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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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ZEECAM
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eruption
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Sentences with GOLIARDS (5)
Sidgwick's "Early English Lyrics." Many may have been the work of _goliards_ or wandering scholars, and a common feature is the interweaving of Latin with English words.
The process of popularization, the development of the plays from religious ceremonial to lively drama, was probably greatly helped by the _goliards_ or vagabond scholars, young, poor, and fond of amusement, who wandered over Europe from teacher to teacher, from monastery to monastery, in search of learning.
Many scholars have accepted Büdinger's suggestion (_Über einige Reste der Vagantenpoesie in Österreich_, Vienna, 1854) that the title of Golias goes back to the letter of St Bernard to Innocent II., in which he referred to Abelard as Goliath, thus connecting the goliards with the keen-witted student adherents of that great medieval critic.
During the century which followed they formed a subject for the deliberations of several church councils, notably in 1289 when it was ordered that "no clerks shall be jongleurs, goliards or buffoons," and in 1300 (at Cologne) when they were forbidden to preach or engage in the indulgence traffic.
This legislation was only effective when the "privileges of clergy" were withdrawn from the goliards.