| 释义 |
contrahent, ppl. a. and n.|ˈkɒntrəhənt|
[ad. L. contrahent-em, pr. pple. of contrahĕre to contract.]
A. adj. Contracting, entering into a contract.
1524Hen. VIII. Instr. in Strype Eccl. Mem. I. App. xiii. 26 Treaties concluded..betwixt the Kings Highness, themperour, and the French King, as Princes contrahents. a1638Mede Disc. Ps. cxii. 6 Wks. 1672 i. 82 One suiting with the one party contrahent, the other with the other. 1858Froude Hist. Eng. III. xv. 335 Henry had found that he was not, after all, to be admitted as a party contrahent.
B. n. A contracting party.
1524Hen. VIII. Instr. in Strype Eccl. Mem. I. App. xiii. 27 Themperour, being oon of the principal contrahents in the said treatie. c1575Sir J. Balfour Practicks (1754) 29 Ane contract or obligatioun..confirmit be the aith or fide media of the contrahentis. |