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First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
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Palmestrat, p.p. [Nonce-formation, with the ending -at of derivatives of the Latin p.p., appar. based, with some obscure analogy, on Palmestry n.: cf. the e.m.E. (Shakesp.) and mod. Eng. uses of palm n. with allusion to the receiving of bribes or rewards, and similar allusive uses of mod. Eng. palm v. and palmistry n.] To be palmestrat, to be given an additional payment, rewarded or bribed, ‘to have one's palm greased’. — 1618-60 Lithgow Poet. Remains 100.
For if the English preest be not palmestrat He will not marry Ib. i 12.
Next, there Lord Doctor … Who for some recipe … Must be palmestrat with red imag'd ore