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161 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 302.1 (James Aitken Wylie)

… -apud Chapman, p. 391. Michiels, Secret History of the Austrian Government, pp. 78, 79.

163 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 309.1 (James Aitken Wylie)

… , 231. Chapman, p. 400. Freytag, p. 235. Ludwig Hausser, vol. 2., p. 277.

164 History of the Reformation, vol. 1, p. 85.3 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)

… common chapman or a begging monk. When the procession approached a town, a deputy waited on the magistrate, and said, “The Grace of God and of the Holy Father is …

173 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 110.14 (Matthew Henry)

… petty chapman, the interlopers of trade; for tale-bearers pick up ill-natured stories at one house and utter them at another, and commonly barter slanders …

174 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 957.29 (Matthew Henry)

… petty chapman, not the merchant that deals in things of value. And observe, They of the children of Israel thus undervalued him; they who were his own people …

175 Etymology dictionary, p. bugaboo (n.).2

… by Chapman ["Dictionary of American Slang"] with Bugibu, demon in the Old French poem "Aliscans" from 1141, which is perhaps of Celtic origin (compare Cornish bucca …

176 Etymology dictionary, p. chap (n.).2

… obsolete chapman in its secondary sense "purchaser, trader" (also see cheap ). The colloquial familiar sense of "lad, fellow, man or boy" is first attested 1716, usually …

177 Etymology dictionary, p. chap-book (n.).2

also chapbook, 1812, from chap, short for chapman, so called because chapmen once sold such books.

179 Etymology dictionary, p. chapman (n.).4

Compare cheap (adj.). In Middle English and later, chapman also could mean "a customer, purchaser." In a c. 1200 work the Devil is þe chapmon of helle as "the purchaser of souls."

180 Etymology dictionary, p. cheap (adj.).2

… " (see chapman ). Compare, from the same borrowing, German kaufen "to buy," Old Norse kaupa "to bargain, barter," Gothic kaupon "to traffic, trade."