simulty

English

Etymology

From Latin simultas (“a hostile encounter, drudge, originally, a (hostile) coming together”), from simul (“together”). Compare Old French simulté.

Noun

simulty (plural simulties)

1. (obsolete) Private grudge or quarrel.
   • 1640, Ben Jonson, "Parasiti ad mensam", CXXII, Discoveries (posthumous)

     Nor seek to get his patron's favour, by embarking himself in the factions of the family; to enquire after domestic simulties, their sports or affections.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “simulty”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• mustily, mytilus