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SCANDAL , disgrace, discredit, shame, caused by the See also:

REPORT (O.Fr. report or raport, modern rapport, from O.Fr. reporter, mod. rap porter, Lat. reportare, to bring back, in poetical use only, of bringing back an account, news, &c.)

report or knowledge of wrongdoing, hence See also:

DEFAMATION (from the classical Lat. diffamare, to spread abroad an evil report—the English form in de is taken from the Late Lat. defamare)

defamation or See also:

GOSSIP (from the O.E. godsibb, i.e. God, and sib, akin, standing in relation to)

gossip, especially malicious or idle; or such See also:

ACTION

action as causes public offence or disrepute. (For the See also:

law See also:

RELATING

relating to scandal, more generally termed " defamation" see See also:

LIBEL

LIBEL AND See also:

SLANDER

SLANDER.) The See also:

Greek word oKavbaXov, stumbling-See also:

block, cause of offence or temptation, is used in the See also:

SEPTUAGINT, THE (Gr. of 0', Lat. LXX.)

Septuagint and the New Testament. Classical Greek had the word oKavbaXilOpov only, properly the See also:

SPRING (from " to spring," " to leap or jump up," " burst out," O. Eng., springau, a common Teut. word, cf. Ger. springer, possibly allied to Gr. QnrFpxecOac, to move rapidly)

spring of a baited See also:

TRAP (0. Eng. treppe or traepee, properly a step, as that or which an animal places its foot and is caught, cf. Ger. Treppe flight of stairs)

trap; the origin probably being the See also:

root seen in Latin scandere, to climb, get up. While the Latin scandalum has given such See also:

DIRECT

direct derivatives as See also:

SPANISH

Spanish and Portuguese escandalo, Dutch schandaal, Eng. " scandal," &c., it is also the source of the synonymous " slander," See also:

MIDDLE

Middle Eng. sclaundre, O. Fr. esclandre, escandle. A particular See also:

FORM (Lat. forma)

form of defamation was scandalum magnatum. " slander of See also:

GREAT

great men," words, that is, spoken defaming a peer spiritual or temporal, See also:

JUDGE (Lat. judex, Fr. juge)

judge or dignitary of the See also:

REALM

realm. Action See also:

LAY

lay for such defamation under the statutes of 3 Edw. I. c. 34, 2 See also:

Rich. I I. c.

5, and 12 Rich. II. c. I1 whereby See also:

DAMAGES (through O. Fr. damage, mod. Fr. dommage, from Lat. damnum, loss)

damages could be recovered, even in cases where no action would See also:

lie, if the defamation were of an See also:

ORDINARY (med. Lat. ordinarius, Fr. ordinaire)

ordinary subject, and that without See also:

PROOF (in M. Eng. preove, proeve, preve, &°c., from O. Fr . prueve, proeve, &c., mod. preuve, Late. Lat. proba, probate, to prove, to test the goodness of anything, probus, good)

proof of See also:

SPECIAL

special damage. These statutes, though See also:

long obsolete, were only abolished in 1887 (See also:

STATUTE

Statute Law Revision See also:

ACT (Lat. actus, actum)

Act).

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