Is "mumpsimus" a real word?

MaggieG 5

According to this it is. http://www.randomhouse.com/wotd/index.pperl?date=20010523 Dec 01 04, 5:14 PM

Baloo55th

It's a word that exists, but it's meaningless. Back in the days of uneducated priests and Latin services that no-one in the congregation could understand, a priest was discovered using the word mumpsimus where he should have used sumpsimus. This lent fuel to the fires for reform, but some people said they preferred the old mumpsimus to the new sumpsimus. Dec 01 04, 5:32 PM

mibmob

...like hocus pocus = hoc est corpus [meum] Dec 02 04, 5:17 AM

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