| 释义 |
ˈcorn-law, corn law
A law regulating the trade in corn, esp. its export and import.
In English political history the name is used specifically of the laws restricting the importation of cereals which were in force in the United Kingdom in the earlier part of the 19th c.; against these laws the Anti-Corn-Law Agitation arose in 1838, and they were repealed in 1846. (In this application usually spelt with capitals.)
1766(title) Three Tracts on the Corn Trade and Corn Laws. 1777J. Anderson (title) An Inquiry into the Nature of the Corn Laws, with a view to the new Corn Bill proposed for Scotland. 1823Cobbett Rur. Rides (1885) I. 405 The wise men of the newspapers are for a repeal of the Corn Laws. 1841W. Spalding Italy & It. Isl. III. 401 The Venetian corn-laws had two marked features. 1856Emerson Eng. Traits, The ‘Times’ Wks. (Bohn) II. 117 It adopted the League against the Corn Laws. 1868Rogers Man. Pol. Econ. (1876) 163 There has been..a regular annual rise in rent, since the repeal of the corn-laws.
Hence (nonce-wds.) corn-law v., to impose corn-laws upon; corn-lawing ppl. a., passing or supporting corn-laws.
1843Emerson Misc., Carlyle Wks. (Bohn) III. 317 London and Europe tunnelled, graded, corn-lawed. 1843Carlyle Past & Pr. (1858) 188 Even corn-lawing Aristocracy. |