or rascallion, rabscallion, ramscallion, rascabilian, subs. (old).—A worthless wretch. Hence RAPSCALLIONRY, &c. = the world of rascaldom. Also as adj.

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  1622.  BRETON, Strange Newes, 6. Makes no little gaine of RASCABILIANS.

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  1663.  BUTLER, Hudibras, I. iii. 327. Used him so like a base RASCALLION.

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  1703.  WARD, The London Spy, v. 110. And there we saw a parcel of Ragged RAPSCALLIONS, mounted upon Scrubbed Tits.

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  1733.  FIELDING, Don Quixote, i. 1. The Don is just such another lean RAMSCALLION as his … Rozinante. Ibid. (1742), Joseph Andrews, IV. iii. A profession [the legal] … which owes to such kind of RASCALLIONS the ill-will which weak persons bear towards it.

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  1749.  SMOLLETT, Gil Blas (1812), III. iv. Let us take an oath never to serve such RAPSCALLIONS, and swear to it by the river Styx.

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  1772.  BRIDGES, A Burlesque Translation of Homer, 216.

        As to that copper-nos’d RABSCALLION,
Venus’s bully-back and stallion.

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  1818.  BYRON, Letter to Mr. Murray, 8 Jan. The pompous RASCALLION.

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  1847.  BULWER-LYTTON, Lucretia, I. x. But the poor RAPSCALLION had a heart larger than many honest painstaking men.

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  1885.  Daily News, 19 Sept. To give no goods to those RAPSCALLION servants.

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