To the best of my own judgment the Sermons are-with but few and partial exceptions-of the most commonplace character; platitudinous with the platitudes of a thousand pulpits, and insipid with the crambe repetita of a hundred thousand homilies.
"Sterne"
H.D. Traill
All the Coleworts are called "crambe," from krambos, dry, because they dispel drunkenness.
"Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure"
William Thomas Fernie