palliardise

English

Alternative forms

• paillardize
• pailliardize

Etymology

From palliard +‎ -ise, after Middle French paillardise.

Noun

palliardise (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Fornication, lechery.
   • 1591, Lodge, Diogenes, page 46:

     Nothing […] more weakeneth an Armye than luxuritie and palliardize.

   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, The Essayes […], London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:

     , I.56:

     A man whose Paillardize [translating paillardise] and luxurie, doth uncessantly sway and rule the head, and who judgeth the same abhominable and most hatefull in the sight of God; what saith he unto his all-seeing Majesty, when he openeth his lips, either of mouth or hart, to speake to him of it?

   • 1614, Walter Raleigh, Hist. World, I, xi:

     Hee [Jupiter] gave himself over wholly to palliardize and adultery.

   • 1647, George Buck, The History of the Life and Reigne of Richard the Third, page 136:

     King Kichard was ever held to be frugal, with the preservation of his honour; nor can they tax him with Palliardise, Luxury, Epicurism, nor Gluttony, vices following many Tyrants; […]

   • 1883(?), Thomas Lodge, The Complete Works of Thomas Lodge 1580-1623? Now First Collected […] , page 56:

     I beléeue this was the reason that mooued Auicen the Arabian to say, that the exercise of palliardise is more pernicious to the body of man, than if hee had diuers time indured letting of bloud. In briefe Lechery weakeneth the forces […]

   • 1901(?), Thomas Graves Law, Catholic Tractates of the Sixteenth Century, 1573-1600:

     ... and their actions only to the Church, the well-beloved spouse of Christ, to this which “castis avay the forsaid spous and with palliardise and al kynd of harlatrie abusis the sacred and halie".