| 释义 |
purview|ˈpɜːvjuː|
Forms: 5 purveu, -vewe, 5–7 -vieu, 6 -vew, 7– purview.
[a. AF. por-, purveu, purview provided = OF. porveu (= OIt. proveduto), in mod.F. pourvu, pa. pple. of porveeir: see purvey). The word was used in the AF. statutes (a) in the phrase purveu est ‘it is provided’, to introduce that which is provided or enacted by the statute, and (b) in the phrase purveu que ‘provided that’, to introduce a special proviso, condition, or saving clause; hence as n., the clause so introduced, the provision or proviso.
(a)1275Act 3 Edw. I, c. 1 Purveu est que nul y vengne manger, herbiger, ne gisir en meson de religion, al cust de la meson. Ibid., Et est porveu que les poinz avaundiz lient ausi bien nos Conseillers, come autre gent.
(b)1377Act 1 Rich. II, c. 15 Purveue toutfoitz que les dites gentz de seint eglise ne se tiegnent deinz les eglises ou sanctuaries par fraude ou collusion. 1423Act 2 Hen. VI, c. 11 Purveux toutfoitz que laverrement soit receu par nostre Sr le Roy que le Capitain est en plein vie.]
1. The body of a statute, following next after the preamble, and beginning with the words ‘Be it enacted’; the enacting clauses; that which is provided or enacted by a statute; hence, the provision, scope, or intention of an act or bill.
1461Rolls of Parlt. V. 468/1 Noo purvewe, provision, ne other thyng in this present Parlement made,..in any wise be hurtyng..vnto the Abbes and Convent aforeseid. 1533–4Act 25 Hen. VIII c. 17 §11 Provyded also that yf any person or persones hereafter..doo contrary to the purvew and remedy of this Acte. a1677Hale Com. Law iii. (1716) 51 Many Times the Purview of an Act is larger than the Preamble or the Petition: and so 'tis here: For the Body of the Act prohibits all Appeals. 1706Phillips (ed. 6) s.v., Thus a Statute is said to stand upon a Preamble and upon a Purview. 1850Gladstone Glean. V. xlv. 200 We will assume then that the Statute intended..to include in its purview all the circumstances of the consecration of Parker.
†b. A provisional clause; a proviso. Obs.
1442Petit. for Ld. Scrop in Rolls of Parlt. V. 41, 42 Ensuyngly uppon which endosement was added a clause of Purveu, in this fourme that foloweth. Purveu toutz foitz, qe si trove soit a present [etc.]. 1455Rolls of Parlt. V. 309/1 Soo alwey that Richard erle of Salisbury..be not in eny wise by force or colour of this purvieu or exception hurt. 1755Johnson, Purview, proviso, providing clause. [With quot. from Hale, a 1677 above.]
2. By extension, The scope or limits of any document, statement, scheme, subject, book, or the like; the purpose or intent; also, the range, sphere, or field of a person's labour or occupation.
1788Madison Federalist (Webster 1828), In determining the extent of information required in the exercise of a particular authority, recourse must be had to the objects within the purview of that authority. 1811Knox Corr. w. Jebb (1834) II. 30 Christianity..takes mankind as it is, and, in its purview, leaves out nothing. 1881J. G. Fitch Lect. Teach. (ed. 3) 38 If we seek to classify the objects of instruction, so far as they lie within the purview of a school-teacher. 1884J. Sharman Hist. Swearing i. 12 Questions that have influenced the mind of the writer in considering the purview of his book.
3. Influenced by view: Range of vision, physical or mental; outlook; range of experience or thought; contemplation, consideration.
1837Richardson Dict., Purview, the view forward: the forecast, the contemplation. 1859Helps Friends in C. Ser. ii. I. viii. 247 There is a delusion, too, in this width of purview. You see the extent of horizon, but do not make out the roads. 1875Emerson Lett. & Soc. Aims, Inspiration ix. 222 A glimpse, a point of view that by its brightness excludes the purview, is granted, but no panorama. 1881Daily Tel. 31 Jan., How was it that none of these facts seem to have come within the purview of her Majesty's Office of Works? 1904S. Weyman Abbess of Vlaye xxii, In a twinkling she was hidden by the turn [of the road] from the purview of the castle. |