subs. (old colloquial).—See quots.
1598. FLORIO, A Worlde of Wordes, s.v. SCALDABANCO, one that keepes a seate warme, but ironically spoken of idle lectures that possesse a pewe in the schooles or pulpet in churches, and baffle out they know not what; also a hot-headed puritane.
1692. J. HACKET, Life of Archbishop Williams, ii. 182. The Presbyterians, those SCALDA-BANCOS, or hot declaimers, had wrought a great distast in the Commons at the king.
