_Meaning of Sinage: Distord: Slander._--In a translation of Luther's
_Revelation of Antichrist_ by the Protestant martyr Frith, the word
_sinage_ occurs in a list of ecclesiastical payments, which the popish
prelates were wont to exact from the parochial clergy.
If any of your correspondents can say what _sinage_ means, he may oblige
me still further by explaining the word _distord_, in the same page;
where it is said "they stir princes and officers to distord against
them," viz., against such as resist the claims of churchmen.
Is there any authority for supposing that _sclawnder_, ordinarily
_slander_, may sometimes mean injury, without reference to character? It
is certain that the parallel term _calumnia_ was so used in monkish
Latin.