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parliamentary, a. (n.)|pɑːlɪˈmɛntərɪ|
Also 7 parla-, 7–8 parle-.
[f. parliament or med.L. parliament-um + -ary1: cf. mod.F. parlementaire.]
A. adj.
1. a. Of, belonging or relating to a parliament, or to parliament as an institution; of the nature of a parliament.
parliamentary agent, a person professionally employed to take charge of the interests of a party concerned in or affected by any private legislation of Parliament; Parliamentary Commissioner (for Administration) = Ombudsman; Parliamentary Counsel, barristers employed as established civil servants to draft government bills and amendments; Parliamentary Private Secretary, a member of Parliament who acts as assistant to a government minister; the post has no official status and is unpaid.
1626Sir S. D'Ewes Autobiog. & Corr. (1845) II. 179 Ordinarie newes I omitt, such I call Parliamentarie, of the Lower House, and forraine. 1644Vicars God in Mount 134 That forementioned..inclination of our Parliamentary Senators. 1813M. Edgeworth Patron. (1833) III. xxvii. 29, I know..as a minister what must be yielded to parliamentary influence. 1819J. Dean in McAdam Rem. Road Making (1823) 187 Would you, as a parliamentary agent, undertake to prepare and conduct an ordinary road bill through parliament? 1833Rep. Select Comm. Establ. House of Commons 163 in Parl. Papers XII. 341 You are Parliamentary Counsel to the Treasury?—I am. 1850Rep. Sel. Comm. Official Salaries 8 in Parl. Papers XV. 179 Both the Secretaries to the Treasury..are most responsible officers. With regard to the Parliamentary secretaryship, which I once held myself, I do not know so difficult or so disagreeable office in the Government. 1858H. G. G. Grey Parliamentary Govt. vi. 90 Our whole system of Parliamentary Government rests..upon the Ministers of the Crown possessing such authority in Parliament as to enable them generally to direct its proceedings. 1872Disraeli in Times 4 Apr. 5/2, I believe that, without party, Parliamentary government is impossible. 1886Gladstone 21 Jan. in Hansard Ser. iii. CCCII. 112, I will venture to recommend them, as an old Parliamentary hand, to do the same. 1886Whitaker's Almanack 1887 156/1 Office of Parliamentary Counsel,—Spring Gardens. Parliamentary Counsel, Hen. Jenkyns, C.B. 1917H.M. Ministers & Heads of Public Departments (Stationery Office) 1 Parliamentary Private Secretary... Capt. Hon. W. Ormsby-Gore, M.P. 1918Act 8 Geo. V c. 3 §1 (1) A Secretary who shall discharge the functions both of a parliamentary secretary to the Board and a parliamentary under-secretary to the Secretary of State. 1930W. K. Hancock Australia x. 210 The practice of the Australian Labour party makes England's classic philosophy of parliamentary government appear strangely artless and out of date. 1930A. J. Balfour Chapters of Autobiogr. viii. 103 On taking his new post, he [sc. Salisbury in 1878 when he became Foreign Secretary] asked me to become his Parliamentary Private Secretary. 1939W. I. Jennings Parliament vii. 229 A department official and the draftsman are seated in the ‘box’ and communications pass through his parliamentary private secretary or ‘fetch-and-carry’ man. 1954H. Morrison Govt. & Parliament iv. 66 The life of the Parliamentary Secretary can be interesting and fairly full, or, on the other hand, uninteresting and rather empty. 1966Listener 11 Aug. 194/2 Sir Edmund Compton, Comptroller and Auditor-General, is to be Britain's first Parliamentary Commissioner, or Ombudsman. 1968T. Stoppard Real Inspector Hound 11 I dream of champions chopped down by rabbit-punching sparring partners while eternal bridesmaids turn and rape the bridegrooms over the sausage rolls and parliamentary private secretaries plant bombs in the Minister's Humber. 1969Times 2 May 22/1 The work of the Parliamentary Counsel is not widely known. They draft the Government's Parliamentary Bills. a1974R. Crossman Diaries (1975) I. 42 What was a bit crazy was to put Charles Snow in as his Parliamentary Secretary. Ibid. 239 Whereas the parliamentary draftsman who has worked on my Bill is superb, in the Ministry I feel we could have got a far stronger team together if we hadn't relied so entirely on the administrative class. 1976Daily Tel. 20 July 1/2 An issue which has split both Ministers and the different wings of the Parliamentary Labour party. 1976B. Kemp Sir Robert Walpole iv. 79 Walpole and the other ministers cannot be called the ‘executive’... Their relation to parliament cannot be called ‘parliamentary government’, if by this is meant a state of affairs where the ‘executive power and the power of legislation are virtually united in the same hands’. 1976H. Wilson Governance of Britain ii. 32 When choosing ministers of state and parliamentary under-secretaries, the prime minister would naturally consult—or at least inform—the Cabinet minister concerned.
b. Of, belonging or adhering to, the Parliament in the Civil War of the 17th c.
1761Hume Hist. Eng. III. lxi. 319 He..inspired that spirit which rendered the parliamentary armies in the end victorious. 1778Pennant Tour in Wales (1883) I. 16 His house, which in September 1643 was surrendered to the parlementary forces. 1843Penny Cycl. XXVII. 560/1 In 1642 Worcester was besieged by the parliamentary forces.
c. Of or belonging to the Parliament of Paris.
1620Brent tr. Sarpi's Council Trent v. 463 There was a fame that the French-men, though Catholikes, came with Sorbonicall and Parlamentarie minds, fully bent to acknowledge the Pope no further then they pleased. 1791Mrs. Radcliffe Rom. Forest i, The proceedings in the Parliamentary Courts of Paris during the 17th century.
d. allusively. Slow or deliberate like the procedure of Parliament.
1835J. M. Gully Magendie's Formul. Pref. 3 Beholding the parliamentary pace of our British Pharmacopœias in the official recognition and adoption of the numerous and active remedies which the chemists of France are continually sending forth.
2. a. Enacted, ratified, or established by Parliament.
parliamentary minister (Ch. of Scot.), a minister of a church having an endowment, but which is not a parish church.
1616A. Champney Voc. Bps. 161 Not onlie this parlementarie fashion of ordination but the verie order of Bishops it selfe. 1622Bacon Hen. VII Wks. 1879 I. 734/2 To the first three titles..were added two more, the authorities parliamentary and papal. c1702Rem. Reign Will. III in Select. fr. Harl. Misc. (1793) 493 Thus the prince of Orange..mounted the imperial throne of England, Scotland, and Ireland, by a parliamentary title. 1772Priestley Inst. Relig. (1782) I. Ded. 7 Chearfully pay all parliamentary taxes. 1854H. Miller Sch. & Schm. xxii. (ed. 4) 461 When..the General Assembly admitted what were known as the Parliamentary ministers, and the ministers of chapels of ease, to a seat in the church courts. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xvii. IV. 106 To obtain a Parliamentary ratification of the treaty.
b. parliamentary train: A train carrying passengers at a rate not exceeding one penny a mile, which, by Act of Parliament (7 & 8 Vict. c. 85), every railway company was obliged to run daily each way over its system. So parliamentary carriage, parliamentary fare, parliamentary ticket, etc.
1845Bradshaw's Railway Guide Aug. 5 Fares between London and Brighton—Passengers by 1st class 1½ hour trains, 14s. 6d.;..2nd class..by 2½ hour trains, 8s.; third class, 5s.; parliamentary trains, 4s. 3d. 1849Alb. Smith Pottleton Leg. (repr.) 65 In a parliamentary carriage, very like a rabbit-hutch. 1880M. E. Braddon Clov. Foot xxxviii, He went early on Tuesday morning by the parliamentary train. 1893G. Allen Scallywag I. 178 A parliamentary ticket by the slow train from Dorsetshire to Hillborough.
c. (See quot.)
1886J. Barrowman Gloss. Scotch Mining Terms 49 Parliamentary pit, an outlet pit required by statute.
3. a. Consonant with the usages or agreeable to the practice of Parliament; according to a parliamentary constitution.
1625Commons' Debates (Camden) 94 His Majestie promis'd a more particular, and, as I may terme it, a more Parliamentary answere, article to article. 1628in Crt. & Times Chas. I (1848) I. 354 We now sit in parliament, and therefore must take his majesty's word no otherwise than in a parliamentary way. 1656in Burton's Diary (1828) I. 206 It is not parliamentary, under colour of a petition, to bring in a Bill. 1711Fingall MSS. in 10th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. v. 116 He desired money in a parliamentary way from his people.
b. Of language: Such as is permitted to be used in parliament; hence allusively, Admissible in polite conversation or discussion; civil, courteous. Sometimes, of a peculiar or novel word or phrase: that has been used by some one in Parliament.
1818Parl. Debates 1409 Mr. Brougham asked, whether the last expression [‘totally false’] of the hon. gentleman was intended in a parliamentary sense? 1824Byron Juan xvi. lxxiii, He was ‘free to confess’—(whence comes this phrase? Is't English? No—'tis only parliamentary) [i.e. used by the Younger Pitt, 1788–9]. 1824Galt Rothelan I. ii. vii. 205 The taste and discrimination with which we so give them the go-by, to use an elegant parliamentary phrase. 1854Emerson Lett. & Soc. Aims, Eloquence Wks. (Bohn) III. 192 The speech of the man in the street is invariably strong, nor can you mend it by making it what you call parliamentary. 1866Geo. Eliot F. Holt xxx, The nomination-day was a great epoch of successful trickery, or, to speak in a more Parliamentary manner, of war stratagem. 1885L'pool Daily Post 7 May 5/3 Two gentlemen politely and in strictly Parliamentary language calling one another incompetent administrators.
B. n.
I.
1. a. A member of Parliament.
1626in Crt. & Times Chas. I (1848) I. 116 The eight parliamentaries who gave their charge against him to the Lords will not accuse him in that court. a1825Mrs. Sheridan Let. to Parr 13 Dec. in P.'s Wks. (1828) VIII. 468 An unlucky word..has made some little confusion in the heads of a few old Parliamentaries. 1878Morris in Mackail Life I. 362 On Monday our Parliamentaries began to quake.
b. = parliamentarian n. 2.
1649Declar. Bps. & Clergy at Clonmacnoise 4 Dec. in J. C. Monahan Rec. Dioceses Ardagh & Clonm. (1886) 101 The Commander in Chief of the Rebel Forces commonly called Parliamentaries.
2. Short for parliamentary train: see 2 b above.
1864Trafford (Mrs. Riddell) G. Geith (1865) II. vi. 54 Our pleasures travel by express: our pains by parliamentary. 1866Dickens Mugby Junction, She's a Parliamentary, sir.
II.
3. A person sent to parley with the enemy, to make or listen to proposals. [F. parlementaire.]
1865Maffei Brigand Life I. 155 On the 29th of May he sent..a parliamentary to the Piedmontese garrison, summoning them to surrender. 1898in Columbus (Ohio) Disp. 15 Apr. 1/2 The colonial government..is to send Senors Giberga, Dolz and Viondi in the character of parliamentaries, to treat with the insurgents.
Hence parliaˈmentaryism = parliamentarism.
1839Blackw. Mag. XLVI. 105 They have no taste for..the journalism, the budgetism, the parliamentaryism of the 19th century. 1898Edin. Rev. Apr. 531 The inharmonious working of parliamentaryism.
Add:[A.] [1.] [a.] parliamentary party, a political party, or its elected Members collectively, in Parliament, as distinguished from the party in the country as a whole.
1906Labour Party Q. Circular Apr. 2 The propaganda work in the constituencies is best assisted by a close pursuance of the Labour policy in the House of Commons by all the members of the Parliamentary Party. 1944G. B. Shaw Everybody's Pol. What's What? xxx. 263 To the people it seemed that the dictators could fulfil their promises if they would, and that the parliamentary parties could not even if they would. 1965A. J. P. Taylor Eng. Hist. 1914–1945 i. 28 The Labour party had opposed the war till the last moment. On 5 August it swung round. Ramsay MacDonald resigned as leader of the parliamentary party. 1987Sunday Tel. 28 June 1/2 In the SDP national committee, support for the anti-merger stance of the SDP parliamentary party has hardened. |