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Definition of Sumptuary
1. Adjective. Regulating or controlling expenditure or personal behavior. "Sumptuary laws forbidding gambling"
Definition of Sumptuary
1. a. Relating to expense; regulating expense or expenditure.
Definition of Sumptuary
1. Adjective. Relating to expense; regulating expense or expenditure. ¹
2. Adjective. Relating to a law; sumptuary laws or regulations, are those intended to restrain or limit the expenditure of citizens in apparel, food, furniture, etc.; laws which regulate the prices of commodities and the wages of labor; laws which forbid or restrict the use of certain articles, as of luxurious apparel. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sumptuary
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sumptuary
Literary usage of Sumptuary
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Handbook of American Constitutional Law by Henry Campbell Black (1910)
"sumptuary laws, In general, ore mot only utterly foreign to the spirit of our
... Law« partaking of the nature of sumptuary laws, however, may be passed in ..."
2. Handbook of American Constitutional Law by Henry Campbell Black (1897)
"sumptuary laws, in general, are not only utterly foreign to the spirit of our
... Laws partaking of the nature of sumptuary laws, however, may be passed in ..."
3. The Burman: His Life and Notions by James George Scott (1882)
"Burmans will often declare there is caste, but what is called by that name is
nothing more than the arbitrary settlement by the sumptuary laws of what a man ..."
4. Commentaries on American Law by James Kent (1866)
"They praised sumptuary laws, and declaimed vehemently against the degeneracy of
their countrymen, which they imputed to the corrupting influence of the arts ..."
5. Commentaries on American Law by James Kent, William M. Lacy (1889)
"Civil government is not entitled, in ordinary cases, and as a general rule, to
regulate the use of property in the hands of the owners, by sumptuary laws, ..."
6. The Social History of the People of the Southern Counties of England in Past by George Roberts (1856)
"The officer who took account of such matters at Rome, that is, the Censor, held
the sumptuary rate-book, the Census ; and he judged by that roll what ..."
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