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A contraction of Smectymnuus, a word made from the initial letters of five rebels—
Stephen Marshal.
Edward Calamy.
Thomas Young.
Matthew Newcomen.
William Spurstow, who wrote a book against Episcopacy and the Common Prayer. (See Notarica.)
“The handkerchief about the neck,
Canonical cravat of Smec.”
Butler: Hudibras, pt. i. 5.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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