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Definition. Patent misuse is a patent owner's improper use of patent rights, speaking very generally, to expand the scope or term of the patent.
Scurrilous is the third studio album by Canadian progressive metal band Protest the Hero. It was released on March 22, 2011. [ 2 ] The word scurrilous is defined as "vulgar verbal abuse; foul-mouthed; coarse, vulgar, abusive, or slanderous."
...and the youngest Norn, she who is called Skuld, ride[s] ever to take the slain and decide fights. Faroe stamp by Anker Eli Petersen depicting the norns (2003). Skuld ("debt" or "obligation"; sharing etymology with the English "should") is a Norn in Norse mythology.
brat, buffoon, chancer, communist, corner boy, coward, fascist, gurrier, guttersnipe, hypocrite, rat, scumbag, scurrilous speaker, or yahoo; or to insinuate that a TD is lying [41] or drunk. [42] The word "handbagging" is unparliamentary "particularly with reference to a lady member of the House". [43]
from Latin satelles, meaning "bodyguard, attendant", perhaps from Etruscan satnal. [22] Bonfante, otherwise quite skeptical of many proposed loans, calls it "quite likely" that Latin satteles is from Etruscan. [23] Whatmough considers Latin satteles "as one of our securest Etruscan loans in Latin." [24] scurrilous Serge (first name) serve
The definition of a pamphlet came to mean a short work dealing with social, political, or religious issues. [2] ... scurrilous personal abuse, and social criticism ...
At first harmless and good-humored, if somewhat coarse, these songs gradually outstripped the bounds of decency; malicious attacks were made upon both gods and men, and the matter became so serious that the law intervened and scurrilous personalities were forbidden by the Twelve Tables (Cicero, De re publica, 4.10; see also Horace epist. 2.1.139).
Robert Burton, in 1621, in The Anatomy of Melancholy, stated: "It is an old saying, 'A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword': and many men are as much galled with a calumny, a scurrilous and bitter jest, a libel, a pasquil, satire, apologue, epigram, stage-play or the like, as with any misfortune whatsoever."