Meaning of pinch at | Babel Free

Definitions

To find fault with; to take exception to.

obsolete

Examples

“[…]and lastly in what case the Putcase, and his fellowes are, that in broade speeches openly, and in printed bookes directly oppugne them; and by calumnious questions pinch at them?”

“If the enimie come home to vs it is not ten subsidies that wil satisfie him: & why are men so wret∣ched as to pinch at one or two?”

“The one is, I would have them be at the pains (though they took time enough to do it) to have a Common-Prayer framed throughout altogether in Scripture-expression, that no mortal wight should ever pinch at it.”

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