| 释义 |
ˈparliament-ˌman, parliament man Now Hist. or dial.
Also 8 parliamentman.
1. A member of the Parliament, orig. of England, also of Scotland and Ireland, later of the United Kingdom; occasionally applied to a member of the House of Lords, but usually, like ‘Member of Parliament’ now, to a member of the House of Commons.
1605E. Hoby in Crt. & Times Jas. I (1849) I. 35 Sundry parliament men are dead since the last session, as Sir Thomas Atye, Sir Edward Stafford,..young Sir Henry Beaumont, &c. 1621J. Mead ibid. II. 265 We talk here as though the Earl of Southampton should refuse to answer the commissioners..because he is a Parliament man. 1622R. Bruce in Serm. etc. (1843) 131, I spoke not with a [Scottish] Parliament-man, except the Lord Kilsyth. 1660Evelyn Diary 5 July, All the Parliament-men, both Lords and Commons. 1668Pepys Diary 5 Dec., My great design..is to get myself to be a Parliament-man. 1766Goldsm. Vic. W. xviii, I set him down in my own mind for nothing less than a Parliament-man at least. 1802Anderson Cumbld. Ball. 22 Our squire's to be parliament man. 1818Scott Hrt. Midl. iv. 1889Tennyson Owd Roä vii, Fur 'e's moor good sense na the Parliament man 'at stans fur us 'ere.
†b. Applied loosely to members of other legislative bodies. Obs.
c1729W. Byrd Hist. Dividing Line (1866) I. 36 Letting us know he was a Parliament Man [described as ‘one of the Senators of N. Carolina’].
2. = parliamentarian n. 2. rare.
1853Whittier Prose Wks. (1889) II. 419 The pious enthusiasm of the old Cameronians and Parliament-men of the times of Cromwell. |