Word: prohibitum
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Dates: during 1874-1874
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ALTHOUGH very old, that story about Mr. Malum is worth repeating:- A friend, meeting Mr. Malum at a famous watering place, asked him if he enjoyed sea bathing. "No; the doctor has forbidden my going into the water." "Then you are malum prohibitum." Not relishing the joke, Malum retorted, "That don't hold good, for my sister bathes every day." "So much the worse, for she is malum...