I'll not change my old mumpsimus for your new sumpsimus!

The manner of arming a newly-made knight was first to put on the spurs, then the coat-of-mail, the cuirass, the brasset or casque, and the gauntlets.

[…] we can scarcely open, a book in which the habits and manners of animals are treated of, without meeting with numerous, fervent, and eloquent expatiatings on their sagacity […]

Though it was now sovereign, the country still felt the after-effects of colonyhood.