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BOTELESS

Volume 4 · 65 words · 1815 Edition

(fine remedio). In the charter of Hen. I. to Tho. archbishop of York, it is said, "that no judgment or sum of money shall acquit him that commits sacrilege; but he is in English called boteless, viz. without emendation." We retain the word still in common speech: as, It is boteless to attempt such a thing; that is, It is in vain to attempt it.