sumpsimus (sumpsimus)

[L., first pers. pl. perf. ind. act. of sumere, take: see mump sim us.] A correct form replacing an erroneous one in familiar use; correctne regarded as pedantic. See mumpsimus. King Henry (VIII.1, finding fault with the disagreement of Preachers, would often say: Some are too stiffe in their old Mumpsimus, and other too busie and curious in their new Sumpsimus . Happely borrowing these phrases from that which Master Pace his Secretary report eth, in his book De Fructu Doctrinæ, of an old Priest in that age, which alwaies read, in his Porta e, Mumpsimus Domine, for Sumpsimus ; whereof when he was admonished, he said that hee now had used Mumpsimus thirtie yeares, and would not leave his old Mumpsimus for their new Sump Camden, Remains (ed. 1637), p. 273. sim us.