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autem

noun

Etymology

UK 16th century. Possibly borrowed from Yiddish אַ (a, “indefinite article”) + טומאה (tume, “church (derogatory); forbidden; impure”).

  1. borrowed from אַ — “indefinite article”

Definitions

  1. A church.

    • […] but in the mean Time he taught his Pupil a deal of canting Words, telling him Autem was Arabick for a Church; […]

  2. Married.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for autem. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA