How to pronounce“quod”in English
noun"qui de excelso illo fluxisti," "that flow down from heaven," "quod divinitas tetegit," "which divinity touched,"
"Tu flos est," "You are the flower," "quod hyems de flatu serpentis," which is "the wintry breath of the servant--
serpent," in other words the devil, "numquam lesit," "will never wound." So that's the text.
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Definitions of “quod”
A quadrangle or court, as of a prison; a prison.
“1863, Punch, quoted in 1995, Seán McConville, English Local Prisons, 1860-1900: Next Only to Death, page 69, […] not the poorer classes merely, but the rich will be desirous to enjoy the mingled luxury and comfort of a gaol: and we shall hear of blasé Swells become burglars and garotters as a prelude to a prison, and, instead of taking tours for restoration of their health, recruiting it more cheaply by a residence in quod.”
Confinement in a prison.
“c. 1894, Acquaintance of Norman Lindsay, quoted in 2005, James Cockington, Banned: Tales From the Bizarre History of Australian Obscenity, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, paperback →ISBN, page 7, I don′t suppose you'll get more than a couple of months′ quod for them.”
To confine in prison.
“An intelligent costermonger, who was with me when I saw the two brothers, told me that “a costermonger would rather be thought to have come out of prison than out of a workhouse,” for his “mates” would say, if they heard he had been locked up, “O, he’s only been quodded for pitching into a crusher.””