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sump·tu·ar·y (s

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adj.

1. Regulating or limiting personal expenditures.

a. Regulating commercial or real-estate activities: sumptuary laws discouraging construction of large houses on small plots of land.

b. Regulating personal behavior on moral or religious grounds: sumptuary laws forbidding gambling.

[Latin smpturius, from smptus, expense, from past participle of smere, to take, buy; see em- in Indo-European roots.]

sumptuary [ˈsʌmptjʊərɪ]

adj

(Economics, Accounting & Finance / Banking & Finance) relating to or controlling expenditure or extravagance

[from Latin sumptuārius concerning expense, from sumptus expense, from sūmere to spend]

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Adj.

sumptuary - regulating or controlling expenditure or personal behavior; "sumptuary laws discouraging construction of large houses on small plots"; "sumptuary laws forbidding gambling"

restrictive - serving to restrict; "teenagers eager to escape restrictive home environments"

Translations

sumptuary [ˈsʌmptjʊərɪ] ADJ → suntuario

sumptuary

adj → den Aufwand betreffend

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sumptuary law Sumptuary laws sumptuous sumptuously sumptuousness	It was so artistically done, and with so much fertility and gorgeous luxuriance of fancy, that it had all the effect of a last and fitting decoration to the apparel which she wore, and which was of a splendour in accordance with the taste of the age, but greatly beyond what was allowed by the sumptuary regulations of the colony. The Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context To which purpose serveth the opening, and well-balancing of trade; the cherishing of manufactures; the banishing of idleness; the repressing of waste, and excess, by sumptuary laws; the improvement and husbanding of the soil; the regulating of prices of things vendible; the moderating of taxes and tributes; and the like. The Essays by Bacon, Sir Francis View in context These clothes and trinkets they were wearing were as fine and dainty as the shrewdest stretch of the sumptuary laws allowed to people of their degree; and in these pretty clothes, she crying on his shoulder, and he trying to comfort her with hopeful words set to the music of despair, they went from the judgment seat out into the world homeless, bedless, breadless; why, the very beggars by the road- sides were not so poor as they. A Connecticut Yankee by Twain, Mark View in context	summiteer Summitless summitry Summity summon summon up Summoner summoning summons summum bonum Summum genus Sumner sumo sumo ring sumo wrestler Sumoom sump Sump fuse Sump men sump pump sumph Sumpitan sumpsimus sumpter Sumption sumptuary sumptuary law Sumptuary laws Sumptuosity sumptuous sumptuously sumptuousness Sumqayit Sumter Sumy sun Sun and planet wheels Sun angel Sun animalcute sun bath sun bathing sun bear Sun beetle sun bittern sun blind sun block sun blocker Sun City sun cream sun dance sun deck	sump vent sump-Penrose drain sump-Penrose drain sump-Penrose drain sump-Penrose drain SUMPAC Sumperk Sumph sumphs sumpin Sumpit Sumpitan SUMPPS sumps sumps sumpsimus sumpter Sumpter Valley Dredge State Heritage Area Sumpter Valley Gold Dredge Sumpter Valley Management Area Sumpter Valley Museum Association Sumpter Valley Railroad Sumpter Valley Railroad Restoration Inc. Sumpter Valley Railway sumpters sumptio Sumption sumptious sumptuary Sumptuary law Sumptuary law Sumptuary law Sumptuary laws Sumptuary laws Sumptuary laws Sumptuary tax Sumptuary tax Sumptuary tax sumptuosity sumptuosity sumptuous sumptuous sumptuously sumptuously sumptuousness sumptuousness sumptus minuere Sumqayit Sumqayit Sumqayit Sahari Sumqayit Sahari SUMR sums sums sums sums sums sums Sums Certain

It was so artistically done, and with so much fertility and gorgeous luxuriance of fancy, that it had all the effect of a last and fitting decoration to the apparel which she wore, and which was of a splendour in accordance with the taste of the age, but greatly beyond what was allowed by the sumptuary regulations of the colony.

The Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context

To which purpose serveth the opening, and well-balancing of trade; the cherishing of manufactures; the banishing of idleness; the repressing of waste, and excess, by sumptuary laws; the improvement and husbanding of the soil; the regulating of prices of things vendible; the moderating of taxes and tributes; and the like.

The Essays by Bacon, Sir Francis View in context

These clothes and trinkets they were wearing were as fine and dainty as the shrewdest stretch of the sumptuary laws allowed to people of their degree; and in these pretty clothes, she crying on his shoulder, and he trying to comfort her with hopeful words set to the music of despair, they went from the judgment seat out into the world homeless, bedless, breadless; why, the very beggars by the road- sides were not so poor as they.

A Connecticut Yankee by Twain, Mark View in context

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