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Definition of Titus Oates
1. Noun. English conspirator who claimed that there was a Jesuit plot to assassinate Charles II (1649-1705).
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Literary usage of Titus Oates
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ...by Thomas Bayly Howell by Thomas Bayly Howell (1816)
"On the 9th of April, the House, upon reading the Petition of Titus Oates, praying
a day may be appointed for'hearing counsel to argue upon his Writs of ..."
2. Cobbett's Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High ...by William Cobbett, David Jardine by William Cobbett, David Jardine (1811)
"On the 9th of April, the House, upon reading the Petition of Titus Oates, praying
a day may be appointed for hearing counsel to argue upon his Writs of ..."
3. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke, Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress), John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) (1822)
"... he contended that they might soon see another judge Jeffreys on the bench,
and another Titus Oates in the witness-box ! Ings, turning towards the jury, ..."
4. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ...by Thomas Bayly Howell, William Cobbett by Thomas Bayly Howell, William Cobbett (1816)
"That the trial of Knox and Lane, at the bar of the King's-bench court for their
misdemeanors, in endeavouring to take away the credit of Dr. Titus Oates, ..."
5. The History of England from the Restoration to the Death of William III by Richard Lodge (1910)
"THE author of the popish plot, Titus Oates, is doomed to CHAP, an immortality of
infamy. He was repulsive both in character VI11- and appearance, ..."
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