nolo

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no·lo

 (nō′lō)
n. pl. no·los
Nolo contendere.
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If I was to translate this into Latin, I should render it by these two words, Nolo Episcopari : a phrase likewise of immemorial use on another occasion.
The landlord agreed with this view, and after taking the sense of the company, and duly rehearsing a small ceremony known in high ecclesiastical life as the nolo episcopari, he consented to take on himself the chill dignity of going to Kench's.