"Eleemosynary" cannot possibly be a real word.

[snarp]

I assume it's some sort of a conspiracy between federal appellate court judges and DuckDuckGo.

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[vass]

I've seen it in actual books - I think my first encounter with it was in Steven Brust's The Phoenix Guards. I agree that it sounds like it shouldn't be.

[snarp]

It does sound like a term that would appear in The Phoenix Guards. I nonetheless refuse to embrace its validity.

[rachelmanija]

It is also an overpraised play by Lee Blessing.

[issenllo]

...ex parte Page? (That's where I first saw this word.)

I feel the same way about "ecclesiastical".

[snarp]

My sister was reading me excerpts from a very caustic opinion which she found funny; I don't know the name of the case. The issue at hand was expert testimony, and the judge was expressing his displeasure with a Supreme Court opinion setting out what he felt to be inappropriate guidelines for dealing with it.

[issenllo]

Ah, different case then.