Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun That which is contained in a scrip: formed jocosely, as baggage is from
bag . - noun See the quotation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete The contents of a scrip, or wallet.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete The
contents of ascrip , orwallet .
Etymologies
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Examples
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"Let us make an honourable retreat; though not with bag and baggage, yet with scrip and scrippage."
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Come, shepherd, let us make an honourable retreat; though not with bag and baggage, yet with scrip and scrippage.
As You Like It 2004
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Of course, my soul had been to Europe a great many times, but my body never, and now I was taking it, as well as certain scrip and scrippage for its journey.
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Come, shepherd, let us make an honourable retreat; though not with bag and baggage, yet with scrip and scrippage.
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And, fourthly -- and this is the last and main pint, and the cream of the whole matter -- I give you all five days to settle up your accounts and be off, bag and baggage, scrip and scrippage, as old Proximus has it; and if after that time any of you are caught at Alamance, you will swing like them poor critturs at the door.
Alamance; Or, the Great and Final Experiment viii, 9-151, [1] p. 1847
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We march north in half an hour, bag and baggage, scrip and scrippage.
Hereward, the Last of the English Charles Kingsley 1847
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Come, shepherd, let us make an honourable retreat; though not with bag and baggage, yet with scrip and scrippage.
As You Like It 1599
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"Let us make an honourable retreat; though not with bag and baggage, yet with scrip and scrippage."
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He rose up and departed, without counsel of any, trusting only in God and his own strength; he bore with him neither bag nor baggage, scrip nor scrippage -- not even a change of raiment; but with a handful of fruit and the humble provision which his good mother had furnished for the harvest-field, he set forth; day and night he journeyed on the truck he knew his friend had taken to that far country, toiling in the fields to secure food and lodging for the night, and some scant aids to carry him from place to place.
Chanticleer A Thanksgiving Story of the Peabody Family Cornelius Mathews 1853
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