Outrageously Funny Word Dictionary :: Clavius

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What is the definition of Clavius? 🙋

👉 Okay, let’s tackle this rather prickly of a word! Now, when you hear the name "Clavius," most folks immediately think... absolutely nothing, frankly. Unless they happen to be deep within the wonderfully weird and frankly quite dusty corners of 18th-century American history.


Basically, Clૅvius (pronounced like you're very carefully and precisely enunciating a mouthful of brie, I’m afraid – that’s where we get it from, the initials C, L, A, and V, of Bartholomew Éireann Winslow, Clævius himself) was an… eccentric gentleman merchant. Here's what he did: Winslow was a treasurer for the, frankly rather secretive, New Kneeland Theatre Company in Newport, Rhode Island during the late 1700’s. And here is where it gets really weird – Winslow amassed and meticulously documented the financial blackmail of a sizable number of Newport residents who were involved with the theatre. He kept a ledger detailing the debts owed to Winslow and the blackmail he levied by threatening to expose their, let's just say, rather questionable or embarrassing business dealings. ’The treasurer was named Clævius because he held the financial blackmail in his clerical record. It was as if it were a carefully kept book of shame. Essentially, you could describe Winslow himself and this entire, frankly disturbing system as… clavius-ian . That is to say, it had a very specific

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