colluvies

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Rome -- the 'colluvies gentium' -- the sink of the nations, with its conceit, its pomposity, its beggary, its profligacy, its superstition, its pretence of preserving the Roman law and rights, while practically it cared for no law nor right at all.

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  1. Filth; excrement; in medicine, specifically, a discharge from an old ulcer. Dunglison.
  2. Figuratively, a vile medley; a rabble. [Rare.] We have been reputed a colluvies of wild opinionists swarmed into a remote wilderness, to find elbow-room for our fanatic doctrines and practices. N. Ward, Simple Cobler.

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  1. Latin, washings, sweepings, filth, from colluere, wash thoroughly: see collution.
 

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