin, and connexion has been suggested with O.H.Ger. Hripd, M.H.Ger. Ribe, prostitute, with Ger. reiben, rub, or with rauben, rob. Neither See also:Skeat nor the New See also:English See also:Dictionary find any relation to the English " bawd," procuress, pander.
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