Definitionadj. regulating or controlling expenditure or personal behavior
Last update: August 20, 2015
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Following the economic tendencies of the time he issued sumptuary laws and encouraged manufactures; while to suppress the rivalry among the towns he established an order of precedence for them. [Please select]
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They sought to repress extravagance by a sumptuary law, but a speech of Hortensius was sufficient to cause its rejection. [Please select]
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Legislation, of Virginia's first assembly, 80; on tobacco, 103; initiative in Maryland, 131, 133; Maryland Toleration Act, 144; New England codes, 180, 203, 326; initiative in Massachusetts, 203; New England sumptuary, 326. [Please select]
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I am no advocate of sumptuary laws; but there should be one prohibiting big-footed women from wearing white shoes. [Please select]
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The South has traveled far from its old opposition to sumptuary laws. [Please select]
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Lastly, to put limits to extravagance, the sumptuary laws were promulgated. [Please select]
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Both these weighty offences may, in some measure, be checked by wisely devised sumptuary laws. [Please select]
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The sumptuary law for burying the dead in woollen, still occupies its place in their statute book. [Please select]
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When Sunday came, it was, indeed, a day of finery, which all my [v]sumptuary edicts could not restrain. [Please select]
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Social conditions, slavery, 81, 116, 147; servants, 100, 115, 128; Virginia (1634), 101-103; (1648), 110; houses, 114; hospitality, 115; absence of towns, 115, 129; Virginia education, 116, 117; Maryland (1652), 147; New England criminal codes, 180, 203, 326; influence of Calvinism, 321; New England towns, 322, 323; education, 323-325; marriage, 326; sumptuary laws, 326; general characteristics, 326; literature, 327; bibliography, 338. [Please select]
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It is, as he infers, 'the highest impertinence and presumption for kings and ministers to pretend to watch over the economy of private people' by sumptuary laws and taxes upon imports. [Please select]
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