Beaumont should be tried for contumacy to the government.
Absence was contumacy and only increased his guilt, by adding a fresh and unpardonable offence, besides being technically tantamount to confession.
His acts of heresy had not been flagrant, and he pleaded as an excuse for his contumacy his wife and seven children, who would have starved had they been deprived of his labor, but in spite of this he was incarcerated for life.
To punish this contumacy they were ordered to be silent, and students were forbidden to listen to them.
Having been dislodged from this point, the Church apologists sought cover under the statement that Galileo was condemned not for heresy, but for contumacy and want of respect toward the Pope.
On April 8th, the Archbishop of Tarsus, the papal nuncio, made a formal demand on the king for the papers; the latest term of delay had expired and the penalties for contumacy would operate of themselves.
For those who eluded recapture, the prosecution for contumacy had but one ending--the absentee was held to be a self-confessed and impenitent heretic, fit only for the stake.
Jean de Berri, a Frenchman on trial by the tribunal of Saragossa, managed to escape to Rome, whereupon he was condemned in contumacy and burnt in effigy.
If he was not recaptured he was prosecuted for contumacy in absentia.
On June 18th he was notified that the fiscal accused him of contumacy for not complying simply with his sentence and, on July 18th, he made the abjuration and was released.
The limit passed without obedience to his commands and he wrote again, expressing high displeasure at the contumacy which doomed such a man to grow old in the squalor of a prison without law or justice.
In the Instructions of 1484, they are represented as ordering him to accuse the contumacy of fugitives and to denounce the dead against whom they find evidence.
Worse than all, he had commenced imprisoning the crews of merchant vessels for contumacy in refusing to acknowledge his authority as the head of an independent nation.
For, by no contumacy of his, nor by any vain ostentation of a spirit of liberty ill-timed, did he court fame or urge his fate.
At break of day, the legions posted on the wings, through contumacy or affright, deserted their stations, and took sudden possession of a field beyond the bogs.
Who dares to mark me out for contumacy and treason?
The contumacy I have here met with is high treason; the gate of a fortress hath been shut against me in my own kingdom: where this happens, fief and goods are forfeited, be the criminal who he may!
Since the great sea-fight at Gronsund, his proud spirit had drooped, however; his last conspiracy and contumacy against his liege sovereign resembled the flaring up of a burnt-out and exhausted volcano.
In the third place, the king asked them how he should proceed to punish the contumacy of the king of Bohemia.
And now, behold, one fine day he found himself confronted with a charge of blasphemy, not to mention another damning count of contumacy and contravention.
Aleandro, the Papal Nuncio, argued that, in the face of such stubborn contumacy and insult to both Pope and Emperor, the Emperor would be justified in canceling his safe-conduct and arresting Luther then and there.
Souls of those who have died in contumacy of the Church.
Persistent contumacy was further threatened with such penalty as should serve as a warning deterrent to others.
They still in many places publicly displayed their contumacy by wearing the short and narrow gowns of the Spirituals.
I have much to say, but of things not opportune at this moment, and in spite of my long contumacy dare believe that I shall quickly write again my proper letter to my friend, whose every word I watchfully read and remember.
But I hailed even this need of taxing once more your often taxed courtesy, as a means to break up my long contumacy to-you-ward.
You will remember that you are under oath, and may be punished for contumacy on refusing to answer.
The Judge Advocate assented, and Ithuel was permitted to withdraw, his contumacy being treated with the indifference that power is apt to exhibit toward weakness.
Eighteen years ago he was condemned in contumacy for conspiracy against the life of the late King.
By identifying David Rossi as one who was condemned in contumacy for high treason sixteen years ago.
In fact you recognise in the illustrious Deputy the young man condemned in contumacyeighteen years ago?
Voices were heard advocating the immediate despatch of an army to Africa, the speedy succour of Adherbal, the consideration of an adequate punishment for the contumacy of Jugurtha in not obeying the express commands of Rome.
The summons was perfectly legal, since the consul had the right to demand the presence of any citizen or even any inferior magistrate; but the two leaders may well be excused for their act of contumacy in disobeying the command.
Accordingly he was sentenced in contumacy in the name of the enactments he had urged, and of which he was held to be the author.
Timid by nature, beyond the usual fearfulness of her sex, she yet endured pain, not with the iron contumacy of a savage, but with the submission of filial love.
If he did not appear, the inquisitor ordered the fiscal to accuse his contumacy and to demand letters denouncing him as an excommunicate and then, if he persisted in his contumacy for a year, he was declared a formal heretic.
Now this was a case of relapse, as well as of non-fulfilment of penance, but he was prosecuted for contumacy as a simple fugitive.
The regular process in contumacy followed leisurely, ending in a sentence of relaxation if the culprits should be found and if not, that their effigies should be burnt.
In practice, the prosecution for contumacy was the one ordinarily employed; the second method was sometimes used when the testimony was complete and the third, summoning the accused to compurgation, became obsolete.
The first of these methods, utilizing the device of contumacy became the one almost universally employed, when time was of no consequence but, in the impatient temper of the early period, speedier processes were preferred.
Among those condemned for contumacy to decapitation and confiscation of goods was Scipione Fieschi.
The soldiers of the allies under the command of Enrico il Guercio, Marquis of Savona, punished the contumacy and audacity of the Fieschi.
The plan of taking the property of each or all who were guilty of sedition, treason and contumacy was well established by precedents that traced back to Cain.
The case was narrowed down to the plain and simple point that Roger Morris was not the legal owner of the estate, and that the rightful heirs could not be made to suffer for the "treason, contumacy and contravention" of another.
It is also quite probable that they crossed their fingers, for the Jews are a stubborn sort, given to contumacy and contravention.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "contumacy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: contempt; defiance; despite; obstinacy; rebellion; resistance; stubbornness; unruliness
