Brewer's: Scandalum Magnatum

[scandal of the magnates ]. Words in derogation of peers, judges, and other great officers of the realm. What St. Paul calls “speaking evil of dignities.”

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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