(obsolete, UK, thieves) Married.
(obsolete, UK, thieves) Married.
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British rogues' cant from the 17th–18th centuries. 'Autem' was cant for a church, so an 'autem bawler' was a preacher who harangued (bawled) from the pulpit. The phrase carried a mocking, irreverent register, implying the clergyman was all noise and little substance.
(obsolete, UK, thieves) A parson.
(obsolete, UK, thieves) A married man.
(obsolete, UK, thieves) Hence, a conjuror or fortuneteller.
(obsolete, UK, thieves) A church.
THESE Autem Mortes be maried wemen, as there be but a fewe: For Autem in their language is a Church, so shee is a wyfe maried at the church, and they be as chaste as a cowe: I haue yt gooeth to bull euery moone, with what bull she careth…
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