flagitiousness (flajishusnes)

The condition or quality of being flagitious; shameful wickedne ; atrocity. It exhibits to him a life thrown away on vanities and follies, or consumed in flagitiousne and sin: no station properly supported; no material duties fulfilled. Blair , Works, I. ii. That flagitiousne of the governing agencies themselves, which was shown by the venality of ministers and members of Parliament, and by the corrupt administration of justice, has disappeared. H. Spencer , Prin. of Sociol., §574. flag-lieutenant (flag'lu-tenant), n. In the navy, an officer on an admiral's staff who performs such duties for him as an aide-de-camp performs for a general in the army, communicating his orders to the ships under his command either in person or by signal. flagman (flag'man), n.; pl. flagmen (-men). 1. A signal-man on a railway, who makes signals by means of flags.-21. A flag-officer; an admiral. To Mr. Lilly's the painter's, and there saw the heads... of the flaggmen in the late great fight with the Duke of York against the Dutch. Pepys , Diary, April 18, 1666. He was a kind of Flagman , a Vice-Admiral, in all those expeditions of good-fellowship. Gentleman Instructed, p. 535. flag-officer (flag'ofi-ser), n. A naval officer privileged to display a flag denoting his rank; an admiral, vice-admiral, rear-admiral, or commodore. In the United States navy, from 1857 to 1862, it was the official title of a captain while in actual command of a squadron; but it was superseded in the latter year on the creation of the permanent grades of commodore and rear-admiral. He told me that our very commanders, nay, our very flag busine commanding a flaggy3 (flag'i), a . [ He set out hym in the flaggi place of the brinke of the flode. Wyclif , Ex. ii. 3 (Oxf.).