v. rare. [ad. L. phrase floccī pendĕre (floccī, see prec. + pendĕre to weigh, esteem). Cf. vilipend.] trans. To regard as insignificant or of no account; to make no account of.
1548. Hall, Chron. (1809), 444. Many other ridiculous articles they layde to hym, whiche the eares of euery honest creature knowynge the duetie of the subiect to hys prynce, woulde abhorre and floccipend, to the whiche he so wisely and boldely aunswered, that in parte he asswaged their malice, and mitigated their rage.
1881. W. Thomson, Bacon & Shakespeare on Vivisection, 12. Politely, Harvey was penned off among the ‘black sheep’ in a profession prone to floccipend odd locks of thought from woolly-headed thinkers.
