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Tutivilʹlus

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The demon who collects all the words skipped over or multilated by priests in the performance of the services. These literary scraps or shreds he deposits in that pit which is said to be paved with “good intentionsnever brought to effect. (Piers Plowman, p. 547; Townley Mysteries, pp. 310, 319; etc.).

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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