flagitous

Adjective

1. Rare form of flagitious.
   • The Attorney-General declared, that, without the aid of these bills, it would be impracticable to put a stop to such flagitous proceedings. - 1809, John Gifford, A History of the Political Life of the Right Honourable...
   • This was a period in which the ideas of witchcraft had caught fast hold of the minds of mankind; and those accusations which, by the enlightened part of the species, would now be regarded as worthy only of contempt,...
   • It was one of the most flagitous schemes ever adopted to give party views a sacred sanction; the ‘translator’ amplifying wherever he thought an opportunity was presented for introducing latter-saint theology. - 1853,...