subs. (old).—An ignoramus: specifically an unlettered priest.
d. 1555. LATIMER, Sermon, p. 304. Some will say our curate is naught, an ass-head, a dodipole, a LACK-LATIN.
1598. FLORIO, A Worlde of Wordes, s.v. Arlotto, the name of a merie priest, a LACK LATINE or hedge-priest.
1598. The Serving-man’s Comfort [HAZLITT: Roxburgh Library (1868), Inedited Tracts, p. 103]. Hoe, syr John LACKLATTIN, you are out of the text.
1626. BRETON, Pasquil’s Madcappe [GROSART (1879), i. c 6/2. 24]. Sir John LACK LATINE with a face of brass.
1762. FOOTE, The Orators, i. I’ll step to the Bull and Gate, and call upon Jerry LACK-LATIN.
