mumpsimus

• Mr. Beckford called the beast, or reptile, a mumpsimus (sic). —  RECOLLECTIONS OF THE LATE WILLIAM BECKFORD
• Ian Chadwick, your administrator, author, blogger, politician, foolosopher, and resident mumpsimus ... —  Progressive Bloggers
• On being remonstrated with, he retorted that "He would not leave his old _mumpsimus_ for their new _sumpsimus_." —  Robin Tremayne A Story of the Marian Persecution
• [But the] epitaphs were trim and sprag & patent, & pleased the survivors of Thames Ditton above the old mumpsimus of —  The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb
• His {565} own anecdote of the old priest who, having the misprint "mumpsimus" for —  The Age of the Reformation

Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms