What's the difference between barrator and barratry?
Barrator
Definition:
(v. i.) One guilty of barratry.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Workers in the City tend to have a very good idea of what is going on in other businesses and they know that, at the moment, there's a good chance that the grass is greener elsewhere," Barrat said.
(2) Barrat expected the bailed-out banks to suffer most.
(3) Ben Barrat, at recruitment firm Alexander Mann Solutions, said banks were already increasing salaries by 30 to 40% to retain staff and might now begin to offer more "share options and other benefits instead of a straight-forward cash bonus".
(4) Barrat and Fagner observed 29 cases of serious infections of the reproductive system, 12 with pelveoperitonitis, 7 with adenexitis and 10 with endometritis.
(5) A modification of the Barrat-Boyes, Neutze and Simpson method, based upon a combination of surface and core cooling was applied.
(6) In 81 operations for correction of infants's cardiopathies, authors used, associated with E.C.C., a deep hypothermia allowing a circulatory arrest of an average duration of 52 minutes, according to the technics described by BARRAT-BOYES in 1971.
Barratry
Definition:
(n.) The practice of exciting and encouraging lawsuits and quarrels.
(n.) A fraudulent breach of duty or willful act of known illegality on the part of a master of a ship, in his character of master, or of the mariners, to the injury of the owner of the ship or cargo, and without his consent. It includes every breach of trust committed with dishonest purpose, as by running away with the ship, sinking or deserting her, etc., or by embezzling the cargo.
(n.) The crime of a judge who is influenced by bribery in pronouncing judgment.